I found it very interesting that the overwhelming majority of Israelis are perfectly satisfied with their lives, despite the daunting array of problems their nation faces. Continue reading »

An Israeli investigative news television program carried a story last night regarding a four-year-old Sudanese girl who was abducted by Egyptian soldiers last month as she and her family tried to make their way into Israel.

Many Sudanese fleeing from the genocide in Darfur have made their way to Egypt, only to find their hosts nearly as hostile as the Arab militiamen who drove them from their homeland. Those who have read a Bible or have knowledge of the Nazi Holocaust have then turned to Israel and the Jews for refuge. Continue reading »

Israel this week marked 40 years since its stunning victory over vastly superior Arab forces in the 1967 Six Day War. The rest of the world remembered the event by unleashing a flood of criticism over Israel’s continued “occupation” of Judea, Samaria and the Golan Heights.

When Israel’s detractors speak of the “illegal occupation” they are basing their position on UN Security Council Resolution 242.

However, an honest examination of the resolution and the subsequent events of of the past four decades reveals that Israel’s control of these territories in fact constitutes a legal occupation. Continue reading »

Elder of Zion has a good post regarding the fact that 100 years ago, all of what is today Israel, the Palestinian-controlled territories and Jordan was referred to (by the British and those who followed their exampe) as “Palestine” - the mythical ancient homeland of the equally mythical “Palestinian” people.

The post goes on to ask why there is no movement today to free eastern “Palestine” from Jordanian (Hashemite) occupation like the one seeking to end Israel’s control over western “Palestine” (the so-called “West Bank”).

It is a good question that has one obvious answer, and one forgotten answer. Continue reading »