Tikun Olam-תקון עולם: Make the World a Better Place

Thanks to Magnes Zionist for this alternately horrifying and fascinating post about the ways in which Occupation bureaucrats manipulate and exploit Israeli law to further the ends of subjugating the Palestinian people. He ends his post with an amazing Times of London obituary of Plia Albeck, who was Israel’s chief government lawyer dealing with [...]

Hat tip to Sol Salbe for turning me on to the following story by Haaretz’s Meron Rapoport.
Forget about Israel being a “light unto the nations” as the seminal early Zionist thinker Ahad HaAm used to say. Think more like Nazi Germany and the Spanish Civil War. Besides an ideological affinity between Franco’s fascists [...]