Curtain Call

Dear readers, assuming any are left,
You probably noticed that this blog, which was a tad more vibrant and alive when we started it, is now somewhat of a wilderness. scattered posts, most of which are cross posts, updated monthly or even less. We’ve noticed too. To me personally, IsraLeft started out as something which was [...]

The Great IKEA Boycott That Wasn’t

Can you spell Godwin, boys and girls? That’s right. Utterly and conveniently forgetting the officially sanctioned heroics of Raoul Wallenberg )not to mention the joys brought by thousands of Swedish female volunteers in Kibbutzim all over Israel, gracing lawns and pools with their blessed toplessness), top Israeli ministers, led by Foreign Minister Yvette Lieberman (yeah, no irony there), began screeching that “Just like in WW2, Sweden is standing by in the face of Anti-Semitism.” The papers played along with the hysteria campaign and both high-selling rags, Yediot and Ma’ariv, ran it on the front page in 10 foot block letters.

Israel’s Army Drowns In Lies; Palestinians Shaft Their Women

Update: I dunno how I forgot this delicious bit of Irony, but Hamas just concluded its first full fledged battle against Islamic terrorism. Yeah, I said against. Some AQ flavored nutcase barricaded himself in a mosque in Rafah (southern tip of the Gaza Strip) and declared the Gaza Strip an Islamic Emirate, with strict sharia [...]

Opening A Window

In every discussion, in every debate, in every conversation there’s always a voice less heard. It could be a subtext overlooked branching-off a well constructed argument, a subtlety of a claim lost in the heat of discussion, or just the weaker voice of the person speaking from the corner.

The many debates about Israel often seem [...]