Aryeh Green, at The Blogs

Aug 8, 2024, 4:23 PM

This Waiting Game Must End: Hit Iran at a Time of Our Choosing, on Our Terms

The mood in Israel seems reminiscent of everything I've ever heard or read about May 1967. (And not just in Israel but among Jews and other supporters of Israel around the globe.) We all know (hate that phrase but it...

Jun 7, 2024, 11:46 AM

Israel: Welcome the recognition of the ‘State of Palestine’

Israel: Welcome (& celebrate!) the recognition of the “State of Palestine” The recent recognition of “Palestine” (without borders) by Ireland, Norway and Spain has engendered all sorts of criticism and scorn, not least by Israeli leaders, focused on how it...

Feb 6, 2024, 8:17 PM

Biden/Blinken’s Travesty of Common Sense and Foreign Policy

If the Biden administration needs to prove their pro-Palestinian bona fides, I can recommend 100 ways. Decrying a non-existent "increase in settler violence" and sanctioning individuals isn't one of them. Here's the scoop (wonder how much of this The New...

Jan 16, 2024, 9:36 AM

The end game(s) are clear; either you support Israel or you support evil

Serenity in turbulent times. Photo credit: author

A simple statement by a moderate centrist Israeli. Our end game is clear (as explained to my brother this evening): In this war, our short-term goals, as stated by the government of Israel and supported by the vast majority of our...

Nov 17, 2023, 7:44 PM

Omer Bar Tov in the NYT Has It Wrong – Genocide is Hamas’ Goal, not Israel’s

Omer Bar Tov may be considered an expert on genocide. But even though he's an Israeli Jew (living in the US), he seems to know nothing about how the Israel Defense Forces and our society approach military operations. His...

Oct 16, 2023, 9:56 AM

Ayecha? Where are you?!?

אַיֶּכָּה - Ayecha? WHERE… ARE… YOU?!? This past Shabbat, the Parsha (weekly Shabbat reading of the Torah, the first five books of the Hebrew Bible, called the Pentateuch from the Greek) was Breishit - Genesis - the first section of...

May 4, 2023, 9:48 PM

Emotional Social Media Stampedes and Israel’s Judicial Reform Debate

As the New Knesset session opens, Israel is a divided nation (and people) today. Perhaps not “as never before” as some claim (think of the Zionist/anti-Zionist debates of a century ago, the German reparations dispute soon after the country’s...

Sep 17, 2020, 7:09 PM

Don’t ask me about my vote for US president – let’s focus on all we agree about

Dear family and friends: I will not announce my vote. Don't ask me. (Don't ask me how much my house is worth either, or my wife's weight, or my mom's age. :-) ) But not due to some archaic...

Jul 14, 2020, 12:33 AM

Israel’s Centrist Consensus

Israel’s politics are often misconstrued. “Left” and “Right” don’t mean what you think they do, and the Center is much stronger than usually given credit; it includes figures you’d never expect, and helps keep Israel safe and sane. We know...

Apr 7, 2020, 2:16 AM

Together separately – a thought for our Corona seders

I had a bit of an insight, and I recorded it in three minutes for the family (as we're of course not holding seder together); thought to share here as well. Listen in a quiet moment between now and...

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The author of My Israel Trail (www.myisraeltrail.com), Aryeh Green serves as chief strategy officer at EnergiyaGlobal, a renewable energy platform for Africa. A former senior advisor to Natan Sharansky in Israel's prime minister's office, he was the founder and director of MediaCentral in Jerusalem, a project of Honest Reporting providing services for the foreign press in the region. Aryeh is a frequent and captivating speaker on Israel, media issues, human rights, renewable energy, startup nation, and reasserting the legitimacy of Israel and Zionism. When not promoting Israel and renewable energy, or hiking the Land of Israel, Aryeh grows grapes and makes wine.

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