Operation Pillar of Defense

The time we spend trying to satisfy our craving for data may cost us our opportunity to benefit from help.

There is absolutely no 'moral equivalency' to be found in this war, despite profoundly misguided attempts by journalists in the international press to present one.

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.

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.

The international boycott movement directed against Israel seeks to draw the false and libelous analogy between South Africa and Israel. And even though it is a campaign based on lies and hatred, nevertheless it has a chance of succeeding.

As Eban put it in a speech in London in 1970: “History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.”

The decision not to launch a ground operation was made with an acute awareness of the grave challenges that lie ahead.

‘And Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck, and kissed him; and they wept’ (Vayishlah; Genesis 33:4)

It is up to gov'ts in J'lem and Cairo to hammer out an effective arrangement on Hamas’s rearmament efforts.

US comedian Butch Bradley isn’t concerned about coming here: "When I’m in Israel I feel safe."