[Yet another unpublished letter to the Cape Times. DRL] Dear Ed, Cape Times Wednesday, January 9, 2013, Letter to the Editor refers. Terry Crawford-Brown's latest apoplexy regarding Arab Jews living in Israel is insightful. The least of which is the lengths to which Anti-Semitic bigots will go in...

Total land "occupied" by the state of Israel: 20 700 Km/sq, Total Jewish land confiscated by Arabs 100 000 Km/sq, Total Arab land abandoned and/or confiscated by Israel 16324. omino.un.org/UNISPAL.NSF/0/61201e86bc8189f485256102005a8eab?OpenDocument

“If I am not for myself, who will be for me? And when I am for myself, what am 'I'? Rabbi Hillel These words, uttered by one of Judaism's greatest sages in the period immediately preceding our common era and predating the birth of Jesus Christ, compel all Jews to speak out against injustice. The...

In 1994 Jordan and Israel signed a peace treaty. The treaty normalized relations between the two countries and resolved territorial disputes. There are some 2.7 million Palestinians living in Jordan, including some 1.5 million "refugees", between 60-80% of the population in a country formed out o...

THIS is a war against children being conducted by adults on both sides of the conflict. Over the weekend, we heard of a BBC reporter in Gaza whose 11 month old baby child was killed by incoming IDF fire. A baby injured in Kiryat Malachi, where three people were killed after Palestinian militants...

The Cape Town World Music Festival (CWM Festival) has begun in the face of a call to boycott the festival. The Boycott Divestment and Sanctions campaign (BDS) has released a statement saying "We have recently learned that the Cape Town World Music Festival  has crossed and violated the internatio...