To my Jewish brothers
To my Arab brothers
So that we can all be free men at last
In honor of Holocaust Memorial Day, National Public Radio had a program focusing on Israel’s nominating a deceased man from Tunisia, Khaled Abdulwahab, as its first Arab Righteous Gentile…one of the non-Jews who risked [...]

Am I Gonna Catch It For This One!
What the hell.
Here goes anyway…
A friend sent me an article the other day from the May 18th Jewish Daily Forward, “Foxman, Wiesel Upbraid Israel For Pace of Peace Effort.”
Elie Wiesel co-hosted the third annual Petra Conference (“for improving the world”) of Nobel Laureates and others in Jordan. The [...]

On June 5th it is 40 years since the Six Day War began. From this day on, one word highlights the situation when the Palestine problem is discussed - be it by Arabs - by politicians or by the media. This word is “occupation!” This relates to the terrible day, when Israel violated Palestinian land [...]

Throughout the ages, from time to time, religious leaders have been known to preach hatred in their houses of worship. Most often this preaching was localized and/or short lived.
At times the hatred preached caused full-blown wars. Frequently wars were fought primarily on religious grounds but still had multiple and complex causes. Some of the more [...]

Or be buried in it forever.
Since last summer’s disastrous war against Hizbullah, Israel has continued on a suicidal downward slope.
Just as Lebanon 2006 failed due to years of inexcusable poor planning and political decisions (regardless of admitted external pressures from “powerful friends”), Israel will face even worse to come if it persists in acting like [...]

Reading The Daytona Beach News-Journal on April 12th while getting ready for work, I was unfortunately not shocked at seeing an extensive AP article titled, in large bold print, “Israel’s human shield practice draws fire.”
This is the same newspaper which, despite continuous deliberate targeting of Israeli civilian buses, restaurants, pizza parlors, teen nightclubs, pregnant women, [...]