1. Ibn Ezra: An American peace activist in the West Bank.
2. May: Jewish-American Heritage Month.
3. Israel’s Arab Citizens and the State.
4. Injustice.
5. For serious Jewish women.
6. Facebook Founder’s Roommate (and a mate of mine – Happy Birthday Ari!)
7. Drogba Rap.
8. Hawking on Palestine.
9. AIPAC in under five minutes.
Ibn Ezra – you were recently linked to Phil Weiss’s blog too, when he claims you write in your blog that Olim get 5k to 30k, depending on where they live in Israel. Most of my American ‘olim’ friends got less than 5k (singles) and the families got far far less than 30k, and some of them do live in the territories now. Can you prove your allegations?
Well I don’t think sounding like The Offspring is a good thing. I think the song is rather amusing, particularly the lazy sloganeering. All good fun though.
Odd, Ari is a friend of a friend of mine and I met him a few times last year. I guess the Anglo community in Israel is small.
I don’t think there is any need for the Jewish-American heritage month, actually I think it’s completely pointless and don’t even see why it was done.
The position of the Palestinian Israelis is one of the most facinating ones and something I have had first hand experience with. While treatment of the Palestinians in the WB and Gaza can be rationalized by many on security grounds, the unequal treatment of Palestinian Israelis cannot. Israelis will say “well they don’t serve in the army” but of course, neither do Haredim and they get preferential treatment. I heard one Palestinian Israeli put it best “we are caught in a war between our people and our nation” which is an impossible position to be in. The stupid thing about it is that if Israel were willing to give Palestinian Israelis equal, or at least much better treatment, it would lead to much less resentment, less religious extremism, and lower birth rates all things that the right in Israel would support.
