JPost.com - Sarah Honig Reporter

Another Tack: While we keep kvetching

Thu, 16 May 2013 21:53:25 GMT

Territorial swaps were already discussed by then-premier Ehud Barak in his near-desperate peace-drive of 2000-2001.

Another Tack: The inconvenient truth

Thu, 09 May 2013 22:31:28 GMT

The only constructive course of action for Obama is to tone down his insincere anti-Assad rhetoric and to quit sounding the identical refrain for both Syria and Iran.

Another Tack: A convenient untruth

Thu, 02 May 2013 21:31:30 GMT

Kerry would do well to learn and memorize Chaim Weizman’s wake-up call to Anthony Eden after Krystallnacht.

Another Tack: The lesson of April 26

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 18:35:01 GMT

One single episode of dogged determination can overturn all gloomy forecasts and literally change the course of history.

Another Tack: Amira, daughter of Rosa

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 21:23:40 GMT

Rosa Luxemburg’s spirit is alive and well in 21st century Israel. It thrives among her assorted homegrown doctrinal descendants.

Another Tack: Amusing ourselves to death

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 21:03:56 GMT

The vogue in our brave new world is to cease perceiving the Holocaust and our subsequent Jewish sovereignty through Jewish eyes.

Another Tack: Barack and Bernard-Henri

Thu, 04 Apr 2013 21:20:44 GMT

Despite his disclaimer, Obama still puts on Pollyanna airs and belts out a sappy peace-'n' love rendition of the stale two-state kumbaya.

Another Tack: Bewitched, bothered and bewildered

Thu, 28 Mar 2013 21:39:41 GMT

Too many Israelis who should have known lots better were reduced to the infatuation of a bewitched, bothered and bewildered teenager.

Another Tack: Bad Jews = Good story

Thu, 21 Mar 2013 22:56:22 GMT

Israel is presumed guilty even when proven innocent- even when exculpated by an ultra-hostile body like UNHRC.

Another Tack: Out of the box, Obama

Thu, 14 Mar 2013 22:11:30 GMT

Before Obama begins coaxing us with honeyed blandishments, he must take a long, hard and unbiased look out of the box.

Another Tack: Why it matters

Thu, 07 Mar 2013 21:28:52 GMT

Peace cannot begin to be made before the malignant characterization of Jewish statehood as a casus belli is recanted convincingly and comprehensively once and for all.

Another Tack: Movie musings

Thu, 28 Feb 2013 21:53:42 GMT

It’s as if Israeli filmmakers had paid heed to the admonitions arrogantly issued by Joseph Kennedy to Jewish movie moguls.

Another Tack: Not created equal

Thu, 21 Feb 2013 20:37:34 GMT

Facts will never be allowed to interfere with popular prejudice – not so long as any refugee episode can be linked to some Jewish aspect or another.

Another Tack: What arm-twisting?

Thu, 14 Feb 2013 22:23:50 GMT

Both Obama and Netanyahu will swear up and down that the upcoming visit is the culmination of a wonderful friendship.

Another Tack: That unwitting indecency revisited

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 21:35:22 GMT

Such rants may well have been inspired or intensified by unfair and unbalanced media coverage.

Another Tack: Netanyahu’s coattail effect

Thu, 31 Jan 2013 21:51:29 GMT

Netanyahu’s most voracious competitors for parliamentary power hitched rewarding rides on his coattails.

Another Tack: That unwitting indecency

Thu, 24 Jan 2013 20:56:21 GMT

To deny a grotesque double standard against Israel is either to misperceive reality or to deliberately misrepresent it for narrow political purposes.

Buttons comes to the ‘Post’

Thu, 06 Dec 2012 15:25:49 GMT

My problem was that I looked about 12. I waved my press card in their faces, but to no avail.

Another Tack: Murdoch’s cogent question

Thu, 29 Nov 2012 22:40:04 GMT

Murdoch essentially wasn’t far off the mark, even if he didn’t word his Tweet carefully enough.

Another Tack: A-Dawla ma’ana

Thu, 22 Nov 2012 22:11:24 GMT

Our successive confrontations with Gaza are an explicit acknowledgement that disengagement has failed, that we are not disengaged.

