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Should Warmongering Win over Peace – Even in Tourism?

By Fred Schlomka –  Shocking News! Green Olive Tours has dropped to number 2 on TripAdvisor, the world’s most widely read travel website. Who has beaten us? You’ll need to take a seat while you digest this. Caliber 3, an Israeli shooting range that describes itself as a “Counter Terror and Security Academy”, has taken […]

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Gaza Context

by Yahav Zohar – The media tends to juxtapose Hamas’s rockets against Israel’s bombings so that it almost seemed in this war one should support one side or the other based on its ethics of warfare.  War was made to look like a game conducted and judged by some rules of fair play. There is […]

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War on the Poor

by Yahav Zohar – “Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, […]

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Next Summer in Gaza

by Chema Arraiza –  There is something sacred and untouchable about kids and the summer. Summer is the time for endless evenings, for cycling, jumping on a river, a beach, a lake, for staying up late. Summer is pure life. It is freedom, the scenery of our best childhood memories. Swimming, laughing, discovering love… Life […]

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Hiking in Wadi Qelt

by Hannah Barkan –  Wadi Qelt, also known as the Prat River, is a beautiful oasis of waterfalls and towering rocks, located deep inside the Jordan Valley, just outside the West Bank city of Jericho. Impossibly hot in the summer and suffering from flash floods in the winter it is not always possible to hike […]

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The Judaisation of History

by Inge Etzbach – It is clear that over hundreds or thousands of years, tribes of any country will mingle with their neighbors, their conquerors and their captives. In Canaan, Hittites, Edomites, Moabites, Phoenicians and Ammonites formed the core population living in the area since prehistoric times. The area was settled from the Bronze Age […]

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Letter to friends

by Erella – To our friends, I have already been sitting for an hour, staring at the empty word page and not finding words that would describe the pain – the pain of those of us who see straight. The pain of the sober, of those who knew that the bottled demon grows and grows, […]

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Israel – The State for the Jews

by Marc Goldberg –At the end of the nineteenth century and into the early twentieth the Jews of Europe found themselves standing on a precipice. Persecution, both state sanctioned and otherwise, was making life intolerable. Simultaneously advances in technology, most notably in transport and mass communications ensured that there were escape routes available such as […]

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Jerusalem and Nicosia: Reflections on Division and Unification

by Eldad Brin –  By far one of the thorniest standing issues between the Israelis and Palestinians is that of the future status of Jerusalem. The Palestinians, both Christians and Muslims, venerate the city, and above all the Noble Sanctuary which is Temple Mount in its midst. Other than that, Jerusalem constitutes the biggest Palestinian […]

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The Origin of the Hebrews

By Inge Etzbach –  Archaeologists on the full spectrum of positions, political or otherwise, do agree that there is no evidence of a forceful conquest of Jericho and Canaan. External material evidence supplies no proof whatsoever of the biblical account of a large-scale and determined invasion of Israelites into Canaan. We now know that the […]

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Criminals!

 by Amos Gvirtz –   The Bedouin citizens of Israel have committed a terrible crime: They were born Bedouin in a Jewish state!   How do I know this? Very simple, the State of Israel has established a police unit whose only task is to fight against its Bedouin citizens. It is called the “Yoav Unit” […]

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Writers Wanted

We pay for all articles accepted. Please take a good look through the blog before responding. Our articles are intended to deepen the understanding of visitors to the country, and also be interesting for people who are “armchair tourists” or just doing some research on the internet. . Articles should be original and short. 6-800 […]

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