INTO THE FRAY: Malicious Malignant Macron
France's adversarial attitude towards both Israel and America has regrettably been long brewing.
INTO THE FRAY: Something Rotten in the Land of the Tricolor?
While France is the origin of the principles of modern democracy, it has also shown a disturbing affinity for tyranny.
INTO THE FRAY: November: Persian Preferences
HARRIS-MENT
INTO THE FRAY: Kamala’s Unsavory Supporters
Some of Kamala Harris’s supporters constitute yet another ominous omen in the perturbing accumulation that the prospect of her victory portends.
America 2024: Is Antisemitism “The Point?”
There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable…- Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) British Prime Minister
INTO THE FRAY: Fickle Feckless France- Egalite, Fraternite …ANTISEMITISME
The French Foreign Ministry advanced two claims as the rationale for its decision to support the ICC—both equally risible and ridiculous
Into the Fray: Today’s Surging Antisemitism
A perverse inversion of victim & victimizer
INTO THE FRAY: Misplaced moral outrage-moronic, mendacious, or malevolent?
Israel seeks to minimize civilian casualties, while Hamas seeks to maximize civilian casualties and use them as a propaganda tool.
Into the Fray: Elections: Now is NOT the Time
When Israeli voters next go to the polls, over what led to the grim events of Oct. 7, their choices must not be driven by uninformed rumor, ill-informed speculation, and misinformed emotion.
Reason, Reasonableness & Realpolitik
Under Biden, important foreign policy interests are being sacrificed domestic ones
INTO THE FRAY: Comparing Coalitions
While the current coalition is far from unblemished, things could be worse—and have been, recently.
Into the Fray: Incredible Imbecility
By MARTIN SHERMAN
The historical record bodes ill for initiatives to engineer a Pax Israeliana (an Israel induced peace) between Israel and its Arab adversaries.
INTO THE FRAY: Gaza-A Gigantic Shift in the ‘Overton Window’
What once was unthinkable is now moving to the center of mainstream thought
INTO THE FRAY: Gaza – Mis-conceptualizing the conflict; Mis-comprehending the Enemy
One of the reasons that the conflict with the Palestinian-Arabs in general and Gazan Arabs in particular, has dragged on for years, is that Israel has failed to conceptualize the conflict correctly
Gaza: The Collapse of Conventional Wisdom
The political rationale of the Gaza conflict can be mirrored in the inexorable logic of an almost mathematical algorithm—studiously ignored by Israel's policy-making echelons
INTO THE FRAY: A Sense of Betrayal
Past deeds of heroism are no justification for present acts of subversion
Into the Fray: D-Y-S-T-O-P-I-A!!
The opponents of the proposed judicial reform are not defending liberal democracy, but promoting Orwellian dystopia
INTO THE FRAY: A Constitution -The “Excuse–du Jour”
The raising of the issue of a constitution as a potential way out of the political impasse over the future of Israel's legal system is nothing but a red herring on the part of the opponents of judicial reform
INTO THE FRAY: Yair Lapid -Thinking the Unthinkable
When the official reasons given for the Oct. 2022 gas deal with Lebanon unravel, who can be blamed for allowing "heretical" alternative explanations to creep into one's mind
INTO THE FRAY: Mika – Malicious, Mendacious, and Misleading
Typical of the deluge of the Orwellian gobbledygook opposing the proposed judicial reform is a recent video by virulent anti-Netanyahu activist, Mika Almog, granddaughter of the late Shimon Peres
INTO THE FRAY: Obviating Elections
If the so-called "champions of democracy" succeed in obstructing the judicial reforms, democratic rule will be replaced by mob rule—and Israel will be teetering on the brink of an Orwellian dystopia
INTO THE FRAY: Au Contraire
The last vestige of the left’s undemocratic power is threatened, a prospect it views with a mixture of horror and disbelief.
INTO THE FRAY: Conspicuous by their…Presence
The Palestinian flags, on unabashed and unhindered display at recent demonstrations against the proposed reform of Israel's legal system, tear off the facade of hypocrisy that masks what really motivates them.
INTO THE FRAY: Death—Courtesy of the Supreme Court
The initiative by the newly elected government to enact a far-reaching reform of the legal system is an inevitable result of the ongoing process of erosion of public trust.
INTO THE FRAY: “PEACE”- A Dictatorial and Deceptive Dictum
By its reticence to engage in a decisive offensive against its despotic adversaries, Israel is continually backing away from conflicts that it can win, while risking backing itself into a conflict that it cannot…
INTO THE FRAY: Palestine: Perverse and Perplexing Paradox
Why do professed liberals persist in support of an entity that would comprise the utter negation of all the values they allegedly cherish?
INTO THE FRAY: “Palestine”—Countervailing Hypotheses
Do the Palestinian-Arabs genuinely wish to establish a state for themselves? Or do they really wish to dismantle the state of the Jews?
INTO THE FRAY: The Perils of Palestine: A Multi-Dimensional, Multifarious Menace to Israel
Little analytical acumen is needed to grasp that a Palestinian state will comprise a multi-dimensional threat to Israel. Whether one considers height, width, length, or depth, such a state would entail existential dangers for Israel
INTO THE FRAY: Pernicious Paradox: Israel’s Tactical Brilliance vs Strategic Imbecility
Israel must forgo the forlorn hope of winning Arab amitié. and pursue different strategic goals. The most it can hope for is to be grudgingly accepted; the least it must achieve is to be greatly feared
INTO THE FRAY: No One Will Come
International agreements involving the abdication of strategic assets in exchange for vague 'assurances' of future support are not worth the paper they are written on