Things like this don't happen in a democracy.

Moving to Canada, far from the Israeli police

"Bryan, get up! Wake up!" Two months ago, three burly policemen not in uniform entered Bryan Atinsky's bedroom in Rehovot after quickly brushing past his wife, Efrat, who got up to see who was knocking on the door at 6:30 A.M. The three said they had a search warrant. "They didn't waste any time and started opening drawers and searching the shelves, but they didn't show us any document," says Atinsky, 34. "When they finished, they said my computer was confiscated and that I must come with them for questioning. Efrat continuously asked what I was suspected of, and they said `you tell us.' In the end, I asked if it was because of the caricature." And indeed, it was because of the caricature.

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The above article had an ad that I accidently clicked on...

jewishanddating.com

The site is pushing a book titled Why Marry Jewish? What would people say if someone published a book titled Why Marry White?? it seems like the same thing to me.

Israel has stepped up the pace of settlement building

Israel continued to build settlements in the occupied territory at a rapid rate last year, despite US calls for building to stop in accordance with the road map to peace with the Palestinians.

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Disengaging from the disengagers

The behavior of the Jewish settlers' lobby is reminiscent of a child who acts wild in class and keeps misbehaving despite all the punishments. During a period of less than 10 years, they have brought about the fall of four prime ministers who dared to try their hand at nonbrutal solutions. During that period, the political configuration allowed them to add new Jewish settlements in the territories but the political and the international reality slapped them in the face again and again. Only three years ago just a small portion of the things Sharon said in his Herzliya speech would have been enough to send both him and Finance Minister Benjamin Netanyahu out to the balcony in Zion Square in order to attack the speaker. For more moderate heresies than these, Tzachi Hanegbi (now public security minister) unplugged microphones. [...] What will happen after the all-or-nothing lobby topples Sharon? He, like Rabin, Peres, Netanyahu and Barak, has not turned from a patriot into a traitor. Like his predecessors, from the Prime Minister's Bureau he apparently began to realize that if he insists on it all, he will end up with nothing. After Sharon is demobilized, it will be NRP leader Housing and Construction Minister Effi Eitam's turn to take his punishment there.

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