JPost.com - Uri Savir Reporter

Savir's Corner: Humor in conflict

Thu, 16 May 2013 22:00:29 GMT

A sense of humor is innate in all human beings; in situations of hardship, it serves as a mechanism to cope with it.

Savir's Corner: National priorities

Thu, 09 May 2013 22:37:00 GMT

"A state budget should reflect the priorities of the state; policy planning should come before budget planning".

Savir's Corner: Understanding through listening

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 20:22:03 GMT

We must listen to the voices of peace and moderation; Palestinians to Shimon Peres, the ultimate Israeli nation-builder with empathy for the Palestinian cause, and Israelis to Abu Mazen (Mahmoud Abbas), a life-long leader in the PLO, and a man of peace.

Savir's Corner: National security

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 21:28:53 GMT

We need a better framework of regional cooperation in the areas of shared infrastructure, water, energy, environment and tourism, and also security and anti-terrorism.

Savir's Corner: Lunch at the Knesset cafeteria

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 21:18:38 GMT

Instead of leading society to better shores, the legislature reflects the worst of it, inflated egos serving themselves instead of the people.

Savir's Corner: Ideological reform

Thu, 04 Apr 2013 20:57:45 GMT

We must make the distinction between Israel – that is still widely accepted and supported in the world as the homeland of the Jewish people – and Israeli policies, which for years now have been rejected.

Savir's Corner: Thank you Mr. President

Thu, 28 Mar 2013 21:45:48 GMT

No one, even right-wing Republicans and Israelis, will be able to say that Obama is not a staunch friend of Israel.

Savir's Corner: Welcome, Mr. President!

Wed, 20 Mar 2013 22:55:49 GMT

President Barack Obama is a representative of a new America, a more multicultural one, a new coalition of minorities.

Savir's Corner: Interdependence

Thu, 14 Mar 2013 22:19:13 GMT

It remains our strongest and best ally, but America, too, for its own interests, is dependent on the views and policies of other powers and countries.

Savir's Corner: The day after

Thu, 07 Mar 2013 21:34:57 GMT

The leaders have to look beyond just pomp, ceremony and rousing speeches, and toward making important realistic decisions.

Savir's Corner: Leadership in the modern age

Thu, 28 Feb 2013 21:58:15 GMT

Leadership is mostly about courage – civil courage to face constituencies with integrity and honesty, to include them in policy-making.

Savir's Corner: Raising expectations

Thu, 21 Feb 2013 20:41:05 GMT

For peace to be sustained, it must be inclusive of mainstream constituencies and legitimized by them.

Savir's Corner: Africa

Thu, 14 Feb 2013 22:17:53 GMT

While there is indeed a growing awareness of the gaps between rich and poor, the situation has not really improved.

Welcome, Secretary Kerry!

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 21:50:31 GMT

From the outset, he should make it clear that while he is indeed a friend, he represents the strategic interests of the United States, and will not tolerate, from foes or friends, any harm to them.

Savir's Corner: Burst the bubble!

Thu, 31 Jan 2013 21:56:03 GMT

It is time for Yair Lapid, the man who represents the move from dangerous ideologies to pragmatism and democracy, to burst the Tel Aviv bubble and create the necessary bridge between Israel and the world.

Savir's Corner: The Israeli

Thu, 24 Jan 2013 21:19:46 GMT

Israelis know they deserve better and in the long run will probably not tolerate abuse.

Savir's Corner: A national emergency government

Sun, 13 Jan 2013 21:28:59 GMT

I do not envy Binyamin Netanyahu on the morning of January 23.

A Palestinian-Jordanian confederation

Thu, 10 Jan 2013 22:04:06 GMT

Savir's Corner: There are many advantages to a confederative solution between a State of Palestine and the Kingdom of Jordan from the perspective of Palestinians and Jordanians, of Israel, and of the international community led by the United States.

Savir's Corner: Looking ahead to 2013

Thu, 03 Jan 2013 22:16:45 GMT

As I did at the beginning of 2012, this column will provide a forecast of the world, regional and Israeli scene in the coming year.

Savir's Corner: An officer and a man of peace

Thu, 27 Dec 2012 22:28:30 GMT

At a time when Israel is most in need of these qualities – courage, strategic foresight, self-confidence, understanding of and with others, strength, humanity and humility – the man who personified and symbolized all these is no longer among us.

In 30 days: Fundamentalism or Liberalism

Thu, 20 Dec 2012 22:19:36 GMT

Savir's Corner: Our very democratic foundations are endangered by a multitude of factions and by the prevailing reactionary set of nationalistic and xenophobic views of our leader and shakers.

A Middle East union of young progressives

Thu, 13 Dec 2012 21:18:26 GMT

Savir's Corner: It is high time to let the young of this region, and of our country, lead the way out of the Middle Eastern ghetto.

