From Israel: “Pulling Ourselves Out of the Quagmire!”ArleneMarch 5, 2019March 8, 2019 by ArleneMarch 5, 2019March 8, 20190477 About a week ago, a reader wrote to me that we should have good cheer: things were looking so bad, politically, that they were bound...
From Israel: “Otzma: Disavowing Political Correctness”ArleneFebruary 28, 2019February 28, 2019 by ArleneFebruary 28, 2019February 28, 20190506 There is quite a hullabaloo ongoing with regard to the inclusion of the Otzma Yisraelit faction on the Bayit Yehudi-National Union list (in a technical...
From Israel: “Who Could Have Imagined This??”ArleneFebruary 28, 2019February 28, 2019 by ArleneFebruary 28, 2019February 28, 20190581 Not I. In all of the many years during which I have tracked Israeli pre-election campaigns, I have never encountered a campaign season like this...
From Israel: “The Critical Roller Coaster of Israeli Politics!”ArleneFebruary 22, 2019February 22, 2019 by ArleneFebruary 22, 2019February 22, 20190526 For weeks I was reticent about the intricacies of Israeli politics as the first stage of the campaign began to heat up. It was all...
From Israel: “Rapist or Terrorist?”ArleneFebruary 19, 2019February 19, 2019 by ArleneFebruary 19, 2019February 19, 20190523 It would not be surprising if my title today has left you scratching your heads. As if a man can be one or the...
From Israel: “Stretching! Stretching!”ArleneFebruary 15, 2019February 15, 2019 by ArleneFebruary 15, 2019February 15, 20190479 To find upbeat news, that is. No, it is not easy right now. But it is important for all of us to focus positively from...
From Israel: “The Haunting Face of Evil”ArleneFebruary 12, 2019February 12, 2019 by ArleneFebruary 12, 2019February 12, 20190620 Please, read to the end: When last I wrote, I spoke about the tears, the terrible sadness, evoked by the terrorist murder of Ori Ansbacher....
From Israel: “Sometimes We Weep”ArleneFebruary 10, 2019February 10, 2019 by ArleneFebruary 10, 2019February 10, 20190580 On the day that we no longer know how to weep, we will have lost our humanity. Ori Ansbacher, 19, was a resident of Tekoa...
From Israel: “Definitely Less Awful”ArleneFebruary 8, 2019February 8, 2019 by ArleneFebruary 8, 2019February 8, 20190503 A great many things have to come together over the next couple of months before we can say definitively that the political situation in Israel...
From Israel: “The Inevitable Is Upon Us”ArleneFebruary 5, 2019February 5, 2019 by ArleneFebruary 5, 2019February 5, 20190545 As has undoubtedly been obvious to many of my readers, even though Israel is in the throes of an election campaign (or the first stage...