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Tevet 3, 5769, 12/30/2008
Ho-Ho-Ho and A Bottle of Manischewitz
You have heard of the Free Gaza Movement? ( their site) As Arutz 7 informed us: Free Gaza spokeswoman Greta Berlin charged Israel with " piracy on the high seas." It seems that the Free Gaza boat, dubbed Dignity, "collided" with an Israel Navy ship. YNET added: The Israeli Navy stopped an ISM ship carrying humanitarian aid on its way to the Gaza Strip Tuesday, and ordered it to return to wear it came from. The ship carrying 16 people has begun its return to Cyprus. However, sources close to the activists on the ship claim it does not have enough fuel to reach the Island. and this is cute, too: Mercantile Discount Bank has refused to execute a bank transfer from a Spanish government agency to an Israeli human rights organization because the transfer form listed the organization's East Jerusalem address as being in "the Occupied Palestinian Territories."
Monday, the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court issued an injunction barring the bank from returning the money to the donor until it hands down a final ruling on the legality of the bank's refusal. The injunction was issued in response to a suit by the intended recipient, the Hamoked Center for the Defense of the Individual.
The money, totaling over 100,000 euros, has been sitting in one of the bank's Tel Aviv branches since November 21. According to Hamoked, bank officials told it that had the form not included an address at all, the money would have been deposited in its account without delay. Seems there are still people in Israel with imagination, creativity and good old fashioned chutzpa. All is not lost
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Tevet 2, 5769, 12/29/2008
The New List - Minus and Plus
The new Ihud Leumi/HaTikva List has been announced. It looks good, very good. And it would have even been better if there had been a woman on it, at least among the first 10. Lior Kalafa managed to appear both on the Ihud List, #10, and on the Bayit Yehudi List, #12. A big plus for him. Oh, well. And how many women were involved in putting the list together?
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Kislev 30, 5769, 12/27/2008
The Goof of Gershom Gorenberg
Gershom Gorenberg is quite anti-Yesha. His book, "Accidental Empire"*, repeats in English what Yehiel Admoni published many years ago in Hebrew: the story of the 1967-1977 period of the renewal of Jewish life in Judea, Samaria and Gaza as well as Sinai and the Golan. He blogs. Together with Haim Watzman, he can be found at South Jerusalem. Gershom, a kippa-wearer, has a piece in The American Prospect entitled, "The Rebel Prince", against Moshe Feiglin (and also at his South Jerusalem blog.
I do not support Feiglin and his Jewish Leadership group, but I don't like what Gorenberg did there.
He notes that "on the Jewish Leadership website, a Hebrew document proposes principles for a constitution for Israel". The unavoidable presumption is that the document is an official one. It's "there", no?
But anyone with a modicum of Hebrew could have read and known that that "document" was composed by Prof. Hillel Weiss who, at the least, is well-known as an independent thinker. Moreover, as it is written there, it was uploaded as part of an internal discussion as to the future character of a Jewish state. In the framework of a debate, many things are suggested. The implication of Gorenberg is that that document is the agreed upon approach, decided at some official convocation, but that is not only wrong but intended to be misleading. Goremberg compounded his error, intentional as it was, by not only publishing it at his personal blog but putting it up at a general, goyish, "liberal" forum. And that is a shanda.
Shame he did that 'before the goyim'. =============================== * Read this excerpt from the book
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From the Hills of Efraim
by Yisrael Medad
This blog will be informative, highlight foibles, will be assertively contentious and funny and wryly satirical.
Yisrael Medad is a revenant resident of Shiloh, in the Hills of Efrayim north of Jerusalem. He arrived in Israel with his wife, Batya, in 1970 and lived in the renewing Jewish Quarter, eventually moving to Shiloh in 1981. Currently the Menachem Begin Center's Information Resource Director, he has previously been director of Israel's Media Watch, a Knesset aide to three Members of Knesset and a lecturer in Zionist History. He assists the Yesha Council in it's contacts with the Foreign Media in a volunteer capacity, is active on behalf of Jewish rights on the Temple Mount and is involved in various Jewish and Zionist activist causes. He contributes a Hebrew-language media column to Besheva and publishes op-eds in the Jerusalem Post and other periodicals. He also blogs at MyRightWord in English and, in Hebrew, at The Right Word. |
