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Into the Fray: Deciphering delegitimization

Thu, 16 May 2013 22:38:38 GMT

For a secure Israel to regain legitimacy, the idea of a Palestinian state must be discredited as a possible means of resolving conflict.

Rebut or retract: A public challenge to Dershowitz

Thu, 09 May 2013 23:14:24 GMT

Alan Dershowitz’s response to his derisive reception at 'Post' conference in New York late underscores bankruptcy of “The Case for Two States”.

The two-state psychosis: The Oslo Syndrome revisited

Thu, 02 May 2013 23:02:35 GMT

People under siege end up blaming themselves for their enemies’ hatred toward them, delude themselves about the malicious intentions of their foes.

Stupendously stupid or surreptitiously sinister

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 21:12:17 GMT

Into the fray: The unilateral two-state initiative endorsed by INSS this week is clearly not a ‘creative’ pro-peace measure but a demonstrably anti-settler one.

The coming canard: ‘Constructive unilateralism’

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 00:42:25 GMT

Into the Fray: Does Aussie philanthropist Frank Lowy realize he is helping promote a South Lebanon-like reality on the fringes of Greater Tel Aviv?

The deconstruction of Israel: Has the countdown begun?

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 22:42:54 GMT

Into the fray: Last week I warned of the sinister subtext of Obama’s visit. This week, that subtext is emerging as headline news.

Into The Fray: Obama in Israel-the sinister subtext?

Thu, 04 Apr 2013 22:40:52 GMT

It is difficult to know which is more troubling: Whether Obama actually meant what he said in his speech to students in Jerusalem; or whether he didn’t.

Senseless & spineless: Speaking truth to power

Thu, 28 Mar 2013 22:37:57 GMT

Into The Fray: Israel’s abject apology to Erdogan conveys an unequivocal message to both friend and foe: If confronted with sufficient resolve, the Jews will capitulate.

Into the Fray: ‘The New York Times’ versus the Jews

Thu, 21 Mar 2013 22:37:11 GMT

Over the last fortnight, the so-called “paper of record” has ratcheted up its bias and bile a notch or two.

In to the Fray: Israel’s imperative : Jewish and democratic

Thu, 14 Mar 2013 22:35:53 GMT

A crucial intellectual battle has begun, to strip the Jews of their political independence and national sovereignty.

Into the Fray: The demands Bennett should’ve made

Thu, 07 Mar 2013 22:21:20 GMT

Beware, Naftali – lest you find yourself being seen as a patsy, the victim of deception.

Into the Fray: Surrendering sovereignty – again

Thu, 28 Feb 2013 22:36:23 GMT

Israeli leaders need to realize that the litmus test of good diplomacy is not to get the world to applaud your compliancy and capitulation, but to accept your pursuit of national interests and imperatives.

Into the Fray: Bennett’s buddy. Or blunder?

Thu, 21 Feb 2013 21:52:10 GMT

In the interests of full disclosure, I voted for Naftali Bennett’s party in the recent election. But I am beginning to wonder...

Into the Fray: Intellectual warriors, not slicker diplomats

Thu, 14 Feb 2013 23:12:44 GMT

Israel’s greatest strategic challenge, its gravest strategic failure, its grimmest strategic danger is the (mis)conduct of its public diplomacy.

Into the Fray: Egypt: A doomed nation?

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 22:06:51 GMT

Tens of millions of Egyptians might consider the epithet “Gift of the Nile” singularly misplaced.

Caveat emptor: The illusion of a political Center

Thu, 31 Jan 2013 22:40:20 GMT

Into they Fray: Time and time again the Israeli voter has been hoodwinked into voting for allegedly centrist parties only to have them evaporate later.

Into the Fray: Be afraid, very afraid

Thu, 24 Jan 2013 21:32:16 GMT

The election results indicate the Israeli electorate has become dangerously detached from real challenges the nation needs to address.

Into the Fray: Liar

Thu, 17 Jan 2013 21:31:17 GMT

If integrity is a necessary quality for reputable journalism, Jeffrey Goldberg’s recent column is a disgrace to his profession – and an insult to Israelis’ intelligence.

Netanyahu: The pathology

Thu, 10 Jan 2013 22:24:38 GMT

Into The Fray: The venomous ad hominem attacks on the PM by his political opponents have long exceeded the limits of rational criticism and reasoned dissent.

