Right Side of History or Left Side of Disaster?

By now, any­one who’s surfed the inter­net, turned on a TV, radio or had a dis­cus­sion about world pol­i­tics has heard that Egypt­ian Pres­i­dent Hosni Mubarak has stepped down. Really forced out. A peace­ful rev­o­lu­tion that was really a street-side coup d’état to top­ple a cor­rupt gov­ern­ment that was a firm friend of the West. So how do we inter­nal­ize US […]

Derailing Peace at Every Turn

Imag­ine if there were evil forces out to frame you no mat­ter what you did or how you did it. Then con­sider Israel. Just two days ago, IDF sol­diers per­formed rou­tine main­te­nance by clear­ing bushes to improve the line of sight along the Israeli  –  Lebanese bor­der. Then “suddenly”  –  a word that par­ents read­ing children’s books are all too […]

Too Little, Too Late

Ok, I hate to admit it. I am one of those Jews who voted for Barack Hus­sein Obama (yuck!) think­ing he had all the answers. Wrong! He not only didn’t have ALL the answers, he didn’t have ANY of the answers. And not only did he not have any of the answers but he also lied about […]

The World Did Not Blink

     The world barely noticed when Turk­ish PM Tayyip Erdo­gan left the entire planet in the lurch by vot­ing against Iran’s nuclear sanc­tions last week (ditto for Brazil and Lebanon).   The world stared silently when Russ­ian government-ordered raids slaugh­tered thou­sands of Chechens and dis­placed over 500,000 in two decades.    The world entirely over­looked hundreds […]

An Unexpected Song Spreads the Truth

On June 4, 2010, in Israel, Israeli Defense Force, Palestinians, Turkey, by jenhanin

Only two words describe this week’s pub­lic scape­goat­ing of Israel fol­low­ing the Gaza flotilla inci­dent. Sad­ness and anti­semitism. Mainly, because all the other words besides the abbre­vi­a­tion, BS, are too vile to put in my blog. First, Israel, like any other pro­gres­sive, demo­c­ra­tic coun­try, did not inspect the Mavi Mar­mara with intent to inflict casualties. […]

Turkey Shows Her True Face

Guest arti­cle by Crethi Plethi, a blog that cov­ers in-depth infor­ma­tion on Israel, Middle East Affairs and Islam. I chose to fea­ture this post because it has  sig­nif­i­cant impli­ca­tions for Israel, the West and all peo­ple who dream of one day liv­ing in a free and demo­c­ra­tic soci­ety. In the after­math of the Gaza war, the friend­ship between Turkey and […]