Part of my preparing the Easter Egg Fleet for publication includes updating my biographical information. Doing this included an on-line search for “Aryeh Wetherhorn”. I was surprised to discover two references that I had never seen before. I had written articles for the Polish magazine “Okrety Wojenne” and one of them was used as a … More An Ego Boosting Discovery
After 25 years the observer force of 64 members of TIPH will be packing their bags and going home. TIPH stands for Temporary International Presence in Hebron. It was established in 1994 to try to keep down violence between the Arab and Jewish communities in the city.. The current observers come from Italy, Turkey, Norway, … More End of an Era
When one lives in Israel there are still lotd of Holocaust survivors or their descendants that you hear about regularly. So the reports that so many people in the world know so little about the holocaust seems quite strange, Hearing about the rise in worldwide antisemitism from various political leaders adds to feeling that it … More International Holocaust Remembrance Day
The US Agency for International Development (AID) is due to cease operations in )Palestine on 31 January. It isn’t a surprise. Especially since the President of the Palestinian Authority essentially told US President Trump to Go to Hell (literally – “may your house be destroyed”) and said he wanted no more help after The US … More US AID to Palestine is Closing Down
I received this today. The content speaks for itself. The PA’s Apartheid land laws American-Palestinian sentenced to life imprisonment with hard labor for selling land to Jews. In 2014, Mahmoud Abbas passed legislation raising the punishment for selling land to Jews to life imprisonment with hard labor. 64.4% of Palestinians support the death sentence … More Palestinian Land Laws –
The Taylor Force Act is an American Law that withholds funding to the Palestinian Authority in an amount equal to what the PA spends rewarding terror. The money is simply placed in a frozen status for up to 2 years before it can be allocated to other use. The law is named for an American … More The Force in the Taylor Force Act.
Hamas controls Gaza. They also have some support in the Fatah controlled territories in Judea and Samaria. They made an agreement via Egyptian mediators to abstain from violent confrontations on the Israel-Gaza border. So far, So good. make Israel uncomfortable without having the Israelis destroying them in Gaza. It seems Israel was prepared to do … More Creative Thinking – Hamas Style
According to Security Council resolutions 425 (1978) and 426 (1978) of 19 March 1978, UNIFIL was established to: Confirm the withdrawal of Israeli forces from southern Lebanon. Restore international peace and security. Assist the Government of Lebanon in ensuring the return of its effective authority in the area. According to Security Council resolution 1701 (2006) of 11 August 2006, UNIFIL, in … More UNIFIL – Theory and practice
Friday the US sponsored a resolution to condemn Hamas for recently firing over 450 rockets into Israel. It failed to get a majority of the member countries to support it. Why? The act of firing even one unguided rocket in the general direction of any city seems to me to be a clear act of … More Same old Biased UN
In an earlier blog I wrote about how UN General Assembly Resolutions were seriously flawed in the concepts and wording they used in an effort to bring about what can be presented as a solution to some real problems. Today I want to focus on how those resolutions, which are recommendations only, and are NOT … More Those UN Resolutions – Why They Matter Now.
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