This week saw the United States finally making public all the details of The Trump Plan for solving the Problem of Peace between Israel and the Palestinians. I’ll be writing about this some more in later pots, but this one is going to discuss just one part of that plan. It was a glaring omission … More Deal of the Century – Part 1
Every so often part of Israel, usually in the South, gets bombarded with some rockets fired by one Arab terrorist organization or another. In recent times, the Israeli Air Defense Command has been intercepting these rockets with the IRON DOME AA system. It is an amazing bit of technology. The control radar is able to … More I live in a Tough Neighborhood
The UN renewed the mandate for the UNRWA on 16 Nov,2019. What does that mean? It means that for the next three years there will be no action taken to change the status of about 5 and a half million people who are identified as “Palestinian refugees”. I’ve written about this before. I believe it … More UNRWA Mandate Renewed
I spent most of the day watching television. It was a very practical decision, Israeli missiles killed a leader of the Islamic Jihad terror group in Gaza. In response, or so they said, that group launched over 150 rockets into Israel. Many were intercepted by the Iron Dome air defense system. As of right now, … More A Day Watching the War
The title of this post might also be “How the Palestinians Cook the Books”. It was prompted by comments from American Democratic Party Candidates that American money should be taken from Israel and given to the Palestinian Authority. To start. We need to look at the ingredients. There is a Palestinian Authority (PA) under President … More The Palestinian Cook Book
On July 20th the official Palestinian TV, Al-Ayyam, aired an interesting short item. It seems that young women in Gaza want to marry men who have been wounded during confrontations with Israeli forces. For a young man in Gaza there is a possible choice between earning a university degree, and then being unemployed, or to … More How Gaza Residents See Things.
UNIFIL (UNITED NATIONS INTERIM FORCE IN LEBANON) just had it’s annual mandate renewed on August 29th. The organization currently comprises some 10,500 personnel from over 40 countries. Participation ranges from over 1300 Indonesians to single individuals from several different countries. What they have in common is an assignment to try to keep the Lebanon-Israel border … More UNIFIL is still with us
The latest events in our neighborhood have an almost surrealistic aura about them. I mentioned previously that Nasrallah and Hizbullah in Lebanon were making threats. I also beleive taht when Nasrallah threatens something. he intends to make it happen. Well, maybe not this time. According to a report that surfaced in the London Times there … More …And Getting Burned
This past week has seen a sharp rise in the number of incidents on the borders of Israel. Some of them have been in the South, where there have been rockets, mortar fire, and attempts at infiltration by individuals armed with grenades, knives, and firearms. Others have been in the North, Iran continues to send … More Playing With Fire
When I was returning home about 30 minutes ago the entrance to our village was blocked. There were several security vehicles on the road and an a mass of personnel from the police, military, and rescue organizations (fire and ambulance) all over the area. A couple of hours earlier an off-duty policemen from the Hebron … More This Time It Was Closer to Home
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