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Chanukah 2016: lessons for today

I would like to share with you my thoughts on the relationship between Chanukah and Israel’s present plight. Here I shall apply certain insights of Rabbi...

The second plane hits the South Tower. Some 9/11 conspiracy theories said that this plane was a tanker, not an airliner.

Executive8 years ago

9/11, Jews, and enlightenment

9/11 should never have happened. 3,000 people should not have lost their lives when Muslim terrorists hijacked American airliners and crashed them into the Twin Towers...

The Supreme Court of Israel ironically often violates the rule of law. That's why Israel badly needs judicial reform.

Guest Columns8 years ago

Rule of law v. terrorist releases

In brazen defiance of justice and the rule of law, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has slavishly adhered to the policy of releasing Arab terrorists as a...

Flawed policies come from a flawed election system of proportional representation and endless coalition government. Israel turns out to be a democratically elected despotism. In fact its policies cast doubt on whether Israel is a Jewish State or not. A Prime Minister who changes this system can become truly great. But it means ditching Israel's democratic reputation. The Likud Party make it worse when, dependent on Arab votes, they let insurrection slide.

Executive8 years ago

Proportional representation: flawed system

Many political scientists in Israel admit that its parliamentary electoral system of proportional representation (PR) breeds single-issue political parties – ethnic, religious, and economic – all...

Moshe Ya'alon displays great candor when he must.

Executive8 years ago

Candor v. politics: Ya’alon v. Netanyahu

Ten years ago, on January 23, 2006, former IDF Chief of Staff, Lt. Gen. Moshe Ya’alon, showed refreshing candor. He declared at the Herzliya Conference that...

Israel, Judea and Samaria (occupied territories?), and Gaza. All these are the real Jewish and Israeli birthright, from the beginning. A God-given birthright, as Trump should recognize.. Which now-in-force international law and treaties recognize, going back to the San Remo Resolution. Even UN Resolution 242 couldn't change that. Disengagement from any of them spells disaster. A two-state solution violates this birthright. (As a candidate for ambassador clearly understands.) Why won't the Likud Party protect this birthright? Why do some accuse champions of Judea-Samaria of having crypto-Nazi tendencies? What can dispel the confusion on this point? And will The New York Times correct their own record in this regard? Or does a generation of the unteachable prevent a properly sober discussion? And now a new battle cry sounds: no taxation without annexation. Where is the proper statecraft Israel needs? Note: Israel is also a safer place for Christians than any other country in the Middle East.

Executive8 years ago

Disengagement from Gaza: why?

When I was in Washington in April 2005, a full-page ad the Anti-Defamation League appeared in the Washington Jewish Week. It said: “Mr. Sharon, American Jews...

Guest Columns8 years ago

Election 2009 in Israel: manifest insanity

The results of the February 10, 2009 election contained an interesting twist relevant to this day.

What a Jihad recruitment poster would look like if they were honest about the rage and hate they bear toward anything non-Muslim. (Does that include mass rape as well?) This is the true face of the Muslim faith, and disqualifies it as a religion. Words like islamophobia will not change that. No room for moderates here. It turned Europe into Eurabia. This is World War III. It also captures the spirit of sedition in prominent American Muslims. not only sedition, but also barbarism - refusing to recognize anyone else as human. Take offense at this! Considering this attitude, intolerance of Arabs by Jewish residents of Israel has a sound warrant. The more reason, by the way, never to tolerate it. One does not tolerate the intolerable. (And by the way: radicalization always happens between two people. No one self-radicalizes.)

Executive8 years ago

Barbarism, Israel, Islam, and the Pope

Barbarism1 means as the inability or unwillingness to recognize another person as a human being. This definition fully applies to Muslims who refer to non-Muslims as...

Paratroopers visit Yad VaShem, greatest memorial to Jews, to remind themselves why they defend the Land of Israel. This is indeed a reminder of appropriate vengeance. Here also they remember a special class of Kedoshim, namely martyrs.

Executive8 years ago

Land of Israel and ballad mongers

I never cease to be astonished by the chutzpah of most Israeli Prime Ministers. Their policies suggest they personally own the Land of Israel and can...

James Risen writes for The NEw York Times. Bari Weiss resigned from it. Risen told the Times what he thinks, and it is not pretty. More recently, Sarah Palin sued this paper for libel.

Guest Columns8 years ago

The Times that try men’s souls

Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Jr., publisher of The New York Times, and Dean Baquet, executive editor, issued their reflection to their readers. After reviewing it several times,...