Kiryat Shmona is a town in Northern Israel. The city of 22,000 was founded in 1950. The city was founded as a transit center for Olim. The city has made international news a handful of times for terrorist attacks from Lebanon, streching as far back as 1974. Kiryat Shmona was a city targeted by Ketusha [...]
Categories: City Focus Israel
Kadima is scheduled to meet next week to determine the fate of their party. I believe Kadima will eventually fail as a party, not necessarily due to leadership, but due to moral principals. Likud and Avodah each have party values. Even Meretz, dare I speak of them on this blog, has a purpose. It is [...]
Categories: Politics
It is time for elections. An American businessman testified in Israel today that he gave the Prime Minister well over $100,000 in cash. This is textbok corruption, and the Israeli people should not have to stand for it any longer. Olmert simply cannot be trusted. Parties in the current coallition should break their ties to [...]
Categories: Politics
While most people dance and sing to celebrate Lag B’Omer, some are deadlocked in a battle over control of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai’s kever (grave). The battle is between two groups, one Shephardi and one Ashkenazi. The groups argue that they each have a right to 100% control of the kever and surrounding building. The [...]
Categories: Judaism
From Elder of Ziyon, this is a list of refugees displaced in modern era events. You can see that it includes Dafur, Chechniya, and many other refugee groups forced out by Muslim agressors. Palsetinians “forced” out by Israel are similar in number to Jews forced out by Muslim countries around the Middle East. This list [...]
Categories: Palestinians
Ashkelon is a beach front city of 117,000. The ancient city is a popular tourist destination for those interested in the ancient history of the region. Its history dates back to the time of the Cananites and Philistines. The city has made news recently because of Hamas rockets fired into Ashkelon from the Gaza Strip. [...]
Categories: City Focus Israel
The JPost reports that United States Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi made a public statement backing Israel. Pelosi explained that the United States needs to form relationships with other nations intent on ending Iran’s nuclear program. She then stated that any attack on Israel by Iran will not go unanswered. I prefer preventing attacks, [...]
Categories: Iran, Nuclear Weapons, United States of America
I used to be a very active editor on Wikipedia. (My username on Wikipedia is Eric1985). I quit editing around the time that WikiProject Palestine came about. While some of the groups members were neutral and fair in their edits, they generally defamed Israel all over Wikipedia, and I was tired of the Wiki Politics. [...]
I hate President Bush. I think he is possibly the worst president in the history of the United States. That puts him on my list with Ronald Regan and Richard Nixon. The entire country is making a huge deal about a speech Bush recently made in the Knesset, but I don’t think what he said [...]
Categories: Iran, United States of America
A rocket fired from Gaza hit Kenyon Hutzot, injuring 31 innocent Israeli civilians. The rocket was fired by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine terrorist group. This rocket attack is the most serious in quite a while, as it injured so many people and traveled such a long distance. Ashkelon is about 10 [...]
Categories: Terrorism
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