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July 31, 2014
6:55 pm

Peter Beinart and Gaza-Facts and No Myths; Part II

According to Beinart , this is the current state of fact vs. myth with regard to Gaza; Myth; Gaza is free Fact; It has been under Israeli occupation under......

 

July 30, 2014
11:42 pm

Peter Beinart and Gaza -facts and no myths

Peter Beinart strikes again, this time in Ha'aretz , 30 July 2014, where he continues his crusade against the American Jewish leadership, this time......

 

July 20, 2014
8:35 pm

Between Hizballah, the West Bank and Gaza- how to end the war

8 years passed since the end of the second Lebanon War and it is time to learn some lessons from that war, so that we may have a......

 

May 30, 2014
3:26 pm

Jews, Israel, and the right wing in Europe

The Ukraine situation, in which Israel wisely chose to take a back seat position and not join the anti-Putin hysteria in the West (the genius Prince Charles referred to him as......

 

March 20, 2014
4:45 pm

On settlements; history, ideology, tactics and strategy

Writing on settlements requires me to open with a simple statement ; I am a life-long supporter of the undisputed right of Jews to live everywhere in the Land of......

 

February 18, 2014
5:38 pm

Boycotts and their context: Some thoughts

The current boycott movement against Israel is NOT the original BDS movement, which was a nuisance, an irritant, but not much beyond that. The current wave consists more of veiled......

 

January 27, 2014
7:16 pm

International Holocaust Day: Personal Reflections

The Holocaust and its legacy has always been one of the most important formative events of my being as a Jew, as a Zionist, as a human being. Not much......

 

January 10, 2014
6:40 pm

Moshe Ya’alon is the key man in the negotiations

The relentless Secretary of State John Kerry may know something that we all do not, or he does not know anything... but it cannot be that the two statements are......

 

December 17, 2013
6:59 pm

ASA and American public opinion

The ASA decision to join the academic boycott of Israel should not come as a surprise to those who follow the BDS movement and its inroads also in the USA. Also......

 

November 21, 2013
4:41 pm

The Vatican and Israel-new book exposes old bias

Joseph Telushkin and Dennis Prager in their ''Why the Jews''? argued convincingly, that anti-Jewishness, the longest recorded historic hatred , infected Pagans, secular and religious people. That said, it is......

 

September 3, 2013
3:30 pm

The Obama speech-some Israeli lessons

There are certain things that we can learn from our Arab neighbors / adversaries. One of them is the logic of the classic Arab saying''Al Ajli Min Hashitan'''[haste from the......

 

August 28, 2013
3:46 pm

Iraq-1991,Syria-2013 and Israel-comparisons and lessons

Here we are again, as the US threatens to attack an Arab state, and this state threatens to retaliate by attacking Israel. Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait in August......

 

August 22, 2013
5:09 pm

WHEN ARABS KILL ARABS AND ISRAEL ADVOCACY

Arabs continue to kill other Arabs and with venom and ferocity which surpass even the hitherto high levels of brutality. Egypt is one case in mind, where all breaks were......

 

August 15, 2013
9:29 pm

When Arabs kill Arabs, what should Israel do?

There are people in the world who still stubbornly refer to the Arab Spring, clearly a term which is associated with high hopes, almost idyllic picture of the Arab world.......

 

August 6, 2013
11:36 pm

DO NOT DISENFRANCHISE ISRAELI ARABS AND HAREDI PARTIES

Israel has many pressing problems,but the behavior of Arab members of Knesset is not one of them, nor is the irritation caused by some of the Ultra-Orthodox Jewish......