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A police forensics officer investigates a crime scene where one man was killed in Woolwich, London

UK’s Islamist problem

By JPOST EDITORIAL05/23/2013 23:29

It should come as no surprise that random terrorist attacks have been, and will remain for the foreseeable future, MI5’s greatest security threat.

A SAFE HARBOR. Modern ship-to-shore cranes dominat

Reforming the ports

By JPOST EDITORIAL05/22/2013 21:53

It is the duty of a government to serve the people who installed it in office and break up corrosive monopolies.

Gun [illustrative].

Controlling guns

By JPOST EDITORIAL05/21/2013 22:23

Violent shooting at Beersheba bank Monday prompts calls to evaluate Israel's gun control policy.

Economics and Trade Minister Naftali Bennett arriving for cabinet meeting, April 28, 2013.

Entrepreneurial Judaism

By JPOST EDITORIAL05/20/2013 23:15

Imagine how dynamic Jewish life could be in Israel if the Chief Rabbinate were reduced to a bare minimum and the vast majority of religious services.

Jimmy Carter during an interview in Kathmandu in April

Misguided labeling

By JPOST EDITORIAL05/19/2013 21:26

What they meant was that “Made in Israel” should be reserved for goods produced inside the Green Line so European consumers can tell the difference.

Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan.

Israel, Turkey and gas

By JPOST EDITORIAL05/18/2013 23:09

It is becoming evident that a veiled agenda underpinned the recent Turkish willingness to consider a rapprochement with Israel.

Israeli Syrian border in the Golan Heights

By JPOST EDITORIAL05/16/2013 23:33

Following reported Israeli attacks, forces seem to be concentrating to threaten relative quiet that has characterized Syrian border.

CLIFFS OF MOHER

By JPOST EDITORIAL05/15/2013 22:54

Last weekend Ireland again placed itself in the vanguard of anti-Israel activism in the European Union.

Finance Minister Yair Lapid/

Shavuot and unity

By JPOST EDITORIAL05/13/2013 22:50

At a time when deep fiscal cuts are essential to avert an economic meltdown, it is imperative the government remember Shavuot’s message of unity.

Women of the Wall 521

Compromise and prayer

By JPOST EDITORIAL05/12/2013 22:02

For the first time since they began their campaign for gender equality 24 years ago, police were called in not to arrest the Women of the Wall, but to protect these women’s right to serve God the way they choose.

Scales of Justice

The Sa’ado case

By JPOST EDITORIAL05/11/2013 22:45

Anyone with even cursory familiarity with the system realizes that justice and fairness are by no means identical with legal strictures.

Stephen Hawking

Hawking, reconsider!

By JPOST EDITORIAL05/09/2013 23:51

"Hawking’s boycott stifle the free exchange of ideas and opinions so crucial to intellectual life".

Shas MKs Eli Yishai and Arye Deri at the Knesset, April 22, 2013.

Deri’s return

By JPOST EDITORIAL05/08/2013 21:40

According to the letter of the law, there is nothing wrong with reinstalling the charismatic ex-con, Arye Deri, at the helm of Shas.

Finance Minister Yair Lapid speaking at the Knesset, April 22, 2013.

Sharing the burden

By JPOST EDITORIAL05/07/2013 22:29

Maybe when Israelis see that big business is being forced to share the burden to ensure that the state remains strong, the bite of tax hikes will be easier to bear.

Defaced placard of Jobbik Party leader Gyongyosi

Budapest meeting

By JPOST EDITORIAL05/06/2013 23:01

With hatred of those perceived to be different so entrenched in Hungarian society, the future is not encouraging for Jews and other “minorities” who call Hungary home.

Airstrike in Syria

Message to Assad

By JPOST EDITORIAL05/05/2013 21:28

The target seemed to be a Syrian version of Iran’s Fatah-110 missile, capable of traveling 300 kilometers with a half-ton warhead.

