57 year old Tony Blair, the former British Prime Minister and current “Middle East Peace Envoy”, is in Israel as the Jewish state celebrates its 62nd birthday. No, it’s not out of choice. A volcano in remote Iceland has forced European air traffic to a standstill. Tony Blair, the Quartet’s “Peace Envoy”, was in Israel […]
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1948, 1956, 2010
Nothing new. Unfortunately. In 1948, the Jewish state of Israel was reborn in its historic home. This cartoon from 1956 describes the situation as it was back then. It can be summed up as follows: “The fight only started because she hit back at me.” It’s the sort of argument one ususally hears in the […]
Monday April 19, 2010
That’s when Israel turns 62. You could spend a lot of quality time reading long and very worthy articles describing what Israel represents. How Israel was reborn in modern time on the land from which its people were expelled but which has always been the Jewish people’s spiritual, religious, ethnic and moral home. You can […]