What do you do when war is part of your daily life?

I hate the news.  You know why I hate the news? Cause nothing good ever seems to happen. It’s always about something really awful that happened so far away that there is absolutely nothing you can really do about it but feel really awful. And why do I want to feel awful? When I used [...]

It all goes back to Rabin

This theory is actually quite simple; Rabin was the best prime minister ever. He and his party focused on developing social needs such as schools, medicare, etc. and sincerely believed in, and were on the way to, establishing a concrete peace accord that would be beneficial to both sides. Unfortunately, many members of the populace [...]

Present Day – In Brief

Opinions are a funny thing aren’t they? They’re never really made up of facts and such, but rather, consist of thoughts pieced together by each individual mind, i.e. take two people, isolate them in a room, have them read the exact same articles, hear the exact same newscasts and watch the exact same tv shows [...]

What is the truth?

One of the things that has always stood out for me in Israel is that I never seem to grasp what the hell is really going on, politically. For a country that is so obsessed with the news, it’s amazingly difficult to figure out what is the truth. Top that off with an inherent inability [...]

Beginnings

When I first decided to move to Israel, for the second time around, I thought I knew what I was getting into. Unfortunately, as it turns out, I was clearly living in some kind of drug-induced hallucination (without any of the beneficial, disconnecting side effects). Although it falls under the list of first world countries, [...]