Haredi employment fair in Jerusalem

Reviving Wisconsin

By JPOST EDITORIAL05/04/2013 23:28

Breaking poverty’s insidious cycle was the primary aim of Israel’s version of the Wisconsin plan and is the reason the plan must be reinstated, albeit in an amended form.

Finance Minister Yair Lapid speaking at the Knesset, April 22, 2013.

Lapid’s challenge

By JPOST EDITORIAL05/02/2013 22:58

It is precisely at these times, when tough decisions must be made, that true leaders are tested. Will Lapid rise to the challenge?

US Secretary of State Kerry with Arab League delegation in Washington, April 29

My Word: Common interests, common enemies

By LIAT COLLINS05/02/2013 22:53

"Under the current circumstances, there is an opportunity for new alliances," though in the Middle East defense is the driving force.

Finance Minister Yair Lapid speaking at the Knesset, April 22, 2013.

Where’s the money?

By JPOST EDITORIAL05/01/2013 22:28

As worsening global recession looms, our deficit has grown to disconcerting proportions – a reality that necessitates unpopular belt-tightening.

US Secretary of State Kerry with Arab League delegation in Washington, April 29

Holding a referendum

By JPOST EDITORIAL04/30/2013 23:45

Referendum could provide legitimacy for factors of peace agreement; "broad and unequivocal" support from public needed.

Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic.

‘Dobrodosli u Izrael,’ President Nikolic

By MICHAEL FREUND04/29/2013 21:25

Fundamentally Freund: Tomislav Nikolic, the president of Serbia, began an official state visit to Israel Monday.

Ehud Olmert at the Jerusalem Post Conference, April 28, 2013.

Speaking freely

By JPOST EDITORIAL04/29/2013 21:18

Enforcing an atmosphere in which people are compelled to speak in one voice and walk in lockstep undermines the strength of democracy and liberalism.

Lag B

Rethinking Lag Ba’omer

By JPOST EDITORIAL04/29/2013 09:00

It may be time to rethink Lag Ba’omer. With environmental and safety concerns, the idea of bonfires being lit around the country needs to be rethought.

Interior Minister Gideo Sa

Unavoidable measures

By JPOST EDITORIAL04/27/2013 22:04

The Knesset has approved legislation in preliminary reading that prohibits illegal migrants from transferring funds abroad.

Panel at Jpost Conference

‘Red lines’ at the ‘Post’ conference

By JPOST EDITORIAL04/25/2013 22:52

While we cannot promise clear-cut conclusions, we can promise a stimulating and well-informed discussion of the issues.

MK TZIPI LIVNI (center) and, from left, MKs Elazar Stern, Amram Mitzna, Meir Sheetrit, Amir Peretz

Clamoring for transparency

By JPOST EDITORIAL04/24/2013 22:56

Few of us realize that the Ministerial Committee on Legislation exists, much less that it is extremely powerful and, most significantly, that it operates in the dark, under conditions of near total confidentiality.

Passengers asleep at Ben Gurion airport during airlines strike, April 22, 2013.

By JPOST EDITORIAL04/23/2013 23:28

More than the welfare and yeshiva budgets paid by tax payers, the real cost to society is the lost potential: the innovations that are never developed.

Mavi Marmara

Realpolitik apology

By JPOST EDITORIAL04/22/2013 23:56

Obama handed the phone to Prime Minister Netanyahu, who proceeded to apologize for the “tragic results” of the Mavi Marmara.

El Al plane

By JPOST EDITORIAL04/21/2013 22:58

While airliner workers’ opposition to Open Skies is understandable, the gov't rightly gave more weight to greater good to society.

Jordan King Abdullah

Outrage in Jordan

By JPOST EDITORIAL04/20/2013 23:27

Even the minimally fair-minded agree that the cold-blooded shooting of Israeli schoolgirls is as heinous a crime of hate as imaginable.

People comforting each other after Boston blast, April 15, 2013.

Responding to terror

By JPOST EDITORIAL04/18/2013 23:15

Judging from afar here in Israel, the reaction in the US to the atrocious violence carried out this week during the Boston Marathon is exemplary.

