Mystical Politics

I've been doing some reading tonight to try to discover what will happen tomorrow in Jerusalem, the ultimate goal of the grandiosely-nam...

Disgusting hooliganism by Brandeis University students on Monday night (3/26/12), when so-called "pro-Palestinian" activists disr...

One of the amusing things about being in Israel is that every year the Knesset passes a law deciding when daylight savings time will start ...

It seems likely that things are going to get hot again here on Friday, when the "Global March to Jerusalem," organized principally...

Hussein Ibish just tweeted: Hussein Ibish ‏ @ Ibishblog Well, we are well into Saturday afternoon and no o...

Around 1,000 march in TA anti-war with Iran rally Protesters express opposition to strike on Iran, voicing anti-Netanyahu slogans and rai...

Tonight in Tel Aviv there is the first demonstration in Israel against an attack on Iran. I had hoped to go but wasn't able to find a ri...

If you don't live in Israel (or Iran, I guess), then you don't know how bad it has gotten. Israeli politicians are broadcasting the ...

BobFromBrockley reminded me that Gilad Atzmon is now on a tour of the United States, and one of the places he visited was Geneva, New York,...

While I've been living in Israel, working on my book, waiting for it to finally get warm here (It's warmer in Ithaca than in Jerusal...

Ran Boker, a columnist for Ynet, wrote a very powerful article on what it's like to live under attack, in Hebrew. I've translated h...

This is appalling - what are we doing in Afghanistan? Cold-blooded murder of innocent civilians: U.S. serviceman kills 16 in house-to-house...

This is an incredibly disturbing article about the killings of gay men in Iraq ( 'Emo' Killings Raise Alarms in Iraq ): BAGHDAD (AP...

Another windy, stormy cold front has hit Israel, heralded yesterday and earlier today by the famed " ovekh " that I like so much (...

Al Jazeera has a balanced video report on the rioting today.

Today, after Friday prayers, there were clashes on the Temple Mount between Muslims and the Israeli police - this is after a couple of weeks...

It's rare to find official news agencies, especially from oppressive regimes, actually telling the truth. In this article from the Fars ...

The other day I decided to pay a visit to the Old City because it was a warm, sunny day. I spent the earlier part of the day working on an a...

Today was supposed to be the big day for snow in Jerusalem, but all I saw was a little bit of snow on the lawn in the morning, and when I wa...

A couple of weeks ago, the weather was described as ovech (אובך). It was cloudy (מעונן) or partly cloudy (מעונן חלקי) and there was ovech ....