Into the Fray: Redefining (failure as) victory

Thu, 03 Jan 2013 22:44:08 GMT

One can only hope that the stiffening of national resolve the public seems to be displaying in its choice of candidates for the next Knesset, will result in a new political atmosphere that will permit the IDF to once again become the formidable and feared fighting apparatus it once was.

Into the Fray: Debating disobedience

Thu, 27 Dec 2012 23:02:20 GMT

Is the Likud once again planning to use the military to impose evacuations of Jewish communities? If not, why did it opt to make Bennett’s remark an issue of such centrality?

Annexing Area C: An open letter to Naftali Bennett

Thu, 20 Dec 2012 22:58:33 GMT

Into the Fray: Between the Jordan River and Mediterranean Sea, there can — and eventually will — prevail either exclusively Jewish, or exclusively Arab, sovereignty.

Into the Fray: Ill-considered, inappropriate and inadequate

Thu, 13 Dec 2012 21:40:19 GMT

In response to the Palestinians UN initiative for non-member statehood, Israel must impose permanent penalties, not make provocative proclamations.

Into The Fray: Assessing Abbas’s address

Thu, 06 Dec 2012 21:51:26 GMT

At the UN General Assembly last week, histrionic spin trumped historical substance, while sinister subterfuge went unchallenged.

Into the Fray: Israel’s infuriating impotence

Thu, 29 Nov 2012 23:22:02 GMT

Last week’s Gaza cease-fire proved the government incapable of delivering the goods militarily; this week’s UN vote proves it cannot deliver the goods diplomatically.

Israel 2012: Tactical brilliance, strategic imbecility

Thu, 22 Nov 2012 22:48:12 GMT

Into the Fray: If the current government does not have the diplomatic competence to create the conditions necessary to provide security for its citizens, it should admit it.

Into The Fray: Aargh!!!

Thu, 15 Nov 2012 22:23:22 GMT

Despite the deadly display of hi-tech pyro-technics by the IDF, the depressing sense of déjà vu conveyed by the events unfolding in Gaza comprise a devastating indictment of Israel’s past and present political leadership.

Into the Fray: Abu who?

Thu, 08 Nov 2012 22:04:36 GMT

It is difficult to conceive of anything more imbecilic than the debate raging over whether Mahmoud Abbas’s recent declarations are sincere.

Into the Fray: Obama, Islam and Israel

Thu, 01 Nov 2012 22:58:07 GMT

Can anyone with Obama’s perception of Islam be expected to take the measures necessary to contend with the danger this theo-tyrannical political doctrine presents?

Into the Fray: If you are Jewish... (continued)

Thu, 25 Oct 2012 23:19:42 GMT

The prospect of a White House incumbent with an inherent affinity for Israel’s adversaries and unshackled by considerations of reelection is one that must be considered with the utmost seriousness.

Into The Fray: If you are Jewish...

Thu, 18 Oct 2012 22:44:20 GMT

Israel aside, the unquestioning, almost Pavlovian, support US Jews give Obama is inconsistent with their values and incompatible with their welfare.

Into The Fray: Sanctions and centrifuges

Thu, 11 Oct 2012 22:21:01 GMT

As a Holocaust survivor, commenting on the lessons of WWII, said: ‘When somebody says they want to kill you, you should believe them.’

Into the Fray: Illogical, ineffectual, immoral

Thu, 04 Oct 2012 22:46:02 GMT

Without a credible threat of military force, the policy of sanctions against Iran lacks wisdom, efficacy and morality.

The humanitarian solution - Responding to readers - Part II

Sun, 30 Sep 2012 09:14:41 GMT

Into the Fray: It would be intriguing to see how ‘sumud’ stands up to chance of better life and compensation worth two centuries of current GDP per capita.

The humanitarian approach: Responding to readers – Part I

Thu, 20 Sep 2012 22:18:21 GMT

Into The Fray: Not economic cost, but lack of political will in Israel and perceived legitimacy abroad prevent implementing the humanitarian solution.

Preventing ‘Palestine’ Part III: Broken Promises

Thu, 13 Sep 2012 22:40:28 GMT

Into the Fray: Without a viable alternative to the two-state approach, no rational long-term use of national resources is possible.

Preventing ‘Palestine’: Part II – The humanitarian paradigm

Thu, 06 Sep 2012 22:42:55 GMT

Into the Fray: Formula for an alternative to two-state-solution requires policy that depoliticizes the context and ‘atomizes’ the implementation.

