Gaza – A Port is No Panacea for Poverty
Hamas are not burrowing tunnels because Gaza has no port. They are burrowing them despite the fact it does not have one.
INTO THE FRAY: Like manna from heaven—for Israel’s detractors
Any allusion that Israel is somehow comparable to Nazi Germany is not criticism. It is a blood libel
INTO THE FRAY:Imbecility Squared – Part 2
With changing patterns of Arab enmity, the major challenge to Israel’s existence as the Jewish nation-state is no longer repulsing invasion, but resisting attrition.
Into The Fray: Egregious Ehud
In his unrestrained and unjustified harangue, Barak did not balk even at inflicting severe harm on his country’s image and the government’s international credibility.
INTO THE FRAY: Utterly Unconscionable
From an Israeli long-term point of view, the “deal” between Israel and Turkey is incomprehensible.,Devoid of any logic on every imaginable level—national, ethical, security and even commercial.
INTO THE FRAY: Israel and American Liberal Jewry: The REAL Reasons for the Rift
Incredibly, according to Israel’s “liberal” detractors, the only remedy for Israel’s “democracy deficit” is to establish yet another Muslim-majority tyranny.
Into the Fray: What if the GOP Wins? – Potential Payoffs and Pitfalls for...
The changes in the Republican platform are a welcome development, but they create new challenges for Israel & much depends on how it meets them
INTO THE FRAY: Duma-one year (and THREE arson attacks) Later
With continuing unsolved arson attacks in Duma, seven months after a coerced confession & an indictment wildly at odds with eyewitness accounts, troubling questions must be raised.
INTO THE FRAY: What!!!???????
There is every reason, both “concretely & in principle”, why Jews living in a Palestinian-Arab state, under Palestinian-Arab sovereignty is unacceptable
INTO THE FRAY: The New “Nuts”—Jeffrey Goldberg, the Jerusalem Post & the Question of...
For those who subscribe to progressive liberal values of pluralism and tolerance, who is nuts: Those who support the establishment of a self-governing Palestinian entity--or those who oppose it?
INTO THE FRAY- To: “Bogy” Yaalon; cc: Dore Gold; Re: Israel’s Security Imperatives
Despite my personal bias in favor of Former Defense Minister,Moshe “Bogy” Yaalon, I must confess that I have been disturbed, disappointed and, at times, even dismayed at some of his recent decisions
INTO THE FRAY: “Mowing the Lawn” Won’t Cut it—
By avoiding confrontations in which Israel can win, Israeli governments risk backing the country into a confrontation which it cannot win.
INTO THE FRAY: “The Only Relevant Question…”
“The day is fast approaching when the Palestinian Authority we have known for the past 22 years will cease to exist”. Israel must be prepared
INTO THE FRAY: The Perils of the One-State Proposal
Annexation of Judea-Samaria together with its Arab population, will culminate in Lebanonization of Israel and the end of the Zionist dream—as surely as the two-state paradigm it was meant to replace
INTO THE FRAY: Ethnic Cleansing—Why Bibi was Quite Right…and Dangerously Wrong
Netanyahu is right to excoriate Palestinians demand to purge Jews as ethnic cleansing, but what are the perils entailed in them dropping that demand?
INTO THE FRAY: Obama at the UN – Why he was right…almost
Obama’s UN address was an eloquent concoction of soaring rhetoric & banal platitudes, of statements of the obvious & of the obviously false, delivered with impeccable polish and panache.
Shimon Peres (1923-1985;1986-2016): Which Do We Mourn?
Which Peres do we mourn? The dour hawkish Peres, who got it right? Or the internationally-acclaimed dovish Peres, who got it disastrously wrong?
INTO THE FRAY: Israel in Wonderland
The demise of Shimon Peres unleashed a tidal wave of mendacity & hypocrisy underscoring the dominance the delusional dictates of political correctness have over political discourse in (and on) Israel
INTO THE FRAY- Obama:The Blame Bibi Bears
Despite the talk of the unprecedentedly close intelligence and military cooperation between Israel and the US, a case could be made that the Obama administration is—intentionally or otherwise—laying the foundations for Israel’s demise.
INTO THE FRAY: B’tselem at the UN: Has Israel Become So “Open-minded” That its...
B’tselem is not a human rights organization but a politically partisan group for which “human rights” are a pretext for advancing its radical political agenda—Israeli withdrawal
INTO THE FRAY: Condell on Clinton
By presenting the divide between Trump & the post-Obama surrogate, Clinton, as an “America vs Europe” one, Condell understates the true nature of the dichotomy
INTO THE FRAY:The Elections are for President—Not Pope
Sadly, the most consequential elections in modern history may well be decided because of the most inconsequential reasons
INTO THE FRAY: For America: Respite – NOT Redemption
For America, and everything that made it America, the results of Tuesday’s election are a welcome and necessary respite - but are far from being a lasting redemption
INTO THE FRAY: Obama Unplugged: What To Do?
Israel must credibly convey that support for unilateral Palestinian statehood will not be a cost-free decision for whoever acts to effect it – or fails to foil it.
INTO THE FRAY: Bibi vs. BG
Benjamin Netanyahu – A synopsis: The good the bad…and the remarkable
INTO THE FRAY:The Forgotten Fire?
Last week’s fires did little to illuminate much of the unknown still shrouding another conflagration that flared up, almost a year and a half ago in Duma, an Arab village.
INTO THE FRAY: John Kerry at 2016 Saban Forum—Misrepresenting Two-Statism
Oslo failed not because Israelis built homes and schools across pre-1967 lines, but because Palestinian-Arabs blew up Israeli cafes, buses and malls inside those lines.
INTO THE FRAY: An Inane, Insane Initiative
Once you utter the password, "two-state solution," you are welcomed into ‘polite society’ and invited to prestigious events to expound on your “progressive perspectives” no matter how preposterous
INTO THE FRAY: Amona-A strategic defeat for Zionism
The impending destruction of Amona reflect failure of political will and ideo-intellectual bankruptcy of the elected government rather than the inevitable culmination of a legal battle.
INTO THE FRAY: UN & Obama-The Blame Bibi bears (revisited)
By imprudently accepting the idea of Palestinian statehood, Netanyahu gravely limited the freedom of action needed for official diplomatic effort to rebuff adversarial diplomatic moves against Israel