Israel and Hamas versus peace
The ongoing development in the Gaza region conspicuously bears the ugly testimonies to the lack of mankind to be pragmatically and consciously motivated to pursue peace in the vicinity of war as an...
View ArticleProgressive Support for Fascists? Why?
Continued progressive support for groups like Hamas, Hezbollah, and Fatah under the guise of supporting "the Palestinians" has never ceased to be a confusing contradiction to me. It is as if we step...
View ArticleLove Thy Neighbor: A Jewish Fairy Tale
One of my favorite Jewish legends goes like this: A man goes up to a rabbi one day and says, "If you can teach me the entire Torah while I stand on one foot, I'll convert to Judaism." The rabbi thinks...
View ArticleIsrael Succeeds at Missing Targets
Little Alex in Wonderland: Israel claims they are targeting Hamas. The facts say that they are engineering a humanitarian crisis.
View ArticleIshmael and Isaac Video
This is a video for my song "Ishmael and Isaac," which I wrote some years back about the Arab/Israeli conflict. I hope it will be received more as a work of art than as a political statement, although...
View ArticleBeing Progressive and the Israel / Hamas Fighting
I spent my weekends last year campaigning for Barack Obama. I support what I believe is a progressive agenda for the United States. I am also an Israeli citizen who served in the Israeli army at the...
View ArticleLegitimize Hamas
I'm relatively hard line in support of Israel (at least compared to other liberals). Although I would have supported the proposal at the Middle East Peace Summit at Camp David of July 2000 which would...
View ArticleGrowing Old is Mandatory.....Growing Up, Not So Much!
This continued Israeli/Palestinian fight reminds me of kindergardners on a playground fighting, only with deadly consequences. Both sides are capable of bringing this BS to a close and neither has...
View ArticleIssues Under Fire: Is Gaza War A Crime of Opportunity
As the Israeli military flex its muscle moving into Gaza on the ground, the carnage continues to mount. Claiming the right to self defense, the Israeli government with the full backing of the Bush...
View ArticleThe Israel - Palestinian ... Solution. A Better Zion
"[N]o man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place, or ministry whatsoever, nor shall be enforced, restrained, molested, or burthened in his body or goods, nor shall...
View ArticleIsrael Strikes UN School in Gaza Killing At Least 40
Little Alex in Wonderland: UNRWA condemns Israeli air strikes kills at least 40 in strike on UN school in Gaza and ei examines "Israel's fabricated rocket crisis."
View ArticleIs American media coverage of Israel Palestinian conflict fair and balanced?
As I mentioned in my last diary entry, I am generally a hardline Israel supporter compared to other liberals. I generally pay close attention to how conflicts in the region are covered by the American...
View ArticleDebunking the I/P “human shield” myth
I receive a BA in advertising design in 1957, and have worked 50 years in that area. That followed four years of service in the US Army--including a three-year enlistment (I needed a job) and when the...
View ArticleIsrael-Palestine: What's wrong with the liberal media?
I've been going out of my mind this past week seeing how the Israel Palestinian situation has been covered by the liberal media. I realize that even by posting this diary I'm fighting an uphill battle....
View ArticleWhy do we have to choose sides in the Israeli-Palestinian madness?
With each new paroxysm of hideous violence between Israelis and Palestinians, I become more convinced that the rest of the world will not put up with this insanity forever. At some point, supporters of...
View ArticleIsraeli-Arab Parties Banned From Knesset Elections
The word came out yesterday in the Israeli media; as part and parcel of the Israeli campaign against Arabs in Gaza, Israel will begin intensifying the discrimination it applies to its own Israeli-Arab...
View ArticleGeorge W. Bush = Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert
For anyone who is expecting this diary to link American leadership to Israel and blamed them for all the problems in the Middle East, you might be disappointed. I was reminded again how bad a leader...
View Article"Do you get it now?"
As we come to the end of the Bush failure, I've been fascinated with his first, full-on catastrophe: 9/11. September 11 was a horrible day of death and destruction, as we all know. It was also a day of...
View ArticleMyths & Missiles: Turning Attempted Murder Into Pranks
There are legitimate disagreements on the Israeli offensive in Gaza: whether it was justified, whether it has been pursued effectively, whether the civilian casualties could have been avoided, etc....
View ArticleTeaching 1.5 Million Gazans a Lesson
Now that Israel's IDF is finally pulling out of Gaza people on all sides of this conflict have to ask themselves what was accomplished by all the death and destruction. The Israelis stated that they...
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