Then There Was Light…

The Palestinian Authority Health Minister decided in January to stop covering Israeli hospital expenses of PA residents who cross the security barrier to receive treatment. This has left strokes untreated, and life-saving chemotherapy, radiotherapy and bone marrow transplants for cancer patients have been put off indefinitely, according to an Israel National News article. Why would they [...]

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Once again proving that for better for worse, Israel is the most (read: only) liberal and democratic state in the entire Middle East: homosexuals can now adopt children in Israel, and they can even go on maternity leave. (IsraelNN.com) Two recent precedent-setting cases have given male homosexual couples in Israel the right to adopt children [...]

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Yet another reason to boycott Israel. Israeli ingenuity and invention could potentially produce a global revolution in solar electricity generation. The solar energy market has generally been divided into photovoltaic (PV) solar power and large-scale solar thermal power plants – until now. Aora Solar, part of the E.D.I.G. Group, has developed a small-scale hybrid solar [...]

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We would like to believe that most Palestinians and Arabs are ‘moderate’, but poll after poll proves otherwise. When will Israel ever have a partner for peace? The world, including Israel, must do something to free Palestinians from the systematic indoctrination that Hamas inflicts on its population starting at the youngest of ages. Until the [...]

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All Israeli citizens – including Jews – must now show their ID cards at the large Tarkumiyeh checkpoint. While the reason is not given in the article, it is most likely a result of security concerns of terrorists dressing up as Jews or infiltrating Israeli settlements. Regardless of the reason, it certainly shows that of [...]

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With Israel doing better than its done since 1987, maybe the empty arena wasn’t such a bad idea afterall? Israel advanced to the Davis Cup quarterfinals for the first time since 1987 after rallying to beat seven-time champion Sweden 3-2 Sunday in a close series overshadowed by political protests. Harel Levy beat Andreas Vinciguerra 6-4, [...]

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This is the dumbest idea I’ve ever heard. And guess who agrees? OTTAWA (AFP) — A solution to Jerusalem could be a “special regime” that administers the Old City without dividing it, leaving the thorny issue of sovereignty for a future date, two former diplomats wrote. In the March/April issue of Foreign Affairs, professors Michael [...]

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While running our display on Thursday, a common defence that Hamas apologists tried to give was that “Israel created Hamas!” Even if true, this is a ridiculous excuse, but I’m way too exhausted right now to get into that absurd argument. I just find it funny that two days after hearing that over and over [...]

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As announced a few weeks ago, the Sweden-Israel match of the Davis cup was in an empty arena today. 200 anti-Israel protesters gathered outside. AFP – Some 200 people demonstrated Friday outside a sports arena in southern Sweden to protest against the Scandinavian country’s Davis Cup tie against Israel, as a massive police deployment watched [...]

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Hon. Yoine Goldstein said some things that needed to be said yesterday: Honourable senators, we are witnessing a distressing series of events in Canada that are reminiscent of darker chapters in world history. The first event is the passage of a resolution on February 22 by the Ontario division of the Canadian Union of Public [...]

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