March 14, 2013
5:44 am

Israel’s Basic Strategic Requirements – Part III

It is an undisputed fact that Israel’s army reserves are the backbone of the IDF in times of war. The question, therefore, is: how does Israel buy the 48......

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March 13, 2013
12:03 pm

Israel’s Basic Strategic Requirements – Part II

Today, when people so glibly suggest that Israel give up “land for peace” – i.e.: Judea and Samaria AKA as “the West Bank”, I realize that most of these......

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March 12, 2013
5:01 am

Israel’s Basic Strategic Requirements – Part I

With the imminent arrival of US President Barack Obama to Israel, the expectations of Israel’s left wing media is rising to a feverish pitch. Mr. Obama is planning to......

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July 15, 2012
5:34 pm

Why I Didn’t Attend the “Suckers” Demonstration

Why I didn’t attend last week’s “Draft the Haredim” mass protest demonstration is simple: I have nothing against Haredim and I have everything for service for my country. Those......

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April 21, 2012
9:59 pm

Why we celebrate Memorial Day

As we approach the double days of Israel’s Yom Hazikaron (Memorial Day for fallen soldiers and terror victims) and Independence Day, I once again find myself reflecting on the......

April 11, 2012
11:40 pm

Let Jonathan Pollard go

In a Times of Israel blog post that can only be described as malicious, Marc Goldberg vented his spleen against the official Israeli demand to free Jonathan Pollard from......

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April 4, 2012
6:12 am

The Palestinian Grinch Who Stole Pesach

With the advent of the Jewish holiday of Passover (Pesach in Hebrew) this week, we are witness to another astonishingly brazen attempt by the Palestinian Authority to hijack one......

March 31, 2012
11:15 pm

The ‘objective truth’ in the strange case of Migron

Sara Hirschorn, in her recent op-ed in The Times of Israel, “Who Has the Monopoly on Truth at Migron?” challenged my article “Something is Rotten in the......

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March 26, 2012
12:39 pm

Something is rotten in the state of Israel: The strange case of Migron

Some years ago, a national-religious organization whose public operations had been authorized by Knesset law found itself being challenged in Israel’s Supreme Court by the left-wing MKs who lost the......

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March 23, 2012
8:32 am

When in Doubt, Kill a Jew

When in doubt, kill a Jew. That seems to be the de rigueur thing to do. After all, even after a cold-blooded and ruthless radical Muslim killer deliberately takes......

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March 19, 2012
10:08 pm

Haredi Jews in the IDF is a Blessing for Israel

The other day I received an email from a friend in Canada to which he attached an article written last week by a Nathan Hersh in the Jewish World......

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March 14, 2012
6:03 pm

Jerusalem: A Tale of One City – Part II

In 2008, then Presidential candidate Barack Obama addressed the annual AIPAC conference in Washington, DC. He received tumultuous applause for his declaration that he would not allow Iran to......

March 7, 2012
11:33 pm

Obama the Teflon Purim President

Part of the “spirit of Purim” is the concept of “turnabout” – that everything bad planned by our enemies to do to the Jews was turned about and happened......

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March 3, 2012
5:56 pm

Purim All Over Again

Some 2,000 years ago, the Jewish people in Exile in the vast empire of Persia faced a plot engineered by the king’s chief minister to annihilate the Jews. The......

February 28, 2012
11:59 am

Jerusalem: A Tale of One City – Part I

This week the world media was treated to another anti-Israel performance at the “The International Conference for the Defence of Occupied Jerusalem” in Qatar. According to the Qatar News......

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