Hugo Chávez’s Jewish Problem

In December 1998, preaching a gospel of socialist revolution that had gone blessedly unvoiced in the decade following the fall of the Berlin Wall, Hugo Chávez won a landslide election for the presidency of...

The Myth of Moderate Islam

Posted June 2008 Supporting moderation in all things Islamic may seem like a no-brainer, but woe betide the policymaker who tries to turn a plausible idea into a workable strategy Categorize this: Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi wants...

Palestinian Public Opinion Poll No (28): 75.8% Reconciliation impossible this generation even if Palestinians...

12 June 2008 These are the results of the latest poll conducted by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research (PSR) in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip between 5 and 7 June...

Lack of Authority and Unwarranted Tampering with International Law

Two distinct issues exist: the issue of Jerusalem and the issue of the Holy Places. Cambridge Professor Sir Elihu Lauterpacht, Judge ad hoc of the International Court of Justice and a renowned editor of...

Clear and present danger: String of disastrous decisions shows that government is our greatest...

It is difficult to grasp. It is even difficult to accept. But it is no longer possible to deny the almost unthinkable truth. Today the People of Israel and the State of Israel are facing...

She’s not all pure: An Assessment of Tzippi Livni

While it is certainly time for Israel to once again have a woman prime minister - if only to make life uncomfortable for Shas and the other chauvinists around the cabinet table - this...

Dialogue with Arab students

On Thursday evening, May 29, a group of Israeli and Arab college students were aired live on Al Jazeera from Haifa from where they participated in a special two-hour program. The college students, who...

Why Israel Conquered The Golan Heights

The course of history can be changed by the determination of one man who stands up for what he believes in when he is listened to by people who are in a position of...

Incisive Commentary

Posting: June 6, 2008 "Shifting" The situation. Sometimes I see us simply going in the most frustrating circles, but now (very tentatively) I see a shift in some of what we're dealing with. We might start with...

CAN OLMERT’S SYRIAN INITIATIVE LEAD TO FELONY CHARGES?

On May 22nd, 2008, Adv. Yosef Fuchs, a member of the Israel Bar Association and a founder of the Israel Legal Forum, dispatched a strong letter to Israel Attorney General Menachem Mazoz, in which...