2019 Israel Blog

The Gaza Strip may seem like a foreign Palestinian territory where most of us only understand it as a volatile place where missiles come from. That's only one side of the story. What about those living in the Gaza Strip? Those who live under the Hamas regime and yet at the same time under the Palestinian Authority. Many of us fail to understand the economic hardships the Palestinian citizens have to live with in the Gaza Strip. Khaled Abu Toameh tries to give some insight to these hardships in his article, What's happening in Gaza?   Toameh tells his readers how organized Palestinian youth movements are joining together in the streets of Gaza under the banner “We Want to Live” to protest for their depleted lively hood. The protesters are demanding better solutions for their high cost of living, taxes and unemployment. Instead of being heard by their leaders, they were used as pawns in the continued blame by one another for the hardships they face living in the Gaza Str...

Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman On July 19, 2018, Israel’s Knesset passed the Basic Law: Israel – The Nation State of the Jewish People . The law pertains to the State of Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish people and their right to self-determination through their natural, cultural, religious and historical rights. It declared the national language, flag, emblem and anthem of the Jewish People. The law states which days are for rest and which are recognized holidays as well as the Jewish Memorial Day and Independence Day. The law also states that the State of Israel will ensure the safety of the Jewish people and its citizens according to their Jewishness or their citizenship. Lastly, the law touches on Jewish immigration, the right for Jews to develop settlements and the act of holding on to ties of the Jewish people and the members of the State of Israel in the Diaspora.  Many points written into the Nation-State Law are already practiced by the citizens of Israel. Aroun...

I have never made a blog or posted on a blog before.  Netanyahu  will make a speech in Israel today. Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel's Prime Minister