Israel

The Christian Brotherhood (ie, The Muslim Brotherhood)

כ״ד בשבט ה׳תשע״א (Saturday 29 January 2011)

Somewhere in the world, in a troubled region, there are riots on the streets and an organization called the Christian Brotherhood is poised to succeed in seizing power as that country’s military dictator eventually flees. The Christian Brotherhood is a potentially frightening organization. Its members have been involved in a lot of political violence over [...]

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Men’s Rights in Israel

י״ז בשבט ה׳תשע״א (Saturday 22 January 2011)

The Men’s Rights movement has reached the Knesset. It’s a little weird to me that the Israel world and the MRA world are now overlapping, but I think Israel has been one of the countries with the most vocal Men’s activism in the world, at least in the form of זכויות הגבר במשפחה (Men’s Family [...]

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World AIDS Day: AIDS is a Niche Concern

כ״ד בכסלו ה׳תשע״א (Wednesday 1 December 2010)

This post is in honor of World AIDS Day. According to Ynet, 382 people contracted HIV in Israel in 2009. On a side note, one of the eeriest things about moving from the United States to a tiny country with socialist medicine is that statistics like this can be announced with some authority and even [...]

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Washington DC: A Review

כ״ב במרחשון ה׳תשע״א (Saturday 30 October 2010)

I’ve been to Washington DC a few times in the past, and I never exactly enjoyed it, but I always felt that it had some charm. On this trip, I saw none of that charm. The nicest people in DC are apparently the bums who reside in the public parks. They attempted to engage me [...]

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Online Dating: One Year Review

כ״ב בתשרי ה׳תשע״א (Thursday 30 September 2010)

Just over a year ago, I signed up for a dating site on a whim. It’s one of the free ones. It’s not unique to Israel (ie, you’ve heard of it). At the time I was very new to game, and I’d read that some guys were using dating sites successfully to meet girls and [...]

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The Next Israel-Lebanon War

כ״א באלול ה׳תש״ע (Tuesday 31 August 2010)

When I wrote recently about the upcoming Israel-Iran War, I predicted that “Israel will provoke a war with Hezballah in 2010 to defeat them and to deplete their arsenal in the context of a conventional war.” Now I see Haaretz is agreeing that Israel might be planning to attack Hezballah preemptively. The article mentions the [...]

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