Daily Archives: August 28, 2019
The calm in Israel – genuine or false?
Formally, Iran isn’t at war with Israel. But what about informally? The random reflections below are variations on this question.
Hamas and the splinter groups in Gaza, inspired and supported by Iran, are attacking Israel....
Egypt warns Hamas: Stay out of conflict between Israel and Hezbollah
Egypt has issued a stern warning to Hamas to stay out of any potential conflict between Israel and Lebanon-based terrorist organization Hezbollah, Arab media reported on Tuesday.
The warning reportedly came in the wake of...
Danon demands UN recognize Syria’s culpability for Iranian actions on its soil
Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon on Wednesday submitted a written complaint to the U.N. Security Council against Iran’s ongoing activities on Syrian soil for the purpose of perpetrating terrorist attacks against...
Impact investing meets social welfare: How a 99-year-old Israeli institution stays relevant
Here’s a riddle: What Israeli institution about to celebrate its centennial anniversary, is not officially part of the government, but has a special status not reserved for typical private nonprofit?
The answer: Keren Hayesod (United...
Alabama Republicans seek to expel Omar from Congress
Alabama Republicans are urging lawmakers to remove Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) from Congress for “engaging in rhetoric that explicitly runs counter to American values and patriotism by falsely accusing U.S. armed forces of committing...
Bolton: Trump’s willingness to meet with Iranian leaders not an official policy shift
U.S. President Donald Trump’s willingness to meet with Iranian leaders does not reflect a change in his administration’s tough stance on the Islamic Republic, U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton said on Tuesday.
“Talking with...
American nonprofit’s strategic tours offer ‘immense exposure,’ new perspective on Israel
A group of 42 legal, international relations and military leaders from around the world met with Israeli military officials and politicians this month to participate in workshops and sessions focusing on Israel’s foreign and...
Book offers tips and facts about DNA testing
Seed of Israel: DNA Guide To Tracing Your Jewish Ancestry by Joshua Robbin Marks, 48 pages including endnotes; available on Amazon.com for $14.99.
Perhaps your friends or relatives have told you that they did a DNA...
Facing tensions on multiple fronts, is Israel on the verge of an all-out war?
The big news in Israel is not that Iran attemptedto send kamikaze drones into Israeli territory last week or that Israel targeted that terrorist cell in Syria; these are not completely out of the ordinary or even...
“Whisperings of the Irrational”: Core Origins of America’s Trump Decline
“There is something inside all of us that yearns not for reason, but for mystery – not for penetrating clear thought, but for the whisperings of the irrational.”-Karl Jaspers, Reason and Anti-Reason in Our Time (1952)
The...