Tag: analysis

In a perfect world and on paper the plan is ingenious - but what happens when it meets reality?

The David's Sling missile defense system, a central part of Israel's multi-tiered antimissile array, has successfully completed its fifth test series.

The politics of the left rears its ugly head in several spots along the report, and it is most noticeable in Judge Shapira's directive to include the numerous NGOs "working for a shared society and prevention of racism."

The SPD is expected to form a new regional coalition government with the Left and the Greens, who suffered a 2.5% drop to 15.1%.

Did Netanyahu sign the MOU in return for an Obama promise to leave him alone between Nov. 9 and January 17?

If one looks at the range of tuition one would have to pay per child, one might get sticker shock. It doesn’t take a genius in math to multiply those figures by 5, or more, children.

Israeli media and political experts spent the past week trying to figure out what in God's good name Bibi's former defense minister was talking about.

Frankly, even if one does not support Trump's xenophobic attacks on "Rapist Mexicans" and "the Muslims," a group of 45 learned rabbis could have come up with a more convincing, perhaps intellectually challenging argument.

Mind you, that purchase is yet to be made, and, judging by the Iron Dome's track record so far, the deal could still go south.

It could be that the bulk of Trump's voters remain under the polling radar, but come November they would give their candidate his unlikely victory.

Erekat has raised the flame under his attacks on Israel for its audacious killing of Arab terrorists, looking to link it in the Europeans' minds the horror Arab terrorists are inflicting on their civilian population.

The State Dept. announcement completely ignores the Israeli government's effort on behalf of Israeli Arabs in Jerusalem

Trump was booed at his AIPAC appearance last December when he refused to commit on moving the US embassy to Jerusalem.

The Emperor said, “That would be YUGE. How do I know you're not lying?”

Many, if not all these "controversial" responses by Rabbi Krim can be easily explained within the context in which they were provided.

What was common to both funerals and shiva houses was an abiding faith in the right of the Jewish people to live in freedom and security anywhere in this great, but tiny land.

In the immortal words of FDR, when someone asked him about the wisdom of supporting Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza, “He may be an SOB but he’s our SOB.”

Something nasty is taking place in modern Jewish American journalism, and the most disheartening signs of that nastiness are evident in what used to be a half decent Jewish news service.

The Labour party's response to the referendum results was a masterpiece of spin.

If Israel's security forces had used this yardstick in their approach to predictive profiling it would have choked not just its international airports, but traffic on the streets in many cities, too.

“What's the greatest mistake of the right wing government?" Herzog joked, answering his own trick question: "That there is no real left wing to blame.

The Bennett solution resolves the conflict in a peaceful way, which is not something the Reform and Conservative movements want.

It appears Ha'aretz is willing to see Israeli high court justices' lives be put in jeopardy just to advance the paper's political ends. So much for tolerance and liberalism.

Glick should beware, though, of his newly acquired power, and avoid delivering to the unschooled messages they cannot truly comprehend.

Republican candidate Donald Trump has good friends in Cornel West and James Zogby, who will surely rattle and shake one of the Democratic party’s most third-ralish third rail issues, in public.

While Clinton and Trump are essentially tied, Bernie Sanders whips Trump by double digits in almost every single major poll.

Netanyahu may have been clever or lucky, but Lieberman was, without a doubt, brilliant.

Netanyahu's patron Adelson has taken on himself the mission of mending the rift between the PM and the candidate.

"The Quartet, which is supposed to guide the two parties to peace, has been largely irrelevant for the past several years."

Kerry is, in effect, acting as a Holocaust denier, even as he mourns the Holocaust.