Taking cover during rocket siren warning

Sound of sirens

By JPOST EDITORIAL04/17/2013 21:04

It’s not a joke – even if the two rockets launched against Eilat yesterday did for the initial disorienting moments produce scenes that seemingly came straight out of comic skits.

Fayyad

Fayyad’s resignation

By JPOST EDITORIAL04/16/2013 22:31

From the beginning there were ominous signs that Fayyad’s pragmatic approach to state-building would fail.

Israeli flags.

By JPOST EDITORIAL04/14/2013 22:44

The tension – and cross-fertilization – of old and new is not the only paradox of the Jewish state.

Jonathan Pollard red, white and blue

Pollard’s 10,000 days

By JPOST EDITORIAL04/13/2013 22:27

The spy who helped Israel has been imprisoned for 28 years – much longer than spies who were convicted for far greater offenses

WoW April 11 arrests

Solomonic solution

By JPOST EDITORIAL04/11/2013 23:35

In an attempt to appease one group of religious fanatics (the ultra-Orthodox) we might end up angering another group (Muslims).

Oxford students vote on motion to boycott Israeli goods

By JPOST EDITORIAL04/10/2013 21:44

Anti-Israel obsession inexplicably permeates very distant societies, divorced from our reality.

Former British PM Margaret Thatcher

Thatcher and Israel

By JPOST EDITORIAL04/09/2013 23:44

"Thatcher’s admiration for Israel is expressed clearly in her memoirs: They really made the desert bloom.”

Swastika grafitti (illustrative)

Persistent anti-Judaism

By JPOST EDITORIAL04/08/2013 22:46

Ever since Caligula was emperor of Rome, and perhaps even before, anti-Semitism has been the most persistent hatred known to Western society.

Jewish men looking at Holocaust exhibit in Yad Vashem, January 27, 2013.

Remembering the Shoah

By JPOST EDITORIAL04/07/2013 22:32

Since its inauguration in 1953, commemoration of Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Day has changed radically.

The photo that landed Palestinian journalist Mamdouh Hamamreh in jail.

Facebook freedom

By JPOST EDITORIAL04/06/2013 23:22

The fact that Abbas posed as the good guy doesn’t diminish the fact that in his latifundia it is a severely punishable crime to offend him.

US SECRETARY OF STATE John Kerry walks on the tarmac in Kabul on Monday.

By JPOST EDITORIAL04/04/2013 23:51

Like the signatories of the letter to our prime minister, we in Israel also harbor hopes for peace.

Ethiopian women grieve after domestic murder

The scourge of domestic violence

By JPOST EDITORIAL04/03/2013 22:15

Domestic violence often occurs behind closed doors, as the perpetrator purposefully keeps his rage and his family’s suffering a dark secret.

Tamar natural gas rig.

Tamar’s blessing

By JPOST EDITORIAL04/02/2013 22:44

Maximizing the benefits of Tamar and Leviathan necessitates no small amount of wisdom and vision. A bit of providence wouldn’t hurt either.

Convicted killer of Tair Rada.

The Zadorov case

By JPOST EDITORIAL04/02/2013 00:25

Perhaps the most notorious example of a miscarriage of justice was the conviction of Amos Baranes for the 1974 murder of Rachel Heller.

Tzipi Livni

Rocks and murder

By JPOST EDITORIAL03/28/2013 23:52

In the past week, activists have tried to draw attention on Facebook and in other social media to the fact that “stones can kill.”

Man looks at his watch

Daylight saving time

By JPOST EDITORIAL03/27/2013 22:37

We urge the new government to take the partial DST reform of the last government and finally align Israel with its European neighbors.

Amir Hassan, an Israeli Arab student from Nazareth, kidnapped in Sinai March 22, 2013.

Danger in Sinai

By JPOST EDITORIAL03/26/2013 22:07

It is probably no more than coincidence that the latest foreign abductee in Sinai happened to be an Israeli.

Turkey’s Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan

By JPOST EDITORIAL03/25/2013 00:03

Regional realities require that Israel now swallow a bitter pill and do what is right, for the future of Israel, the region and our common interests with the United States.

