Articles by Ian

http://thisongoingwar.blogspot.com/2023/05/04-may-23-will-senate-press-new-us.html AA/S Yael Lempert, the nominee, is speaking as we post this [Image Source] [A version of this post appears today as a Times of Israel blog] * * * This morning (May 4, 2023) in Washington, […]

http://thisongoingwar.blogspot.com/2023/03/29-mar-23-sbarro-bombers-thwarted.html Al Arabiya News, April 5, 2021 [Image Source] One of the useful indicators of how Washington views terror and terrorists comes in an annual publication, “Country Reports on Terrorism“. Though mandated by Congress and […]

http://thisongoingwar.blogspot.com/2023/03/13-mar-23-sbarro-bomber-says-she-has.html In Amman on March 10, 2023, a crowd of Tamimi supporters calls on King Abdullah II to return the pizzeria bomber’s husband to her [Image Source] The Sbarro bomber, FBI Most Wanted fugitive terrorist Ahlam […]

http://thisongoingwar.blogspot.com/2023/03/05-mar-23-intertwined-lives-purim.html From a 1997 family snapshot: Malki dressed up for Purim as a farmer In a few days from now, we will be marking the sixth anniversary of the day in 2017 when senior US […]

http://thisongoingwar.blogspot.com/2023/02/13-feb-23-three-thousand-five-days-of.html Jordan’s refusal to extradite Ahlam Tamimi to the United States, despite her being responsible for the horrific 2001 bombing of a Jerusalem pizzeria that killed 15 people, including two Americans (one of them our […]

http://thisongoingwar.blogspot.com/2023/02/09-feb-23-do-americas-jewish.html On February 3, 2023, Jordan’s Royal Hashemite Court publishedand disseminated this photo to illustrate its report under the headline“King meets representatives of international,US Jewish organisations” A version of the post below originally appeared on Frimet […]

http://thisongoingwar.blogspot.com/2022/12/27-dec-22-suspect-held-in-novembers.html The two Israelis murdered in the twin bombing attacks last month The authorities here cleared for publication earlier today that a suspect in the November 23, 2022 twin-bombings in Jerusalem [“23-Nov-22: In Jerusalem, twin bomb […]

http://thisongoingwar.blogspot.com/2022/11/23-nov-22-two-bomb-blasts-in-jerusalem.html Screen grab from live TV news coverage of the Ramot Junction  bus stop and the shrapnel-damaged commuter bus  Today was a hard day here in Jerusalem. Two bombs, evidently placed by a single terrorist […]

http://thisongoingwar.blogspot.com/2022/11/22-nov-22-abu-akleh-what-washington.html A few days ago in his Twitter account, Arnold Roth posted a response to a problematic – and to us, painful – editorial in a major daily newspaper two days earlier. Here’s the comment […]

http://thisongoingwar.blogspot.com/2022/10/31-oct-22-much-too-short-life-honored.html [The following post first appeared, in a modified form, on the Malki Foundation blog site under the title “Israel’s IDF pays tribute to Malki’s life“] Over on the YouTube page of the Israel Defense Forces, […]