Articles by Ian

http://thisongoingwar.blogspot.com/2024/12/24-dec-24-i-can-do-it-reflecting-on.html As they do in some years, a major festive celebration for Jews all over the world gets underway tomorrow on the same day that Christians throughout the world mark one of the most joyous […]

http://thisongoingwar.blogspot.com/2024/09/26-sep-24-question-to-people-who-have.html Arnold Roth posted this on his X account yesterday. Imagine someone kills your child, not because the child did something but for reasons that you need to be a sociopath to understand and sympathize […]

http://thisongoingwar.blogspot.com/2024/08/27-aug-24-this-is-how-we-affirm.htmlA version of the short essay below, authored jointly by Frimet and Arnold Roth, was first published on August 20, 2024 by Jewish News Syndicate.  On August 18, 2024 – a recent Sunday evening – […]

http://thisongoingwar.blogspot.com/2024/04/24-apr-24-sbarro-bomber-betrayal-lies.html Nuland, Biden, Blinken [Image Source] On March 14, 2024, under the headline “Betrayal, lies, politics and grief | The world’s refusal to bring my child’s killer to justice.“, the Jewish News Syndicate published a […]

http://thisongoingwar.blogspot.com/2024/02/06-feb-24-obituary-naftali-gordon.html The obituary that follows was published yesterday by Times of Israel under the headline “Master Sgt. (res.) Naftali Gordon, 32: A man of ‘honesty and justice’ | Killed in combat in the Gaza Strip on […]

http://thisongoingwar.blogspot.com/2024/01/04-jan-24-adjusting-to-new-reality.html Our family is about as well-adjusted, mutually supportive, loving as those around us here in Jerusalem. Maybe in some respects even a little more than many. That’s not only relevant but perhaps even core […]

http://thisongoingwar.blogspot.com/2023/11/23-nov-23-not-war-in-conventional-sense.html Source: YouTube Like all wars, this war, the one in which the savages of Hamas launched an all-out slaughter of innocents, and the armed forces of Israel struck back in unusually powerful fashion, has […]

http://thisongoingwar.blogspot.com/2023/08/14-aug-23-getting-tamimi-to-us-justice.html The admitted Sbarro bomber hosted a made-in-Jordan weekly TV show from Amman between February 2012 and September 2016. Taking a robustly pro-terror line, it went to air globally via the Hamas Al Quds TV satellite channel with a […]

http://thisongoingwar.blogspot.com/2023/07/02-jul-23-festival-funeral-and-failed.html Tamimi is a featured interviewee on Al-Aqsa TV (and Facebook) June 30, 2023 America’s most wanted female fugitive made a featured appearance on global TV again this past Friday.  Ahlam Tamimi, a designated FBI […]