Conflict Blotter

I just came back from the Jerusalem peace concert, headlined by the Black Eyed Peas, whose lead singer Will.i.Am offered repeated and ringing “I love Israel” endorsements during the show.  He even suggested he might convert to Judaism and move to Israel because it has the most beautiful girls in the world. It looks like […]

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One of the more healthy means of dealing with Holocaust traumas, I’d say. As a journalist, this is a story I’m kicking myself for having missed.
Read under the table by a generation of pubescent Israelis, often the children of survivors, the Stalags were named for the World War II prisoner-of-war camps in which they were […]

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Here’s the latest example of the politicization of pork in Israel:
The Netanya City Council approved a bylaw prohibiting the sale of pork in the city on Tuesday. Those opposing the law called it “religious coercion and violation of the dominant status-quo in the city”.
Council Member Adir Benyamini, who also opposed the law, said, “The supporters […]

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