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My thoughts, assertions and observations on issues important to me as a Jew, a Zionist, a Revenant in Yesha and as an inquisitive human being.
About Me
- YMedad
- Shiloh, Benjamin District, Samaria, Israel
- American born, my wife and I moved to Israel in 1970. We have lived at Shiloh together with our family since 1981. I was in the Betar youth movement in the US and UK. I have worked as a political aide to Members of Knesset and a Minister during 1981-1994, lectured at the Academy for National Studies 1977-1994, was director of Israel's Media Watch 1995-2000 and currently, I work at the Menachem Begin Heritage Center in Jerusalem. I was a guest media columnist on media affairs for The Jerusalem Post, op-ed contributor to various journals and for six years had a weekly media show on Arutz 7 radio. I serve as an unofficial spokesperson for the Jewish Communities in Judea & Samaria.
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- Vilnai is Dumb but BBC Could Have Done Better
- Book Launching: The Aaronsohn Saga
- This is the Demographic Problem
- Eat Like An Egyptian (Coptic)?
- There Are None So Blind As They That Refuse to See
- The American Jewish Washout
- Afif is a PhD?
- Amnon Rubinstein Bashes Left
- Hanging Up 007
- Cosmopolitan Girl
- Border Wars Thoughts
- As for Kosovo...
- Separate and Very Non-Equal
- BBC Does a Peace Now Flyover-like
- Numbers
- Arab Settlers? My, My
- An Academic View on Antizionism
- Intersting Statistics on Afterlife Belief
- BBC's "Militants"
- My Jerusalem Post Letter
- More on Monopoly
- Would This Work in Israel?
- Some People Will Do Everything/Anything for Publicity
- Indiana Jones, Sort Of
- Kaddish in a New Novel
- Condi Rice Is Being Robust, Again
- Behind the Headline
- More on That "Holy Hole"
- Jabotinsky in the Times Literary Supplement
- Florida Kaparot
- Play Like An Arab
- Under the Same Chamberlain Umbrella
- The UN is So...Occupied
- There are Other People Holding a Gun to Her Head
- Iran? They Want Israel to Go the Same Silly Route
- I Wasn't But Now I Will
- Great Shmuel Katz Story
- I Agree with Michael Freund
- I'm Now In Jerusalem and It Is Snowing
- The Second Lebanon War Campaign Ribbon
- And Who Said This?
- Another Point for Debating Olmert
- Shiloh School Closed...in North Dakota
- My Translation of a Yesha Council Editorial
- Holy Hole!
- Better Traumatized Than to Traumatize
- Now, Where Else Did They Burn Books?
- An Example of Nonviolent Direct Action
- And You Thought Egged Bus Drivers Are Bad
- Remember Finkelstein? Norman, That Is
- Did You Miss Nasrallah's Speech?
- Strength vs. "Strength"
- "Shiloh" Provides for Some Weird News Stories
- Be the Academic
- Madonna Needs More Kabbalah
- Peace by Piece
- Tefillin? It's Dishes Now
- The Headline Tells It All
- English Literature is as Modern as Ever
- O Ba Ma*
- The Deli is Back
- Witty
- Replying to a Critic
- Ever Hear of the "U.S.-Palestinian Partnership"?
- Gavron Gabs
- Sometimes It Pays to Read Obituaries
- British Exit the Mandate at Haifa
- The Lantos Demography Example
- Me? An Extremist?
- An Unpublished Letter to the IHT
- Oh, Really? Now, Where is Shas When You Need Them?
- Jewess Heroine - Sol Hachuel
- More Pal. Help/Support Groups
- Shiloh and Lebanon - in the U.S. (Luckily)
- Look Who's Been Reading My Blog
- Our Father Our King
- Pithy
- Mel Gibson is the Winner
- Silly Jews
- Jewish Theater But, Perhaps, In Reverse Order
- Brave AP
- One or the Other
- Jews Being Nice to Each Other
- A Rose By Any Other Name Might Smell Differently
- Academic BS
- I Met a "Meshichist"
- Eretz-Yisrael in 1931 on Film
- Ah, New York. A Jewish Town
- Temple Mount, Temple
- Barry Chamish Keeps Attacking Me Repetively
- I Like It
- And You Call Yourself a Mother?
- Moshe Rabeinu in Jericho
- Burkha Fashion - Yes or No?
- Henry Seigman Schm*cks It Again
- Kinda-Lies-a-Lot
- Apologist Amira
- Oops, There Goes Up Another Fence
- Winograd Committee's Dror vs. Netanyahu
- There Were Two Medads at the Super Bowl
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3 comments:
See my comment on Melanie Phillips' blog (just click the link given.
suzanne
My friend,
Thank you for stopping by Shiloh Guy. I will be visiting your site too hoping to find out a little more. I love your pictures on Views of Shiloh.
We founded our church in 2004 and named it Shiloh because that was where the tabernacle was first set up in the Promised Land. For me it was a picture of God's fulfilled promises to his people. The first place he dwelt among his people after they stopped their journey. I wanted our congregation to reflect a place of peace and communion with God. I wanted our people to represent the fulfillment of God's promises.
My Hebrew is rusty, to say the least! I only studied ancient Hebrew anyway.
I was in Israel in 1972 for a couple of weeks. I was almost 19 years old and I was all alone there. I did my best to find my way around but those were difficult days and I had trouble finding help. (I was on my way home to the States after several months working for the US Government in the newly established Bangladesh.
What is a Revenant in Yesha?
Your new non-Jewish Scots friend,
David Moorhead
Revenant is my alternate term for the word "settler". It is my feeling that the use of the word "settler" and "settlement" is slightly (or more) perjorative as if we Jews do not belong in that area. I prefer revenant or even simply resident and "community", or "town" or "viilage" or "city". Revenant itself comes from the French, revenir, which means returning to ancestral home after a long absence (it's in Ivanhoe). "Settlement", I think, conjures up some foreign presence parallel to "reservation" in the US. This, of course, is all politics, but I don't apologize for my politics
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