Tikkun Olam

Do the "Palestinians" want peace? Maybe.  Ok, let's say "sure." But not with a Jewish State.  'Cause there isn't anything like that.  Nor are there a "Jewish People."  There never has been. There's only something called "Israel."  And they don't want peace with it , either. Dennis Prager did a 'test' with a peace activist, to prove this (entire article here .).  I don't know whether she understood it... The Palestinians Want Peace -- Just Not With a Jewish State About five years ago, I was invited by the Hoover Institution to lecture at Stanford University over the course of a week. Coincidentally, Israel's Independence Day fell during that week, so I was invited to speak at the celebration held by pro-Israel students. In my talk, I noted that the crux of the problem in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict was that most Palestinians wanted Israel to cease to exist. After my talk, a woman walked over t...

When you think about it, we Jews have wonderful holidays, celebrating goodness, giving thanks to G-d for...everything.  And at this time of year, we Jews are supposed, during our High Holidays,  to do much introspection on our moral selves, our character, and our lives.  We are supposed to make serious efforts to change for the better.  Well, have we? Have we consciously worked on it? Did you become a better person than you were last year? Have I? Dennis Prager has a very interesting take on why most of us have trouble doing that .  He has come up with 13 reasons - stumbling blocks, if you will - preventing us from become morally and ethically better human beings.  The one that surprised me was Number One: we don't really want to be good people.  Read the first four reasons below.  Then click on the link, and read the rest.  As someone said in a song (see previous post), it ain't gonna be so easy . 1. Most people don't particularly w...

(Sigh.) I don't see what the big problem is in understanding the so-called Arab-Israel conflict in the Middle East.  It's as plain as day for people who are not afraid to face the facts.  Unfortunately, because of politics, political correctness, fear of naming the enemy and antisemitism (which is a cleaned-up word for just plain hatred of Jews ), the so-called "Middle East Conflict"  has become convoluted and is thought of as "complicated," because there are supposedly "two peoples who claim one land." Baloney. It really isn't complicated, but rather extremely simple--and finally somebody is summing it up, in about 5:54 minutes.  Thank you, Dennis Prager (hat tip Israel Situation ).