UncategorizedFrom Israel: “With Pain and Bewilderment”ArleneJuly 14, 2019August 2, 2019 by ArleneJuly 14, 2019August 2, 20190570 With all there is to write about, I have decided first to do a follow-up to my posting about the Ethiopian riots sent out last
UncategorizedFrom Israel: “The Ethiopian Riots – Distortion and Truth”ArleneJuly 8, 2019August 2, 2019 by ArleneJuly 8, 2019August 2, 20191739 Last Sunday, June 30, news broke that an unarmed Ethiopian 19 year old, Solomon Teka, had been shot dead by an off-duty policeman in Kiryat
UncategorizedFrom Israel: “Unstable and Scary”ArleneJuly 5, 2019August 2, 2019 by ArleneJuly 5, 2019August 2, 20190724 We cannot pretend otherwise: There is a great deal happening that evokes a very deep unease. This was my theme in my last posting –
UncategorizedFrom Israel: “Surreal!”ArleneJune 27, 2019August 2, 2019 by ArleneJune 27, 2019August 2, 20190762 So much, so much, seems not as it should be – or, at least, as we would, in the normal course of events, expect it
UncategorizedFrom Israel: “WHAT Are They Thinking??!”ArleneJune 24, 2019August 2, 2019 by ArleneJune 24, 2019August 2, 20190550 The workshop/conference in Bahrain has not even started yet, and we are being deluged by news reports about the Trump plan. Quite frankly, it is
UncategorizedFrom Israel: “Hmm…A Different Take”ArleneJune 20, 2019August 2, 2019 by ArleneJune 20, 2019August 2, 20190620 Yoni Ben-Menachem, a Middle East analyst with the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, has advanced a highly plausible take on the situation surrounding the Bahrain
UncategorizedFrom Israel: “So, Is It Annexation, or What?!”ArleneJune 18, 2019August 2, 2019 by ArleneJune 18, 2019August 2, 20190592 I can tell you, dear readers, that it is not annexation. Before you panic, allow me to explain. My reasoning is quite positive: Last week, in
UncategorizedFrom Israel: “Critical: Rise Up to Meet Them!”ArleneJune 13, 2019August 2, 2019 by ArleneJune 13, 2019August 2, 20190724 Our many challenges, that is. It is so easy to ignore them, or minimize them. But we do not have the luxury of doing this. We
UncategorizedFrom Israel: “Respite from the Lunacy!”ArleneJune 7, 2019August 2, 2019 by ArleneJune 7, 2019August 2, 20190758 I wrote in my last posting about the passing of First Lady Nechama Rivlin, z”l. But I return to this subject briefly now because the
UncategorizedFrom Israel: “Never Simple, Never Smooth!”ArleneJune 4, 2019June 4, 2019 by ArleneJune 4, 2019June 4, 20190636 It’s the way of the world. There are always complexities and provisos and competing perspectives. But first matters first: Sometimes the way of the