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When Shimon Peres, architect of the disastrous Israel-PLO Agreement of 1993, said one can learn nothing from history, he was recorded in the Guinness Record book...
Various passages of Alexis de Tocqueville’s unfinished work The European Revolution, where he discusses France under Napoleon and Rome under Augustus Caesar, indicate that Israel, especially...
The Torah tells us that Abraham was extremely old and that Sarah was beyond child-bearing age. Indeed, the Talmud says she had no womb! Rabbi Akiva...
When I was in Washington in April 2005, a full-page ad by the Anti-Defamation League appeared in the Washington Jewish Week. It said: “Mr. Sharon, American...
Since Israel us supposed to be a democracy, public opinion should influence the policies of Israeli Governments and Prime Ministers. But first let’s clarify this concept...
Several years ago, I presented a paper at a conference of the American Political Science Association in Washington, D.C. Many people were amazed to learn that...
Yehoshaphat Harkabi literally wrote the book on Arab attitudes toward Israel and the Jews. But he utterly failed to understand his own observations. Benjamin Netanyahu seems...
This is a slightly abridged version of an essay I wrote the month after the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin in November 1995. Nothing serious has yet...
To begin to understand why Muslims are backward, consider this passage from G. E. Von Grunebaum’s Modern Islam (1962):
Israel was accused of using disproportional force in response to Iran’s proxy Hezbollah in the Second Lebanese War. It may therefore be of interest to consider...
