Peace Process

Once again Israeli leaders have negotiated as if Israel they were suing for peace because her situation is desperate and no alternatives exist to the acceptance of any kind of accord, no matter how temporary the respite it might offer.

Our responsibility derives not only from our obligations to our secular Jewish brothers but also to ourselves.

Entering into negotiations at the present time with the PA only reinforces the perception of Israel as the guilty party in its own eyes, and further convinces the Palestinians that past breeches of agreements carry no penalty.

Olmert acts as if peace is within Israel's power to bring about. if only we make a generous enough offer.

Even if President Bush knows in his heart how far the Palestinians are from accepting Israel's existence the way these issues aare discussed has a way of coming back to haunt.

The sooner the world and the Palestinians themselves acknowledge their responsibility for the deformation of their own society into one based on brutality and murder the sooner it will be to imagine the possibility of peace between Jews and Palestinians.

Preserve the Memory of 1967

Just Wait

Various solons urge Israel to explore the "peace" feelers emanating from Damascus, on those days when Syrian President Bashar Assad is not threatening war.

Israel is far better off both internally and internationally with Hamas's frankness.

When all the old religious beliefs have long been shed, one still remains: Jew hatred. The Anglican resolution is not the first time, and probably not the last, that Europeans have loosed the furies of anti-Semitism only to find those furies coming back

Two days before the July 7 terrorist bombers were identified, recently retired police commissioner Lord John Stevens predicted that the bombers would be "apparently ordinary British citizens, young men conservatively and cleanly dressed and probably with

The effort to "understand" the Islamic terrorists' goals only arouses their scorn and encourages them in the view that the West is clueless.

America has repeatedly pressured Israel to take risks that America would never take with lives of its own citizens.

The United States should stop pressuring Israel to endanger its own citizens in ways which it would never endanger its own.

We have already been down the road of concessions and gestures to strengthen endangered Palestinian leaders before, and we have seen where that got us.

The search for truth has no place in the process whereby principles such as free speech, academic freedom, and hate speech are manipulated in order to favor certain groups and harm others.

Professors of Middle Eastern Studies wear such heavy anti-American and anti-Israel ideological blinders that they have consistently proven incapable of offering insights on the Middle East of any predictive value.

Outside the pages of the Jerusalem Post, nobody in Israel seems much interested in Natan Sharansky's ideas on the democratization of Palestinian society.

Pursuit of the appearance of goodness, however, often leads to complicity with evil.

Sharansky may have President Bush's ear, but in his own country he remains a lonely Cassandra.

We have just witnessed events of great magnitude in Iraq – events with immense implications for the entire Middle East. Let us not treat them as something ho-hum.

The great thing about the appearance of goodness is that it is so easy. It requires only the profession of the right values, not the painstaking attainment of any particular virtue.

Once again difficult questions are being avoided with a leap of faith, sometimes in ways eerily reminiscent of Oslo.

So long as uncompromising hatred towards Israel is necessary to be elected Palestinian Authority prime minister, there will be no peace.

Where robust democratic institutions are absent, however, even the natural instinct for self-preservation atrophies.

. Israel faces an epochal decision over the Gaza withdrawal, and it is both expected and proper that the public debate should be intense.

Besides Howard, President Bush alone among major world leaders could think of nothing good to say about Arafat.

Nevertheless, it must be said that Blair has of late been speaking a great deal of rubbish about the Arab-Israel conflict, and dangerous rubbish at that.

John Kerry claims that there will be no difference between him and President Bush in terms of policy towards Israel. Don’t believe it.

President Bush’s religious faith cannot dictate strategy or tactics in the struggle ahead, but, at least, it has helped him recognize the life and death nature of that struggle.

There are too many threats today that require an active American involvement in the Middle East for America to enter an isolationist mode.

The same Providence that destined America to be the world’s bulwark against threats to liberty has linked the fates of Israel and the U.S.

I was reminded of the plus side of being a columnist by some particularly arrant nonsense written by the aforementioned Friedman last week. Friedman, the winner of three Pulitzer Prizes, is unquestionably the most overrated columnist in the world.

The anti-Israel monopoly in the UK

Democracy first

The significance of the Spanish elections

“The great fear of Arab leaders is not that America will fail to establish a democracy in Iraq, but that it will succeed.”

Neither the U.N. nor the International Court of Justice has any right to ask Israel to be the first nation to eschew the defense of its citizens.

The moral dilemmas faced by the Prime Minister and the cabinet involving the redemption of captives, pidyon shvu’im, have been, unfortunately, recurrent ones throughout Jewish history, generating a vast halachic literature.

When Israel’s elites themselves evince so little appreciation of the implications of sovereignty, we can hardly expect other nations to be more solicitous of our sovereignty.

