Adir Bhastekar, at The Blogs

May 15, 2024, 1:45 PM

The real estate lifelong trap for the common man

It doesn't matter whether a left or right wing government is in power as no government is interested in lowering the property prices in Israel and across the capitalistic world. Building constructions in Israel is down 25% since the...

May 14, 2024, 10:31 PM

Calling out the elephant in the room

Israel has always had a large number of enemies. From the openly hating Iran, Syria, Hezbollah and Palestinian factions to the backstabbing and fair-weather friends that are Turkey & Qatar. Each enemy brought against us a new form of...

Mar 10, 2024, 9:13 AM

Gaza wont be Singapore soon… Maybe become Syria

Some Israelis and the western world were too optimistic during the 2005 Israeli withdrawal from Gaza. They expected Gaza to become a Singapore or Dubai. No country can develop in that way without first making peace and focusing on...

Feb 18, 2024, 12:54 AM

What is Hamas thinking? Post war scenarios…

Nobody has a time machine to see into the future. But we can definitely use past behaviors to predict the enemy's expected response. Till now, Hamas has claimed victory after every conflict with Israel. In terms of popularity amongst...

Feb 12, 2024, 11:11 AM

Peace: Two-sided effort or one-sided enforcement

It is wishful thinking for us to sit back and hope that one day peace with happen when our enemies have a change of heart. But then again, we've never made peace without holding something that are adversaries desperately...

Feb 11, 2024, 4:14 AM

Come to us when you’re serious about peace

Its a paradox that Israel is labelled as the opressor despite decades of Palestinian efforts to wipe us out. Israel has been pressured, pushed around and blackmailed to make concessions whereas the Palestinians sit back at the negotiating table...

Jan 21, 2024, 5:30 PM

Jew haters say ‘Everything depends on the context’

We live with an irony of double standards where calling for the genocide of Jews in US universities is acceptable "Depending on the context". For over 75 years, numerous Jew & Israel haters and almost all MENA countries at...

Jan 15, 2024, 1:47 AM

Know thy enemy – Sinwar & Deif won’t be in Gaza

Yahya Sinwar from 2013. Courtesy Wikipedia

Those in Israel that are familiar with Hamas tactics still underestimate their warfare abilities. A 500 kilometer underground terror tunnel network and the capability to negatively influence the world against us Jews have been some of Hamas's successful missions....

Jan 8, 2024, 6:13 PM

Estranged global Jewish anti Zionists or far left

There has been noise across the country and Jewish world in the wake of protests by Jews in kippahs in the US, the overall Jewish far left and Jewish anti Zionists demonstrations despite the horrors of 7th Oct, 23....

Jan 6, 2024, 10:20 PM

They’ve cooked us like frogs!

The well known story says that if you put a living frog in a pot of boiling water, it will jump out. But if you put it in the pot of water and slowly increase the temperature, you will...

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A Zionist who did Aliyah from Mumbai (Bene Israeli Jew) in 2018. Adir is an MBA from the renowned Jamnalal Bajaj School of Management in Mumbai. He has been a politics, economics & finance enthusiast from a young age. From writing about current affairs in school to responding to news pieces of the Jerusalem post which were published. Adir has come a long way from India to Israel and kept pursuing his passions in finance, global politics, world macro economics, business news and issues that affect us all. He is a full time banker in Israel and a multi passionate soul.

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