Another Tack: Remarkably déjà vu

Thu, 15 Nov 2012 22:13:19 GMT

Peres is the indubitable darling of the world’s trendiest and most beautiful headliners.

Another Tack: Shelly’s macho-man mentor

Thu, 08 Nov 2012 22:08:17 GMT

In this treacherous neighborhood our guiding motto should always be caveat emptor – buyer beware.

Another Tack: How Obama saves Israel

Thu, 01 Nov 2012 22:26:20 GMT

Obama’s attitude to troublesome little Israel is chillingly like Chamberlain’s was vis-à-vis the unfortunate Czechs.

Another Tack: When the darling departs

Thu, 25 Oct 2012 22:38:27 GMT

The curious case of Communications, Welfare and Social Services Minister Moshe Kahlon was altogether a godsend allowing propagandists to crow that the Likud no longer represents regular folks.

Another Tack: Felicitations for banana-unbenders

Thu, 18 Oct 2012 22:24:22 GMT

The Nobel Peace award has finally been equated in stature and gravitas with the Napoleon prize satirically contrived in the BBC sitcom ‘Yes, Minister’.

Another Tack: If only we were Turks

Thu, 11 Oct 2012 22:04:25 GMT

Obviously one set of rules applies to Turkey and quite another to Israel – without even configuring the incomparably more menacing provocations against Israel.

Another Tack: The Dearborn omen

Thu, 04 Oct 2012 22:14:06 GMT

Nothing that comes out of Dearborn should be dismissed as too trifling to trouble us, especially when underpinned by presidential rhetoric.

Gentlemen, history cyclically reappears

Sun, 30 Sep 2012 08:49:20 GMT

With enemies like ours, make-nice gestures and rules of war should be deemed irrelevant.

Another Tack: To the shores of Tripoli

Thu, 20 Sep 2012 21:47:12 GMT

Powwowing won’t lead to a change of heart among Islam’s supremacists. The showdown is inevitable. The Barbary War’s rallying call was: “Millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute.”

Another Tack: Galling like de Gaulle

Thu, 13 Sep 2012 22:27:28 GMT

Obama appears more likable, but his policy bottom line is just as galling as de Gaulle’s.

Another Tack: Denial of denial

Thu, 16 Aug 2012 22:08:34 GMT

When all aforementioned denial options are exhausted, there’s always one final refuge left – “denial of denial.”

Another Tack: Romney comes up trumps

Thu, 09 Aug 2012 21:00:54 GMT

Bottom line: Murder is good. Remembrance is bad.

Another Tack: Lacunar amnesia is cool

Thu, 02 Aug 2012 22:23:43 GMT

In the spheres of politics and propaganda, memory gaps become intentional and inherently advantageous.

Another Tack: From Jean-Baptiste to Bon Jovi

Thu, 26 Jul 2012 21:35:56 GMT

The more things change, the more they stay the same...That must be why the Global Counterterrorism Forum (GCTF) not only excludes Israel from its deliberations but assiduously refrains from counting Israelis among victims of terrorism.

Another Tack: The same sea

Thu, 19 Jul 2012 22:05:05 GMT

What have we to show today for all our sacrifices for an elusive, apparently unattainable peace?

Another Tack: What if his name was Bibi?

Thu, 12 Jul 2012 21:37:35 GMT

I wonder whether reactions to Olmert's verdict would have been remotely similar had the defendant been named Netanyahu.

Another Tack: What’s in a name?

Thu, 14 Jun 2012 22:06:39 GMT

Such simplistic, one-dimensional explanations typify his neophyte missteps on the treacherous turfs of foreign policy.

Another tack: Those who deny freedom

Thu, 07 Jun 2012 21:54:33 GMT

The inequity in Pollard's case should trouble anyone who profoundly cherishes actual freedom - not just the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Another Tack: Preempting Piggy’s end

Thu, 31 May 2012 21:54:48 GMT

It’s time for this world’s non-fictional Piggy to overcome his awe of remorseless choirboys who presume to pass judgment on him.

