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Sep 5, 2024, 3:55 PM

The Curse of Wanting It All

The Curse of Wanting It All by Shelly Schreter Sept. 4, 2024 Compromise is a nice concept, praised in theory but disdained in practice in the polarized climate of our times. Compromisers are suckers, weaklings who traffic in...

Aug 31, 2024, 10:17 PM

Thinking About Hostages, Dangers, Priorities

Many Israelis today, not just critics of the Government, are worrying that our beloved country is unraveling, coming apart at the seams. Despite a wonderful citizenry, we are not built for a lengthy war of attrition, with no plan...

Jun 10, 2024, 8:26 AM

Thinking About Two States

Thinking About Two States by Shelly Schreter June 10, 2024 We have a bias in favour of wholeness and completeness, and against partiality and incompleteness. Whatever the problem – a leaky roof, a broken relationship, or budgeting the healthcare system...

May 6, 2024, 7:00 PM

Response to Another Critique of Israel

[Who can count the critiques of Israel written since Oct. 7, 2023? I generally read them with a sigh, sometimes agreeing with them in part, more often bristling at their half-truths and malicious distortions. I lack the energy and...

Jan 21, 2024, 8:49 PM

An Agonizing Decision

Like almost everyone in Israel, I am agonizing over whether we should subordinate our military campaign against Hamas to a negotiation to free our 136 kidnapped hostages, an unknown but growing number of whom are dead. I know very well...

Jul 18, 2023, 12:20 PM

Palestinian ‘Gratitude’ to the Netanyahu Government

(The following is a cautionary thought exercise, demonstrating the severe dysfunctionality of Israel’s settlement policies and the damage they cause her security needs. For provocative effect, I have pretended to voice the views of a Palestinian enemy of Israel’s...

May 15, 2023, 2:22 PM

How Much Has the Jewish Condition Changed Since 1948?

The very question provokes indignation, certainly in Israel. 75 years after the founding of the first sovereign Jewish state in almost 2000 years, when Israel is such a success story in so many ways – you’re still asking? What...

Jul 26, 2022, 10:14 AM

Hebrew Interacts with Other Languages

Like every other living language, Hebrew contains many foreign words and expressions. My purpose here is to collate some of these “imports”, for our amusement and interest, and to reflect briefly on the current state of our Hebrew. A...

Jan 16, 2022, 6:54 AM

Looking for an Opening

Both sides to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict have entrenched myths about themselves and each other which serve to perpetuate the mutual animosity and make it seem unchangeable, eternal. These basic perceptions are at the root of the conflict, and determine...

Feb 25, 2021, 2:13 PM

A Berkeley Jewish Radical, Fifty Years Later

An old friend from my Berkeley days asked whether my political opinions and values had changed since we were students in the late 1960s and early 1970s. He was only asking for an accounting of how my entire life...

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Born and raised in Montreal, Canada, studied at McGill, U. of California, Berkeley, and the London School of Economics, living in Israel since 1976, former director of the WUJS Institute (Arad) and of the Israel-Diaspora Institute (Tel Aviv U.), involved in the Israeli plastics industry (former vice-president of ZAG Ltd.), and later in the aquaculture industry in Sri Lanka. Resident in Ra'anana.

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