Sowing hate and harvesting death

Israleft.org brings you excerpts from Rami Elhanan’s Speech at an alternative Memorial Day Ceremony held by Combatants for Peace, held on the Israeli Memorial Day, on Monday, April 19th. The excerpts were edited and translated from Hebrew by @normands, and handed over to us by @notIDFspokesman, who is a great source of information about Israeli [...]

A reflection, one year later

The following is a personal reflection, or some ungathered thoughts about what happened exactly a year ago. This is not an analysis or a review of the war in the Gaza strip and southern Israel last winter, cynically called here ‘cast-lead’.  Many of those already exist around the web.  I just wanted to add a [...]

Walking A Deadly Path

On the issue of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, some speak of a bi-national state as the optimal solution. In their vision, they see Israel-Palestine as a sort of Belgium or, to a lesser extent, Canada- a country where Jews and Palestinians co-exist under one democracy and lead their lives together happily and peacefully. Just recently the Palestinian chief [...]

Why I Go

Almost every year I go to the Yitzhak Rabin memorial, which takes place at the square that now carries his name in Tel Aviv. Almost every year I am disappointed with the speeches, and with what the entire event says about the Israeli left. Yet, almost every year, as my friends swear it to be [...]

No Silent Holocaust

While Israel maintains that it is the Jewish state, the majority of the world Jewry doesn’t reside in Israel. Based on 2007 figures, only 41 per cent of world Jewry actually do live in Israel. But Israel’s legitimacy as a self proclaimed nation state, while it should [...]

The writing was plastered all over the wall, signed by Rabbis

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 [...]