Another Tack: Contextualizing ‘Ned’

Thu, 24 May 2012 21:54:48 GMT

The conflict didn't begin in 1948- it reached its culmination then.

Another tack: Every man for himself

Thu, 17 May 2012 22:45:54 GMT

Sequel stooges have just banded together in mutually advantageous alliance to fortify governing coalition of Jewish state.

Another tack: Dishonest and disgusting

Thu, 10 May 2012 22:30:25 GMT

In 1942, George Orwell said that “so-called peace propaganda is just as dishonest," intellectually disgusting as war propaganda.

Another Tack: The only thing worse

Thu, 03 May 2012 21:39:11 GMT

Dagan and Diskin jeopardize the international coalition against Iran, demoralize Israelis and embolden Ahmedinejad.

Another Tack: The first day

Thu, 26 Apr 2012 21:47:40 GMT

Israel’s thwarting of the genocide plotted against its people is now presented as premeditated Israeli-instigated ethnic cleansing of Arabs

Another Tack: What’s that about daughters?

Thu, 19 Apr 2012 21:47:27 GMT

Dissidence is deemed as heresy in Muslim dominions and heresy exacts pitiless retribution, as the Hamas Charter indeed warns.

Another Tack: The German robbed Cossack

Wed, 11 Apr 2012 21:14:58 GMT

The fashionable anti-Israelism of European intellectual salons makes Ahmedinejad’s calls for our extinction palatable.

Another Tack: Obama of the open mic

Thu, 05 Apr 2012 22:22:12 GMT

If Obama isn't shooting straight with the American public in general, odds are that he deliberately deludes his Jewish supporters.

Another Tack: Batman and the Iron Dome

Thu, 29 Mar 2012 20:56:39 GMT

Rare are the violent clashes from which all sides emerge positively cheery.

Another Tack: Learning to love the bomb

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 21:08:49 GMT

Those in our midst who have learned to stop worrying and love the Iranian bomb are acclaimed as prudence personified.

Another Tack: Marie in Morag

Thu, 15 Mar 2012 21:55:08 GMT

Our media aids and abets our escapist penchants.

Another Tack: Prelude to murder

Thu, 08 Mar 2012 21:44:32 GMT

All of us are the usurpers whose livers are destined to be devoured. Abbas’s slander is intended to justify the feeding frenzy.

Another Tack: The context of Mustafa’s misadventures

Thu, 01 Mar 2012 21:22:37 GMT

There’ll be no Arab enlightenment until Arabs acknowledge that they’re victimized by their own self-produced disasters.

Another Tack: Lessons from the floating coffin

Thu, 23 Feb 2012 21:24:50 GMT

The world's apathy-cum-enmity toward Jews hasn’t disappeared, it has simply mutated.

Another Tack: Adib Shishakli and Shukri al-Quwatli

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 17:27:38 GMT

Paying off dictators to secure a semblance of accommodation is a losing proposition, because eventually they disappear.

Another Tack: Sabine’s misrepresented murder

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:18:41 GMT

Communism is purportedly gone, yet Russia tenaciously clings to the wrong side of history.

Another Tack: With intent to deceive

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:54:03 GMT

It’s patently indecorous in polite society to mention that the Arabs – far from being victims – were the aggressors, that they still are, that they feign innocence.

Another Tack: The Perry Mason school of life

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 16:51:03 GMT

Israel’s elected leaders shouldn’t be subjected to diktats whereby they must suppliantly seek permission to save Israel from annihilation.

Another Tack: Ziva for prime minister

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 17:11:19 GMT

Yair Lapid is certainly no less preposterous a choice than Ziva David.

Another Tack: Losing proportions

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 17:49:53 GMT

Offensive placards always proliferated in Natorei Karta neighborhoods.

Another Tack: Good manners and high morals

Fri, 06 Jan 2012 18:00:13 GMT

One would expect that Abbas, feted worldwide as the prince of moderation, would at least wash his hands of murderous Muna.

Another Tack: Banana noses and freckles

Fri, 30 Dec 2011 16:31:10 GMT

Malia’s bat mitzva fashion statements are about as relevant to Israel’s ongoing struggle for survival as my freckles were to Cookie’s contentions.

