Unveiling the contours and contrasts of an ever-changing Middle East landscape Reliable reportage and insightful commentary on the Middle East by seasoned journalists from the region and beyond
Like this content? Please share and tweet it to your friends and followers.
To subscribe via email please send a mail noting your request to: layotland@gmail.com
Please visit/ join/follow our social media platforms:
Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/LotLSite/
Twitter: Lay Of The Land – @layoftheland5
Also available on YouTube @The Israel Brief – Simply click on the red subscribe button to receive alerts when a new report is posted.
What’s happening in Israel today? See from every Monday – Thursday LOTL’s The Israel Brief broadcasts and on our Facebook page and YouTube by seasoned TV & radio broadcaster, Rolene Marks familiar to Chai FM listeners in South Africa and millions of American listeners to the News/Talk/Sports radio station WINA, broadcasting out of Virginia, USA.
(Click on the blue title)
Articles
(1)
‘FRANK’LY SPEAKING
Recalling my interview with a foot soldier who participated in the decisive Battle of El Alamein 80 years ago.
By David E. Kaplan
If ever there was a battle whose outcome was of great concern to the Jews of Palestine it was the Battle of Al Alamein in 1942. Their lives and the future of a Jewish state hung in the balance. The writer recalls his interview with the late Leib Frank who participated in this historically decisive battle.
(Click on the blue title)
(2)
YE-DOLF UNHINGED
Kanye West or ‘Ye’ is engaging in a diatribe against Jews that even has white supremacists aghast
By Rolene Marks
While the convenient impulse is to ignore and not give oxygen to antisemites, Jews have leant the lesson – fatally – of passivity. Public debates with celebrities like Ye joining forces with other kindred antisemites promoting Hitler and spreading Jew hate cannot be ignored. The writer argues say “Nay” to “Ye”.
(Click on the blue title)
(3)
THE ARAB VOICE – JUNE 2022
A selection of opinions and analysis from the Arab media
Arab writers opining on Middle East issues, write on the 2022 World Cup in Qatar unveiling as much a ‘clash of ideas’ as a clash of competing football teams.
(Click on the blue title)
LOTL Co-founders David E. Kaplan (Editor), Rolene Marks and Yair Chelouche
To unsubscribe, please reply to layotland@kenmar11
While the mission of Lay of the Land (LotL) is to provide a wide and diverse perspective of affairs in Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish world, the opinions, beliefs and viewpoints expressed by its various writers are not necessarily ones of the owners and management of LOTL but of the writers themselves. LotL endeavours to the best of its ability to credit the use of all known photographs to the photographer and/or owner of such photographs (0&EO).