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The Two-State Solution As Final Solution

The Two-State Solution is indeed the most immoral suggestion of them all. It is a lie built on a foundation of mendacity. It also is doomed to failure because it is...
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Land Without a Name

The recent landslide vote of the Israeli Likud party, completely rejecting an Arab country west of the Jordan River, reflects the mindset of the largest political pa...
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We have the right to an indivisible Jerusalem

Rabbi Yosef Kanefsky invites a forthright open dialogue, a conversation about Jerusalem. Contemplating Israeli talks with those governing the autonomous Arab enclave...
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Thoughts About the 3 Kidnaped and Murdered Israeli Teen Boys

There are times to feel deep sadness.  One quietly breaks down in tears at a funeral.  But this week is not a time to be consumed as much by sadness as to be fille...
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We’re Right, the Whole World’s Wrong

"The whole world is demanding that Israel withdraw. I don't think the whole world, including the friends of the Israeli people and government, can be wrong." — Ko...
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Why — and whose — Jerusalem?

Several covens of Jew-haters, ranging from the Middle East to the more troubled and confused of American campuses like those at the University of California at Irvin...
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Zionists On The Offensive

The great tragedy within contemporary Zionism is that Zionist leadership and articulators operate on a continuum of defensiveness, always reacting to the latest atta...
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Who Chose Hamas to Lead Them? : Gazans Seek Sympathy After Voting in Terrorists Who Vow to Exterminate Jews

To understand the people of Gaza, who now lay claim to the passions of humanitarians-without-a-cause, one might begin by considering Gazans’ freely elected leaders...
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Taking the West Bank Off the Chopping Block

The recent landslide vote of the Israeli Likud Party, utterly rejecting an Arab country west of the Jordan River, reflects the evolving mindset of the largest po...
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The Overseers of Jenin

AMONG THE MAIN Mideast developments at this writing, it now appears that a United Nations commission will not be traveling to Jenin, but Yasser Arafat will be. The p...
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Who Will Watch the Watchdogs?

United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan has appointed a three-person investigative committee to visit the site in Jenin where Israeli efforts to uproot the i...
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Paying Palestinians Not To Work With Jews

Mahmoud Abbas and his Palestine Authority, we are told, comprise the moderate Palestinian alternative to the Hamas-driven vision of mayhem and terror in Gaza.  This...
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Nothing will change in ‘Palestine’ during the transition from kaffiyehs and holsters to suits and ties

The irony for Israel and her supporters is that Arafat always has provided a clarity that many others around him obfuscate because the others wear business suits...
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A Time to Mull

So it turns out that the Arabs of Judea and Samaria really hate the guts out of us Jews. For seven years, Israel had been engaging in confidence-building step...
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The Game of Learning to Live with It

As I read the grim news from Israel daily -- the acts of terrorism, the murders of men, women, and children; the deadly shootings on the roadways -- I am struck in...
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Israeli Public Relations: Road to Nowhere and Friendly Fire in the P.R. War

It took me forty years to figure it out, but I think I finally have figured out that Israel is not going to win any PR wars. The best we can hope for is that Fox...
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“J” Street, Growing up on the Street, and Street Survival: Why Israel Cannot Abide the Morons Who Call Themselves “Friend”

Today’s “J Street” was yesterday’s Peace Now and Breira. Always rushing to “make peace,” to trust Arafat to keep his word, to encourage and push Isra...
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A Country With Only One Option

When the thunderous claps in Heaven jolted Orange County out of our rooms a few Sunday mornings ago, I thought of Israel.  When the earth – almost simultaneou...
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Why I Love Israel and Am Proud to Be Judged by Her Standards

Because I am Jewish, of course, I love Israel. It is my cultural patrimony, even as America, the land of my birth and that of my parents, is the country I love and t...
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Palestine’s Peace May Lie East of the Jordan

Over the past 18 months, Americans have been bombarded with images comparing rock-throwing young Arabs with the Israelite David who confronted Goliath in biblica...
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Talking Turkey

Turkey has been at the center of the now infamous flotilla incident involving aHamas-connected Turkish “NGO” which attempted to run an Israeli naval blockade of...
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Israel after the Flotilla Debacle

Maybe this is the wake-up call that Israel needs before acquiescing to a "Two-State Solution." In the aftermath of the Flotilla Debacle, Israel finds herself mired...
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A Flotilla-for-Fun to Attila the Hun?

When mass murder was rampant in Rwanda, did the “International Solidarity Movement” run supply flotillas?  What would Kamal Ataturk have done if a civilian flo...
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And Israel Just Keeps Going and Going and Going and Going and Going

With all the talk about peripheral issues arising from the War in Iraq, it is useful to remember that, one day comparatively soon, America will depart from that...
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Judea and Samaria Will Outlive Us All

In approximately eighteen months, Barack Obama may well be a lame duck limping to January. During the same period, more thousands of Jews will continue being adde...
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The Mumbai (Bombay) Massacre of Jews

Not all Jews, even the Torah-observant Jews among us, even Chassidic Jews, count themselves as Chabad Jews. There are doctrinal differences, sometimes very signi...
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Arafat’s Words Will Boost Annexation

George Shultz was right when he barred PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat from entering the United States to address the U.N. General Assembly, and he is equally on targ...
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Again, Politics of Appeasement Isolate the Jews

No one in my family was directly touched by the Nazi Holocaust. Nor did any of my friends lose any relatives to Hitler. While that unspeakable tragedy has deeply...
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When Professors Throw Rocks

Disagreements should be settled with words, not deadly weapons. That's a basic rule of civilized society, and it defines the parameters of the Free Marketplace of...
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The Quana Incident

The Israeli bombing this weekend in the Arab town of Qana was the subject of widespread condemnation.  It even prompted the Israeli Prime Minister to announce a...
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It Would Be Nice if We Did Something

Several years ago, before I became an attorney, the news of Iran's star-chamber proceedings and convictions of Jews would have sent me protesting in the streets....
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Time to Survive

Either the authoritarians of Yasser Arafat's Palestinian Authority have the power to direct, control, intercept and stymie Arab terrorist attacks against Israel, o...
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Not This Month

The recent brouhaha in Israel, occasioned by an unfortunate rush to pre-judgment by the Israeli High Court of Justice, raises a question for us all to consider: Ho...
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At Last Israel is Whole, Territories Won Fairly in War Must be Annexed

Now that Yasser Arafat has been on American television appealing for "justice" and "fairness," almost evoking some modicum of sympathy, it is clear that Israel has d...
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Measure for Measure: Bin Laden Gets His Last Fifteen Minutes

The American Administration should release the Bin Laden photo(s).  Not because the photos will prove he was killed.  Photos on the internet prove nothing --...
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A Killer Walks

It will not be through the Palestinian Authority that Yael Botwin's murderer is punished. It was three years ago this week that Palestinian Arab murderers bombed...
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