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All’s Not Quiet On The Jerusalem Front
Posted on: March 22nd, 2012
InDepth → Columns → Keeping JerusalemThe fight for Jerusalem continues, on a number of quiet fronts. And if "want of a nail" can lose an entire war, as per Benjamin Franklin's poem, Yerushalayim can certainly be won via our close attention to issues that may not appear decisive or crucial.
Global Denuclearization And Israel’s Survival (Fourth of Four Parts)
Posted on: March 22nd, 2012
InDepth → Columns → Louis Rene BeresIt would be unreasonable for Israel to draw any comfort from an argument that Iranian intentions are effectively harmless. Rather, such intentions could impact capabilities decisively over time. Backed by appropriate nuclear weapons, preemption options must somehow remain open and viable to Israel, augmented, of course, by appropriate and complementary plans for cyber-defense and cyber-warfare.
Posted on: March 22nd, 2012
InDepth → Columns → Focus on Israel/Dov GilorWhile in Las Vegas, my wife, Barbara, fed several quarters into a machine that really cleaned us out. She then fed more quarters into another machine that dried all of our clothes.
Rabbi Chanan Porat – The Shofar is Silent
Posted on: March 22nd, 2012
InDepth → Columns → Keeping JerusalemRabbi Porat oncesaid that his proudest parliamentary achievement was having sponsored and ensured the passage of a law entitled “Do Not Stand by Your Neighbor’s Blood”—rendering it a legal duty to offer assistance to someone in mortal danger. Based on a verse in Vayikra, Rabbi Porat’s law ensures that sanctity of life is a national value not only in word, but in deed.
Iron Dome: The Strategic Disaster
Posted on: March 21st, 2012
InDepth → Columns → Moshe FeiglinDefense systems are important, just as tank shields are vital. But that is true only when we are on the offensive and focused on victory. In defensive-defeatist mode, these systems draw the end near. They are like aspirin for cancer.
Khaled Abu Toameh: Should Jordan Be a Palestinian State?
Posted on: March 19th, 2012
InDepth → AnalysisTurning Jordan into Palestine would mean the loss of a moderate and rational Arab leader at a time when Islamists are rising to power in Egypt, Tunisia, Morocco and Libya.
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Posted on: March 14th, 2012
InDepth → Columns → Moshe FeiglinI oppose the proposed Biometric Law because of how easily it can chip away at a citizen's liberty, without him feeling a thing.
Global Denuclearization And Israel’s Survival (Third of Four Parts)
Posted on: March 14th, 2012
InDepth → Columns → Louis Rene BeresFor forty years I have studied the stunningly complex problem of enemy rationality, especially in certain earlier published writings concerning the particular nuclear threat from Iran.
Khaled Abu Toameh: Hamas Responsible For Attacks on Israel
Posted on: March 13th, 2012
InDepth → AnalysisIn the past, Hamas has proven that when it wants to, it can prevent attacks on Israel. It would be a mistake to allow these governments to have it both ways -- on one hand claiming they are legitimate and sovereign governments, while on the other hand avoiding responsibility for terror attacks.
Khaled Abu Toameh: Mahmoud Abbas’ “Mother of All Letters”
Posted on: March 8th, 2012
InDepth → AnalysisOn March 7, the PA President convened yet another urgent meeting of PLO and Fatah leaders in Ramallah to discuss the content of this "mother of all letters" which he intends to send to Israel. The meeting, which came less than 48 hours after Obama's speech, reflected the increased concern of the Palestinians over the world's fading attention to their problems.
Posted on: March 7th, 2012
InDepth → Columns → Focus on Israel/Dov GilorWe left Santa Fe on our way to visit the Painted Forest and the Petrified Forest in Arizona. Part of our day was spent traveling on the historic Route 66 and we stopped at the state visitor's center as we entered Arizona. At each state visitor’s center, we stopped to gather information about interesting sites and to request coupon booklets with reduced entry coupons.
Posted on: March 7th, 2012
InDepth → Columns → Moshe FeiglinIt is impossible not to make a connection between the intentional running over of the policeman this Friday night by an Arab car thief and the Shahar Mizrahi story.
Khaled Abu Toameh: Arabs Are Beginning to Miss the Dictators
Posted on: March 7th, 2012
InDepth → AnalysisThe "Arab Spring" is anything but a "great revolution." It is a spring of massacres, destruction and violence, as Patriarch Beshara al-Rai, the head of Lebanon's Maronite Church, put it. "We are with the Arab Spring but we are not with this spring of violence, war, destruction and killing," he told Reuters. "This is turning to winter. We cannot implement reforms by force and arms. How can it be an Arab Spring when people are being killed every day?"
Global Denuclearization And Israel’s Survival (Second of Four Parts)
Posted on: March 7th, 2012
InDepth → Columns → Louis Rene BeresAs only a distinctly last resort, Israel needs nuclear weapons for nuclear war fighting.
Khaled Abu Toameh: The Hate Business
Posted on: March 2nd, 2012
InDepth → AnalysisThe presence of Israel physicians in Ramallah drew furious reactions from workers at the Palestine Medical Compound and many Palestinians, including the Western-backed Fatah faction headed by Mahmoud Abbas. The fact that thousands of Palestinian patients receive medical treatment in Israeli hospitals each year did not stop their vociferous oppostion.
Moshe Feiglin: Transition IDF to a Professional Volunteer Army
Posted on: February 29th, 2012
InDepth → Columns → Moshe FeiglinFeiglin: I know that religious Zionists think that their army service will pave their way into the heart of Israeli legitimacy. But that is not the case. Army service is a very important value. But those holding the reins will never let go in exchange for religious Zionist cannon-fodder.
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Global Denuclearization And Israel’s Survival (First of Four Parts)
Posted on: February 29th, 2012
InDepth → Columns → Louis Rene BeresUS President Barack Obama's sentiments notwithstanding, nuclear arms are not per se destabilizing or "warmongering." They are not necessarily anti-peace. Rather, in certain identifiably volatile circumstances, nuclear weapons can actually be indispensable to the avoidance of catastrophic war.
Aaron Klein: News You May Have Missed
Posted on: February 29th, 2012
InDepth → Columns → Aaron KleinNATO Considering Attack On Bashar Assad’s Regime...Dershowitz To Launch Crusade Against Media Matters...Koch Not A Santorum Fan
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Jerusalem, Divided or United?
