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

cartoon: Ben Heine
The reactions from Israeli journalists and politicians to Azmi Bishara’s Knesset resignation provides a sort of Rorschach test for Israeli attitudes toward democracy. The first lesson you must learn about the attitudes of the majority of the 75-80% of Israelis who are Jews is that both the State and its democracy exists [...]

I have been fulminating for several weeks about the betrayal by the Israeli mainstream left (Labor, Meretz, Peace Now) of its anti-war values in fulsomely supporting the Lebanon war. That is, until they didn’t support it (to paraphrase John Kerry). Until Olmert announced the expanded ground war in the last week or so [...]

I’ve noticed that in perusing the web for news, information and opinion about the Mideast conflict, there are many individual sites.  But there are few sites which act as a compendium or directory for all the others.  So to answer this need, I’ve compiled a comprehensive (well, as comprehensive as possible) list of online American [...]