Op-Eds

While the very idea of a Palestinian state was once enough to bring Israel's American friends to the barricades and create enormous pressure on Washington, that is no longer the case.

A state of their own, for a people who overwhelmingly approve of, and educate their children to become, suicide bombers.

Basically, what happened was that while everyone thought Lieberman would make Al Gore and the Clintonite Democrats kosher, it was Gore and the Dems who were making Lieberman non-kosher.

Singer goes to great lengths trying to whitewash Sharon, stating that "When he agrees that eventually there will or must be a Palestinian state, he is dealing with the government's responsibility to decide what to say now."

I resent the fact that the murderer Arafat is continuously placed on a pedestal created by your falsely named organization as you continue to vilify my own flesh and blood.

I have long had a pet peeve about the vulgar misuse and distortion of the Jewish concept of Tikkun Olam (repair of the world) by assimilationist Jewish liberals in the United States and elsewhere.

I am old enough to recall December 7, 1941 - the day that will live in infamy, when Japan stabbed us in the back.

The Pianist is a testament to the indefatigable spirit of life that refuses to go gentle into the night.

G-d's first dietary regime was strictly vegetarian (actually vegan - no animal products at all) (Genesis 1:29).

The idea that history could repeat itself, which underlies many experts warnings about complacency in the face of the probability of new terrorist attacks, was strongly stressed by Prof. Rubin in his remarks.

Having been elected three times as mayor of the City of New York, I have been the beneficiary of this country's generosity and freedom from bigotry, and I will be eternally grateful.

It is impossible to understand politics in the world today without grasping the fundamental fact that there exist two different Lefts. I propose that the two be referred to by everyone as the Stupid Left and the Satanic Left.

I'm sure G-d appreciates being used as a political football.

The simple son at least makes an attempt to understand what is going on by asking for an explanation from the people in the know.

Refining Ran Cohen's recent lament that the settlers are despicable and responsible for the Hebron Massacre Haifa Mayor and Labor party leader Amram Mitzna has unequivocally declared that the solution is finally at hand.

How can we expect the world's outrage against Israeli terrorism when Israel's own officials place the blame on the victims?

The tension was unbearable because it was already Shabbat in Israel which prevented me from communicating with our people there.

The responses brought into focus the changes that have taken place among liberal intellectuals over the past three decades.

Irv's voice was only on a few of the tapes and, according to his lawyers, he said nothing that could be construed as conspiring to perform a criminal act.

Hypothetically, if Canada sent suicide bombers into America to wantonly kill people, would the brains of Jewish university professors calcify enough to justify it? We doubt it.

I'll admit that Israel hasn't been too smart in dealing with Arafat.

Fu Manchu did the unexpected and populated his environment with more creatures of death than Indiana Jones had to face in their natural environment.

Why did the Orthodox rav agree to violate the decree of all the great roshei yeshiva and enter into this dialogue, giving Reform a platform to spew its blasphemy and disdain for Torah observant Jews?

The great 19th century thinker Rav Samson Raphael Hirsch sees this Torah mandate as reaching beyond the letter of the law to underscore a fundamental axiom in religious life.

The fact that these groups are unwilling to reconsider this strategy despite all the contrary evidence only shows that peace never was their prime goal in the first place.

I wish it were just apocryphal that families, rabbis, doctors, and friends are asked the most intrusive, inappropriate, and invasive questions by shadchanim or other agents about the young man or woman.

Is this the level of opposition that was mandated by our Gedolim of yesteryear?

In recent years the American Jewish community has been the target of a campaign that tries to argue that Jews are theologically obligated to support each and every green fad to come along. Several organizations have arisen in the name of "eco-Judaism," which is nothing more than the endorsement of the environmentalist political agenda in the name of Judaism.

Longer curfews is certainly a possibility. But then we are talking of years, not weeks.

There are quite a number of justifications often given by parents (and students) for choosing not to enroll in a Jewish day school.