Yes, I’m back.

So not much happened whilst I was on my rest then? What did you say?

Ah, ok:

Palmer Report on the Mavi Marmara

Turkey and Israel spat

Terror attack near Eilat

English riots

Gaddafi ouster

England slaughter India at cricket (you can’t get more earth-shattering than that)

And on a personal note, I have been concentrating on Twitter and doubled my followers.

I have had a brief, but somewhat vituperative, exchange with Yvonne Ridley on Twitter.

Oh, and my elder son made Aliya.

So, as I said, not a lot been happening, then.

But before I get hooked on this year’s Strictly Come Dancing and find out what Sir John Major found so attractive in Edwina Currie, I’d better get back to blogging.

So much negative news and worrying developments in Israel (I must get used to NOT putting hashtags in front of keywords after using Twitter for so long) that I thought my first blog posts would be about some inspiring positive stories from Israel.

So stay tuned. Cookie is back and will be reviewing and opining on things Israeli, Zionist and Middle Eastern as I have been doing for the last two and a half years.

UPDATE: How could I forget the interrupted IPO concert at the Royal Albert Hall!

UPDATE 2: And phone hacking and the Murdochs!! Like I said, a quiet 2 months.