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Orit Arfa

Orit Arfa is an author and journalist based in Berlin. Her first of two novels, The Settler, follows the aftermath of the 2005 withdrawal from Gaza. Her work can be found at: www.oritarfa.net.

Israeli-American actor Yadin Gellman staves off PTSD through fatherhood and storytelling.
I think differently: It’s time to stay and fight with the help of our allies.
Perhaps she hopes that she’ll be given a reprieve from Jew-hatred by becoming the darling of activists who loathe the idea of Israel fighting back. It’s as if she pleads: “I’m not one of those ‘blood-sucking’ occupiers!”
What is left of Gaza must include Israeli forces and residential communities on both sides of the “border.”
Why is the “chosen people” always depending on permission from “The World” to fight for our lives, to save them, to give a damn?
“The atmosphere is very tense and scary,” a Jewish mother told JNS. “I don’t feel safe. It’s really heartbreaking.”
“It is imperative that all funding from the German Foreign Office and the Ministry of Development be put to the test,” said German politician Christoph Meyer. “An immediate halt to German funding of E.U. and U.N. programs for Palestine must also not be taboo.”
The Israeli writer, who comes from a prominent Iraqi family, is working on two new books about Jews of Babylonian ancestry.