Reality in Washington, denial in Ramallah, fantasy in Stockholm and the U.N.

The long anticipated meeting between Israel’s Prime Minister and President Trump has taken place. Fallout has been swift with reactions ranging from shock to pleasant surprise. Read more

Selective outrage…writes Michael Kuttner

This week has seen a dazzling outburst of self-righteous outrage by all and sundry against Israel. Read more

Australian teens plant trees in Israel

On a brilliantly sunny winter’s day 90 Australian teens participating in a five-month “Israel by Choice” programme, gathered on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem to celebrate Tu B’Shevat – the New Year of Trees. Read more

Trump and United Nations aftershocks

It was predicted and now it has come to pass that the election of Donald Trump and the infamous UN resolution sponsored by New Zealand and friends would trigger tremors. Read more

Obama exits – Trump enters…writes Michael Kuttner

As Barak Obama leaves the White House and Donald Trump takes up residence, self-proclaimed liberals still cannot accept reality. Read more

Paris helps to fuel Palestinian Arab delusions

For over seventy years the delusionary myths about Israel and Jews manufactured by Arab political and religious leaders have led them from one disaster to another…writes Michael Kuttner. Read more

Washington, Wellington, Paris, New York, Ramallah and Gaza

 

What do all these names have in common?…asks Michael Kuttner. Read more

Jerusalem declared illegitimate by Obama, Kerry and McCully

Now that large parts of Jerusalem, the unrecognised capital of the Jewish State, have been declared illegal and illegitimate by all and sundry, it is timely to point out a few incontrovertible facts. Read more

New Year expectations…writes Michael Kuttner

As the civil year of 2016 draws to a close we look with uncertainty towards 2017 and wonder whether it can be worse than this year. Read more

New Zealand’s shameful charade…writes Michael Kuttner

In a fitting finale to a year marked by international hypocrisy and double standards, Christmas and Chanukah are being celebrated by Christians and Jews in the very places where the original historical events took place. Read more

Palestinian Arab threats & New Zealand’s final futile fling

‘Tis the season of ill will again when irrational urges to condemn and threaten Israel as well as promoting pie in the sky resolutions are all the rage. Read more

In their own words…writes Michael Kuttner

There is no shortage of individuals or indeed organisations who when it comes to Israel and Jews are able to “put their feet in their mouths.” Read more

After the forest fires

At the invitation of the Jewish National Fund J-Wire’s correspondent Michael Kuttner participated in a tour of the Jerusalem hills recently devastated by a series of fires. Read more

Kerry tantrums, the U.N. and Palestinian journalists…writes Michael Kuttner

It’s been another busy week with John Kerry having a tantrum, the UN performing as per the usual script and some Palestinian Arab journalists trying to put confusing spins on history. Read more

Inflammatory consequences…writes Michael Kuttner

Incendiary incitement usually results in a burning desire to take action and so it proved this past week. Read more

Jews is News

Hardly a day passes when Jews and the Jewish State are not featured in the media…writes Michael Kuttner.
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US election after shocks

The reverberations from the US elections continue to rumble throughout the world…writes Michael Kuttner. Read more

Force 10 on the Richter scale…writes Michael Kuttner

Undoubtedly the major and only talking point internationally this week is the election of Donald Trump as President of the USA. Read more

Balagan…writes Michael Kuttner

Definition: “chaos, fiasco, bedlam, mess, foul up, a state of extreme confusion and disorder.” Read more

The Two State delusions…writes Michael Kuttner

Hardly a day goes by when we are not bombarded with what has become infallible dogma from befuddled politicians, media and others who either wish we were not here anymore or are just mouthing politically correct slogans. Read more

Shameful and Scandalous…writes Michael Kuttner

As predicted, the Jewish New Year has kicked off with a bumper crop of anti Israel activity. Read more

Meanwhile back in the real world…writes Michael Kuttner

The VIP’s have returned to their countries and the oratorical funeral eulogies have subsided. Read more

All the world’s stage…writes Michael Kuttner

One couldn’t have asked for a bigger stage than last week’s funeral for Shimon Peres z”l, with all the strutting actors performing according to a pre-ordained script. Read more

You ain’t heard nothing yet…writes Michael Kuttner

If you thought that this Jewish year just ending was a vintage one you had better strap yourselves in because the coming year promises to be action packed in more ways than one. Read more

Double think…writes Michael Kuttner

 

“Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously and accepting both of them.”… Read more

What are they smoking?…asks Michael Kuttner

This has been another vintage week during which many individuals once again demonstrated an uncanny ability to detach from truthful reality. Read more

Unrelenting perniciousness…writes Michael Kuttner

George Orwell predicted that in an age of universal deceit telling the truth would become a revolutionary act. Read more

Black holes…writes Michael Kuttner

The current conventional understanding of these phenomena is that nothing can escape being sucked into the seemingly mysterious holes in space. Read more

What really matters…writes Michael Kuttner

The latest buzzwords among the politically correct elites these days have become holy writ. Woe betides anyone who dares to challenge this example of religious dogma. Read more

By the Rivers of Babylon…writes Michael Kuttner

This Sunday, many Jews worldwide will be remembering the first exile of their ancestors from Judea to Babylon and subsequent calamities including the destruction of the first and second Temples. Read more

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