Savir's Corner: Wanted- An Israeli democratic party

Thu, 06 Dec 2012 21:31:44 GMT

A new Israeli democratic party, with such clear policy positions and a united Center-Left front, can become a home for the many progressive forces in the country, including from the moderate Right, in order to sustain our all-important democracy.

Savir's Corner: The end of the war – time to talk

Thu, 29 Nov 2012 23:03:28 GMT

Just as the last one was, wars are terrible and have become fairly superfluous. Yet they can change basic concepts about national security, as happened to us in 1967, to Egypt in 1973 and hopefully now to us again in 2012.

Savir's Corner: Gaza and the West Bank – Hamas and Fatah

Thu, 22 Nov 2012 22:00:04 GMT

It is high time for us in Israel to understand that military solutions to national conflicts are virtually impossible.

Savir's Corner: Obama’s America

Thu, 15 Nov 2012 22:15:40 GMT

Barack Obama’s 2012 election victory is no less significant than his first election as an African-American to the US’s highest office in 2008.

Savir's Corner: Escapism and the peace process

Thu, 08 Nov 2012 21:53:48 GMT

We have a decade left to prevent the settlers dream come true, or rather the nightmare that awaits us.

Savir's Corner: Center-Left and extreme Right

Thu, 01 Nov 2012 22:35:06 GMT

It’s not the right-wing of Menachem Begin, who respected democracy, but rather an outlook prevalent today in the European extreme right-wing parties of nationalism, driven by populism, and not necessarily always by the rule of law.

The Jews in the Land of Promise and in the Promised Land

Thu, 25 Oct 2012 22:45:53 GMT

Savir's Corner: President Shimon Peres once said that the whole issue of “Who is a Jew” should not only center on what our parents were, but even more so on if our children will remain Jewish.

Savir's Corner: The United States and the Arab world

Thu, 18 Oct 2012 22:31:47 GMT

2013 will be a critical crossroad year for the US-Arab relationship, and has to be treated with urgency, wisdom and courage.

Savir's Corner: Only the Right can?

Thu, 11 Oct 2012 21:57:56 GMT

The Right “can do it,” but unfortunately by implementing nondemocratic values and dangerous policies.

Savir's Corner: A new United Nations is needed

Thu, 04 Oct 2012 22:22:31 GMT

The world is numb listening to useless addresses in an organization that has become ineffective in dealing with today’s global challenges.

Bill Clinton for the Middle East peace process

Thu, 20 Sep 2012 21:56:20 GMT

Savir's Corner: Bill Clinton has the necessary character and capacities to implement a proactive American Middle East policy, under President Obama as of 2013, if indeed he is reelected.

Savir's Corner: We should listen to Shimon Peres

Thu, 13 Sep 2012 22:16:58 GMT

Peres has become the anchor of our democratic system – a system suffering from polarization, fragmentation and a tragic loss of values and direction.

Savir's Corner: Diplomacy in the digital age

Thu, 06 Sep 2012 21:52:17 GMT

Diplomacy in this new era needs to be the art of making peace, connecting regionally and globally on trade, tourism, economic development and culture.

Savir's Corner: Obama’s 2nd term and the Middle East

Thu, 23 Aug 2012 20:53:16 GMT

Obama’s campaign slogan for 2012 is “Forward.” and it seems that forward he may move.

Savir's Corner: War-ning on Iran

Thu, 16 Aug 2012 22:12:27 GMT

If the analysts are right about intentions of Netanyahu, Barak, then Israel is about to commit the greatest mistake in our modern history.

Savir's Corner: The Olympic World

Thu, 09 Aug 2012 21:45:09 GMT

The Olympics are a celebration of youth and promise. The Middle East and Israel were part of this celebration..admiring the modern-day global heroes.

Savir's Corner: Gender equality

Thu, 02 Aug 2012 22:12:34 GMT

In the first modern Olympics in 1896, women did not participate, just as in ancient Greece.

Savir’s Corner: In need of leadership

Thu, 26 Jul 2012 21:44:04 GMT

It is almost taken as a forgone conclusion that Bibi will win the next election. Well, it doesn’t have to be that way. The people of Israel know that they deserve and need better.

Savir's Corner: Turkey first

Thu, 19 Jul 2012 22:33:50 GMT

The Netanyahu government must understand that our national security must take into account strategic shifts in the region.

Savir's Corner: The Tal legislation and equality

Thu, 12 Jul 2012 21:43:11 GMT

Vision of Shloime from Bnei Brak, Muhammad with his keffiyeh standing in line at the IDF recruitment base is far from reality.

Savir's Corner: Euro 2012 and the euro

Thu, 05 Jul 2012 21:29:38 GMT

Without some good old Israeli xenophobia no event is perfect.

