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May we have happy, healthy new year, filled with everything good, and may God protect Israel from our enemies.Shana Tova-JoeSettlerWritten and posted by JoeSettler . Come visit my blog. Read More »

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Standard & Poor raised Israel’s credit rating to A+.Take that BDS.Written and posted by JoeSettler . Come visit my blog. Read More »

You may have heard that Israel plans to let Google drive their camera car around and add Israel to their Google Earth photo database. What you may have missed is that the Lefties are trying to organize and make sure there are anti-Israel slogans and banners everywhere the Google camera takes a picture. You’ve got to ask yourself a basic question. Read More »

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I spent much of the day writing up today’s attack on Jameel’s blog and twitter feed. As I was writing it, I felt the fog of war. I was writing down details, yet I didn’t have the big picture as in reality I didn’t have the time to analyze what was going on where and when. Just that so much was happening at the same time. Read More »

I can only imagine the confusion the typical “Social Justice” supporter must feel right now. The government announced that permissions were granted to build some 4000 apartments in Jerusalem. Normally they should cheer, except that these apartments are being built in Gilo, Ramat Shlomo and Har Homa. Read More »

6 years ago the communities of Gush Katif were destroyed. Now people (mostly in Tel Aviv) are protesting they can’t afford to buy or rent a home because there aren’t enough homes on the market. Read More »

A Tent City protest has been set up to protest the high price of housing (which is high).Ha’aretz is reporting on it . Some choice quotes include: Tel Aviv Mayor Ron Huldai was repeatedly interrupted as he addressed the crowd on the first night of the protest, and left after a protester poured beer on him . Read More »

Today is Friday. That means that the Left will be practicing their freedom of speech and their freedom to obstruct the freedom of movement of others by protesting in different neighborhoods against Jews . One such neighborhood is Ma’aleh HaZeitim, aka Ras El Amud. Read More »

You know what was nice this week?Watching the international support Israel got from Greece, France and other countries against the Flotilla and Flytilla terror supporters.I would add, that it was nice that Israelis defended Israel’s honor against these terror supporters that made it through into Ben-Gurion. Read More »

I was sitting in traffic today in Jerusalem.Traffic on the other side of the street had built up and there was no room to cut across Herzl anymore. Or let me rephrase that, there was room to cut across, but you couldn’t go any further into the street on the other side, so the cars ended up blocking Herzl Blvd. Read More »

Everyone wants Gilad Shalit brought home. But there is a deep division in the country as to what price the country should pay (present and future) for this important objective.Those on the left say that “any price should be paid” to free him. Read More »

Bibi seems more confident lately. Perhaps 30+ standing ovations will do that for you.Today, despite protests by Ehud Barak, Bibi took away control over the World Zionist Organization Settlement Division from Barak and placed it in his own office. Read More »

Sunday’s events on Israel’s Northern Border reminded me of Dir Yassin.As has become clear, the IDF did not kill 20 Syrians trying to breach the Northern border, as Syrian government controlled media stated. Read More »

I liked best the following line from Bibi’s speech.”Israel is not what is wrong about the Middle East; Israel is what is right about the Middle East!” Here it is in context: We’re proud that over one million Arab citizens of Israel have been enjoying these rights for decades. Read More »

Driving accidents in Israel are not a joke. Though most people would claim that women drivers are the worst, the Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics released a report that would definitely refute that claim (source: JPost ).In the last year, there were 92,000 accidents in Israel. Of those, 73,000 resulted in injury to someone. Read More »

Over the years, when I’ve gone, I’ve gone to the Mount Herzl military cemetery in the afternoon to visit a fallen comrade while avoiding the crowds and traffic.Today was the first time I went in the morning for the ceremony.It was overwhelming. There must have been hundreds of thousands of people there. It felt that way. Read More »

Just watched a video of President Obama at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. The man should have been a comedian.No seriously. He should have been a comedian. He’s much better at it.Obama actually is someone who can quit his day job (and should).(btw: Was Jon Stewart his writer?)Written and posted by JoeSettler . Come visit my blog. Read More »