Another Tack: Just hate wholeheartedly

Fri, 23 Dec 2011 16:37:34 GMT

When the Left goes on the warpath it’s always for peace, morality and virtue; its self-proclaimed highmindedness inevitably justifies any means.

Another tack: The poison in the well

Fri, 16 Dec 2011 18:25:10 GMT

We won't be better liked for being weaker, and getting weaker won't improve our self-preservation prospects.

Another Tack: Fools rush in

Fri, 09 Dec 2011 15:08:15 GMT

Beilinite folly is dangerous because they dominate the media, dictate the national agenda and may inspire future governments as they did the one which gave us Oslo.

Another Tack: The selective barking of hired hounds

Fri, 02 Dec 2011 16:52:15 GMT

AS any media mutt worth its chow learns, letting down its guard or raising a racket isn’t about press freedom but about political/economic interests.

Another Tack: Saccharine for the masses

Fri, 28 Oct 2011 21:13:35 GMT

Why are terror victims' kin expected to be ultra-forgiving, to evince inordinate largesse and be readier than anyone else for yet more sacrifices?

Another Tack: A sacrifice in vain?

Fri, 21 Oct 2011 16:14:53 GMT

No matter how sincerely we sympathize with Netanyahu’s discomfiture in face of cynical demagoguery, there’s no escaping the conclusion that Bibi betrayed Yoni.

Another Tack: Yesteryear’s peculiar predictions

Fri, 14 Oct 2011 11:29:56 GMT

Israelis will give their lives to hold onto Jerusalem, just as the British would for London, the Russians for Moscow and the Americans for Washington.

Another Tack: The nudnik’s oft-kibitzed refrain

Fri, 07 Oct 2011 12:10:29 GMT

Clinton rationalizes that it’s not the Israeli Left’s policies which were its downfall, but the electorate’s composition.

Another Tack: Optimism was compulsory

Wed, 28 Sep 2011 16:57:47 GMT

Israeli babies born this month 18 years ago – under the Oslo sign – are now old enough for the draft.

Another Tack: From bakshish to Khaybar

Fri, 23 Sep 2011 16:11:41 GMT

Years ago I experienced Egypt's immutability first-hand, when I was sent there on my first work assignment during the days that peace with Israel hadn’t yet been thoroughly delegitimized.

Another Tack: That Beilinesque mind-set

Fri, 16 Sep 2011 17:08:53 GMT

The fat was already irretrievably in the fire before Erdogan insolently scolded the dumbstruck Shimon Peres at Davos in January 2009.

Another Tack: The real danger

Fri, 09 Sep 2011 15:08:05 GMT

Let there be no doubt: Hamas will triumph in Judenrein Judea and Samaria just as it did in Judenrein Gaza.

Another Tack: Khartoum’s 3 ‘no's’- the Ramallah version

Fri, 02 Sep 2011 16:58:26 GMT

As long as the very notion of the rightful existence of a Jewish state is denied, the irredentist ambition to eradicate Israel as a Jewish state will fester and rule out even a remote likelihood of lasting peace.

Another Tack: The scorpions sting – again

Fri, 26 Aug 2011 16:40:43 GMT

What transpired on the way to Eilat last week is chillingly reminiscent of the bloodshed of March 17, 1954.

Another Tack: Red flags in Tel Aviv (II) – Mapai memories

Fri, 19 Aug 2011 16:57:32 GMT

It's not "what I can do for my country" but "what my country can do for me."

Another Tack: Red flags in Tel Aviv (I)-a helpful glossary

Fri, 12 Aug 2011 16:35:34 GMT

When the supposed champions of everyman march down city streets with red flags this should instantly switch on every red light in our craniums.

Another Tack: Free to love Wagner

Fri, 05 Aug 2011 16:21:30 GMT

Wagner's extreme hatred of Jews: what does it mean for Israelis and Jews today?

Another Tack: Between Tunisia and Tel Aviv

Fri, 29 Jul 2011 16:18:32 GMT

Another Tack: Boycott is beautiful

Fri, 22 Jul 2011 16:43:51 GMT

Boycotts that are acceptable against some Jews would be decried as rank racism if employed against non-Jews.

