Benjamin Netanyahu

Bibi is Back

April 10, 2019 by Robert J. Avrech 2 Comments

My arm still aches from surgery last week so I can’t type for very long. But I did want to note Likud/Bibi’s apparent win in the Israeli elections, which will make him the longest serving PM in the Jewish State’s history.

In a funny way, I almost wish that the Blue & White/Gantz party had emerged victorious, because their policies, vis a vis the Arabs who (thanks to the propaganda branch of the KGB) call themselves Palestinians, would be no different than Likud.

That’s because (sane) Israelis understand that the enemy are, um, genocidal fanatics.

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PM Benjamin Netanyahu Addresses 2019 AIPAC Conference

March 27, 2019 by Robert J. Avrech Leave a Comment

“Take it from this Benjamin, it’s not about the Benjamins… It’s about values…”

Israel Takes it to Iran in Syria

May 10, 2018 by Robert J. Avrech 1 Comment

J.E. Dyer’s annotated map depicting Israeli strikes against Iranian assets in Syria.

Benjamin Netanyahu’s relationship with Vladimir Putin is unusually complex.

However, within the layers of political and military considerations is, on Putin’s side, a little known personal connection. When Putin was a child he had a grade school teacher who made a huge impression on him. She took an interest in little Putin and encouraged him in positive ways. The teacher was Jewish. Putin never forgot her kindness. In fact, Putin purchased a lovely apartment in Tel Aviv as a gift to his old teacher. Perhaps, just perhaps, this relationship has made the Russian tyrant more receptive to the security needs of the Jewish state.

J.E. Dyer is a retired Naval Intelligence officer who lives in Southern California.

I have been following her work for a while and a few years ago Karen and I attended one of her lectures. She is smart, blessedly undramatic, and extremely knowledgable about military matters and the geopolitics of the Mideast.

Her analysis of the latest Israeli raid into Syria is superb.

Iranian forces in southern Syria launched 20 rockets at Israel in the Golan Heights on the night of 9 May (10 May in Israel). Now Israel appears to have launched a counter operation, whose goal is probably to significantly disable Iranian capabilities in Syria. The scope of the targeting, just in the first few hours, indicates a broad-scale, preemptive interdiction.

Purim: The Deeply Anti-Progressive Jewish Holiday

March 1, 2018 by Robert J. Avrech Leave a Comment

“The Banquet of Esther and Ahasuerus” by Jan Victors, 1640s.

Today is the holiday of Purim.

It is no accident that in 2015, Benjamin Netanyahu referenced Purim when delivering his powerful address to the U.S. Senate in an unsuccessful bid to curb Obama’s legitimization of a nuclear Iran.

Purim is an old ( 5th century B.C.E.) but painfully familiar story: A Jew-hater named Haman hatches a plan to annihilate the Jewish people in the ancient kingdom of Persia.

In a speech that Jews recognize all too well, Haman tells the king, “There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the peoples in all the provinces of your realm. Their laws are different from those of every other people’s, and they do not observe the king’s laws; therefore it is not befitting the king to tolerate them.” (Esther 3:8.)

The king places the fate of the Jews into the hands of Grand Vizier Haman.

WATCH: Netanyahu Makes Emotional Visit to Family of Terror Victim Hadas Malka

June 21, 2017 by Robert J. Avrech 2 Comments

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara pay a shiva (condolence) call to the family of Hadas Malka, the 23-year-old Border Police officer stabbed to death while standing guard in Jerusalem this past Friday evening.