When thousands of IDF reservists were released from service at the end of last summer's war they were angry and demanded an accounting from the Olmert-Livni-Peretz government and from the IDF's General Staff. The reservists rightly felt that they and the country had been betrayed by failed political and military leaders who chose the wrong... [ Read entire Post ]
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April 2007 Archives
April 30, 2007 at 9:11 AM
What commissions cannot do
April 26, 2007 at 9:00 AM
Bishara and the Old Guard
Since the details of former MK Azmi Bishara's rap sheet for treason are still secret, it is impossible to assess how his actions on behalf of Hizbullah during last summer's war affected Israel's campaign against Iran's proxy army in Lebanon. But even without knowing the specifics of Bishara's crimes, two notable aspects of his case... [ Read entire Post ]
April 25, 2007 at 9:19 AM
Israel's fighting philosopher
Sunday, just hours before the people of Israel bowed their heads in memory of the 22,305 Israel Defense Force soldiers who have fallen in the country’s wars, a funeral took place in Kedumim in Samaria.An outside observer of the scene would have been forgiven had he thought he was witnessing a soldier’s funeral. Most of... [ Read entire Post ]
April 17, 2007 at 8:50 AM
Fighting the next war
Last Friday, Haaretz's military commentator Ze'ev Schiff accused the Barak and Sharon governments of responsibility for last summer's war. As Schiff put it, since the IDF withdrawal from southern Lebanon in May 2000, "a threatening system [comprised of Hizbullah, Syria and Iran] arose [on Israel's northern border], which required a preemptive strike. The aversion to... [ Read entire Post ]
April 16, 2007 at 11:49 PM
The weakest link
The British people could be forgiven if they feel bewildered by the poor treatment they have been receiving at the hands of the Muslims of late. Iran places Britain in the category of Satan, along with the US and Israel, and eagerly kidnapped its servicemen and humiliated Her Majesty's Admiralty and Government. But for all... [ Read entire Post ]
April 12, 2007 at 11:39 PM
The long road to victory
The common wisdom in Washington these days is that the Americans will leave Iraq by the end of President George W. Bush's presidency regardless of the situation on the ground. This view is based on the proposition that Iraq is unwinnable and it has had a devastating impact on the administration's confidence that it can... [ Read entire Post ]
April 9, 2007 at 11:30 PM
The next grand bargain
Shoshana Amos, Aviel Atash, Vitaly Brodsky, Tamara Dibrashvilli, Raisa Forer, Larisa Gomanenko, Denise Hadad, Tatiana Kortchenko, Rosita Lehman, Karine Malka, Nargiz Ostrovsky, Maria Sokolov, Roman Sokolovsky, Tiroayent Takala, Eliyahu Uzan, Emmanuel Yosef (Yosefov). All the above were murdered on August 31, 2004, in twin bus bombings in Beersheba. The attack was planned and commanded by... [ Read entire Post ]
April 5, 2007 at 11:21 PM
Iran doesn't mix signals
The footage of the British hostages thanking Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for his hospitality and forgiveness, like the footage of Speaker of the US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi covering her head in a scarf while on a visit to Damascus, was enough to make you sick.Must we lose this war? On Tuesday, US President... [ Read entire Post ]
