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Category Archives: International Relations
The Corona Chronicles – New Variants, the Weather, Purim, Putin and Other Ruminations
Earlier this week, we were warned that a new, hybrid variant of the COVID-19 virus has arrived in Israel, a combination of the Omicron and Delta variants, currently nicknamed Deltacron. That’s in addition to the BA2 variant I mentioned in … Continue reading
Posted in Health, International Relations, News, Uncategorized
Tagged COVID-19, Fiddler on the Roof, Israel, Purim, Putin, refugees, Tevye the Milkman, Ukraine, weather
9 Comments
The Corona Chronicles – How Putin Single-Handedly Defeated COVID-19
Have you noticed how nobody is talking about the pandemic any more? True, the transmission rate and other numbers are falling and the Fifth Wave did seem to be gradually subsiding (here, in Israel, at any rate) throughout February, although … Continue reading
Posted in History, International Relations, News, Uncategorized
Tagged COVID-19, Holocaust, Putin, Ukraine
4 Comments
The Corona Chronicles – Letting Off Steam
On Tuesday morning, I awoke to the sound of rain pattering against my windows. Yet when I looked at the Weather Channel app on my mobile phone, it informed me that the sun was shining!It just goes to show, you … Continue reading
Posted in Health, International Relations, News, Politics, Uncategorized
Tagged Amnesty International, apartheid, COVID pandemic, Snow in Israel
4 Comments
A Capital Idea!
Last week, the world reacted – mostly with disapprobation – to the fact that “the Leader of the Free World” faced up to reality and declared to all that Jerusalem is, indeed, Israel’s capital. The mass hysteria from the so-called … Continue reading
Posted in International Relations, Politics, Uncategorized
Tagged Israel, Israel's capital, Jerusalem, Palestine, President Trump
8 Comments
You Can Shove It, U.N.E.S.C.O …
Last week, U.N.E.S.C.O. – an organization whose purpose, according to its own Constitution, is “to contribute to peace and security by promoting collaboration among the nations through education, science and culture in order to further universal respect for justice, for … Continue reading
Posted in International Relations, Law, News, Politics, Religion, Uncategorized
Tagged Israel, Jerusalem, Middle East, Palestine, U.N.E.S.C.O
7 Comments
Here Comes (Not) The Bride
Yesterday, over seventy nations took part in a so-called “Peace Conference” in Paris, allegedly to further the “Peace Process” between Israel and  the so-called “Palestinians”. What a farce! What kind of a “Peace Conference” can there be when neither of … Continue reading
Posted in International Relations, News, Politics, Uncategorized
Tagged Israel, Middle East, Palestine, Paris Peace Conference
9 Comments
When Is An Antisemite – An Antisemite?
You’ve all heard the hoary denials – I am not an antisemite, I am simply a critic of Israel’s policies. Or (if they are even slightly honest) – I am not an antisemite, I am anti-Zionist, because Zionism is racism. … Continue reading
Politics, the Weather and the Politics of Weather
Forgive me, Reader, for I have sinned. It has been nearly three weeks since my last blog post đ Whether it’s because I have been so busy, trying to learn my music for the two concerts I have coming up … Continue reading
Nationalism, the “Jewish State Bill” and the U.N. Partition Resolution of 1947
The day before yesterday sixty-seven years ago, on November 29th 1947, the United Nations General Assembly voted to partition the territory of the Palestine Mandate into two states – a Jewish state and an Arab state. With all the talk … Continue reading
THE VIEW FROM THE PALACE 