The Un-Greening Of Tu-b’Shvat

Posted on: January 19th, 2005

Almost everything that most people "know" about Tu-b'Shvat is totally wrong and completely false.

Israel’s Single-Issue Party

Posted on: January 5th, 2005

Some are dumbfounded that Ariel Sharon and the Likud are bringing Labor into the government to form a national unity coalition. Some cannot believe their eyes and ears and noses.

Sharon’s Embarrassing Herzliya Speech

Posted on: December 22nd, 2004

I paid close attention to last week's Herzliya Conference and helped promote it by interviewing various speakers, including conference founder Uzi Arad, and writing several general articles about the event.

Moral People Must Learn How To Hate

Posted on: December 15th, 2004

'For everything there is a season and a time for every matter under heaven. A time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace.' (Ecclesiastes. 3).

Let’s Talk About Squatters And Usurpers

Posted on: December 8th, 2004

So let me see if I have this straight. The anti-Zionists claim that the Jews have no right to the land of Israel because before Israel was re-created in 1948, it had been almost 1,900 years since the last time that the Jews exercised sovereignty over the Land of Israel.

The Mystery Of Prague’s Missing Vav

Posted on: December 1st, 2004

The glistening golden letters around the statue of Jesus have always been a matter of controversy for Prague's Jews.

The Pope’s Disgraceful Tribute To Arafat

Posted on: November 17th, 2004

From the way world leaders reacted to the death of Yasir Arafat, you could be forgiven if you had mistakenly believed that Mother Theresa had died.

The Morning After: Preliminary Thoughts On An Election Worth Celebrating

Posted on: November 10th, 2004

Ah, can there be anything so delightful as the sound of liberals whimpering in the morning? Consider:

Break Up The Likud

Posted on: November 3rd, 2004

The Likud Party in Israel is in crisis. While presuming to be a "broad tent" for a gamut of political opinion, it increasingly is split along the tectonic lines defined by the Gaza disengagement plan of Ariel Sharon.

The Real Debate

Posted on: November 3rd, 2004

The struggle today in the land of Israel should re-ignite a debate that has existed in the Jewish world for at least 100 years

Of Dan We Sing

Posted on: October 27th, 2004

In commenting on the Dan Rather fiasco last week and the week before that, the Monitor was remiss in not mentioning the revolutionary role played by the Internet - specifically, the army of tenacious webloggers who began exposing Rather almost as soon as his fallacious '60 Minutes' story on George Bush and the Texas Air National Guard aired earlier this month.

Letter From Shimon

Posted on: October 27th, 2004

Dear Mr. Prime Minister:As we continue to prepare the merging of the Likud and the Israeli Labor Party into a national unity coalition that will expel the Jewish settlers from Gaza and turn it over to the PLO, I wanted to share with you some of the wisdom I have accumulated in my years of implementing such programs.

Bring Down This Government

Posted on: October 13th, 2004

Imagine, just for a moment, that a leftist prime minister of Israel (say, Ehud Barak) hadpresided over a government that oversaw the greatest decline in personal security in Israel'shistory, with the terrorist murders of more than 1,000 Israelis.

Poster Girl Of The Israeli Left

Posted on: September 15th, 2004

Israelis are expressing shock and astonishment over the arrest last week of a 29-year-old Jewish leftist woman from Tel Aviv for collaboration with one of the worst Palestinian terrorists and murderers still above ground.

Madame Gulag’s New Gig

Posted on: August 25th, 2004

There has always been a hard-line Stalinist communist party or two at the margins of Israeli politics.

The Truth About ‘Palestinian Refugees’

Posted on: August 4th, 2004

Try to imagine what the world would be like if Israel had granted the "Palestinian refugees" who fled from Israel in 1948-49 the right to return to Israel.

‘Song of Peace’ Redux

Posted on: July 28th, 2004

In the late 1960′s, well after the Six Day War, a whine-filled “peace song” titled Shir Hashalom became popular among Israel’s teeny-boppers. At the time it was not played on the state-run radio because Golda Meir disapproved of its message, which included the following stanza:“Nobody will return us from the dead dark pit.Here, neither the joy […]

The Ghouls Of Palestine

Posted on: June 16th, 2004

It was a week that began with barbarism and ended with boundless stupidity.

Israel At 56: Still Under The Oslo Delusion

Posted on: May 26th, 2004

This week Israelis observed Memorial Day and celebrated Independence Day.

Preserving Human Dignity Through Capital Punishment

Posted on: May 19th, 2004

One of the most popular causes among Jewish liberals is opposition to capital punishment.