Thoughts on being Jewish

THE WALL STREET JOURNAL Israel and the Surrender of the West - June 21, 2010 - By SHELBY STEELE The most interesting voice in all the fallout surrounding the Gaza flotilla incident is that sanctimonious and meddling voice known as "world opinion." At every turn "world opinion," like a school marm, takes offense and condemns Israel for yet another infraction of the world's moral sensibility. And this voice has achieved an international political legitimacy so that even the silliest condemnation... Sign in to see full entry.

A couple of months ago, when my colleague Michael Luongo was about to set off for Israel and the West Bank, I gave him the name of my Army/Kibbutz/Think Tank friend, Amos, who runs tours from Israel into the West Bank (he used to include Gaza, but that ended when the terrorist organization, Hamas, took over there). It turns out, though he did get in touch with Amos, he didn't require the Israeli's assistance to get into the West Bank; according to travel statistics, over a million tourists... Sign in to see full entry.

Gaza Flotilla delivers cargo of chaos by Yehoshua Oz In the early morning hours of Monday, an array of ships, poised to enter Gaza illegally, brought a measure of madness and violence to the Middle East. Israel’s withdrawal from Gaza In 2005, Israel, at great cost to itself, unilaterally disengaged from Gaza, leaving the Palestinian Arabs with a mass of land on which they could develop their own independent homeland. Unfortunately, instead of focusing on building a future, terrorism and... Sign in to see full entry.

There's an interesting article in tomorrow's New York Times Magazine (which I get on Saturdays), written by Russell Shorto, about Job Cohen (a Jew) who reaches out to Muslims, running for Dutch Prime Minister. Most of the piece is about the pros and cons of his platform - too conservative for some, too liberal for others....same old, same old in politics. But what caught my attention is the second to last paragraph about 41 year old Ahmed Marcouch, a Moroccan Muslim who pushes Moroccans in the... Sign in to see full entry.

The population of Israel is made up of people from 70 nations (including non-Jewish refugees from the Sudan who WALK there to find the most compassionate government in the region where they feel safest). Here's a nice 4 minute video on why Buffett and Gates invest in this tiny entrepreneurial, compassionate county- Israel. Sign in to see full entry.