Monthly Archives: August 2006

Figs On Rosh Hodesh, Or

And so it came to be. On Rosh Hodesh Elul, we will sit with our family in our garden for Shabbat dinner, fulfilling the prophecies of old, that foresaw a time when we would all sit in peace under our fig trees and appreciate the peace of mind that the land of Israel can at times provide.

On The Palestinian School Curriculum: Erasing Israel

As this is being written, in late August 2006, news wires around the world are running a story that Mahmoud Abbas, head of the Palestinian Authority, has launched a new peace initiative with Israel. However, the new school books that the same Mahmoud Abbas has now introduced in the Palestinian Authority school system - run independently of Hamas - represent a curriculum that prepares a new generation of Palestinians to destroy Israel.

Teaching Destruction of Israel in the Mainstream Schools of the Palestinian Authority

As this is being written, in late August 2006, news wires around the world are running a story that Machmud Abbas, head of the Palestinian Authority, has launched a new peace initiative with Israel. However,...

Insight

If Hezbollah -- using sophisticated PR -- has promoted the perception that we've lost, then this rebounds on us seriously within the Arab world, which will be ready to see us as vulnerable and...

UNIFIL – Revealing Israeli Positions to the Hizbullah

DURING THE RECENT month-long war between Hezbollah and Israel, U.N. "peacekeeping" forces made a startling contribution: They openly published daily real-time intelligence, of obvious usefulness to Hezbollah, on the location, equipment, and force structure of...

Hizbullah Prepares for Round 2

Israel has assessed that Hizbullah, prodded by Iran and Syria, is preparing to renew its war against Israel. Israeli officials said the intelligence community has tracked Hizbullah efforts to rearm in wake of the 33-day...

Commentary on the trying times for Israel

These are serious and somber times for Israel. No question about it. And to make light of it would be foolish and shortsighted. Is the situation hopeless? Absolutely not. I was, in fact, quite irritated...

Figs on RoshHodesh: A personal note

A PERSONAL THOUGHT A simple request from my wife, Sara, before Shabbat. "Would you pick some figs off the tree in our yard for Shabbat"?. This was the first time that our tree in the yard...

Rationale Used by “Peace Now” to Destroy Jewish Communities in Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria and...

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and the Israeli-Syrian conflict, play into the hands of Iran, which seeks to destroy Israel, and serve as fertile ground for expanding the opposition to Israel in the Middle East, in...

For Uzi Landau, the Handwriting was on the Wall

www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/754136.html A day before the current government was sworn in, on April 17, former Knesset member Uzi Landau found out he has prostate cancer. This grave news came on top of the Likud defeat in...