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New Year of the Trees: A Love Story Between a People & Their Land

By: Forest Rain – Feb. 2017 Can you imagine living in exile? Knowing that, although you have lived all your life in one place, as have your parents and maybe…

April 3, 2017No CommentRead More

That Israeli Moment

By: Forest Rain – Dec. 2016 I just experienced one of the most Israeli moments you can possibly have. That Israeli moment when your man helps his son decide which IDF…

January 5, 20171 CommentRead More

No One Is Too Big To Jail ~ FROM ISRAEL TO THE VALLEY PATRIOT, with Forest Rain

By: Forest Rain – Oct. 2016 In February of this year Israel’s former Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, began his prison sentence. It is deeply embarrassing to discover that someone who…

October 30, 2016No CommentRead More

What aren’t they showing you? ~ FROM ISRAEL TO THE VALLEY PATRIOT

By: Forest Rain – Sept. 2016 “Aren’t you afraid of the soldiers?” the reporter asked the old Arab man. A resident of Jenin, approximately 60 or 70 years old, was…

September 29, 2016No CommentRead More

The Arab World Has an Empathy Problem ~ FROM ISRAEL TO THE VALLEY PATRIOT

By: Forest Rain – August, 2016 Yes. I said it. Don’t jump on me, hear me out. This is not about being derogatory to an entire culture, this is about…

August 27, 20161 CommentRead More

Honoring Jenya Dorfman ~ From Israel to the Valley Patriot

By: Forest Rain – June, 2016 On June 1, 2001 a Hamas terrorist, walked into a Tel Aviv dance club at the Dolphinarium and blew himself up murdering 21 young…

June 29, 2016No CommentRead More

This is Israel’s Secret Sauce ~ By: Forest Rain

By: Forest Rain – Jan. 2016 I read two pages and burst in to tears. Startled, Lenny asked me “Why are you crying?” Looking at my book, “Hit Team” about…

January 24, 2016No CommentRead More

Why I am Glad There Are Guns in the Streets… of Israel

By: Forest Rain – December, 2015 Israel is under attack. The hate that has been carefully instilled in the Arab population, in Jerusalem, Palestinian Authority controlled areas and throughout the…

December 30, 2015No CommentRead More

Freedom Fighters ~ by Forest Rain, Israeli Columnist

By: Forest Rain – January, 2014 When words are twisted meaning becomes warped. The straightforward and obvious suddenly takes on a new meaning, transforming in to something far from the…

January 26, 2015No CommentRead More

Feeding the Crocodile by Forest Rain, Valley Patriot Israeli Columnist

By, Forest Rain – December, 2104 There is a new trend in Europe. Parliaments in various European countries are holding “symbolic votes” to “recognize the State of Palestine.” These…

December 28, 2014No CommentRead More

Monsters Under the Bed

By: Forest Rain – September, 2014 Or Turning from Gaza, to Hezbollah in the North Parents around the world are familiar with the child’s fear of the dark, the fear…

September 25, 2014No CommentRead More

I Don’t Want a Ceasefire In Gaza

By: Forest Rain in Tel Aviv August, 2014 Again we are hearing news of negotiations for a ceasefire between Hamas and Israel. The world media seems jubilant. I am not.…

August 21, 2014No CommentRead More

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