Mark Frank

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Nov 9, 2023, 11:23 PM

It’s Not Indifference. I’m Avoiding You

I get this eject button response reaction when I come across the typical Israeli hasbara propaganda, and even more so now with this war on Hamas. It triggers me. Seeing lots of the stuff posted on social media, even...

Sep 15, 2018, 8:53 PM

I had to drive down to the Australian Embassy in Tel Aviv in order for them to witness my signature. It was family business and time was of the essence. The papers to be signed had arrived on a Monday...

Jan 26, 2018, 2:11 PM

The Stuff of Nightmares

This is my recurring nightmare of late. Any poor man’s psychologists among you can have some fun analyzing it. For hours and hours across great swaths of the Ukraine, TV channels screened Swan Lake. Meanwhile CNN and the BBC reported...

Oct 14, 2016, 1:21 AM

Re: All This UNESCO Excitement

For all the bafflement I feel about an attempt to disengage Jewish history from the Temple Mount, I am rather bothered that the only part of the story we hear about is some resolution with a muffled denial of Jewish links...

Jul 31, 2016, 2:21 PM

Je suis Khizr and Ghazala Khan

A president, a prime minister, or whatever the chief of the Executive Branch in your country is called, who mocks the bereaved parents of a fallen soldier denies himself or herself the moral authority to authorize the sending of...

Jun 4, 2016, 5:11 PM

National Sorry Day from Israel

The other Thursday was National Sorry Day in Australia. It’s not an official holiday and not a date generally recognized in Israel, but it is a day of reconciliation and recognition of the mistreatment of the country's indigenous population,...

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About Me

Aged in oak and astringent, I was born and raised in Australia and made Aliya in 1984. Due to "divine intervention" I was gainfully employed as a lawyer within the security forces; accounting for more than 20 years of tectonic shift. Raised in the 60's of the anti-war moratoriums and maturing in post Rabin Israel I have developed an eye for detail and capacity for romantic dilettantism.