INTO THE FRAY: The Nationality Law Brouhaha – Is Jewish National Will Failing?
Israel will only be democratic if it is Jewish—and it will only be Jewish if it is Zionist. Therefore, it will only be democratic if it is Zionist i.e. if it is the nation state of the Jewish people
INTO THE FRAY- Obama: Worse than Chamberlain?
“Iran will become a nuclear power. The only mystery over how that will happen is whether Obama was inept or whether he deliberately sought to make the theocracy…strategic power.”- Victor Davis Hanson
INTO THE FRAY: Iran & the Chilling Significance of the “No Alternative” Argument
The attempt to justify the 2015 deal with Iran, as being the only viable alternative to allowing it to develop nuclear weapons, is both infuriating and disingenuous.
INTO THE FRAY: Malicious Malignant Macron
France's adversarial attitude towards both Israel and America has regrettably been long brewing.
INTO THE FRAY: November: Persian Preferences
HARRIS-MENT
INTO THE FRAY: Duma-one year (and THREE arson attacks) Later
With continuing unsolved arson attacks in Duma, seven months after a coerced confession & an indictment wildly at odds with eyewitness accounts, troubling questions must be raised.
INTO THE FRAY: “Palestine” – Time to say “No!”
The two-state paradigm’s deadly detriments are now so glaringly apparent that it is becoming increasingly difficult to reconcile calls for Palestinian statehood with genuine concern for the well-being of the Jewish nation-state.
INTO THE FRAY: Like manna from heaven—for Israel’s detractors
Any allusion that Israel is somehow comparable to Nazi Germany is not criticism. It is a blood libel
INTO THE FRAY: Cracks in the Dome?
The huge investments made in defensive systems are slowly emerging as an exorbitant and costly failure—or at best a very partial and temporary success. The time has come to rethink Israel’s strategic paradigm.
INTO THE FRAY: Middle East Meltdown
With the Mid-East on the cusp of melt-down, imagine what Isaiah (5:20) would say of proponents of ‘regional integration’: “Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness…”
INTO THE FRAY: Inane …Again! Tom Friedman on Gaza
Tom Friedman’s last piece on Gaza is a “masterful” blend of personal bile & bias, liberally laced with logical inconsistencies, factual inaccuracies and even blatant non-sequiturs
INTO THE FRAY: Misplaced moral outrage-moronic, mendacious, or malevolent?
Israel seeks to minimize civilian casualties, while Hamas seeks to maximize civilian casualties and use them as a propaganda tool.
INTO THE FRAY: Unilateral Concessions: The Latent Agenda for April’s Elections
Despite claims to the contrary, the Palestinian-Arabs, territory and the fate of the Jewish settlements will permeate the agenda of the April agenda, lurking below and hovering above all other issues.
INTO THE FRAY: “The Only Relevant Question…”
“The day is fast approaching when the Palestinian Authority we have known for the past 22 years will cease to exist”. Israel must be prepared
INTO THE FRAY: The Israeli Right Gone Wrong
Astonishingly, having been proved entirely justified in its condemnation of the dangerous defects of the “Left’s” political credo, the “Right” proceeded to embrace it
INTO THE FRAY: Trump-Can Israel seize the moment?
Will Israeli leadership remain captive to old molds of thought—thus proving a constraint rather than a catalyst, impeding rather than inducing, the opportunities the Trump administration may afford?
Reason, Reasonableness & Realpolitik
Under Biden, important foreign policy interests are being sacrificed domestic ones
Into the Fray: Will the ‘Right’ Snatch Defeat from the Jaws of Victory …...
It’s not enough to point out the flaws, however fatal, of the “left.” Rather, the “right” must present the public with a plausible and persuasive alternative that does not merely replace a geographic peril with a demographic one.
The Trump Plan: The Good, the Bad, the Unknown and the Untenable
Whether or not it is actually implemented, the “deal” cannot effectively address Israel’s demographic menace, but only perpetuate it.
INTO THE FRAY: Alternative Jordans?
The feasibility of Trump’s “Deal of the Century” will be dramatically impacted by the nature of the regime east of the Jordan River and its prospective stability
Israel and the Perverse Paradox of Jewish ‘Liberals’
Israel should be a source of pride for all Jews—but particularly for Jews who espouse liberal values of tolerance and pluralism, of individual liberty and of human advancement.
INTO THE FRAY: Liberman’s New Home Demolition Initiative: The Point and the Pointlessness
Unless integrated into a wider conceptually coherent strategic policy, home demolitions, like any other operational tactics, such as targeted killing, are unlikely to be effective in any meaningful way.
INTO THE FRAY- Bennett’s Academic Code: Right Sentiment, Wrong Strategy
In-depth 2013 study: “Israeli academics have been free to engage in ‘nazification’ of Israel”
INTO THE FRAY: Israel Victory Initiative – Quo vadis?
It is unrealistic to expect that the Palestinians will experience a sudden “aha moment”, slap their forehead in epiphanic realization of the futility of their Judeocidal endeavors—and, of their own volition, docilely declare defeat
INTO THE FRAY: Haaretz – One Outrage Too Far?
The recent diatribe by Haaretz’s Rogel Alpher against Israel Prize laureate, Miriam Peretz, must have crippling commercial repercussion; not only cancellation of reader subscriptions but dramatic reduction in advertisers/advertising revenues
INTO THE FRAY:“Palestine” – The Perils in Pictures
A "spy's-eye" view of Israel. It WILL open your eyes to just how devastating the "Two-State Solution" would be to Israel. Look and Learn.
Into the Fray: Trump’s Presidential Decree on the Golan – A Moral and Practical...
In issuing his recent presidential decree, recognizing Israel’s sovereignty over the Golan Heights, President Donald followed the commendable policy pattern he has set...of not following the policy patterns set by his predecessors.
INTO THE FRAY: Macron on the Wrong Side of History
The election of Donald Trump and the collapse of the Assad regime in Syria will compel a recalibration of recalibration of France’s past policies.
INTO THE FRAY: John Kerry at 2016 Saban Forum—Misrepresenting Two-Statism
Oslo failed not because Israelis built homes and schools across pre-1967 lines, but because Palestinian-Arabs blew up Israeli cafes, buses and malls inside those lines.
INTO THE FRAY- Iran: Are the Wheels Falling off Obama’s “Signature” Foreign Policy Endeavor?
The ongoing turmoil in Iran highlights both the duplicity to which the Obama administration resorted and the missed opportunity for a better deal.