Category: politics
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The World Cares!
This may be the first time I can remember when the Red Cross and European Nations cared more about a Jewish than the Israeli Government seems to do! May it be G-d’s Will that he be brought home safely today! Red Cross builds Shalit pressure The head of the International Committee of the Red Cross… Read more
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Older and Wiser
Who said you can’t teach an old dog new tricks? They don’t come much older than President Shimon Peres, but yesterday, while speaking to the Austrian chancellor he finally admitted (or figured out) something that most of us have known for a very long time – Hamas wants to destroy Israel! (Do you think he… Read more
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Its not easy to convert
Statistics show that it is difficult to convert!! The latest recommendation from the Imigration Ministry to the Israeli government is speed up the conversion process. Look at these facts: 300,000 non-Jews living in Israel:I thought it was twice that number – 1 million people made Aliya from the former Soviet Union, of whom 60% were… Read more
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Learn from the animals
Something tells me that if Gilad Shalit, Eldad Regev or Ehud Goldwasser were buffalo they wouldn’t still be held hostage by the lions or crocodiles! (I don’t think this is what the Gemara means when it says that we could learn Torah from the animals. However, maybe the politicians could act like animals in a… Read more
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To those who repent and those who don’t
We are about to begin the month of Elul, a time of introspection, repentance and regret. It seems that not only has the government begun the process a wee bit early, but that they are also playing G-d! Just as we ask G-d to forgive those who repent and those who don’t, Ehud Olmert and… Read more
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Gaza is Israel’s fault cartoons
I should really have titled this post ‘proud to be a New Zealander’, but some of you may have thought I was being serious. Let me re-phrase that. I am proud to be a New Zealander (or kiwi as we like to call ourselves) but when I see how anti-Semitic – oops! I mean anti-Israel… Read more
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Nobel Prize stolen
Poor old Yasser. Not only is he dead, and not only has the Palestinian Authority that he set up fallen apart, but they had the audacity to steal his nobel prize as well! The Hamas gunmen who broke into the Gaza house of late Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat on Saturday, also stole his Nobel… Read more
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Blame Israel for everything
It never takes long for the world to blame Israel for whatever is wrong in the world. This time, of course, it is Gaza. Clearly Israel is responsible for the situation (actually, bizarrely, the critics of the world are right, but not in the way they had intended. If Israel had not negotiated with the… Read more
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Mazel Tov Peres
Well, the impossible has happened! Shimon Peres has won an election (well, technically he didn’t win because the other candidates both pulled out, but he would have won). He is now the president elect of Israel in an honest and open election. In two months he will be 84 years old, and he has just… Read more
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Aides say ‘give him a chance to learn’
Just to add to my previous post – the spin doctors have managed to turn the entire thing on its head. According to YNet: Meanwhile Olmert aides said the Winograd Commission hinted that the prime minister should be given a chance to learn from his mistake.“A culture that doesn’t allow those who err to keep… Read more