100416 Friday the 16th of April 2010. Shabbat Shalom! The British Advertising Standards Agency banned an Israel Tourist poster because in one corner of the advertisement there is a picture of the Western Wall (with the Dome of the Rock) because it is disputed territory!!!! Even the BBC makes it clear that this is ludicrous…

100407 7th April 2010. Shabbat Shalom dear friends It is all in a name. When David Ben Gurion made the decision to call this land the State of Israel for the Children of Israel rather than Yehuda for the Jews he felt it was natural and right. Israel was formed from greater Palestine by the…

[email protected] [email protected]. March 24th 2010. Israel and Passports The current brouhaha concerning British passports and Israeli diplomats reminded me of another instance of unwanted diplomats. Alistair Crooke was a known Arabist who worked in the British Foreign Office. Crooke was sent to Israel, as part of the British consular delegation in Jerusalem; ostensibly to oversee…

100326 26th March 2010. Shabbat Shalom While lying to the Israeli Prime Minister, claiming to be Israel’s best friend, The Secretary of State spoke to the Russian counterpart, in the name of the American Government and said that Israel must move back to the 1967 borders, while aware of upcoming war plans by Israel’s enemies…

100319 Today is the 19th of March, 2010 my wonderful husband’s 65th birthday. Shabbat Shalom to you all and Happy Birthday my darling Zvi – not forgetting his “bruvver” Yitzik, and my daughter Rachel and her husband Igal on their 6th anniversary! Moslems are killing hundreds of Christians daily in Nigeria and the media is…

100314 14th March 2010. Midweek Update Yassir Arafat stated that the Jews were not earnest in their desire to hold on to Jerusalem because we did not rebuild the Hurva Synagogue in the Old Jewish Quarter. As I write thousands of people have accompanied the first Sefer Torah from the Kotel to the fully and…

100312 12th March 2010. Shabbat Shalom! Vice-President Joseph Biden is one of Israel’s greatest allies in the United States Government. He is an always has been – a trait absorbed through his mother’s teaching. His visit to Israel was to recognize the strong alliance between Israel and the USA and to show support for the…

100312 12th March 2010. Shabbat Shalom! Vice-President Joseph Biden is one of Israel’s greatest allies in the United States Government. He is an always has been – a trait absorbed through his mother’s teaching. His visit to Israel was to recognize the strong alliance between Israel and the USA and to show support for the…

100304 March 4th 2010. Shabbat Shalom! History often repeats itself but similar situations take on dissimilar perspectives as facts are slewed and reinvented over time. Two historic areas under British rule, India and Palestine, claimed their independence receiving initial promises in 1919 to complete their partition in 1947. Both India and Israel decided to accept…

100225 26th February, 2010. Shabbat Shalom and Happy Purim dear Friends Alon Ben-David Israel Channel 10’s military affairs correspondent spoke of the Dubai “Affair” and the subsequent enquiries into forged passports. It seems unlikely to him that 26 people would have participated in the assassination of one man. If one combined the team which followed…