Paradoxically, indeed perversely, the policies of Israel’s peace laureates have not only made peace increasingly remote, but Israel increasingly untenable. Itzhak Rabin Poor Menachem [Begin]… I got back… the Sinai and the Alma oil fields, and what has Menachem got? A piece of paper. – Anwar Sadat, on the peace …
Read More »Jewish Left-Dwelling Americans
Jewish Left-Dwelling Americans are probably among the most well-meaning people on the entire planet. I have never seen such unrequited niceness in my entire life, actually. I suppose that I am just a tad biased, but I am willing to bet good shekels that American Jews are over-represented in the …
Read More »Coming Out in Favor of a Single State.
For many years I advocated for the two-state solution because I believed that Israel could be a democratic state, a Jewish state, or a single state from the river to the sea, but not all three at once. This is, of course, the common analysis and it is a perfectly …
Read More »‘Arlene from Israel’ – Never Happened.
You may well have read various news items in the last few days about how Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi, president of Egypt offered a deal to Abbas: What was said was that al-Sisi was prepared to turn over to Abbas a considerable swath of land in the Sinai adjacent to …
Read More »Arlene in Israel – Rays of Light
More and more it seems, the nations of the world are arrayed against us: Israel is criticized for not accepting a Fatah-Hamas unity government, for building in Judea and Samaria, etc. etc. But there is one turn-around that, while modest, is significant. The government of Australian Prime Minister “Tony” Abbott …
Read More »US official: Obama blames settlements for failed talks
In the Times of Israel we read: Earlier this month, anonymous American officials personally involved in Israeli-Palestinian peace talks – special envoy Martin Indyk presumed to have been among them – provided a harsh assessment to a respected Israeli journalist of why negotiations failed, highlighting Israel’s continued settlement construction as …
Read More »A Settler’s Blog – Why I live in the “Settlements”
Written by Paula R. Stern First published on Times of Israel – reprinted with the permission of the author (me). I had a choice when I moved to Israel – the whole country was open to me. It wasn’t like I had family living in a place they expected me …
Read More »Inappropriate Use of the Fourth Geneva Convention
Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War.. November 18, 2013 | Eli E. Hertz. Background.. The language of Article 49 was crafted in the wake of World War II and the Nazi occupation – an occupation that led to a war of aggression in which Nazi Germany attacked its neighbors with …
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