The President’s greatest achievement has been to paint the war on terrorism as both a noble cause and the key to a more secure world.

The belief that all men deserve to live free and helping them to do so is not only noble and just but the best guaranty of the world’s security.

Too high a price?

Two weeks ago, we discussed the delegitimization of Israel from within by Israeli elites. In this issue, we discuss that delegitmization from without.

The attack on Israel’s legitimacy from within

Peres, who once commented that nothing can be learned from history, demonstrated that for some people nothing can be learned period.

Two anniversaries

Sympathy on the passing of such tyrants as the Hussein boys is a form of misplaced mercy, and a lack of basic human empathy.

The security fence proves to be a good strategic measure for a number of reasons:

Without (the U.S.) pressuring the Palestinians to MAKE peace, the peace process will never be the solution

A vision in tatters

Thirteen years after the signing of the first Oslo Accords, we are returning to the old formulas of Oslo.

As crucial as it was that America wins the war it is just as vital that America wins the peace.

The danger of oversell

The risk of not going to war

Anti-war follies

Why are smart people so congenitally dumb? Why are those most suited to discussing Shakespeare and Stendahl so hopelessly incompetent to run the affairs of the world? As a former dummy, these questions hold particular fascination for me.

Israelis suffer no dearth of news to keep up awake at night, but there is still a possibility for peace in the Middle East

Under the influence of Oslo

Why Shehada does not deserve our sympathy

President George W. Bush’s major policy address on the Middle East last month upset virtually every one of the cherished assumptions upon which Middle East peacemaking has been built for the past decade.

Natan Sharansky has once again proven that an idea has the power to effect historical change

Natan Sharansky has once again proven that idea have the power to change the world

President Bush has answered all his detractors in his Middle East speech, asserting the the Palestinians must take the initiative in pursuing peace

The time has come to reverse the logic of land for peace. From now on, any Palestinian gains must follow, not precede, significant, long-term Palestinian moves towards peace.

Why do so many intellectuals seem to lack basic common sense?

Netanyahu is right that a Palestinian state poses a grave danger to Israel, but wrong to link his opposition to a cheap political maneuver that provides ammunition to Palestinian propagandists.

American Jews face the moment of truth. They have to choose between their brothers in Israel and their political correctness.

Of all the many reasons for the failure of Israel's efforts at hasbara, none looms so large as the systematic undermining of those efforts by the Foreign Ministry.

The Oslo process, based on the flawed assumptions that both parties want peace, has proven to be a disasterous failure. Worse yet, current peacemaking efforts show how little the Americans have learned from the past eight years.

President Bush instructs Israel to distinguish between innocent Palestinians and terrorists. Unfortunately the President neglected to provide any advice on precisely how to make that distinction.

President Bush's April 4 speech, reflected a battle for his soul between State Department bureaucrats and his own sharp instincts.

All solutions to the "situation" being grasped at by Israelis today depend on miracles. Why not stop pretending, then, and proclaim our dependence on the Author of miracles?

The possibility that the Jews of Israel will come to view themselves, in the words of Ha’aretz’s Avirama Golan, as ``a people dwelling on another people’s land’’ is frightening

The resurgent Left has embarked on a course that will not only delegitimize the settlements but the entire Jewish presence in the Land

At times like these Jews worlwide identify with their brothers in Israel

The ghosts of Oslo--the Israeli Left and the American government--came back with a vengeance last week

Why the cabdrivers are right

The dangers posed by the weapons found on the Karine A and the PA role in an all-out war

The real dangers posed by a Palestinian State

The so-called peace process and peace itself have nothing to do with one another...

The jihad mentality underlying the rejection of Israel's right to exist proves that terror attacks on Jews in Israel have little to do with the living conditions of Palestinians

The legitimity of targeted killings of terrorists

The current form of anti-Semitism manifest itself against the Jewish country and its right to self-defense

To keep the Oslo myth alive, Israel must be portrayed as the agressor

The failure of Israel's PR effort

Watershed Election?

Clinton's friendship was a disaster for Israel

Shalom, Chaver

Barak continues to pursue 'peace' even though it's obvious that he's endangering Israel

Why the Left has no qualms about surrendering holy sites to the Palestinians

A lesson in humility

Unity at last

The key to redemption is the realization that it is dependent solely on G-d

With the death of Oslo, we have finally reached a consensus

Why Peres lost the election

the Arabs despise the Israelis, who have consciously severed their historical ties to the land

Peace cannot be attained when concessions are only demanded of one side

Israel's crisis of spirit

Similarities between believers in Oslo and followers of Shabbetai Tzvi

Giving away the Golan lessens our chances of maintaining whatever peace we currently have

Many life-and-death decisions must be made with imperfect knowledge. But it's crucial not to focus on only one side of the equation.

The messianism of the Israeli Left