‘Palestine’ in perspective

Thu, 06 Sep 2012 16:36:23 GMT

The unflattering comparison that Mitt Romney drew between the accomplishments of Palestinian may have some merit.

Preventing 'Palestine' Part I: Essential pre-conditions

Thu, 30 Aug 2012 22:08:25 GMT

Into the Fray: The Right must revert to the traditional Zionist perception of “reality” as malleable rather than immutable.

Into the Fray: What’s wrong with the Right – Part II

Thu, 23 Aug 2012 21:00:59 GMT

The Right must realize that between the river and the sea, either exclusive Jewish or exclusive Arab sovereignty will eventually prevail.

Into the Fray: What’s wrong with the Right — Part I

Thu, 16 Aug 2012 22:29:21 GMT

As demented and disastrous as the two state “solution” is, most alternatives proffered by the Right would be no less calamitous.

Into the Fray: The alchemy of Palestinian nationhood

Thu, 09 Aug 2012 22:16:31 GMT

Poof! Suddenly Jordanian nationals were transformed into a ‘Palestinian nation, Jordanian territory into a ‘Palestinian homeland'.

Into the Fray: Fatuous, feckless Friedman

Thu, 02 Aug 2012 22:51:30 GMT

‘Robbed Cossack’: Hebrew idiom for a villain who complains about the wrongs (imaginary or not) done to him that he has done to others.

Into The Fray: The rationale for Romney

Thu, 26 Jul 2012 21:52:07 GMT

Reinventing America or uninventing America: That is how the choice between Romney and Obama ought to be presented.

Into the Fray: Mad hatters, flat-earthers and two-staters

Thu, 19 Jul 2012 23:07:16 GMT

Dershowitz et al happily endorse funding relocation of Jews – but recoil in horror at any suggestion of funding the relocation of Palestinians.

Into the Fray: Disputing Dershowitz – again

Thu, 12 Jul 2012 21:59:54 GMT

What is it about the Palestinian issue that induces the total eclipse of common sense in otherwise ostensibly intelligent people?

Into the Fray: The honorable thing to do

Thu, 05 Jul 2012 22:09:03 GMT

The only proper thing for two-staters to do is to admit error, apologize for the vast damage they have wrought, and bow out of public life.

Barack Hussein Obama: A view from Israel

Thu, 28 Jun 2012 23:05:21 GMT

Three years after Obama’s ‘New Beginning’ speech in Cairo, prospects are bleaker for everyone – except the Muslim Brotherhood.

Into the fray: Stupid, seditious or suicidal?

Thu, 21 Jun 2012 23:03:08 GMT

When both reason, reality fail to impact on two-staters, Arab-appeasers, Muslim-mollifiers, perhaps all that remains is ridicule.

Into the Fray: Peres on 'Tomorrow' - yesterday and today

Thu, 14 Jun 2012 22:00:21 GMT

The wildly irreconcilable positions of pre-Oslo and post-Oslo Peres raise troubling questions as to the integrity of Israeli leaders.

Richard Beinart and Peter Goldstone – Part II

Thu, 07 Jun 2012 22:38:41 GMT

Into the fray: Neither is Jaber incident – even if accepting Beinart’s view of what happened – fair representation of overall Israeli conduct.

Richard Beinart and Peter Goldstone – Part I

Thu, 31 May 2012 22:48:48 GMT

Into The Fray: Peter Beinart has placed himself in precisely the same category as Richard Goldstone. He should be treated in precisely the same manner.

Into the Fray: Stupidity – on steroids

Thu, 24 May 2012 22:56:54 GMT

The latest - and loopiest - ‘peace’ formula advanced by the former head of the security services is... submission in slow motion.

Into the fray: Nakba nonsense

Thu, 17 May 2012 21:56:45 GMT

Only in topsy-turvy world of Carroll’s ‘Wonderland’ can elected leader suggest the establishment of his state is a crime.

Brandishing bulldozers: The Beinart-Gordis debate

Thu, 10 May 2012 23:25:58 GMT

Into the Fray: Last week’s exchange in NY was disappointing – more for what was not said rather than what was.

Into the Fray: ‘Haaretz’ vs the Jews

Thu, 03 May 2012 22:55:24 GMT

The success of the post-Zionist strategy hinges on breaking the sense of kinship between the Jewish people and the State of Israel.

Into the Fray: Excoriating Eisner: Egregious or ethical?

Thu, 26 Apr 2012 22:26:20 GMT

The panicky response by Israel’s leaders to the Eisner episode will only serve to encourage pernicious ‘protest tourism’ by pampered radicals.

