Miguel Moratinos and the European malaise If you are in any doubt as to the bias and double standards Europeans apply against Israel, just read the farewell message of the outgoing European Union Representative towards the Middle East Peace Process, Miguel Moratinos (Jerusalem Post, July...
Place not your trust in princes President George W. Bush is a friend of Israel and has displayed understanding for our security concerns. Washington is the shield that protects Israel from total isolation in the international community. More than that, the United States is the...
The road map and realism The road map will shortly be published, and there are no surprises. Implemented as it stands, it would be detrimental to Israel and amount to a recycling of the disastrous Oslo Accords. Despite appearances, Prime Minister Abu Mazen, the Holocaust...
Counting Israel’s blessings The Haggada reading that “in every generation there are those who rise against us to destroy us” will undoubtedly sound a responsive chord amongst Israelis especially at those Seders marred by the absence of a family member killed or...
Beware of a false dawn The impending war and its subsequent impact on the region makes it mandatory for leaders in the national camp to review their current policies and future strategies. Over the past months our leaders have been reassuring Israelis that President...
Icons are also fallible What motivates a prize winning Israeli author to write an op-ed in the New York Times urging Americans to oppose military action against Saddam Hussein? Amos Oz is an Israeli icon - one of our most distinguished men of letters whose novels and...
When Effi met Tommy: The real test of the NRP-Shinui relationship The agreement between Shinui and NRP paving the way for the formation of the government took most political observers by surprise. Over the past decades the polarization of attitudes between the religious and non-observant sectors of Israeli society...
A mandate and an opportunity Sharon must go beyond war and peace and set the domestic house in order Ariel Sharon’s landslide victory is testimony to the common sense of the Israeli voter. The electorate - which refused to be sidetracked by a stridently biased media...
The doublespeak of the Left If George Orwell were alive today, he would glory in the instance of the Leora Glatt-Berkowitz affair, as a classic example of “doublespeak.” A breach of law, integrity and ethics is brazenly committed by a senior prosecutor of the Tel...
Of corruption and treason After 2,000 years of bitter exile and persecution, after the devastation of the Holocaust and now facing the threat of weapons of mass destruction, many of us still delude ourselves that we can take our country’s survival for granted. How else...
