By RON JAGER— “Call me Ishmael”, this famous quote is the opening sentence that opens the novel “Moby Dick” authored by Herman Melville. Ishmael, who is telling the story of Moby Dick, recounts that he is sailing to sea out of a sense of alienation and cultural inadequacy. Ishmael describes the behavior of Captain Ahab…
A vast Jewish Diaspora was utterly annihilated prior to Israel’s establishment and during her formative years, but Israelis rarely talk about it.
By RON JAGER— This past week will be remembered as the turning point in which Obama’s re-election possibilities took a severe beating and can possibly signal the beginning of the end of the Obama Presidency. All it took was for Clint Eastwood, the 82 year old actor and director to speak at the Republican National…
By RON JAGER, DAILY BEAST— Kathleen Peratis’s recent visit to Judea and Samaria, that is those communities located in what she calls the West Bank, has only reinforced the perception that Jewish leaders representing the Liberal left wing of American Jewry visiting Israel will always don their one-dimensional sunglasses upon landing at Ben-Gurion airport. No…
By RON JAGER— When Gush Katif was destroyed, four communities from the Northern Shomron were also systematically destroyed and cleansed of any Jewish presence. These four communities, along with the rest of the Gush Katif communities, were simply wiped off the map. For us in the Shomron, and for many in Israel, the disengagement is…
By RON JAGER— Just when you thought that “Uncle” Tom Friedman’s column couldn’t get any worse, that even the Times columnist couldn’t outdo himself; even I was surprised at Friedman’s latest foray into Jewish anti-Semitism. Arrogant and presumptuous, Friedman pretends to explain to us his entire convoluted modern version (Circa, elections 2012) of the Protocols…
BY RON JAGER— As Republican Party presidential candidate Mitt Romney begins his visit here in Israel, the Obama campaign managers have nothing new to share with the American public or with the Israeli public. In repeating the same discredited allegations and accusations against Mitt Romney for the past months, the Obama campaign hopes to distract…
BY RON JAGER— According to numerous polls, Obama’s critical Jewish margin is on a downward slide losing major ground since the 2008 election among Jewish voters in Florida, a key battleground state. This phenomenon is evidently repeating itself in other swing states creating not only a problem of potential loss of critical electoral votes but…
BY RON JAGER— It was just a matter of time before self-appointed prominent Jewish leaders in America got organized to send a letter to PM Netanyahu claiming that Israel’s int’l standing is in peril due to the recent judicial report by retired Supreme Court Justice Edmond Levy who concluding that Israel is not occupying Judea…
BY RON JAGER— In recent years, the industry of lies has demonized and delitigitimized the 650,000 “Invisible Jews” who live in over 120 communities beyond the green line. Despite the success of the enemies of Israel, Jews and non-Jews alike in creating a false and biased narrative convincingly portrayed as unquestionable truth, this past week…