The announcements this week by Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's top advisers, in-house generals and Vice Premier Shimon Peres (along with Sharon's dubious denials) that the government will now begin planning more land giveaways to the Palestinians after last month's destruction of our communities in Gaza and northern Samaria ought to have caused a furor in... [ Read entire Post ]
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September 2005 Archives
September 29, 2005 at 3:30 PM
The rewards of cynicism
September 26, 2005 at 3:20 PM
The death of memory
There is not a single political leader in Israel who will not uphold the country's identity as the Jewish state. But what does that mean? Does the fact that Israel is the Jewish state mean that it has a unique mission in the world that distinguishes it from every other state? The overwhelming majority of... [ Read entire Post ]
September 22, 2005 at 3:04 PM
Israel's disengaged establishment
In the months that preceded the forcible eviction of all Israelis from their homes and communities in Gaza and northern Samaria, and during last month's expulsions themselves, the commanders of the IDF and police responsible for the operation defined "preventing" or "not exacerbating" the "schism in the nation" as one of their principal goals. This... [ Read entire Post ]
September 19, 2005 at 2:58 PM
Arik's talking points
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's daily talking points are becoming increasingly delusional. Standing before foreign audiences and journalists he libels his political opponents as "radical extremists" who have stolen the Likud from him. Between attacking them personally and deriding Israel's democratic process generally Sharon found the time to launch a weird rhetorical offensive against Hamas. In... [ Read entire Post ]
September 15, 2005 at 2:47 PM
Gaza's long shadow
Less than a week after the IDF's final retreat from Gaza, Israel's senior military brass found itself warding off attacks on two fronts. In Gaza, now empty of all Jewish presence, the Palestinians lost no time in taking charge of events in their own special way. First came the firebombing of the synagogues. We were... [ Read entire Post ]
September 12, 2005 at 2:39 PM
America's dark side
Last Thursday Israel sent a plane laden with relief supplies to New Orleans to aid victims of Hurricane Katrina. The Foreign Ministry's Web site noted that the shipment included "80 tons of food, disposable diapers, beds, blankets, generators and additional equipment which were donated from different governmental institutions, civilian institutions and the IDF." The Web... [ Read entire Post ]
September 9, 2005 at 2:35 PM
The image of the truth
They say that one picture is worth a thousand words. No doubt this is true. But what is the guarantee that those words are truthful? On September 30, 2000, The New York Times ran a photograph that, no doubt, for the photo editor, told the entire tale of the then two-day-old Palestinian terror war against... [ Read entire Post ]
September 5, 2005 at 2:14 PM
Our Pakistani pals
Last Thursday's "historic" meeting between Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom and Pakistani Foreign Minister Khurshid Kasuri in Istanbul was immediately extolled by the local media as the "first fruits" of the disengagement from Gaza. In his statement following the meeting Shalom said, "I wish to particularly thank President Musharraf for his courage in promoting peace and... [ Read entire Post ]
September 2, 2005 at 6:32 PM
The true believers and Netanyahu
SADLY, IN Israel, we have no diversity in our media and therefore, we have no public debate. The Pravda-like uniformity of the Israeli media was nowhere more apparent than in its coverage of Binyamin Netanyahu's press conference on Tuesday, where he announced his candidacy for leadership of the Likud Party against Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.... [ Read entire Post ]