Savir's Corner: In the aftermath of the Arab Spring

Thu, 28 Jun 2012 20:58:33 GMT

Egypt has been and will continue to be the clear and undisputed leader of the Arab world.

Savir's Corner: Information revolution and civil society

Thu, 21 Jun 2012 22:25:22 GMT

After Guttenberg print revolution, information, mainly through newspapers, books, became widely distributed, people more informed.

45 years since the Six Day War

Thu, 14 Jun 2012 22:23:25 GMT

Savir's corner: Every Israeli feared for survival of state as war broke out to defend Israel against pan-Arab threat to our very being.

Savir's Corner: Tel Aviv, the quintessential Israel

Thu, 07 Jun 2012 22:14:31 GMT

Tel Aviv, the city that never sleeps, was a center of global attention last week when Madonna opened her world tour here.

Savir's Corner: Diplomacy on Iran

Thu, 31 May 2012 22:15:32 GMT

I doubt if at this point the Iranians themselves know how they will react to a real give-and-take offer.

Savir's Corner: Sporting pathways to coexistence

Thu, 24 May 2012 22:01:21 GMT

There is much talk in Israel these days, and it is quite justified, about violence and racism in sports.

Savir's Corner: Protesting in 2012

Thu, 17 May 2012 20:45:04 GMT

Protest of young generation is global phenomenon in Occupy Wall Street, Occupy London, Arab Spring and Rothschild Boulevard protest.

National unity, but not national decisions

Thu, 10 May 2012 22:17:08 GMT

Savir's Corner: Elections in US still taking place; elections in Israel postponed, may take place on time in 2013 or earlier.

Savir's Corner: The ‘Hasbara’ Syndrome

Thu, 03 May 2012 21:41:37 GMT

To say that Israel today is not popular internationally or that it suffers from a bad image is an understatement.

Savir's Corner: The European Union and the peace process

Thu, 26 Apr 2012 22:01:30 GMT

The real aspiration to become “European” has to be in the development of a regional approach for the Middle East.

Savir's Corner: American Jewry and Israel

Thu, 19 Apr 2012 21:51:58 GMT

The myths around remaining Jewish are related to religion and to relations with the non-Jews of America.

Savir's Corner: The summer of 2012

Wed, 11 Apr 2012 21:05:43 GMT

Israel should continue to insist on self-reliance, but understand that strength, progress are achieved through coalitions.

Savir's Corner: The summer of 2012

Wed, 11 Apr 2012 21:01:12 GMT

Israel should continue to insist on self-reliance, but understand that strength, progress are achieved through coalitions.

Savir's Corner: On the value of freedom

Thu, 05 Apr 2012 22:59:14 GMT

The festival of freedom should remind us that freedom is a universal value and that the freedom of individuals and of peoples are interrelated.

Savir's Corner: On the importance of education

Thu, 29 Mar 2012 21:48:49 GMT

One can judge by the quality of education the state of a society with respect to its development, values and future.

Savir's Corner: National security or national disaster?

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 22:34:41 GMT

While Israel today is one of the strongest military powers in the world, we must say that Israel has a serious objective security predicament.

Savir's Corner: Facebook and leadership

Thu, 15 Mar 2012 21:59:41 GMT

Bibi has not entered the real Facebook world, which is a borderless one, but communicates mainly inside Israel’s borders.

Savir's Corner: Between Damascus and Tehran

Thu, 08 Mar 2012 22:37:55 GMT

Israel, with the shifting of the balance of powers in the region, needs to pose itself critical questions of national security.

Savir's Corner: Unmasking our leaders

Thu, 01 Mar 2012 21:27:07 GMT

Most of our leaders and representatives have long given up on thinking what is best for the country’s well-being, prosperity, security and peace.

Savir's Corner: Globalization

Thu, 23 Feb 2012 21:50:24 GMT

War endangers both the global belonging and local interests.

Savir's Corner: Angela Merkel’s leadership

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 22:47:22 GMT

Merkel walks in the footsteps of Konrad Adenauer and Charles de Gaulle, who made the peace and unity of Europe possible.

Savir's Corner: A new American strategy

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 22:12:10 GMT

The Mubarak-Pentagon axis must be replaced by a Tahrir-Harvard one.

Savir's Corner: Tunisia as a model

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 23:02:58 GMT

I believe we should be talking not necessarily of a new Middle East but of a new Mediterranean area of peace and coexistence.

Savir's Corner: The Facebook revolution

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 23:01:38 GMT

Savir's Corner: Syria after Assad

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 22:49:46 GMT

In many ways Syrian rebellion is most significant symptom of Arab Spring, given the fully totalitarian, nationalistic nature of the Assad regime.

Savir's Corner: Women to the front

Thu, 05 Jan 2012 22:31:37 GMT

Harassment of woman for not sitting in back of bus did not happen in Tehran, but rather in Jerusalem.

