var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/03/06/life-in-israel/’,size:‘large’} People always ask me what it’s like in Israel. Since I don’t usually have hours to respond with a nuanced, lengthy discussion, I normally boil it down to one sentence: “This country is the perfect combination of heaven and hell.”
Bradley Burston, a local columnist, puts it another way: “Living in […]
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Life in Israel
March 6th, 2010 · No Comments · Culture, Israel, Judaism, Liberal Pundits, Personal, Politics, Religion, The Middle East, War, War on Terror
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Racism and Outsiders
February 11th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Anti-Semitism, Boston, Civil Liberties, Culture, Education, Islam, Israel, Judaism, Palestine, Personal, Politics, Religion, The Middle East, War, War on Terror
var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/02/11/racism-and-outsiders/’,size:‘large’} JERUSALEM — Forecast Highs, written by the news editor of the Jerusalem Post, notes the results of a recent poll on racism towards Jews:
In the predominantly Muslim nations surveyed, views of Jews were overwhelmingly unfavorable. Nearly all in Jordan (97 percent), the Palestinian territories (97%) and Egypt […]
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Too Many Men
February 7th, 2010 · No Comments · Business, China, Culture, Dating, Economics, Education, Feminism, Politics, Religion, Sex, The Middle East, War
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Michael J. Totten watches this YouTube video and makes an important point:
I don’t know much about demography, but Martin Kramer makes a strong case in just a few short minutes for the idea that a surplus of military-aged males is a big part of the Middle East’s […]
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In the West Bank
February 3rd, 2010 · No Comments · Bible, Business, Civil Liberties, Culture, Economics, Israel, Judaism, Law, Palestine, Personal, Politics, Religion, The Middle East, War, War on Terror
var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/02/03/in-the-west-bank/’,size:‘large’} MA’ALE ADUMIM, the West Bank — So I was driving with a friend from Jerusalem to Tel Aviv a few months ago, and we came to a security checkpoint after twenty minutes. It was then that I realized that we were taking a path different from the one used […]
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Faked Moon-Landing
February 1st, 2010 · No Comments · Civil Liberties, Culture, Entertainment, Marketing, Media, Politics, Russia, Science, War
var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/02/01/faked-moon-landing/’,size:‘large’} Here is the most-bizarre post you’ll read today: Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining” is evidence that the moon-landing in 1969 was faked.
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Book Review: 1948 — The First Arab-Israeli War
January 24th, 2010 · No Comments · Anti-Semitism, Book Reviews, Books, Britain, Christianity, Civil Liberties, Egypt, Europe, Iraq, Islam, Israel, Judaism, Personal, Politics, Religion, The Middle East, War
var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/01/24/book-review-1948-the-first-arab-israeli-war/’,size:‘large’} JERUSALEM — Benny Morris, a professor of history in the Middle-East Studies Department at Ben-Gurion University, is something of an enigma. Himself born in Israel in 1948, the year of the re-founding of the country and the resulting war with neighboring Arab states, Morris is the leading figure in […]
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Thought of the Day
January 10th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Civil Liberties, Culture, Economics, Europe, Immigration, Law, Personal, Politics, War
var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/01/10/thought-of-the-day/’,size:‘large’} Imagine that you lived in the ancient Roman Empire twenty years before it collapsed, and you knew that it was coming. You predicted barbarian invasions, anarchy across the continent, and ensuing violence for the foreseeable future.
Sometimes that’s how I feel when I think about the United States and Europe.