Another Tack: Double standards to uphold

Fri, 15 Jul 2011 16:51:29 GMT

Nobody ever contemplated investigating the inflammatory rhetoric of Israel’s ‘beautiful people,’ those whom our opinion-molders cultivate, promote and overall hype as role models.

Another Tack: Memo to kibitzers

Fri, 08 Jul 2011 16:22:02 GMT

Almost every demonizing and delegitimizing canard to which we have by now grown so inured had already manifested itself back in 1958.

Another Tack: Schlemiel, schlimazel

Fri, 01 Jul 2011 16:46:31 GMT

Many leftover Laborites persist in regarding ex-Tanzim leader Barghouti’s imprisonment as somehow illicit, or at least counterproductive.

Remember the tsunami of 1949

Fri, 24 Jun 2011 16:10:37 GMT

Another Tack: We won't be swept away in September if we don't scare ourselves to death; mass-hysteria can make a torrent out of a trickle.

Don Abbas makes an offer

Fri, 17 Jun 2011 16:38:43 GMT

Another Tack: If we submit, he’ll magnanimously leave up to us the mechanism by which we’ll be compressed into the Auschwitz lines.

Another Tack: No Jews in Judea

Fri, 10 Jun 2011 17:16:13 GMT

The international community relishes reviling ultra-tolerant Israel while it ignores and even justifies crude Arab racism.

Another Tack: The owners of history

Fri, 03 Jun 2011 16:43:20 GMT

Not a peep of protest could be heard when Abbas intoned: "Oh, Netanyahu, you are incidental in history; We are the owners of history."

Another Tack: De Tocqueville in Harvard

Fri, 27 May 2011 16:44:25 GMT

According to Obama, judging by his Mideast speech the 1776 American Revolution is no different from so-called Arab Spring of 2011.

Another Tack: A revanchist cause called Nakba

Fri, 20 May 2011 16:14:51 GMT

The Arabs lost their own war and, ever since, are consumed by the twin rages of irredentism and revanchism

Another Tack: The Börne identification

Fri, 13 May 2011 16:13:51 GMT

Joint Fatah-Hamas venture should persuade even the most diehard peaceniks that the time has come to finally wise up, lose the illusion.

Another Tack: Court Jews in the Jewish state

Fri, 06 May 2011 16:16:58 GMT

With fiendish delight they know precisely how to offend, how to grate on our raw nerves, how to skew our symbols, how to demoralize, how to demean what means most to us.

Another Tack: Universalism’s toxic saccharine

Fri, 29 Apr 2011 16:19:31 GMT

Self-flagellating demagoguery reigns supreme among us, painting ourselves blacker than black, while absolving our enemies of any sin.

Another Tack: A blessed (if belated) epiphany?

Fri, 22 Apr 2011 17:22:49 GMT

Even our indefatigable Nobel Peace Laureate Shimon Peres couldn’t keep pretending, as is his wont, that all is peaches and cream and good feeling.

Another Tack: A Goldstone in the forest

Fri, 15 Apr 2011 16:11:07 GMT

Lack of resonance abroad to the judge’s regrets perhaps most effectively underscores why Israel was so right not to play along.

Another Tack: Where are the penitents?

Fri, 08 Apr 2011 16:54:26 GMT

Contrary to our indefatigable peace-purveyors, paying off assorted dictators to secure a semblance of accommodation is a losing proposition, because eventually these rulers will disappear.

Another Tack: Kremlin or Canossa?

Fri, 01 Apr 2011 14:09:57 GMT

Russia, siding with Israel’s existential foes, won’t alter its policies, even if sweetened by gifts of prime Jerusalem acreage.

Another Tack: A place of supposed safety

Fri, 25 Mar 2011 15:08:00 GMT

Our enemies’ chilling bloodlust isn’t the product of recent events, of geography or of ideological affiliation.

Another Tack: Roger Waters's jarring music

Fri, 18 Mar 2011 15:45:46 GMT

The lead singer’s assertion that a successive variety of extravagant Israeli sacrifices are all two-faced isn’t his private idiosyncrasy.

