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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.

Thursday, March 27, 2014

Shafted Shavit Shifts; Shuts Up Schocken

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Excerpt : ...the truth must be told: The old left’s “guardians of the city” won’t evacuate a single settlement, won’t bring about the wi...

On 'Defiiling' the Temple Mount

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‘Abd al-Malik Dhamsha, MK and head of the Islamic party, on Sharon's September 2000 visit to the Temple Mount: It is a war that eve...
Wednesday, March 26, 2014

A Joke at Munther Isaac's Expense

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I read this : Munther Isaac...at the Christ at the Checkpoint Conference that took place in Bethlehem a couple of weeks ago...told an an...

Simple Truth

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Today the West Bank is commonly referred to as occupied territory, despite the fact that the situation here does not meet the Geneva Conven...
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The Meyer Lansky Window

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Credit: BMedad A synagogue in Florida.   Beth Jacob on Washington . On Meyer . ^

'Protect Me From Geula Cohen'

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From the Israel State Archives on the Peace Process The US proposal and the reactions of Egypt and Israel (10-11 September 1978) Carter...
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I Won't Be Presenting A Paper

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I tried and applied : From: Yisrael Medad Sent: 19 March 2014 12:12 To: Subject: RE: Jordan River Conference According to your pre-confer...

Lessons from Waco

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Excerpted from a piece  - S ACRED AND PROFANE, How not to negotiate with believers, by  Malcolm Gladwell -   on Waco and the Branch Davidia...

Discussing and Deliberating with Congressmen

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Here I am meeting last month with Congressmen David McKinley and Ben Johnso n on their visit to Israel, which included Judea and Samaria: ...
Tuesday, March 25, 2014

Another New Book

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Following the Daniel Gordis book on Begin last month, and the book on Yair Stern by Patrick Bishop , we now have this Jabotinsky A Life...

Will Barry Shrage Resign?

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First, there was this response to the Harvard students' visit to arch-terrorist Arafat's grave: TO:               Board of Direc...
Monday, March 24, 2014

Jabotinsky's Sword

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I read this A historic sword belonging to the Zionist leader Zev Jabotinsky was presented to the Israel Police in a special ceremony on...
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Futterman Is Fooling Us

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Don Futterman, who I know and worked with on the Begin Center's "Junior Knesset" project more than a decade ago, is program d...
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Sunday, March 23, 2014

Sitting on a Prime Minister's Tail

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Telegram From the Embassy in Israel to the Department of State Tel Aviv, April 5, 1955—4 p.m. 859. Embassy submits the following comments...

Drone Alongside the Temple Mount

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This man was arrested for supposedly flying ( Hebrew ) a mini-drone near the Temple Mount (he seems to have walked along the cemetery...

Protecting Settlers --- In 1955

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“We are not going to withdraw our patrols. They are there to protect our settlers. If they were not there the settlers could not work in th...

A 1954 US Diplomatic View

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Found at FRUS United States' diplomat waxing philosophical. Imagine what we'll find in another 30 years when the documents ...
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Saturday, March 22, 2014

Herut Newspaper's Use of Quotation Marks

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In many stories relating to Israel , certain terms are placed occasionally in quotations marks, as if to cast suspicion or doubt on their u...

Security is in the Topography

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From here :- Actually, without the hills of Judea and Samaria, not only cannot Israel protect the Jordan Valley but also the rest of Is...
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Obama - Israel's Security Liability

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If you read this U.S. insists: Ya'alon has not apologized Obama administration official denies Israeli defense minister apologized t...
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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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