No Denying White House Animus Toward Israel
This White House likes symbolism. After Barack Obama moved in, one of the first things his staff did was to unceremoniously remove the bronze bust of Winston Churchill that had been in the Oval Office...
View ArticleObama’s Hopes for Israeli ‘Regime Change’ Will Backfire
Veteran peace processor Aaron David Miller gets it half right in today’s Los Angeles Times when he dissects the apparent desire of the Obama administration to drive Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin...
View ArticleIsrael’s Right Discovers Political Sanity
Anyone familiar with Israeli politics knows that the Israeli right’s worst enemy is itself. Small right-of-center factions toppled both Yitzhak Shamir’s Likud-led government in 1992 and Benjamin...
View ArticlePeres and the Pollard Petition
Israeli President Shimon Peres said today he would make an appeal to President Obama for the release of convicted spy Jonathan Pollard during his visit to Washington. Peres, who will receive the...
View ArticleThe Lessons of Yitzhak Shamir
With the hindsight that comes from looking at history from a distance, the struggle to create the state of Israel can seem as if it was a process whose outcome was inevitable. The victory of the...
View ArticleOne More Lesson From Shamir
Jonathan did a great service to our readers in his eulogy of Yitzhak Shamir. I would like to add one more lesson we, in the West, should take from this great man’s lifelong political career. Since...
View ArticleThe Economist’s Revisionist Israeli History
On Friday afternoon, Tablet’s Yair Rosenberg posted a corrective calling the Economist to account for its latest falsehood about Jews. In a review of a book about the British Mandate authorities’ hunt...
View ArticlePeres, Pollard, and a Special Place in Hell
While the debate about whether the United States should finally free convicted spy Jonathan Pollard after nearly 30 years in jail continues, Israelis were given an interesting insight into the case...
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