Cyprus port of Limmasol

Crisis in Cyprus

By JPOST EDITORIAL03/23/2013 22:31

In this globalized era, no potential for a chain reaction can be smugly ignored. Supercilious Europe has set off a scary domino effect that we might all pay for.

US President Barack Obama speaks in Jerusalem on March 21, 2013.

By JPOST EDITORIAL03/22/2013 00:45

The vast majority of Israelis share the dream of seeing both Israelis and Palestinians flourish in free, democratic states of their own. Unfortunately, the majority of Palestinians still do not.

Various party representatives campaign for Pollard

The buck stops here

By JPOST EDITORIAL03/20/2013 23:59

It is not only the president’s constitutional right to set Pollard free from his grossly disproportionate life sentence. It is his duty.

US President Barack Obama after ordering cuts in government spending, March 1, 2013.

By JPOST EDITORIAL03/19/2013 21:53

US President Barack Obama’s visit to Israel is being billed by Washington insiders as primarily a “charm offensive.”

Strategic Affairs Minister Moshe

Ya’alon’s defense

By JPOST EDITORIAL03/18/2013 23:40

Judging from Barak’s stint in the Defense Ministry, Ya’alon will be second only to Netanyahu in his influence over a wide array of diplomatic matters.

Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid at a faction meeting, February 18, 2013.

A capitalist government

By JPOST EDITORIAL03/17/2013 23:31

The two largest factions – Likud Beytenu and Yesh Atid – are outspoken in their support for smaller government and market capitalism.

Mount of Olives Cemetery

Protecting a holy site

By JPOST EDITORIAL03/16/2013 22:44

Mourners should not fear for their lives at any cemetery anywhere in Israel, but all the more so at the oldest continuously used burial ground on earth.

Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio who was elected Pope Francis I [file].

Francis & the Jews

By JPOST EDITORIAL03/14/2013 23:28

New pope's appointment appears to be good for both Catholics and Jews.

Holocaust memorial on Judenplatz in Vienna.

Austria’s legacy

By JPOST EDITORIAL03/14/2013 00:20

Perhaps most disturbing was the finding that 61% of Austrian adults want to see their government headed by a “strong man.”

Envoys to to fight Israel Apartheid Week

The apartheid libel

By JPOST EDITORIAL03/12/2013 23:25

Israel Apartheid Week kicked off this year in Europe on February 25 and runs through March 17 in South Africa.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban.

Hungary’s Jews

By JPOST EDITORIAL03/11/2013 22:50

Hungary is a sorrowful example of how rampant anti- Semitism can be a surefire barometer for reactionary, antidemocratic trends.

Haredi men in Jerusalem

Haredi outreach

By JPOST EDITORIAL03/10/2013 21:52

The ultra-Orthodox are no longer a weak minority in need of affirmative action to protect their unique way of life.

Virtual day care

Retirement benefits

By JPOST EDITORIAL03/09/2013 21:49

If older citizens are required to work more years, they’ll per force deny younger applicants jobs.

THE COFFIN of Venezuela’s president Hugo Chavez driven through Caracas, March 6, 2013

Chavez’s passing

By JPOST EDITORIAL03/08/2013 03:46

Let us hope that for the sake of Venezuela’s Jews, the situation changes under the country’s new president.

Prime Minister Netanyahu with Trajtenberg

Fat-cat salaries

By JPOST EDITORIAL03/07/2013 00:16

The power to decide on an Israeli firm’s top financial rewards remains with the board of directors and is not transferred to shareholders.

Rabbi Menahem Froman

Froman’s message

By JPOST EDITORIAL03/06/2013 00:48

Rabbi Menachem Froman harbored a deep love for humanity that motivated him to pursue peace against all odds.

IDF tank patrols Golan Heights

The sequestration burden

By JPOST EDITORIAL03/04/2013 21:16

US aid to Jordan and Egypt is expected to be cut while the direct impact on Israel will be a reduction in annual military aid.

