Tag: Israeli Left

The Marker wrote: "Israel's leading military strategists agree that there is currently no chance of a political settlement – but there is also no choice but to continue striving for it.”

What is the impact on the Israeli Left on Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas’s anti-Semitic speech and rejection of peace talks? Listen in as Gil Hoffman interviews Knesset member Nachman Shai on Inside Israel Today.

The indictments against the former Defense Minister are considered even more shocking than those against former Prime Minister Olmert.

"We thought they wanted a state; it turns out that all they want is to destroy Israel"

Honest Abe used exactly the same blockade tactic against the Confederacy over which the Israeli Left is now sobbing its eyes out.

In the immediate aftermath of the 9/11 attacks on America, Uri Avnery, the ancient icon of the Israeli Left, a bitter old fool who serves as living refutation of the belief that wisdom is an inevitable byproduct of old age, placed the blame squarely on the U.S. and its support of Israel.

The most dramatic and important political change in Israel over the past 20 years has been the transformation of the Israeli Left from a movement of political naivet? to one of, in an increasing number of instances, political sedition.

The Israeli Left is in dire straits. The past several months have been some of the worst it has ever experienced.

The Israeli media and the Israeli Left (but I repeat myself) have been hysterical in recent weeks over a proposed bill that would make it illegal to hold anti-Israel "mourning" events on Israel's Independence Day, events that would declare Israel's very existence a "nakba" (or catastrophe in Arabic).

Once it is sworn into office, Israel's new government will immediately have to go on a diplomatic offensive.

It pains me to tell you this, but Ehud Olmert has actually done something right.

It is not well understood to what a great extent the Israeli Left was radicalized by Israel's 'Peace for Galilee' invasion of Lebanon in 1982. This radicalization was very similar to the radicalization of the American Left over Vietnam.

We recently marked the start of a new year on the Jewish calendar, as good a time as any to sum up where things now stand.