Another Tack: Prejudice with a halo

Fri, 11 Mar 2011 17:01:13 GMT

This is no time to allow ourselves to be bullied, bamboozled or beguiled by international busybodies, to say nothing of regional strongmen.

Another Tack: The Pliny perspective

Fri, 04 Mar 2011 08:53:20 GMT

A host of retired generals and cocky military types obsessively dictate this country’s agenda and belittle all that should alarm us.

Another Tack: Irresistible teachings from la-la land

Fri, 25 Feb 2011 16:15:31 GMT

We are naturally moved by scenes of mass defiance, by freedom mantras piercing the airwaves, by promises of new dawns arising.

Another Tack: Gilad Sharon is not Avigdor Lieberman

Fri, 18 Feb 2011 16:22:07 GMT

A deadly hush greeted the announcement that the police has concluded its decade-long investigation into alleged bribery charges in the Cyril Kern and Martin Schlaff cases. But who cares?

Another Tack: No one to trust

Fri, 11 Feb 2011 14:28:13 GMT

Right now, all American allies - Israelis among them - look like suckers liable to be left high and dry.

Another Tack: Two plus two equals...

Fri, 04 Feb 2011 16:20:05 GMT

In trying to figure out if and how peace is possible, our indefatigable mathematicians can be counted upon not to own up to any slipups.

Another Tack: Alas, poor Labor

Fri, 28 Jan 2011 16:31:39 GMT

Today’s Laborites failed to enunciate patriotic Jewish sentiments, and hence couldn’t win back people’s hearts.

Another Tack: Beyond the water's edge

Fri, 21 Jan 2011 16:24:50 GMT

What foreign governments and their local envoys allow themselves here, they wouldn’t begin to countenance in relation to any other government anywhere, even of the less-than-strictly-democratic variety.

Another Tack: Careful what you wish for

Fri, 14 Jan 2011 16:15:23 GMT

It’s time to acknowledge that anything which weakens this country is eagerly espoused by some on the Left.

Another Tack: It's our fault

Fri, 26 Nov 2010 15:17:31 GMT

Netanyahu caved in to the predictable pressure he imprudently invited and helped intensify.

Another Tack: The secret forces of Judaism

Fri, 19 Nov 2010 12:24:40 GMT

If anything unites America’s Left and Right, it’s the uncommon alacrity to blame Jews for whatever ails the world.

Another Tack: Roll over Beethoven

Fri, 12 Nov 2010 12:22:10 GMT

The word "appeasement" isn’t likely to give goose bumps to the class of 2014.

Another Tack: Ibrahim and Ibn-Rabah

Fri, 05 Nov 2010 16:30:09 GMT

When Christians voted to call the Cave of the Patriarchs the Ibrahimi Mosque and Rachel’s Tomb the Bilal Ibn-Rabah Mosque, they betrayed Christianity.

Another Tack: Shades of the shadow

Fri, 29 Oct 2010 16:22:23 GMT

Only Israeli judges possess infallible preternatural penetrating powers to ferret out a girl’s deepest and darkest secrets.

Another Tack: Sculpting idols, smiting idols

Fri, 22 Oct 2010 15:59:06 GMT

Each year the personality cult is revived via public ceremonies and politicized vigils; we’re all a captive audience of kitschy commissars.

Another Tack: Back to Basics

Fri, 15 Oct 2010 16:19:05 GMT

Israel merely asks that the Arabs belatedly accept 1947’s UN partition resolution, which provided for a Jewish state and which the Arabs violently violated.

Another Tack: The liberation of Tel al-Rabia

Fri, 08 Oct 2010 16:18:55 GMT

Those among us who believe that Tel Aviv was Tel al-Rabia inadvertently supply still-implacable enemies with ‘evidence’ of a Jewish crime.

Another Tack: Clinton’s KuBa conceit

Fri, 01 Oct 2010 16:05:31 GMT

Communist KuBa despaired of the proletarians; democratic Clinton despairs of participants in Israel’s democracy.

Another Tack: Unenlightened attachments

Fri, 17 Sep 2010 12:22:15 GMT

By not challenging Mahmoud Abbas’s pose as the champion of overthrowing oppression, Binyamin Netanyahu has allowed him to paint Israelis as oppressors.

