Analysis
Tuesday, July 11th 2023 / Saturday, November 4th 2023
David M. Weinberg Israel Hayom, June 25, 2023 “For Israeli society, moral standards are clear. Israelis value life, not death, and seek conflict resolution, not annihilation of the enemy.” As is his usual rotten wont, UN Middle East envoy Tor Wennesland this week condemned the “continuing cycle of violence” in Judea and Samaria, as […]
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Tuesday, July 4th 2023 / Saturday, November 4th 2023
JPost staff Jerusalem Post, June 20, 2023 “Jenin has been a center of terror for decades.” The clashes that occurred in Jenin on Monday, resulting in seven Israeli servicemen being wounded, mark a significant escalation by Palestinian terrorists against Israel, and highlight the Palestinian Authority’s failure to rein in the growing lawlessness in the West Bank. Over […]
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Thursday, May 18th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023
Who Wants to Destroy Israel? You Might Be Surprised.: Guy Milliere, Gatestone Institute, May 15, 2023 — On April 17-18, Israel observed Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Day. Sirens sounded across the country while people stood for two minutes of silence in remembrance of six million Jews who had been murdered. ________________________________________________________ Israel at 75 Is Threatened but Strong: Walter Russell […]
Walter Russell Mead WSJ, May 15, 2023 “American policy toward Israel depends less on poll numbers than on how a given U.S. president sees American interests world-wide and where Israel and the Middle East fit into the administration’s global foreign policy.” It’s been 75 years since the Jewish community in British Palestine rejected a last-minute plea […]
Philip Klein National Review, Apr. 27, 2023 “The conflict between being an open and liberal state and an explicitly Jewish one has led to clashes on immigration, transportation, social welfare, and army service, among many other topics.” Spending Passover in Israel feels like cheating. For a Jew in America, the experience of going eight days without […]
Micah Halpern Jerusalem Post, May 2, 2023 “There is a reason for this stark disparity between the message and the reality. It is not simply a misread of the political agenda. It is a time-honored strategy of how to motivate and how to raise money for “the cause.” On Tuesday April 25, when the […]
Elliot Abrams Council on Foreign Affairs, May 9, 2023 ”Their claim that Israel, because it is a Jewish state, “fosters a form of ethnic nationalism” is akin to their claim about apartheid: they don’t quite have the courage of their convictions and do not say what their article logically leads to—the belief that Zionism is […]
Thursday, March 30th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023
UNDERSTANDING BARAK’S VISION Aharon Barak’s Revolution: Hillel Neuer, Azure on Line, Winter 5758/1998, no. 3 — In recent years, the state of Israel has undergone a constitutional revolution that has remarkably escaped the notice of most Israelis. With the 1992 passage of Basic Law: Human Dignity and Liberty, and Basic Law: Freedom of Occupation, the power of the […]
Saturday, March 25th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023
March 20, 2023 Doris Strub Epstein “The Palestinian culture of violence is fed and nourished by UNRWA.” The latest Palestinian shooting in Huwara concerned an ex-Marine, David Stern while driving his car with his wife and three children in the backseat. Despite being shot in the head, he managed to kill the terrorist. Miraculously, […]
Monday, March 20th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023
Israel’s Judicial Reckoning: Evelyn Gordon, Mosaic Magazine, Mar. 6, 2023 Israel Needs Judicial Reform—But How?: Editorial Board, WSJ, Mar. 12, 2023 The Urgent Need for Israeli Electoral Reform: Melanie Phillips, Substack, Mar. 10, 2023 Israel’s Soul Is Poisoned by False Doomsday Discourse – Opinion: David M. Weinberg, Jerusalem Post, Mar. 8, 2023 _______________________________________________________________ LISTEN: Liberalism […]
Editorial Board WSJ, Mar. 12, 2023 “Shrewd thinkers on Israel’s right understand that compromise is needed to lower the stakes, regain the public’s confidence and pass something durable. The opposition, however, sees Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu standing on a ledge and has no desire to let him off lightly.” Opposition to Israeli judicial reform […]
David M. Weinberg Jerusalem Post, Mar. 8, 2023 “… opposition to public policy reforms must be debated on their merits, without semi-automatic screeching about intolerance, repression, dictatorship, thought police, and the crushing of democratic norms.” Have you heard of a country that is “drowning in a sea of sensed betrayal?” That is “awash in […]
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