Olmert, Nasrallah, and more

Well, first it was the issue of a suspected bribe that Olmert and his wife took -- conveyed by way of an apartment sold to them at $500,000 less than market value. And now...

The Current Danger of Hizbullah

What is Hizbullah's situation three weeks after the cease-fire, and where is it headed? The emerging picture is as follows: It has, more or less, maintained a large portion of its military capabilities. Most of...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...