Into the Fray: Perfidious Pete, treacherous Tom – Part 2

Thu, 19 Apr 2012 22:18:04 GMT

As with Peter Beinart, so it is with Friedman. It seems no anti-Israeli accusation is too egregious for them to stoop to.

Perfidious Pete, treacherous Tom – Part I

Wed, 11 Apr 2012 22:36:05 GMT

Into the Fray: Stop calling a "spade" a "manually operated tool for producing elevation differentials in earth’s crust."

Two states, ‘secure borders’ and the tooth fairy

Fri, 06 Apr 2012 00:03:08 GMT

As time goes by and events consistently refute their dogmatic doctrine, "two-staters" are looking more and more like “flat-earthers.”

Square circles, aerodynamic pigs and two states

Thu, 29 Mar 2012 21:39:30 GMT

Into the Fray: When somebody says they want to kill you, you should believe them.

Predicting Gaza: Rabin, Sharon, the Knesset and... well, me

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 22:30:44 GMT

The nation’s leaders have proved bereft of foresight – or hindsight for that matter. Can a dangerous ‘trust deficit’ be avoided?

Into the Fray: Disputing Dershowitz

Thu, 15 Mar 2012 22:46:19 GMT

Support for a two-state solution has sown the seeds for the international delegitimization of Israel

Into the Fray: Barack, Bibi and the bomb

Thu, 08 Mar 2012 22:06:22 GMT

Is a mushroom cloud over Tel Aviv the only evidence that the Obama administration will accept as proof of Iranian intentions?

Into the Fray: Israel’s Pearl Harbor?

Thu, 01 Mar 2012 22:07:07 GMT

Unavoidably, as frustration with the two-state principle increases, the quest for alternatives will begin.

Into the Fray: Something to worry about

Thu, 23 Feb 2012 22:19:42 GMT

All the assumptions on which Israeli policies were founded have proved groundless; all the concessions, worse than useless.

Foreign policy for Republicans and others: Part II

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 17:27:38 GMT

Into the Fray: The GOP should focus on deterring – and if need be, deposing – dictators, rather than promoting democracy.

Foreign policy for Republicans, and others: Part I

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:18:41 GMT

Into the Fray: As the 2012 elections approach, the Republican Party owes America and its allies a persuasive paradigm.

Into the Fray: From potentate to puppet?

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:54:03 GMT

Is embracing the Islamists the only way Abdullah can preserve his rule? Is preserving Abdullah the only way Islamists can prevent ‘Jordan’ becoming ‘Palestine?’

Into The Fray: A study in impotence

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 16:32:44 GMT

Israel’s diplomatic reaction to recent charges that its water policy is racist exposes a preference for passivity over preemption.

Comprehending the incomprehensible – Part II

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 21:26:45 GMT

Why a failed policy of appeasement prevails and why the Right keeps winning elections but never gets into power.

Comprehending the incomprehensible – Part I

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 17:49:53 GMT

Into The Fray: The first of a two-part analysis of why Israel is losing the international battle for hearts and minds.

To be or not to be – that is the question

Fri, 06 Jan 2012 21:52:57 GMT

Into the Fray: It is time to have a clear-headed, hard look at reality: The two state solution is dead.

Into the Fray: Palestine: What Sherlock Holmes would say

Fri, 30 Dec 2011 16:31:10 GMT

Responding to the response: Answers to questions raised by my ‘Notes to Newt.’

Note to Newt (Part II): Rethinking Palestine

Fri, 23 Dec 2011 16:37:34 GMT

Into The Fray: Some will consider this article provocative – especially if they deem "resettling" as more heinous than "recurrence of war."

Note to Newt (Part I): Uninventing Palestinians

Fri, 16 Dec 2011 18:25:10 GMT

The Palestinians aspiration is not to establish a state of their own but to dismantle a state of others

Into the Fray: Begin – in retrospect

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 22:32:58 GMT

Israel cannot afford the same miscalculations made in the peace treaty with Egypt on its fronts with the Palestinians and the Syrians.

Into the Fray: Surrendering sovereignty

Fri, 02 Dec 2011 16:52:16 GMT

By adopting a policy to avoid confrontations in which it can prevail, Israel may eventually find itself forced into one in which it cannot.

Into the Fray: Dismantling democracy

Fri, 25 Nov 2011 16:21:52 GMT

The underpinnings of Israeli democracy are being imperiled by those purporting to be its staunchest defenders.

