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Apr 27, 2026, 2:33 PM

The peace agreements that got us home

The Yitzhak Rabin Border Terminal at the Wadi Araba crossing between Israel and Jordan. (CC BY 2.5, Wikipedia, NYC2TLV)

Israel has thrived under leaders who knew victory is not measured by the devastation inflicted on its enemies

Apr 10, 2026, 6:27 PM

You had twenty years to fix it. Get out of the way

I’m confused. All the couch Johnny-come-lately foreign policy experts are in an uproar and I can’t understand why. The Iran war two week ceasefire is supposedly upon us and these brilliant commentators are bellyaching that Israel is in violation...

Menachem Rosensaft

Apr 5, 2026, 10:33 PM

Menachem Begin would be horrified by Israel’s death penalty law

The death penalty law adopted last week by a bare majority of 62 Knesset members is a discriminatory abomination that would subject West Bank Palestinians to capital punishment. Unless it is annulled by Israel’s Supreme Court, this statute’s very...

Mar 12, 2026, 9:04 PM

Today’s Villain, Tomorrow’s Statesman: The Changing Faces of Israel’s Leaders

Illustrative: AI image created by the author.

Political reputations are rarely permanent. In Israel especially, they tend to move in cycles — from admiration to rejection, from rejection to rehabilitation, and eventually to historical reverence. Leaders who are vilified in one era are often celebrated in another....

Feb 19, 2026, 2:01 PM

Israel’s Press Freedom in the Balance

With uncertainty surrounding another Iran war and the future of Gaza, it’s not surprising that one of the most significant crises in Israel’s history – the future of freedom of the press – is falling between the cracks among...

Feb 13, 2026, 5:39 AM

The Hidden Room That Saved Menachem Begin

For who hath despised the day of small things? Zechariah 4:10 I knew that the late UN correspondent David Horowitz and former Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin shared a close friendship. Their letters, preserved in the UN archives, testify to...

Stephen M. Flatow

Oct 27, 2025, 9:32 AM

Trump’s Pressure Campaign on Israel Is No Sideshow

Public threats, political theater, and old lessons from Begin reveal a simple truth: allies respect strength, not silence

Aug 29, 2025, 7:05 AM

Inches to Metric: Network Above, Tunnels Below #3

The final in this series. Click on header to read prior posts, blue links for informative videos/essays/sites to frequently requested sources. Please share. Land for Peace I spent an incredible/impressionable year studying at Hebrew University in Jerusalem in 1978-79. The unexpected...

Sam Lehman-Wilzig

Aug 1, 2025, 11:45 AM

Stopping Ministerial Corruption: Full Financial Disclosure

Israel is not a Third World country by any means. But in one category, it’s up there with the worst: ministerial corruption, including the very top of the governmental pyramid. It’s an embarrassment for a nation with great pride...

Lila Shoshana Chertman

Jul 9, 2025, 9:15 PM

Jewish Footsteps Through Peruvian History: Part II

In part I of this journey, we met the German Jewish immigrants - they founded the first formal Jewish organization, the first cemetery, and the first synagogue in Peru. But soon after their arrival, starting in 1910, a group...

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