Another Tack: Show in Rome; no-show in Ariel

Wed, 08 Sep 2010 17:05:57 GMT

Libyan strongman Gaddafi did in Rome what would have instigated barbaric lynching and savage rioting in Tripoli, to say nothing of Mecca.

Another Tack: From Brooklyn to Park Place

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 16:53:56 GMT

The FBI is offering $5 million for information on my fellow high school alumna’s ex-neighbor – Adnan el-Shukrijumah, al-Qaida’s new head of global operations.

Another Tack: Useful idiots in Tel Aviv

Fri, 27 Aug 2010 16:28:45 GMT

In a country obsessed with castigating incitement, the Beit Berl provocation – where Lieberman, Netanyahu and others are depicted in crude photomontages – goes remarkably unopposed.

Another Tack: Requiem for Kfar Darom

Fri, 20 Aug 2010 16:42:47 GMT

The Gaza settlement’s fate is something for all the good folks in Yad Mordechai, Nitzanim and Kfar Etzion to lose sleep over.

Another Tack: Hands off Abbas

Fri, 13 Aug 2010 15:26:52 GMT

The very notion of dragging an unwilling interlocutor to the negotiating table should be unthinkable.

Another Tack: A new Mideastern religion

Fri, 06 Aug 2010 16:13:51 GMT

Global movers and shakers never tire of the worn old two-state mantra, which they elevate to Gospel-like sanctity, with each futile reiteration.

Another Tack: Kitsch can kill

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 15:30:02 GMT

Though distasteful, the undeniable truth is that distraught parents can become potent weapons in the abductors’ psychological warfare arsenal.

Another Tack: Nadra’s rights be damned

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 15:29:53 GMT

Full-niqabs are increasingly noticeable throughout Israel. We’re beginning to see them in mixed cities like Lod and Jaffa, where the women add elbow-length gloves.

Another Tack: It’s only a paper moon

Fri, 16 Jul 2010 16:19:37 GMT

The near loathing demonstrated by Obama toward Netanyahu last time around wasn’t miraculously replaced overnight by a magnificent meeting of the minds.

Another Tack: Isolation II - My American cousins

Fri, 09 Jul 2010 16:16:21 GMT

It was from my own blood relations that I gained incipient insight into Israel’s isolation – even within the Jewish context.

Another Tack: Isolation I – How not to be Ill

Fri, 02 Jul 2010 15:56:40 GMT

Israel’s predicament uncannily resembles the plotline in Swiss playwright Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s now-classic 1956 tragicomedy ‘The Visit.'

Another Tack: Hamastan’s happy birthday

Fri, 25 Jun 2010 17:02:38 GMT

Unbelievably, the anniversary of Hamas’s hegemony in the Gaza Strip came and went with scant critical appraisal anywhere.

Another tack: Musings on skillful salami-slicers

Fri, 18 Jun 2010 16:38:23 GMT

The Arabs are matchless masters at deploying the deceit, whereas delusional broad-minded Jews voluntarily cast themselves as the ultimate dupes.

Another Tack: Edgardo and the quarterbacks

Fri, 11 Jun 2010 16:18:02 GMT

In the recesses of too many minds throughout the int'l community dwells the notion that Jews are inherently to blame for whatever befalls them.

Another Tack: The Otto Weininger syndrome

Fri, 04 Jun 2010 20:36:01 GMT

The mental aberration that the auto-anti-Semitic 23-year-old philosopher, who shot himself in 1903, took to extremes is still being taken to extremes by his torchbearers.

Another Tack: A glossary of newspeak slogans

Fri, 28 May 2010 16:08:06 GMT

The Left has a habit of downplaying, deriding and denigrating opposing convictions; and denying them resonance, it then portrays its own viewpoints as the majority’s article of faith.

Another Tack: We’ve come a long way, Bibi

Fri, 21 May 2010 19:04:43 GMT

The principle of direct talks steadfastly guided even the misguided progenitors of the Oslo folly – until Netanyahu’s current term.

The rightful heirs of Palestine

Fri, 14 May 2010 19:32:47 GMT

Napoleon had no doubt whose ancestral land this was and who were the only people who ever made it a distinct sovereign unit.

