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The Sounds of Silence

Over the past few weeks, I have had numerous people ask me about my silence in the blogosphere. While I have posted much (too much?) via Facebook and Twitter (if you are not following me you can check out @ravzev1 on twitter), as far as writing a blog, well, it …

Good Guys And Bad Guys

There are good guys and bad guys in the Middle East. Actually, there’s only ONE good guy. Israel is that good guy – a country that values human rights, freedom of speech, freedom of religion and a country that helps out the world constantly with humanitarianism missions sent around the …

How Do You Get Past the Rage?

I have been asking some of my Facebook friends this questions today: How do you get past the rage? Rage…. Because today, four children from two families became orphans, when their mother/father were savagely murdered by yet another “freedom fighter.”  According to published reports, the murderer (I will not give …

The Peace Process Illusion

Peace with the palestinians is an illusion. The goal is noble, but it’s not based in any kind of reality that exists in the real world. While Israel buries its dead – soldiers and citizens murdered while going about their normal lives, the palestinians will celebrate these “operations” by handing …

My Land is STILL Burning

The summer’s war hasn’t ended, even if we are going back to work and school. The damage continues. The fires are STILL burning and our land is STILL under attack. We may not have had the war we expected after the rockets slammed into the ground, but we are very much still a nation at war.