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Bruce Ticker is a freelance writer based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
“Saying ‘Free Palestine’ is the beginning of what we meet to talk about on this issue,” says Canadian author Desmond Cole. As I moved on to read his further comments, I was anxious to finally learn what “Free Palestine” means. Many readers are probably cynical enough to expect Cole to disappoint. [Bruce S. Ticker]
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Bruce Ticker, International, Middle East, USABy Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA — It might otherwise have been delightful to witness a lone irregular Republican senator join with a handful of insufferable House Democrats take a bipartisan stand over process and money in the halls of Congress. Yet $1 billion to replenish Israel’s Iron Dome missile system – a defensive system, mind
The Chilling Iron Dome Spectacle in Congress Read More »
Bruce Ticker, Middle East, USABy Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA — “Peace be upon you.” Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas uttered these hospitable words to conclude a hostile speech against his usual suspect, namely Israel, in a pre-recorded speech to the United Nations General Assembly. If Abbas means what he says, which we can rarely count on, Israel and the Palestinians
Mahmoud Abbas UN Speech is All Bark and No Bite Read More »
Bruce Ticker, International, Middle EastIt was Congress’s first certain body blow to American Jews in modern times, though Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib may feel that they were denied a chance to achieve it on Yom Kippur and had to settle for the first day of Sukkot. The so-called “progressives” in Congress led Democrats to commit an act of war against the Jewish people on Tuesday, when the House leadership slashed $1 billion incorporated into the spending legislation for Israel’s Iron Dome air defense system in an emergency spending package. [Bruce S. Ticker]
Mainstream Democrats, Bowing to Progressives, Let Israel Down Read More »
Bruce Ticker, Middle East, USATwas two nights before Yom Kippur, when all through Burlington City Hall, a half-mile from Lake Champlain’s eastern shore, many a creature of sorts was stirring…stirring up unrest for Jewish Vermonters, 5,400 miles from the land that inspired a City Council resolution urging “justice and (a) peaceful end to (the) Palestine and Israel conflict.” [Bruce S. Ticker]
Burlington, Vermont, Grapples with Israel-Palestinian Conflict Read More »
Bruce Ticker, Middle East, USAJosh Mandel is one confusing guy. In his quest to succeed Republican U.S. Sen. Rob Portman of Ohio, is Mandel now freeing up his fellow Republicans to compare the pandemic to the Holocaust? Or will he insist that only us Israelites can do that? That is not all he confuses us about. [Bruce S. Ticker]
Mandel Insults Fellow Jews with His Specious Holocaust Analogy Read More »
Bruce Ticker, Jewish History, USAThe Biden administration’s actions beg two disturbing Jewish-themed questions: Why would a president lie about such an insignificant detail as visiting a Pittsburgh synagogue? How can a U.S. Foreign Service officer be effective at his job when he demeans Jews and homosexuals? [Bruce S. Ticker]
OpEd: Two Jewish Issues the Biden Administration Must Clear Up Read More »
Bruce Ticker, Jewish History, Jewish Religion, USABy Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA — During his 1968 presidential campaign, Robert F. Kennedy proposed sending 50 military planes to Israel. Two decades later, Sirhan B. Sirhan revealed that RFK’s support of Israel motivated him to fatally shoot RFK in the pantry of a Los Angeles hotel on June 5, 1968. Five months from now,
RFK Assassin Calls Himself a ‘Peacemaker,’ But Does He Deserve Parole? Read More »
Bruce Ticker, USAWhen Shmuel Silverberg, 18, was shot outside Yeshiva Toras Chaim in Denver’s West Colfax neighborhood on Tuesday, Aug. 17, his assailants were not satisfied. Silverberg ran away from them, and they chased him just inside the school where fellow students tried to perform CPR on him. Silverberg, who was studying at the religious school as a post-high school student from Cleveland, was rushed to the hospital, where he died, according to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. [Bruce S. Ticker]
Murder of Yeshiva Student Highlights Need for Gun Control Read More »
Bruce Ticker, USABy Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA — In the Famous-Last-Words department: “The likelihood there’s going to be the Taliban overrunning everything and owning the whole country is highly unlikely.” The “highly unlikely” happened on Sunday as a dozen Taliban fighters garbed in native dress gathered around a desk in the presidential palace in Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul.
The ‘Highly Unlikely’ Happened in Afghanistan. Now What? Read More »
Bruce Ticker, Middle East, USABy Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA — Cori Bush, after serving seven months in Congress, now rates comparison to Franklin Delano Roosevelt. What follows is no compliment. When Walter F. George campaigned for his fourth full term in the U.S. Senate, Roosevelt journeyed to Georgia in 1938 to stump for one of George’s rivals in the
What Do Cori Bush and FDR Have in Common? Read More »
Bruce Ticker, Middle East, USAI Scream, You Scream, We All Scream for Ice Cream’ Lots of screaming in this season of ice cream lust. First Ben & Jerry’s set events in motion by declaring to inhabitants of Israel’s territories, as they might phrase it on “Seinfeld”, “No ice cream for you!!!!” [Bruce Ticker]
Who Screams for Ben & Jerry’s? Read More »
Bruce Ticker, Middle East, Travel and Food, USABy Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA — “If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.” — Adlai Stevenson “During the 1948 war,” says letter-writer Bob Holden of Los Angeles, “the Israelis expelled more than half the Palestinian population (some 700,000) and seized their land and businesses
Telling the Truth About the Palestinians Read More »
Bruce Ticker, Middle East, USA“This N….. voted for Joe Biden.” Brazen racism – by using the most despicable racial slur possible – is all we need to know about the low-lives who invaded the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. [Bruce S. Ticker]
Capitol Rioters Displayed Their Racism Jan. 6 Read More »
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