Another Tack: Either way, you’re dead!

Fri, 07 May 2010 15:41:34 GMT

We can avoid Iranian nukes by opting for the Auschwitz borders or we can avoid the Auschwitz borders but be bullied by Iranian nukes.

Another Tack: Impelled by filial piety?

Fri, 30 Apr 2010 16:23:47 GMT

Arun and Rajmohan Gandhi concluded that Arabs are victims of racism.

Another Tack: Loose lips sink ships

Fri, 23 Apr 2010 16:47:08 GMT

Anat Kamm may have been exploited by the unscrupulous media, but her offense wasn’t about freedom of the press.

Another Tack: Elijah from the Taiga

Fri, 16 Apr 2010 16:07:49 GMT

The story of Lithuania’s Betar head, who founded the Prisoners of Zion group.

Another Tack: Symptom of craziness

Fri, 09 Apr 2010 18:16:51 GMT

The Nazi-era annals of those with only tenuous Jewish links paradoxically illustrate how unparalleled the Holocaust was.

Another Tack: Putty in his hands

Fri, 02 Apr 2010 16:50:16 GMT

Obama’s pressure is all about attempting to make Israel more of an international pariah than it already is.

Another Tack: Taboo on Israeli chauvinism

Fri, 26 Mar 2010 17:04:54 GMT

Those Israelis not shunned in the media and on campuses abroad are predominantly left-wing trashers of their own country.

Another Tack: The Chicken Licken syndrome

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 17:03:13 GMT

It’s now up to Netanyahu to decide whether he’ll revive yesteryear’s resolve about Jerusalem or.

Peres’s extracurricular clinchers

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:48:00 GMT

The president’s irrepressible tinkering is every bit as predictable as were the unmitigated debacles of his pet Oslo project and of all its defeatist direct offshoots.

Another Tack: An Arab land

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:54:15 GMT

Were Israelis to unconditionally submit to ever-mutating Arab historiography, all attachments to the Western Wall and Mount of Olives would have to be abjectly relinquished.

Another Tack: Our enlightened Fisher-clones

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 16:25:04 GMT

Most Israeli leftists are hardly hostile anti-Zionists. They are just a lot like Irving Fisher, the self-confident star-economist.

‘Dam butlab dam’ – only for some

Fri, 19 Feb 2010 17:18:46 GMT

As in yesteryear, so in the 21st century, it’s axiomatic that Arabs have the right to inflict incalculable harm on Jews, but the Jews’ attempts to deflect such blows are evil, outrageous and deserving of merciless punishment.

Another Tack: Beit El’s mystery guest - guess who

Fri, 12 Feb 2010 16:29:07 GMT

The same Barak who told Beit El residents that "under no circumstances will we return to the ‘67 lines" spoke differently at the Herzliya Conference.

Another Tack: Nessie and why Obama can’t

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 17:05:45 GMT

The myth of an Israeli-Arab peace, like the Loch Ness monster, is too good a moneymaker to give up.

Another Tack: The good cop goes to Auschwitz

Sun, 31 Jan 2010 16:17:47 GMT

By appearing to identify with the concentration camp’s victims, MK Barakei implies an analogy between them and Palestinians.

Another Tack: The good cop goes to Auschwitz

Fri, 29 Jan 2010 18:07:42 GMT

By appearing to identify with the concentration camp’s victims, MK Barakei implies an analogy between them and Palestinians.

Another Tack: Masters and donkeys

Fri, 22 Jan 2010 11:13:02 GMT

When Obama's special Mideast envoy fails to object to carrot-and-stick speak, he implies that he's in charge, while we - threatened with a severe whack on the rump - are his asses.

Another Tack: Masters and donkeys

Fri, 22 Jan 2010 00:09:48 GMT

When Obama's special Mideast envoy fails to object to carrot-and-stick speak, he implies that he's in charge, while we - threatened with a severe whack on the rump - are his asses.

Another Tack: Keeping up appearances

Wed, 06 Jan 2010 17:28:26 GMT

Railing against Hamas participation in PA elections only deepens deception.