Shlomo Bar-Ayal, Author at Shlomo's Blog

If a Tree Falls in the Forest is it Bush’s Fault

One of the interesting facts of history is that Churchill never blamed Chamberlain for his woes in assuming office in 1940.

Back in 1994 I remember that the Main Stream Media said that for years Israel had “demonized” Yasser Arafat as well as his organization, the PLO.

At the time I was amazed at the absurdity of the comment.

The Tenth Commandment is one of the most inconvenient that I can think of.

We just got back from a seven day cruise to Bermuda.

My wife and I are going on a week’s cruise to Bermuda today.

Until Shirley Sharrod opened her mouth she actually had my sympathy.

I have always had the opinion that when I hear a story that seems too good to be true I should check it out even more that usual.

Thus when I heard the latest about Sharrod making what seemed to be racist remarks I held my piece.

I was thinking about the problem of the homeless.

One of the things that strike me as we observe the fast is non-victim-hood of the day.

What I mean is that it is true that we Jews have been victims throughout our history we have never behaved as victims.

When I was in high school I got arrested at an illegal demonstration.