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Erdogan’s outrage

By JPOST EDITORIAL03/03/2013 21:35

Turkish PM's outrageous comments equating Zionism with “crimes against humanity” have largely been left unchallenged by leading global leaders.

Seth MacFarlane.

Inglorious Oscars

By JPOST EDITORIAL03/02/2013 22:57

Seth MacFarlane's Oscar performance has been lambasted on a number of fronts, but fear that his jokes could incite violence should not be one of them.

Arrow missile defense system.

By JPOST EDITORIAL02/28/2013 23:39

Arrow 3 underscores Israel’s ongoing technological superiority in the region and it can buy us time.

PM Binyamin Netanyahu and PM Berlusconi

Italy’s elections

By JPOST EDITORIAL02/27/2013 22:47

The by-now perennial laid-back recklessness of the Israeli voter incomparably exceeds any faddish ballot-box hijinks anywhere else.

Demonstrators wave Iran

Editorial: Talks with Iran

By JPOST EDITORIAL02/26/2013 21:10

The military option, which still “remains on the table,” may ultimately be the only effective way of halting the Iranians’ stubborn march toward their goal of nuclear weapons.

PA President Mahmoud Abbas at PLO meeting in West Bank, January 29, 2013.

By JPOST EDITORIAL02/25/2013 23:14

In the best case, rioting in the W. Bank could gain the attention of the US and Europe, but it could also deteriorate into a third intifada.

Palestinians hold a flag in the West Bank

By JPOST EDITORIAL02/24/2013 23:39

Palestinians have ignored the fates of journalists arrested, beaten, censored and arrested by their own political leadership.

Education Minister Gideon Sa

The Sa’ar saga

By JPOST EDITORIAL02/23/2013 22:39

Only candidates with extra-thick skins dare venture into the merciless political arena. The dermatologically challenged stand to be defeated by the unbearable dread of stigma.

The Shas triumvirate with the Likud Beytenu team

Listen to the people

By JPOST EDITORIAL02/21/2013 21:18

By including Livni’s party in the coalition and by offering Yacimovich the Treasury portfolio (if news reports are true) while allowing Yesh Atid and Bayit Yehudi to languish, Netanyahu is performing a disservice to the voters who went to the polls on January 22.

Knesset building.

Keeping MKs in line

By JPOST EDITORIAL02/21/2013 00:02

The spectacle of MKs thumbing their noses at the law is bad for the country and doubly disastrous for the Knesset.

Students visit a Tel Aviv start up

Remaining a ‘Start-up Nation’

By JPOST EDITORIAL02/19/2013 23:45

We must invest a lot of hard work to ensure that Israel continues to be a Start-up Nation.

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu meets with Judge Jacob Turkel, February 6, 2013.

Rules of interrogation

By JPOST EDITORIAL02/18/2013 23:07

Shin Bet commanders have traditionally opposed videotaping interrogations since tapes might fall into the wrong hands.

Haredi man overlooking IDF ceremony

A realistic haredi draft

By JPOST EDITORIAL02/17/2013 22:33

The benefits of gradual integration of the haredi population in mandatory military service are obvious.

Technion University

By JPOST EDITORIAL02/16/2013 21:34

While we surely aspire for greater achievement, our glass is more than half full. There is much we can rightly take pride in.

Screen shot of ABC program identifying mysterious prisoner

By JPOST EDITORIAL02/14/2013 23:43

Judging from Israel’s desire to maintain secrecy surrounding the incident, Zygier probably committed treachery that endangers Israel’s security.

Kim Yong-Nam arrives at NAM conference in Tehran

North Korea and Iran

By JPOST EDITORIAL02/14/2013 03:35

The latest North Korean nuke test undoubtedly constituted a major morale-booster for Iran. It could not imagine a more uplifting object lesson.

Pope Benedict boards a plane at Ben Gurion, May 15, 2009

Benedict’s papacy

By JPOST EDITORIAL02/12/2013 22:38

Benedict truly and sincerely wanted closer relations between the Church and Jews and worked to this end, but good intentions are not always enough.

