091113 Friday 13th November, 2009. Shabbat Shalom! I hope you are well. Just because we are paranoid doesn’t mean no one hates us! Israelis, are the major cause of instability in the world and the annihilation of the “Palestinian People”. President Shimon Peres’ visit to South America has been cancelled due to security considerations and…

091106 6th November 2009. Shabbat Shalom Dear Friends. On the 2nd of November 1917, Lord Balfour wrote a letter to Lord Rothschild. This letter was the Balfour Declaration, the basis for the creation of the State of Israel. http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/Peace+Process/Guide+to+the+Peace+Process/The+Balfour+Declaration.htm Lord Balfour can rest easy that his determination to care for the small number of non-Jewish…

Writing The Wrongs: Status of IDF investigations of Gaza incidents

091000 October 2009 40 years have passed since the first National Union of Israeli Students demonstrations organised by a few determined leaders at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, demonstrations which acted as a catalyst to challenge the Israeli Government and Jewish Agency to initiate the worldwide campaign for Soviet Jewry. As always, the heroes remain…

091026 26th October 2009. Yesterday a huge bomb exploded outside Canon Andrew White’s Church in Baghdad. Andrew reports that at least 132 people died and 600 were injured in this horrific blast. The damage to the church would have been far greater had a storm not blown down a huge tree at the entrance to…

091023 23rd October 2009. Shabbat Shalom! There are a few events in ones life which stand out above all others in their excellence and quality – the 2009 Presidents Conference on Tomorrow is one. President Shimon Peres spoke from his heart http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/Government/Speeches+by+Israeli+leaders/2009/Pres_Peres_addresses_Israeli_Presidential_Conference_20-Oct-2009.htm as he gathered an array of brilliant minds to find solutions to today’s…

091015 15th October 2009 Shabbat Shalom to friends all over the world – Jew, Christian and Moslem. Peace, Paz, Shalom, Salaam. Last week I alluded to meetings held between PM Olmert and Mahmoud Abbas during which Abbas encouraged Israel to go into Gaza and wipe out Hamas – at whatever human cost. I was unable…

091008 8th October 2009. Shabbat Shalom, Moadin le Simcha, Chag Sameach, Happy Tabernacles! WE DUNNIT! Professor Ada Yonat of the Weizman Institute won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry 2009 for her undaunting research into ribosome culture and structure toward the creation of antibiotics effective against diseases unresponsive to current medication. To congratulate the Professor, the…

090923 29th September 2009. Chag Succot Sameach, Happy Festival of Tabernacles. Welcome to the thousands and thousands of Christians who have come to Jerusalem to celebrate the Festival of Tabernacles with the International Christian Embassy in Jerusalem http://www.icej.org/ . Welcome and Shalom. Glen Beck is known for the strong, sometimes excessive emotion and levity of…

090927 27th September 2009. Shana Tova, Shevua Tov and Gmar Chatima Tova (Happy New Year, a Good Week and May you be written in the Book of Life) Rosh Hashana came and went with the usual vast quantities of food, prayer and repentance. Today we are on the verge of Yom Kippur. Despite popular belief,…