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Keffiyeh Fashion
January 6th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Advertising, Anti-Semitism, Business, Civil Liberties, Conservative Pundits, Culture, Europe, Fashion, Iran, Islam, Israel, Judaism, Marketing, Palestine, Personal, Politics, Religion, The Middle East, War
var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/01/06/keffiyeh-fashion/’,size:‘large’} JERUSALEM — In the Middle East, everything is political. Even fashion. Now, the Jewish company Shemspeed is offering a keffiyeh that is an Israeli take on a traditional, Arab piece of clothing:
The Israeli Keffiyeh, with its intricate Star of David pattern in the center piece, and words AM ISRAEL CHAI (Jewish […]
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Decade-Roundup from Israel
January 2nd, 2010 · No Comments · Anti-Semitism, Civil Liberties, Conservative Pundits, Culture, Hizbollah, Iran, Iraq, Islam, Israel, Journalism, Judaism, Law, Lebanon, Liberal Pundits, Media, Palestine, Politics, Religion, The Middle East, War, War on Terror
var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/01/02/decade-roundup-from-israel/’,size:‘large’} JERUSALEM — Stefanie Gardner looks at how media has changed in the United States and Israel (but leaves out the success of Fox News and Israel’s first, free daily, “Israel Today”). Liat Collins says Israel went through a “boom-and-bust” decade. Caroline Glick calls is a “low-and-dishonest” decade. Bradley Burston […]
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Religious Competition
December 30th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Advertising, Business, Christianity, Culture, Economics, Education, Islam, Judaism, Marketing, Politics, Religion, War, War on Terror
var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2009/12/30/religious-competition/’,size:‘large’} The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life discovers a trend that is not too surprising in the Age of Globalization:
When it comes to religion, many Americans like the mix-and-match, build-your-own approach.
Large numbers attend services of traditions other than their own and blend Christianity with Eastern and New Age […]
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Aliyah to Israel
December 30th, 2009 · No Comments · Civil Liberties, Culture, Economics, Education, Humor, Immigration, Israel, Journalism, Judaism, Law, Personal, Religion, The Middle East, War, War on Terror
var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2009/12/30/aliyah-to-israel/’,size:‘large’} Here is a wonderful, moving piece written by the Internet editor of the Jerusalem Post on what it’s like to move from America to Israel. Not that I’m biased.
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World in 2025
December 27th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Books, Britain, Business, China, Culture, Economics, Education, Energy, Europe, Globalization, Islam, Oil, Politics, Religion, Russia, Technology, The Middle East, War, War on Terror
var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2009/12/27/world-in-2025/’,size:‘large’} So I recently came across a report written last year by the U.S. National Intelligence Council on what the world may look like in seventeen years. Here is a summary:
The whole international system—as constructed […]
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How to Fight Terror
December 24th, 2009 · No Comments · Afghanistan, Blogosphere, Culture, Education, Egypt, Europe, Globalization, Hizbollah, Immigration, Iran, Islam, Israel, Journalism, Judaism, Marketing, Media, Palestine, Politics, Religion, Technology, The Middle East, War, War on Terror
var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2009/12/24/fighting-al-qaeda/’,size:‘large’} JERUSALEM — Foreign Policy looks at how Al-Qaeda recruits followers:
…al Qaeda succeeds because, for more than two decades, the network has waged a successful information campaign that pushes its message out to the world as effectively asymmetrical as its use of suicide bombers on the battlefield.
The most important point […]
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Human Rights
December 24th, 2009 · 16 Comments · Anti-Semitism, Civil Liberties, Economics, Europe, Health, Israel, Law, Palestine, Politics, The Middle East, War, War on Terror
var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2009/12/24/human-rights-2/’,size:‘large’} JERUSALEM — Peter Tatchell believes that the world should have a human-rights index similar to the ones that measure economic performance and quality of life. I have one question: What is to stop so-called human-rights organizations from instilling their biases against Israel — as the founder of Human Rights […]
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Moving to Israel
December 23rd, 2009 · No Comments · Boston, Business, Culture, Dating, Economics, Education, Essays, Europe, Globalization, Health, Immigration, Israel, Journalism, Judaism, Language, Law, Massachusetts, Personal, Politics, Religion, Technology, The Middle East, War, War on Terror
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JERUSALEM — In an editorial, the Jerusalem Post correctly points out the reason that more American Jews do not move to Israel:
THE OBSTACLE to American aliya [moving to Israel] is not financial. It is cultural. American Jews live their Jewish lives differently from anyone […]
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