Israel is a highly militarized society. Service in the Israeli Army, aptly named Israel Defence Force, is mandatory in Israel. By law, every 18 years old is drafted; young men are enlisted for a period of three years, young females are obligated to a 2-year period. After their release, they are enlisted for reserve duty, [...]
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The Apartheid regime in South Africa excelled not only in the persecution of blacks and the denial of their rights, but also in the silencing of its liberal opponents, who were accused of treachery and of inciting a public hysteria. This denial was massively aided by the local press, and grounded in a sense of [...] Picture, if you will, a country in which people are forced to be wed and to divorce in religious courts; are unable to marry someone of a different religion; where religious legislation forces a certain weekday as the day of rest and prohibits the opening of most businesses; where state-funded public transportation operates buses in [...] The current policy space includes two major options being seriously debated: the single-nation-state solution, and the Two-State solution. The latter is the one supported by most of those identified with the peace camp: two states, Israel and Palestine, living peacefully one next to the other. The other solution is actually two solutions, each supported by [...] Personally, I really lost my patience with those so-called leftists who live in Israel, in 2009 (post assassinations, post “separation wall”, post “Cast lead”) and still refuse to lift their delicate necks and get their heads out of the warm, comforting swamp which is the symmetrical frame of thought. A person who thinks about the [...] 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 [...] 1. A few weeks ago, one of my friends asked me about the protests in Bil’in: Why do they continue? Haven’t the supreme court already ruled that the “separation wall” there should be taken down? Indeed, the Israeli court did acknowledge that the path of the wall near Bil’in was laid not based on security requirements [...] Many a word was written on the topic of the GLBT teen gathering shooting in Tel Aviv. Here, at IsraLeft, we’ve covered the issue extensively: Maital’s words, defined by Chris Geidner of Law Dork as “Crushing”, and then Or’s post explaining why this is, indeed, a hate crime, followed by Elad’s educating post about the [...] It began with text messages, all sorts of baffled messages, one chasing the other, about a shootout in Nachmani St. Who could even think it was in our Aguda1. And then came another message. And another one. And suddenly the cold thought piercing through the mind all the way to the heart: Saturday night, Barnoar2, [...] Two other posts about the Attack on Gay Israeli youth were recently published on this blog: by Or Bareket and by Maital Rozenboim A grave thing happened in Israel last night. A terrible thing happened, in Tel-Aviv of all places. It was vile, but not particularly surprising. Tel-Aviv is considered a gay-friendly city, and that is [...] |
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