Posts Tagged ‘politics’

Floods all over the world, in Australia, Brazil and Europe. Here, the weather is fine, sunny and dry, mostly, but we face our own murky waves, those of racism and hatred. Racist statements by Rabbis and political figures, demonstrations against African refugees, and now Avigdor Lieberman and members of his party who question left-wing organizations’ [...]

I confess, when the Bibi-Libermann government was set up, I took a break. The current political climate in Israel is too harsh for me. Instead of facing it, I turn the other way. Escapism is my therapy of choice – I just focus on my family life, our up and coming trip, or silly reality [...]

I’m working on a Big Brother post today, but stopped to post a quick one about our lesson yesterday. The kids go to school, but since they don’t get any homework to speak of, we add a daily lesson at home. Usually it’s either Hebrew, Math or English, but yesterday, we did a lesson in [...]

I’ve been trying to write this post for two weeks now… Not even sure why it’s taken me so long? First, for those who don’t know, Twitter is a social networking platform where you can sent out “tweets” – messages no longer than 140 characters. Each Twitter user chooses whose tweet stream to follow. You [...]

I became involved in some interesting “debates” on Twitter lately regarding Israel and Zionism. Quite a few people were outraged by my claim that the extreme-right in Israel (and their supporters abroad) are, de facto, acting against the best interests of Israel. I called that being “anti-Israeli” and I guess that was a confusing term [...]

Ok, heading for a political overdose, I can see that. Two posts at the same day and both political… Help! Actually, this one is kind of news reporting too. Israeli peace activist known online as IbnEzra posted on Twitter yesterday that he was off to a picnic. I confess, my first thought was: “How nice, [...]

Gilad Shalit is a huge topic in Israel, and today we mark three years since he was taken hostage by Hamas. Now, I do realize we have thousands of Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli prisons, but there are some major differences. There is no symmetry here. 1. Gilad is held hostage. Hamas has presented Israel [...]

Sorry if this sounds too self-centered, but this really sucks. Right in the middle of the kids’ Hannuka Holiday? I absolutely hate those phone calls too. Sigh. Flashbacks to the Lebanon war of 2006. I sure do hope this one won’t be as long. I doubt it though, with both sides prancing and making threats, [...]

Listening to the morning news just now, they mentioned that the Israeli political party of Shas has officially launched its elections campaign under the slogan of, how original, “Yes, we can!” Hilarious, really. Shas is the only political party in Israel that successfully runs under the ethnic card, playing on the rift between Ashkenazi and [...]

Apparently some Israelis are taking an active side in the American elections. I happen to know from my cat forums just how emotional and heated up these elections can get. Cats and politics? Well, yes, we have a special forum dedicated to debates and current events and let me tell you, these elections generate quite [...]