Into the Fray: A nation betrayed?

Fri, 18 Nov 2011 17:46:24 GMT

The list of the Left’s blunders is depressingly lengthy. It has been hopelessly wrong about... well, everything.

Into the fray: A study in self-cannibalization

Fri, 11 Nov 2011 16:29:19 GMT

Over a century ago, Churchill warned that Western civilization will face an existential challenge from the Muslim world. It is now upon us.

Into the fray: A real reason for revolution

Thu, 03 Nov 2011 22:35:05 GMT

The conceptual foundations underpinning the Zionist enterprise are being deconstructed; the Zionist narrative must be reclaimed, resuscitated.

The real racism: Expecting Jews to die meekly

Fri, 28 Oct 2011 21:13:35 GMT

Into the Fray: Israel needs to once again convey, unapologetically, to the world the rationale for its founding.

Into the Fray: Submission

Fri, 21 Oct 2011 16:14:53 GMT

The Schalit deal may go down as the most disastrous miscalculation since the decision not to mobilize the reserves in 1973.

Into the Fray: A giant pall of shame

Fri, 14 Oct 2011 16:50:57 GMT

Israeli academe will have much to answer for to future generations, both for what it has done and what it hasn’t.

Into the Fray: Reassessing ‘root causes’ and ‘red herrings’

Fri, 07 Oct 2011 12:10:29 GMT

In the face of mounting international pressure, Israel cannot afford to lose sight of what the conflict is really about.

Into the Fray: Et tu, Bill...

Tue, 27 Sep 2011 21:52:34 GMT

Bill Clinton joins bon-ton trend of Bibi-baiting throwing some outrageous ethno-religious slurs of his own into the anti-Israel mix.

Into the Fray: 'Ground Control to Major Tom (Friedman)’

Thu, 22 Sep 2011 21:05:09 GMT

‘New York Times’ columnist Tom Friedman emerging as disingenuous charlatan whose blatant anti-Israeli bias is increasingly detached from reality.

UN-nation; un-nation; non-nation; anti-nation

Fri, 16 Sep 2011 17:08:53 GMT

I do not think there is a Palestinian nation. I think it’s a colonialist invention - Palestinian nation. When were there any Palestinians?

Into the Fray: Turkish tantrums

Sat, 10 Sep 2011 14:27:27 GMT

The loss of Turkey as a strategic ally is a huge blow. But it is a result of what Turkey has become, not what Israel has – or has not – done.

Into the Fray: Perverse people

Fri, 02 Sep 2011 16:58:26 GMT

The hysterical, hypocritical reaction to Glenn Beck helped underline the collective psychosis of Israel’s left-wing establishment.

Into the Fray: White flag over Gaza...

Thu, 25 Aug 2011 22:08:55 GMT

Political correctness has precluded the pursuit of strategic imperatives; Israel can no longer credibly deter terrorists.

Into the Fray: Come September…

Thu, 18 Aug 2011 22:21:51 GMT

Israel must credibly convey that support for unilateral Palestinian statehood will not be a cost-free decision for whoever acts to effect it – or fails to act to foil it.

Into the fray: Suicide Nation?

Thu, 11 Aug 2011 20:54:06 GMT

Once again the nation is being lured into disaster by the "pied-pipers of Oslo," this time playing a new tune.

Into The Fray: Come to the carnival, comrade!

Fri, 05 Aug 2011 06:29:32 GMT

The protests smack more of political frustration on the part of the opposition and its media cronies, than of genuine economic deprivation of the middle class

Into the Fray: Distorting democracy

Thu, 28 Jul 2011 23:58:11 GMT

The greatest danger to Israeli democracy emanates from those masquerading as its champions.

By thy own hand

Mon, 24 Jan 2011 22:45:06 GMT

The growing menace of endogenic Judeo-phobia – or how Jews fan the flames of hatred against their own.

The death of a frog

Mon, 29 Nov 2010 22:40:09 GMT

As the parable of the amphibian goes, will Israel reach the lethal boiling point where it has made one concession too many?

The ‘Mandelaian’ model

Fri, 15 Oct 2010 16:29:16 GMT

Author Michael Friedlander uses a formula for detecting and contending with potential scams and scammers.

From Geneva to Oslo: A tale of Swiss cheese

Fri, 24 Sep 2010 15:48:52 GMT

The current endeavor to resuscitate the Geneva Initiative underscores just how flat the learning curve of the Israeli Left is.