Aryeh's Israel Outlook

Wow!  Memories.... 11 years ago, in the early days of HonestReporting​'s MediaCentral​ project, we took a group of foreign journalists in Israel on a tour of wineries in the Jerusalem hills; Alfred Muller​ interviewed me and created a slide show with photos from the trip - including of me in my backyard vineyard and all of us on my roof balcony, tasting.  Fun times.  With all the negativity (again; still; always it seems) online, I'm happy to bring in Shabbat sharing something a bit more uplifting.  Thanks again, Alfred.  L'chaim!  :-)  Shabbat shalom #MyIsraelTrail  #Israel  #Israelwines  #wine  #Shabbat  #ShabbatShalom

Israel’s Centrist Consensus By Aryeh Green Israel’s politics are often misconstrued.  “Left” and “Right” don’t mean what you think they do, and the Center is much stronger than usually given credit; it includes figures you’d never expect, and helps keep Israel safe and sane.  We know the sky isn’t falling, that we are not an apartheid society, and that our future as the nation-state of the Jewish people is bright.  Let’s define – and support – the moderate Centrists. This past week Israel was attacked on multiple fronts, rhetorically.   Peter Beinart penned a piece (two in fact) calling for an end to Israel as the nation-state of the people of Israel; Michael Sfard issued a new manifesto hijacking international law to serve his anti-’occupation’ agenda, declaring Israel’s presence in the disputed territories of Judea & Samaria (the ‘west bank’ of the Jordan river) * to be an “apartheid regime” – and suggesting that Israel’s very existence is itself apartheid.   And a lea