Yaacov Lozowick's Ruminations

I don't pretend to understand all the minutiae of Twitter, this post notwithstanding . A few minutes ago I stumbled upn an oddity I hadn...

This evening, November 17th 2012, the top story on the BBC's news website is about the conflict between Israel and Hamas. The story its...

CAMERA has prepared a 15-minute film about a longer BBC film which told about Jerusalem as it isn't , and then refused to correct itself...

If Yehuda Avner's new book The Prime Ministers: An Intimate Narrative of Israeli Leadership isn't yet on your reading list, put it ...

Haaretz, today, leads with what most interests Israelis : Hamas will never recognize Israel, Gaza leader Ismail Haniyeh said Tuesday at a r...

Omri Ceren has been doing a spot of googling . His point of departure is the section of the new Wikileaks revelations that the Saudis and ot...

Robin Shepherd demonstrates that the BBC isn't just biased against Israel: they've got to actually work at it . Yet, truth be told...

Poor folks at the BBC. They invest so much time and effort in slanting the news against Israel, that when every now and then the facts are s...

The Economist is ultimately a British publication, much as they do aspire to be worldly and all that. It shows in their fundamental skeptici...

Israel decided yesterday to ease the blockade of Gaza. Or not. It depends which media outlets you imbibe. Haaretz tells that the easing is d...

Four Palestinians died yesterday in a tunnel under the Egyptian-Gaza border. Hamas says the Egyptians did it on purpose, and their spokesme...

American Vice President Joe Biden is in town today , mostly to make sure Netanyahu doesn't order a pre-emptive attack on Iran anytime so...

Yesterday there was a bloody clash on the Egyptian-Gaza border. An Egyptian policeman was killed, and there were a number of injured people ...

On Thursday Palestinian gunmen killed Meir Avishai Hai, 40, father of seven, in the northern West Bank. On Saturday IDF forces killed the th...

Lieutenant General Stanley McChrystal, the newly appointed commander of American forces in Afghanistan, has told senators his forces will ha...

The BBC reports on the arrest of four antisemitic Muslims in New York, who felt the best way to express their anger at American actions in ...

The Pope is in our region for a while, visiting holy sites, praying, and apparently stepping on diverse political landmines. I'm not cer...

A while ago I mentioned the clearly antisemitic short play penned by a British woman, Caryl Churchill , titled Seven Jewish Children, though...

The BBC has a story about an Israeli admiral who was sighted in a den of iniquity . Not admirable, indeed, but is it newsworthy? Personally,...

Top ranking British diplomat Rowan Laxton doesn't like Jews . Middle East expert Rowan Laxton, 47, was watching TV reports of the Israe...