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Showing posts with label Israel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Israel. Show all posts
Thursday, January 9, 2025

Israel Alone by Bernard-Henri Levy--The World Changed The Month It Was Published

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  On September 10 of the year just passed Bernard-Henri Levy published his new book Israel Alone .  I have read several of Levy's books ...
Friday, October 18, 2024

A Very Complex Story: The Arc of a Covenant: The United States, Israel, and the Fate of the Jewish People by Walter Russell Mead

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This book is a history of the relationship between Israel and the United States.  Like so many relationships, the partners look back and rew...
Friday, September 27, 2024

John Fetterman--The Gift That Keeps on Giving to Pennsylvania, America and the Free World

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The Pennsylvania delegation at the Ukraine Action Summit visiting Senator John Fetterman On the second morning of the Ukraine Action Summit ...
Wednesday, September 18, 2024

Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth

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  I just finished  Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth by Noa Tishby .  The title is a promise fulfilled.  I ...
Wednesday, November 8, 2023

Cease Fire? Sure! The Day After HAMAS is Destroyed.

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  In 2016 when Steve Bannon was named chief of staff to the President, I started reading about the Holocaust. In particular, how the Holocau...
Friday, October 6, 2023

Yom Kippur War, 50th Anniversary, Remembering the Carnage of Armor

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A Syrian Tank in the Golan, 1973 On 2pm on October 6, 1973, near the end of the Yom Kippur fast by Jews, Egypt and Syria, backed by auxillia...
Friday, November 6, 2020

Book Report 2020, Book Groups In this year of Pandemic and Social Distancing

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In this year of Pandemic and Social Distancing, I am part of more book groups than ever in my life. Most of the discussions are on Zoom, bu...
Sunday, August 30, 2020

Vote Trump to Support Israel? Not This American Jew!

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    I know Jews in America and Israel who support re-electing the current President based in part on his support for Israel.  I can understa...
Monday, March 2, 2020

Visiting Ramallah--Trump Peace Plan Looks Ludicrous

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A luxury apartment complex outside Ramallah.  Built with money from Qatar, it is so far out that it has few residents. During my visi...
Sunday, March 1, 2020

Disposable Health Wealth

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When I left Israel, I took a direct flight to Tbilisi, Georgia. I had never been to this country on the east end of the Black Sea with a...
Monday, February 17, 2020

Six-Day War Veteran Tells His Story of Ammunition Hill Battle

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Micheal Lanier telling us about the battle for Ammunition Hill   My friend Cliff and I visited the Ammunition Hill Museum and Memori...
Friday, November 22, 2019

Mount Bental and a Battle That Saved Israel in 1973

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The trenches on the Mount Bental Outpost The Yom Kippur War in 1973 was arguably the last real full-scale armored war.   The American ...
Saturday, November 16, 2019

The Suite High of Jerusalem

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My first night in Jerusalem was my second night in Israel. The first night I spent in Eilat. All of the second day I drove the length of Is...
Saturday, November 2, 2019

28 Hours, 739 Miles, A Full Circle of Israel

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Israel, from Eilat to Golan On Friday morning, November 1, I got up at 4:30 am in Paris and began a long day of travel that ended on th...
Saturday, June 29, 2019

Evolution: Israelis and American Jews Grow Apart

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Moshe Dayan and Ariel Sharon   in the Sinai during the Six-Day War in 1967 I love Evolution. Not only is it one of the most bril...
Monday, September 25, 2017

Six Days of War: Three Wars Lost in Six Days

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Israeli Sherman Tanks in the Sinai, Attacking Egypt Ignorance Can be the greatest ally or the greatest enemy of an army at war.  In t...
Thursday, July 20, 2017

Jerusalem: The Youngest 5,000-Year-Old City I Ever Visited

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Jerusalem : 5,000 years old and the youngest city I visited in my 20-country tour. When I flew to Israel after a month in mostly Easter...