Savir's Corner: 2012 - A look ahead

Thu, 29 Dec 2011 22:18:52 GMT

Some may argue that the reality will be more or less in the middle of these two scenarios. I firmly believe that in principle it’s either-or.

Savir's Corner: Emergency!

Thu, 22 Dec 2011 21:26:14 GMT

crisis is evident in Israel, where our political leadership has practically ceased ruling, instead clinging to power, curtailing democracy and human rights.

Savir's Corner: A nuclear free zone

Thu, 15 Dec 2011 21:54:34 GMT

"The Iranian development of a military nuclear capability is the single most dangerous threat to Israel’s security."

Savir's Corner: Patriotism

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 22:12:26 GMT

The people of Israel must return to the basic values of true patriotism: the values of our Declaration of Independence.

Savir's Corner: The 29th of November

Thu, 01 Dec 2011 22:13:17 GMT

This week marked the 64th anniversary of the UN vote, and we are still in conflict over the same question of Palestine.

Savir's Corner: In need of a new system

Thu, 24 Nov 2011 22:21:36 GMT

If we wish to rescue our basic fundamental values, and Israel as a Jewish democratic state, we have to save the existing balances and create new ones – between the government and those represented by civil society.

Savir's Corner: Obama 2012

Thu, 17 Nov 2011 22:06:46 GMT

Every Israeli will admit that our national security and even economic well-being are highly dependent on our main ally – the United States.

Savir's corner: Freeze settlements now!

Thu, 10 Nov 2011 22:34:57 GMT

It is high time that the government make a choice between the advice of Gush Emunim’s leadership and that of the heads of our security establishment.

Savir's Corner: The end of dictatorship

Thu, 03 Nov 2011 22:47:54 GMT

It’s time to work with and for the people who are at the basis of the Middle East revolutions, not those who want to abuse them.

Savir's Corner: There must be another way

Thu, 27 Oct 2011 22:44:28 GMT

If the Schalit prisoner deal has taught us one thing, it is that we have to stop being the commentator of the region and the abstract planners of unrealistic policies.

Savir's Corner: The Price Tag

Thu, 13 Oct 2011 21:49:04 GMT

If we want to remain a Jewish and democratic country, we have to fight Jewish racism. It is a matter of our very soul, character, strength and morality.

Savir's Corner: It’s about peace

Thu, 06 Oct 2011 22:33:38 GMT

Netanyahu, Abbas, Gen. Mohamed Tantawi, Obama – and even Dafni Leef and Yacimovich – had better understand this sooner rather than later.

Savir's Corner: Alone together

Tue, 27 Sep 2011 22:30:36 GMT

Indian poet wrote: “I am alone, you are alone, let’s be alone together.” This phrase sums up current positions of Israel, Palestine.

Savir's Corner: October opportunity or autumn tsunami?

Thu, 22 Sep 2011 20:56:28 GMT

Up to Netanyahu, Abbas, Obama to find last minute solution, open a new multilateral process for the people of the region.

Savir's Corner: Israel - ‘Yes’

Thu, 15 Sep 2011 20:55:29 GMT

“Yes” would be an honest vote, as the creation of a Palestinian state is very much an Israeli interest, for several reasons.

Savir's Corner: The Egyptian connection

Thu, 08 Sep 2011 21:39:36 GMT

As a country and as government, we have to strike a new balance with Egypt.

Savir's Corner: An American September

Thu, 01 Sep 2011 21:15:45 GMT

US should develop new operative peace initiative to prevent deterioration in September, convene regional peace conference in Washington.

Savir's Corner: Happy birthday, Mr. Peres!

Thu, 25 Aug 2011 21:58:42 GMT

I'm convinced if Peres were left to his devices, he would achieve peace in the region, as he understands translation of power into goodwill.

Savir's Corner

Thu, 18 Aug 2011 22:15:15 GMT

If Netanyahu and Abbas want to prove real leadership for their peoples, they should choose a path of both courage and compromise.

Savir's corner: An Israeli spring

Fri, 12 Aug 2011 00:07:03 GMT

"The courageous youth on Rothschild Blvd. must accept that our society and the Palestinian one are interdependent."

Savir's Corner: A new deal for Israel?

Thu, 04 Aug 2011 22:29:48 GMT

We need a deal that will lead to a fair Israel, to a better economy, to a just society, to new politics, to peace and to respect of fundamental human values.

Savir's Corner: Israel’s Facebook generation

Thu, 28 Jul 2011 22:02:09 GMT

The government must listen to the voices and concerns of its constituency.

Savir's Corner: September’s Spring

Fri, 22 Jul 2011 16:43:51 GMT

Is it possible that Netanyahu doesn't understand that the one thing that will maintain Israel’s Jewish character is a clear Jewish majority in the country?

‘And the young shall lead’

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:07:22 GMT

We are at the beginning of a process of peace by the people, for the people.