As a followup to yesterday’s posting, it is worth reading this article by Gideon Levy. Yosef Lapid, head of the Shinui party, is a vulgar man reminiscent of many European rightist politicians, like Le Pen and worse. When Bibi Netanyahu ran against Shimon Peres, a few days before the election, Habad [the Hasidic Lubavitch movement] [...]
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One thing even die-hard secularists often admire about Orthodox Jewish weddings,is the joyous singing and dancing that goes on. So one hardly knows how to react to this article about a new phenomenon in Israel: Young Orthodox Jewish youth singing songs of bloody vengeance against the Arabs and even dancing to these tunes while waving [...]
First the news, from Friday’s Haaretz:
“IDF Chief of Staff Moshe Ya’alon’s controversial remarks earlier this week were ‘true and correct’ and described ‘the situation as it is,’ Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said yesterday.”
“Ya’alon, both at a conference organized by the chief rabbis on Sunday and in an interview with Ha’aretz Magazine, described the Palestinian threat [...]