Blogcritics Author: Ruvy in Jerusalem

A Coming Peace Agreement? Israel News Analysis

Ruvy in Jerusalem — Tue, 8 Apr 2008 23:58:51 EDT

Peace! Peace! But there is no peace!
According to World Net Daily, an on-line newspaper, an Insider leaks plans for Palestinian state: Secretive U.S.-backed discussion focuses on West Bank, JerusalemIn reality, this isn't news at all. There have been secretive talks between the the American controlled flunkies on Jerusalem's Government Hill, a.k.a. the Israeli government...

Exercises in Futility: News Analysis From Israel

Ruvy in Jerusalem — Tue, 8 Apr 2008 07:37:26 EDT

While they pretend to be concerned about our security, the power-holders in Jerusalem quietly draw the borders enclosing who they will "protect".
For the last two days there has been a nationwide drill going on here, one designed to test Israel's ability to cope in a coordinated missile attack of the kind Israeli intelligence expects in the near future. Today, this drill is supposed to culminate in the blowing of air-raid sirens throughout the country at 10:00. Just for those...

Eight Dead and Forty Wounded in Arab Terror Attack on Jerusalem Yeshiva

Ruvy in Jerusalem — Thu, 6 Mar 2008 18:38:56 EST

The terror spigot has been opened; our mourners will weep as the Arabs celebrate in joy - for now.
At approximately 8:30 this evening (20:30) on 6 March, two terrorists entered Merkáz haRáv Yeshivá in the Kiryát Moshé neighborhood of Jerusalem and killed eight students and wounded approximately forty people, as they sprayed the yeshiva with several hundred rounds from Kalashnikov rifles they were carrying.One...

Thoughts on Rabbi Meir Kahane, z"l, hy"d, and What I Owe Him

Ruvy in Jerusalem — Mon, 3 Mar 2008 12:26:59 EST

Rabbi Meir Kahane was so controversial that only hostile biographies can be found. When will we see his widow's biography of him?
In last Thursday's Jerusalem Post (21 February 2008), Elliot Jager, an editor at the Jerusalem Post, wrote a review of Libby Kahane's biography of her late husband, Rav Meir Kahane, may his memory be for a blessing and may G-d redeem his blood.One paragraph in Mr. Jager's review caught my eye and held it.I don't know if Meir Kahane...

Late Congressman Tom Lantos "Savaged" on Air by Radio Host

Ruvy in Jerusalem — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 07:33:32 EST

There is a rudeness, a viciousness, a needless hatred in Eastern European Jewish culture that pervades it like a miasmal disease.
I remember being told as a child of a funeral where the funeral director got into a big argument with the family of the deceased, demanding payment on the spot before he would allow the funeral to proceed. This was at the grave site in one of the numerous Jewish cemeteries that dot the border of the boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens in the city of...

Blizzard in Israel

Ruvy in Jerusalem — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 13:06:44 EST

Is snow a gift or an inconvenience? Is it a sign of the World of Truth or the World of Lies?
Sometimes, the World of Truth breaks through the World of Lies and False Aspirations and imposes itself on us. One of these times is when a snowstorm strikes here.mitzaf�n tipat�H hasuf�...

Hurricane Katrina: The Battle of New Orleans Refought?

Ruvy in Jerusalem — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 00:15:21 EST

What signs do you get that G-d has granted a blessing? Or that He has canceled that blessing?
A little over 193 years ago, British troops attempted to attack the Gulf Coast of the United States and the city of New Orleans. They were repulsed by General Andrew Jackson, aided by a Jewish pirate, Jean LaFitte, and free blacks fighting at Chalmette, near New Orleans.The War of 1812 had been an utter failure for the young United States. It was...

Shining the Light of Redemption on the Mud of Upcoming Events: Part II

Ruvy in Jerusalem — Mon, 7 Jan 2008 13:21:14 EST

� While Americans focus on primaries, looking to the future, their future is rushing at them - and they don't see it coming.
Previously in this series, we dealt with the more boring aspects of the new facts on the ground in the Missile East since November, 2007.Briefly, we mentioned that the best (and almost completely unlikely) possible result of the Bush visit would be a renunciation of the Road Map, of the goals of violating the Holy Directive that this entire Land...

Shining the Light of Redemption on the Mud of Upcoming Events: Part I

Ruvy in Jerusalem — Mon, 7 Jan 2008 00:50:44 EST

While Americans focus on primaries, looking to the future, their future is rushing at them - and they don't see it coming.
It’s time for another article on Israel and the Missile East. From around September 2006 until the end of November 2007, the facts on the ground did not appreciably change.The Extant facts on the ground1. Iran continued to develop its nuclear missile threat. That is what everybody believed, or at least said they believed. Is this still...

Israel - A Disintegrating, Dysfunctional Society

Ruvy in Jerusalem — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 01:32:35 EST

These anecdotes are all illustrative, I believe, of a terrible decay of social cohesion in the Jewish population of Israel.
I’ve frequently pointed out that I believe the society around me in Israel to be dysfunctional, and to be collapsing, as my back stairs collapsed in St. Paul many years ago. In addition, I’ve pointed out that we are waiting for war in the shards of shattered illusions, as did Lily Galili in Ha’aretz. Most Israeli high school...