The Israeli Palestinian Conflict: Not a Civil Rights Issue ( Read more... )

The shakshuka at Cafe Hillel leaves one feeling nostalgic, so I've been tinkering with the concept and after a couple of tries came up with this. It doesn't have much in the way of exotic spicing, but goes from kitchen to table with about 5 minute's knifework and 30 minutes stovetop.

Simple ShakshukaOne medium onion, medium dice ( Read more... )

First, I am unsurprised. We tend to view Hamas primarily as a terrorist organization because that is how it gathers our attention. To Palestinians, however, Hamas is also, and perhaps primarily, a service organization. It has a history of delivering services like health care and child care to Palestinians where both Fatah and Israel have failed ( Read more... )

From the BBC, on events today in Israel:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/world/middle_east/4182410.stm

This AP Story is the likely source for the BBC story, based on similarities in language and order of presentation. A noteworthy difference is ( Read more... )

In your August 18th editorial you write that "Gaza represents the worst side of Israel's settlement movement. The densely populated strip is home to 1.3 million Palestinians - most of them refugees, or offspring of refugees ( Read more... )

Today my Synagogue had, as a guest, a Presbyterian Minister who came by to explain how it came to pass that the Presbyterians have decided to divest from corporations invested in Israel. It was not a position with which he himself agreed, and he has been getting quite an education as he has been talking about it. It seems his purpose to get them ( Read more... )

I present two articles here

The First, from Adbusters:
Adbusters Article discussing the Jewishness of Neo-Conservatives

The second, from the Washington Post:
( Survey on Jewish Responsibility for Death of Jesus )

The UN is comprised primarily of nations that attained their size and power primarily through tools like assassination, torture and conquest over hundreds of years. Then they all get together and come up with the Geneva convention that says the tools they used to get big and powerful are no longer in play ( Read more... )

Those of you who have been reading my Journal for a long time know that while I opposed the war in Iraq, I did not think it unjustified. My opposition to the war can be summed up in a single name: George W. Bush. The craving of the Bush family's enfant terrible for this war convinced me that it was being waged with inadequate forethought and for ( Read more... )

I was reading an article today which tallied up the death tolls in the intifada. Something like 840 Israelis killed and 2260 Palestinians killed ( Read more... )