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The Cost of Crying Wolf

Ran Zev Schijanovich — Sat, 24 Nov 2012 20:38:21 +0000

Let’s face it, Benjamin Netanyahu cried wolf. When Israel initiated Operation Pillar of Defense, Netanyahu appeared before his countrymen and before the whole world and declared: “Israel has made it clear that it will not tolerate rocket and missile attacks on its civilians. I hope that Hamas and the other terror organizations in Gaza got [...]

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Abbas’ Latest Manupulation

Ran Zev Schijanovich — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 22:38:11 +0000

Much has been made of Mahmoud Abbas’ utterances in his recent interview on Israeli TV in which he made the following three claims: 1) He personally has no right to return to live in his native town of Safed (which is located inside Israel) and accepts that the West Bank and Gaza (with East Jerusalem [...]

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It Takes Three to Tango — Bibi, Lieberman and Me

Ran Zev Schijanovich — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 11:30:31 +0000

In the previous elections held in February 2009, I voted Likud, i.e., for Benjamin Netanyahu. The aftermath of the disengagement from Gaza (which at the time I wholeheartedly supported), in which Israel received a neighboring terrorist enclave ruled by Hamas in return for its dramatic act of reconciliation with the Palestinian people, caused me to [...]

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Life is More Important than Democracy

Ran Zev Schijanovich — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 22:44:08 +0000

To many Zionists, particularly those left of center, the existence of a Jewish state divorced from their concept of democratic values and what constitutes an acceptable democracy, signals the end of the Zionist dream. For such Zionists, an Israel that fails to live up to their vision of what a Jewish and democratic state should [...]

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Our Little Corner of the World

Ran Zev Schijanovich — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 15:34:44 +0000

On one of my visits to spend time with family in the United States, I stood alone one night on my mother’s ground floor balcony and gazed upon the multitude of other apartments and their respective balconies in the condominium complex. I pondered on how each unit represented a whole world, a universe in-and-of-itself; a [...]

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