Lloyd Levy

Lloyd Levy

Lloyd Levy is a businessman and a freelance writer.  For a period, he commuted between London and Eilat for business, closely observing the politics of both Great Britain and Israel.

Commentary: Germany successful in third effort to take over Europe

By Lloyd Levy LONDON– Europe is being convulsed by  the most remarkable and unwelcome events. The elected legitimate Prime Ministers of both Greece and Italy have been forced to resign.  They have been forced out effectively by diktat from the Germans, with France hanging on to the German coat tails in an attempt to retain some […]

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Western critics of Israeli democracy should look to their own houses

By Lloyd Levy LONDON –Much heat has been generated  in some circles in the Jewish Diaspora in recent weeks, by the Israeli Knesset passing  laws to fight back against attempts to undermine the State.  For example, Israeli citizens who allegedly incite boycotts of their own country’s products , or who work hand in glove with

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In the long run, Arab Spring may open Middle East to modernization

      By Lloyd Levy        LONDON–We are witnessing  the most remarkable events across the Arab World, but  the direction of travel, and the end game, are impossible to foretell.   The situation does have many similarities with the Eevolutions that swept the Jewish World in the late 1880’s and early 1900’s. 

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Wedding unified British people, strengthened the monarchy

By Lloyd Levy   LONDON–Billions of  people around the World watched television on Friday, to witness the Royal Wedding between Prince William and Catherine Middleton.  It was a magical occasion, which even transfixed an old cynic as myself.   I cannot however comment on any Jewish perspective, because there wasn’t one.  British Jewry was officially

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Israel’s military capability expands as Western Europe’s declines

By Lloyd Levy LONDON — With all the incessant media coverage about  Israel , one easily loses sight of the broader picture. Yet I have been reading a respected annual publication called “the Military Balance.”  Not necessarily everyone’s chosen reading  material, but it throws a fascinating insight into the miracle that is today’s Israel. By

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Calls for Mubarak’s ouster prove having U.S. as an ally no assurance of friendship

By Lloyd Levy LONDON –Events in Egypt highlight what seems to my mind to be the incomprehensible naivete of the U.S. Administration in its Middle East policy. The Egyptian Government has been the object of a well planned coup , using the very modern and ingenious method of stage managing a “revolution,” in a large

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Zionism’s western body has been reunited with its Russian soul

By Lloyd Levy  EILAT, Israel — The supermarkets in Israel stock many authentic Russian foods, such as marvellous black bread, and herrings. The range of Vodka is unfathonable in its diversity. Somehow they stir ancient folk memories in my Jewish soul. Yet ex-President Bill Clinton was recently quoted as saying that Israel would be a

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