Rabbi Hartman funeral

The Hartman era

By JPOST EDITORIAL02/11/2013 21:30

As much as Hartman was a catalyst for spiritual change in Israeli society, he and his thought process are a reflection of a post-modern era characterized by new, innovative and more egalitarian forms of religious expression.

Syria

Syria intervention

By JPOST EDITORIAL02/11/2013 00:07

Without foreign intervention, the chance that Assad will manage to overcome the rebels improves.

Lebanon’s Hezbollah terrorists marching with flags

The EU and Hezbollah

By JPOST EDITORIAL02/09/2013 22:00

Europe permits a dormant terrorist potential to thrive in its midst and it knows so.

Netanyahu and Obama shake hands

By JPOST EDITORIAL02/07/2013 23:17

Instead of pressing Israel to freeze construction, Obama should insist that the Palestinians sit at the negotiating table without preconditions.

PM Netanyahu at defense budget cabinet meeting

Budgetary problems

By JPOST EDITORIAL02/06/2013 21:19

Plainly put, political tugs-of-war hurt the national economy. The less frequent the tussles, the better off we are.

Turkish flag [illustrative]

Confronting Turkey

By JPOST EDITORIAL02/05/2013 23:59

The West must stop deluding itself with regard to the political leadership of Turkey. The time has come to recognize that Turkey has changed radically – and for the worse.

Haredi IDF 521

Sharing the burden

By JPOST EDITORIAL02/04/2013 21:35

If party leaders are unwilling to rise to the occasion, a more egalitarian approach to sharing in civic duties should be worked out and implemented without them.

Betar Jerusalem

By JPOST EDITORIAL02/03/2013 21:50

As many as a few hundred xenophobic Betar Jerusalem soccer fans do not seem to get it.

UNHRC headquarters in Geneva

UNHRC and Israel

By JPOST EDITORIAL02/02/2013 22:20

Not showing up was hardly ideal, but better this than more spectacles of the sort staged invariably by the UNHRC.

IAF F-15s refueling midflight [file]

Syrian spillover

By JPOST EDITORIAL01/31/2013 23:11

Whatever the facts regarding purported Israeli attacks, it is clear that Israel has a right and an obligation to prevent the anarchy in Syria from spilling over to Lebanon and endangering Israelis.

Bank of Israel Governor Stanley Fischer following his resignation, January 30, 2013.

Fischer’s unheeded warning

By JPOST EDITORIAL01/30/2013 23:40

In a speech last month at the Bible Lands Museum in the capital, Fischer, who probably had already decided to step down early, predicted that the incoming government “will not have an easy time in the near future.”

Vulgar defamation

By JPOST EDITORIAL01/29/2013 22:31

It is politically incorrect to even hint at their thinly disguised anti-Semitism.

Satellite view of suspect sites in Syria [file]

By JPOST.COM EDITORIAL01/28/2013 20:50

Thankfully, there is a broad consensus that resorting to chemical weapons is a red line that must not be crossed, and that the Syrian regime must be stopped before it does. Less clear are the means that need to be taken to achieve that end.

Train to Auschwitz

Fighting anti-Semitism

By JPOST EDITORIAL01/27/2013 22:11

As Netanyahu noted, while the desire to annihilate the Jews has not changed since the time of the Holocaust, “what has changed is the ability of the Jews to defend themselves.”

Counting ballots of soldiers and absentees, January 24, 2013.

By JPOST EDITORIAL01/26/2013 21:59

Last week’s election returns didn’t reflect anything resembling a swing to socialism. The true socialists can be found in Labor and further left in Meretz and Hadash.

Israel Border Police soldiers plant trees for Tu Bishvat, January 24, 2013.

Time for (political) renewal

By JPOST EDITORIAL01/24/2013 22:10

Tu Bishvat is a time of new beginnings. We celebrate the agricultural cycle and our Knesset’s birthday, and we have the added value this year of a new crop of politicians who will form a new government coalition.

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