http://www.tolerance.ca/Rubrique.aspx?ID=109&L=en Jerrold L. Sobel Tue, 21 May 2013 17:27:31 -0500 2013 Tolerance.ca en-ca http://www.tolerance.ca/Article.aspx?ID=160657&L=en Despite the most inane confirmation performance in recent memory. After embarrassingly stumbling and bumbling through eight hours of straight up questioning, it’s a done deal, Chuck Hagel was confirmed and became the United States 23rd Secretary of Defense on Tuesday.   Thu, 28 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0500 Jerrold L. Sobel Jerrold L. Sobel http://www.tolerance.ca/Article.aspx?ID=144815&L=en One thing about liberals particularly those in the media they’re good at bolstering an incompetent President by shifting the discussion of the American humiliation in the Middle East from the outrages themselves to Mitt Romney’s response.  Wed, 19 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0500 Jerrold L. Sobel Jerrold L. Sobel http://www.tolerance.ca/Article.aspx?ID=143921&L=en On March 26, 2010 Newsmax published an article entitled, “Obama Snubs Netanyahu at White House.”  For those of you with collective memory loss, if you remember, up to that point this was just the biggest of many snubs by the Obama Administration against the Israeli government. Mon, 10 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0500 Jerrold L. Sobel Jerrold L. Sobel http://www.tolerance.ca/Article.aspx?ID=143340&L=en Amongst other seemingly irreconcilable issues such as: water rights; Arab street incitement; demilitarization of a Palestinian state, the core impediments between the Palestinians led by Mahmoud Abbas and Israel are: recognized borders, sovereignty over Jerusalem, and the right of return of six hundred thousand Palestinians and their  progeny dating back to 1948.  Tue, 04 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0500 Jerrold L. Sobel Jerrold L. Sobel http://www.tolerance.ca/Article.aspx?ID=142891&L=en On October 26, 2008, then Senator Barack Obama gave a radio interview on WBEZ Chicago.  He was asked by the moderator his views on the accomplishments of the Civil Rights movement.  He replied: “If you look at the victories and failures of the civil rights movement and its litigation strategy in the court, I think where it succeeded was to vest formal rights in previously dispossessed peoples.” Thu, 30 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0500 Jerrold L. Sobel Jerrold L. Sobel http://www.tolerance.ca/Article.aspx?ID=140749&L=en Since creating the Israeli Advocate in 2008 I’ve never ceased to marvel and be intrigued at the responses I receive from my articles and that of my contributors.  Dependent upon the political persuasion, mood, or a particular reader’s state of mind at the time the article is read, the variance of response runs the gamut from:  “Take me off your ******g mailing list” to “absolutely brilliant,” and shades in between.  Fri, 24 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0500 Jerrold L. Sobel Jerrold L. Sobel http://www.tolerance.ca/Article.aspx?ID=139464&L=en If the Romney campaign thinks they have a chance of beating the current occupant in the White House by playing Mr. politically correct, nice guy, he just has to look back four years and recognize the error of his ways.  John McCain, a war hero in every way turned timid at the thought of confronting Obama on a myriad of issues which should have highlighted the absurdity of him running for president, more or less winning. Fri, 20 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0500 Jerrold L. Sobel Jerrold L. Sobel http://www.tolerance.ca/Article.aspx?ID=137660&L=en Historically speaking,  it’s never difficult for writers of Jewish history to find an anniversary date connected with a tragedy.  For example, a couple days ago I was enjoying an evening surfing the Web to see if anything stood out in Jewish history on my birthday, June 28th.   Thu, 28 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0500 Jerrold L. Sobel Jerrold L. Sobel http://www.tolerance.ca/Article.aspx?ID=136670&L=en For those of you old enough to remember, during their epic heavyweight battle in 1974 known as the “Rumble in the Jungle,” Muhammad Ali made famous a defensive ploy known as the “Rope-a-Dope.”  Flailing on the ropes, the former boxing great feigned being beaten by then World Heavy Weight Champion George Foreman. Fri, 15 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0500 Jerrold L. Sobel Jerrold L. Sobel http://www.tolerance.ca/Article.aspx?ID=135817&L=en In a democracy whether voting for president of a condominium or president of the United States voters cast their ballots based upon their priority of concerns.  In a condo development issues such as assessments, security, landscape, what color to paint the houses and a superfluity of other issues occupy homeowners mind before voting for a board president. Wed, 30 May 2012 00:00:00 -0500 Jerrold L. Sobel Jerrold L. Sobel http://www.tolerance.ca/Article.aspx?ID=135454&L=en You could cut the hostility with a knife.  The stares, the disdain, the occasional expectoration as our group passed a cadre of Arabs as we journeyed down the narrow streets of the old city.  Jerusalem, the ancient capital of the Jewish people is a beautiful place to visit if you’re willing to watch your guard at all times.  As my fiance and I were soon to find out, violence can erupt at any time. Sat, 19 May 2012 00:00:00 -0500 Jerrold L. Sobel Jerrold L. Sobel http://www.tolerance.ca/Article.aspx?ID=134290&L=en This past week 74 House Democrats sent President Obama a letter urging continued pressure on Israel to adhere to a two state resolution of the Middle East conflict.  However, public record brings into question the sincerity of the authors.   Wed, 09 May 2012 00:00:00 -0500 Jerrold L. Sobel Jerrold L. Sobel http://www.tolerance.ca/Article.aspx?ID=133749&L=en Back on New Years Day of this year, I wrote an article, “Jonathan Pollard: Revisited Again and again,” the third of three articles I had written about Jonathan Pollard and the wrongful sentence he received for the crime he committed.   Thu, 12 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0500 Jerrold L. Sobel Jerrold L. Sobel http://www.tolerance.ca/Article.aspx?ID=128463&L=en If you do a search on google, along with predispositions, you’ll find more than 20 medical diseases affiliated with aberrant genes possessed within a segment of the Jewish people.  One which is omitted but equally malicious is Jewish anti-Semitism.  Wed, 18 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0500 Jerrold L. Sobel Jerrold L. Sobel http://www.tolerance.ca/Article.aspx?ID=127893&L=en For the second time in a week, Israeli and Palestinian officials are scheduled to sit down in Amman Jordan, and agree that each sides position on a peace agreement is antithetical to that of the other. Wed, 11 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0500 Jerrold L. Sobel Jerrold L. Sobel http://www.tolerance.ca/Article.aspx?ID=127287&L=en How many of you remember what you were doing 26 years ago, I barely do.  Thank goodness for Google.  Reagan was President, H.W. Bush was his Vice President, we were paying a staggering $1.20 for a gallon of gas and I for one was finding a lot less hair in the shower each morning.  But to Jonathan Pollard, another New Year has come and gone and nothing has changed.  Sad and beaten, deteriorated in health and with no end in sight, Pollard began serving his 27th year in Federal prison this past Nov. Tue, 03 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0500 Jerrold L. Sobel Jerrold L. Sobel http://www.tolerance.ca/Article.aspx?ID=126247&L=en by Jerrold L. Sobel As this most contentious of political seasons starts to heat up, Republican front runners have each taken turns rising to the top, come under increased scrutiny, and with the exception of Mitt Romney have fallen back into the pack.  Mon, 19 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0500 Jerrold L. Sobel Jerrold L. Sobel