This piece was published in the Jerusalem Post on the 10th of January, 2011 At first, yesterday’s 7 p.m. edition of “Good Evening with Guy Pines” seemed quite mundane. While the show’s title evokes images of Amsterdam’s red-light district it is in fact Israel’s most popular entertainment magazine, offering its audience an insider look at […]
These days, Israel is going Gaga for an 8 year old girl called Naama Margolis. While the youngster is not a pop icon she has undoubtedly become a different kind of symbol, a social one. Last week, Israel’s Channel 2 News, exposed the harassment Naama had to routinely endure on her way to School […]
According to the chaos theory, when a butterfly flaps its wings in one part of the world it causes a hurricane in another. This theory is also true in the case of American Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta. Whenever the secretary mentions Iran, chaos breaks out in the Israeli media. In the past, the Secretary […]
In the past week a violent clash has erupted between the Israeli radical right wing and the country’s security forces. It began Monday night when some 200 youngsters attacked Palestinian vehicles in a road located near the Kdumim settlement in the West Bank. When IDF forces arrived at the scene, they were stormed by the […]
Last week, Israel’s Haaretz newspaper published an interview with the Prime Minister of the Palestinian Authority Salam Fayyad. While the interview focused on the negotiations between Hamas and Fatah, the two rival Palestinian movements, Fayyad was also asked to comment on the Israeli government’s decision to withhold the transfer of 100 million Dollars to the […]
Benjamin Netanyahu is in love. Not with a man, or an idea but with a party, the Republican Party. Ever since he first took office, Netanyahu has found himself attracted to the GOP. Now, the attraction has blossomed into love. The Israeli Prime Minister has been swept off his feet by the parade of dashing […]
On October 2010, Malcolm Gladwell, a Canadian journalist, published an article in The New Yorker Magazine titled “The revolution will not be Tweeted”. In his article, Gladwell claimed that while social networks play a significant role in our lives, they will never be able to bring about revolutions similar to the ones witnessed in America […]
Superman: Friends, I would like to call this session of the Justice League of America to order Batman: I object! You have no power to call us to order! Superman: I have the power to do anything Wonder woman: Except understand the needs of a modern woman Superman: oy vey… While the transcript above was […]
One can’t help but wonder what goes on in the inner sanctums of world diplomacy. How do world leaders converse when they are free to do so far from the blinding lights of television cameras? Three weeks ago, we were privileged to such a conversation when the French President, Sarkozy, and US President, Barak Obama, […]
Therapy sessions tend to sound like Country music lyrics. Phrases like “when you have nothing to love you have nothing to lose” or, “its not what you miss but why you miss it” could easily find their way to a multi platinum Garth Brooks album. Israelis are often described as a state in need of […]
The Tel Aviv Post 
January 11, 2012
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