What a great adventure!
Earlier this week, a resolution sponsored by Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) passed calling for the University of California at Davis to divest from “corporations that aid in the Israeli occupation of Palestine and illegal settlements in Palestinian territories.” … Read More »
With the rise in Antisemitism in Europe and Radical Islamic Terrorism around the world, I recently had the distinct pleasure of being called a racist. I was naturally quite offended, and I feel the accusation is both unwarranted and rude. … Read More »
These last couple of days have been nothing but shocking and downright sad for the Western World. I am referring to the terrible Charlie Hebdo massacre in Paris, where 12 people were killed by Muslim Terrorists. I have been trying … Read More »
The last couple of weeks has put me at a loss for words. We’ve seen American journalists and British aid workers beheaded by ISIL. We’ve heard about two Bosnian teenage girls joining ISIL and the horror/ confusion from their western … Read More »
My insides are completely twisted. I am finding myself trying to navigate friendships and the Israeli Palestinian conflict. The conflict is highly personal for me, I have lots of family who live in Israel and my mother’s family helped build … Read More »
It pains me to write this blog entry, as I voted for President Obama and was hoping that the obvious would come to a man of his background/ education. You may wonder what I am seething about. It is the … Read More »
It is official the peace initiative that was so earnestly restarted with vigor by John Kerry and President Obama has died with a bang. The Palestinian Authority (PA) signed up to join 15 international treaties and conventions, so Israel rightly … Read More »
Here we are, it is the end of 2013 and it seems some highly critical decisions/ actions our government made have been bungled. The first is the Affordable Care Act/ healthcare.gov site. Saying that the rollout for enrollment was a … Read More »
It has been quite sometime since I’ve posted a blog entry. There’s no excuse for this, as there has been lots to write. Rather than writing about travel and other events in life, I recently read a very interesting article … Read More »
I just finished receiving a bunch of emails from friends around the world about how The University of Texas’ Center for Middle Eastern Studies has cancelled a book which was scheduled to be published this month. Most of the emails … Read More »
I’ve been reading a bunch of articles and seeing a few videos as they relate to the Middle East. With the impending push by Mahmoud Abbas (aka Abu Mazen of the Palestinian Authority) requesting statehood at the UN, I wonder … Read More »
I don’t normally write political rants on my blog, but I find the latest news (Boston Globe, Reuters and The Telegraph) ridiculous that Turkey has expelled Israel’s ambassador and is cutting their military agreements with Israel over the recently leaked … Read More »
Susie and I have been following the terrible suffering in Haiti. We can’t begin to imagine the pain and horrors the people there are experiencing. They are just unbelievable. Coupled with the immediate shock of the disaster, we have been … Read More »