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Sep 21, 2020, 9:04 PM

Exposing The Fraudulent Terminology Of The “Left”

As we enter the year 5781, we find ourselves increasingly immersed in fraudulent leftist terminology perpetuated by Israeli and international media. This morning, your humble servant came across an anonymous post from “Lia” on rotter.net which describes some of that terminology well. What...

Aug 19, 2020, 12:15 PM

Netanyahu’s Faustian Bargain (Part 1)

“A Faustian bargain is a pact whereby a person trades something of supreme moral or spiritual importance, such as personal values or the soul, for some worldly or material benefit, such as knowledge, power, or riches.” Definition from Encyclopedia Britannica online. If there was...

Nov 29, 2016, 12:14 PM

The Delusional World of Jimmy Carter

Jimmy Carter is at it again. Under an animated picture of a large benign "parent" bird (read "Obama") holding what might be a green olive branch above its two greedy children (read "Israelis and Palestinians") whose yapping mouths are grabbing...

Nov 7, 2015, 10:27 PM

The Old Truisms Are Still True

Something has gone wrong here in Israel. We seem to have a generation of political and military leaders who have forgotten the truisms of dealing with Arabs in general and Palestinians in particular. "The only thing that the Arabs respect is...

Apr 1, 2015, 10:56 AM

Do the Iranian Nuclear Talks Remind You of Anything?

Do the talks between the United States and Iran about the Iranian nuclear weapons program remind you of anything? Hmm. Let's see. The talks with Iran have been going on for over a decade. The Iranians have not conceded anything of importance. Nevertheless,...

Sep 2, 2014, 10:33 AM

The Utterly Nauseating Hypocrisy of British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond

Of all the putrid comments that vomited from the mouths of foreign governments and diplomats yesterday concerning the 988 acres of land in Gush Etzion near Alon Shvuot, none was more stinkingly hypocritical than that of British Foreign Secretary Philip...

Aug 27, 2014, 2:55 PM

The Failed Triad of Netanyahu, Ya’alon, and Gantz: The People Of Israel Deserved Better

It has been a wild night of celebrations in Gaza, in Yaffo, and in other Arab locations. As Hamas rightly noted last night at 7 pm, it has decisively won the latest war with Israel. No matter how hard the Prime...

Jun 19, 2014, 10:21 AM

A Paradigm Shift Has Taken Place In Judea, Samaria, and Gaza

The scenes from Hebron on Israeli television last night were disturbing. We had video of heavily armed Israeli soldiers walking down the streets in the city as Palestinian children cavorted in and out among them. We had images of Palestinian...

Jun 3, 2014, 8:28 AM

There Are None So Blind As Those Who Will Not See

Some days your humble servant does not know whether to laugh or cry. There is the amazing story out of Jerusalem this morning* (from YNET) that the Netanyahu government was "shocked" yesterday by the Obama Administration's warm and rapid embrace of...

Feb 6, 2014, 9:07 PM

The great Bloomberg SodaStream scam

Talk about a journalistic scam. Here was a February 3rd headline on Bloomberg News: “SodaStream Declines Amid Jewish Settlement Boycott Concern” Written by Elena Popina, the first four paragraphs of the article read: “SodaStream International Ltd., the Israeli maker of home soda machines with...

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About Me

George Rooks is a retired faculty member of the University of California, Davis. A lifelong writer, he has been writing the israelstreet.org blog for more than two years with readers in more than 100 countries. Long time chairman of the largest committee in his synagogue back in northern California, he directs numerous Israel advocacy projects in his locale and is a well-known speaker in the area. He and his wife live half of each year in California and half in Ashdod.