Commentary: Our Fate and Faith At This Time
I offer here a link to a piece by Barry Rubin called "Goodbye to Western Civilization." I urge all of you to read it, but particularly those who are in N. America. There must...
Commentary on the War Commission Report
To date, we are seeing the following in response to the interim Winograd report:
A special Cabinet meeting was held today. A committee, chaired by former chief of staff Amnon Lipkin-Shahak, is being formed to...
Defection of an Iranian General: Iranian Nuclear Secrets Revealed
Leading Israeli investigative journalist Ronen Bergmann has confirmed that General Ali Reza Askari, who disappeared in Istanbul last February and about whom many guesses were published about what had happened to him, defected to...
U.S.-Saudi Arabia Arms Deal Is Viewed As Threat To Israel
After initial comments by Prime Minister Ehud Olmert that the American-Saudi deal was simply a gesture to a moderate Arab regime, Israeli officials issued a clear statement of condemnation of the deal as "counterproductive...
Incisive Commentary from Arlene Kushner, Augu. 5th-10th, 2007
Posting: August 10, 2007
"Our IDF"
I want to return here to the issue of soldiers who refused to participate in evicting Hevron residents from the marketplace, Mitzpe Shalhevet.
The story as it was widely presented, was...
Genesis of an Anti-Semitic State
Imagine, if you would, that a nascent nation state, somewhere in the world, was in formation that had taken on these features:
Its new constitution would not allow for any juridical status for Judaism.
Jews would...
Incisive Commentary from Arlene Kushner
Posting: October 9, 2007
"Speechless?"
Not quite. It takes a lot to render me speechless. But the events of the last few days push me in that direction. The foolishness, the essential errors in thinking, the...
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, on her way to Israel… Contradicts Four U.S....
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, on her way to Israel, called Jewish settlement building "a problem" and said Israel had not done enough to ease restrictions on Palestinians in the occupied West Bank....
PCPO Poll of Palestinians: 56.0 %:41.4% oppose suicide bombings inside Israel, 89.8% Don’t give...
Poll No. 165 Date: June 18, 2008
The most recent poll of the Palestinian Center for Public Opinion prepared by Dr. Nabil Kukali has revealed that:
(83.0 %) of the Palestinians support at present the Palestinian-Israeli...
Samir Kuntar and the Last Laugh
Israel has lived the past sixty years more intensively than any other country.
Its highs - the resurrection of a two-thousand year old state in 1948, history's most lopsided military victory in 1967, and the...