Ministers reject Yisrael Beiteinu's loyalty oath bill - Haaretz - Israel News

It died at the first hurdle. I agree with Avishay Braverman that time will bring sanity.

Love IEDs

I find it curious that the now rather large skillset existing in Iraq on how to make IEDs has morphed into social problems. Rejected suitors are planting IEDs outside the home of the female -- mainly to scare. To quote one detective "I don't know how to make a bomb from a soda can, lemonade bottle, petrol and an old phone but these guys do."

I just hope the problem stays there.

Israeli legislation raises issue of loyalty - Los Angeles Times

This won't pass the Knesset. At least I hope it won't. The recent smoke screen currently being bellowed out by the Government is another twist in the play to avoid hard decisions by confusing everybody. Bibi seems to have Iran firmly in mind right now and doesn't want distractions from anyone. Beside, outlawing the acknowledgment of the Nakba would mean building very big jails.

Sir Winston Peres - Gush Shalom - Israeli Peace Bloc

I normally don;t feature or quote Uri Avnery who I met once. You can read the original any time you like. Here I go though.
Like a traveling salesman offering a counterfeit product, Peres is now peddling the merchandise called Binyamin Netanyahu. He presents to the world a Netanyahu we have never known: a peacemaker, the epitome of truthfulness, a man with no other ambition than to go down in history as the founder of the State of Palestine. A Righteous Jew to outshine all Righteous Gentiles.

The use of the Shoah to describe current events is anathema to anyone who has read history. Unpleasant. History does not repeat itself but historians do. I you try and fit a model of the past into the present, save it for personal relationships, not world wide global changes. Iran was a good friend to Israel once and might be in the future. Germany has already toggled between both mind sets in the past and may well do in the future. Israel must be firmly fixed on the ISraeli-Palestinian problem and Iran can wait... at least for a while.

UK publishes 'persona non grata' list - Israel News, Ynetnews

I am so intrigued. Britain has published a list of persona non grata individuals for the first time. Just sniff the quality, savour the richness of humanity's weird bits, taste the rather smelly sock odour that hangs around it all. Lots of people have been prevented from entering the UK at various times in our long and distant past and even more have been given food and lodging under some restrictions. I note that a USA talk show host called Michael Savage is not welcome on the right side of the pond or Samir Kuntar or Mike Guzovsky who I have never heard of. On the plus side, Karl Marx was allowed to stay as long as he liked as were various other people over the ages that some sections of society might think objectionable. Stupid idea and whilst countries should retain the right to quietly refuse entry to some individuals it should be done very quietly. Like my now wife for example.