INTO THE FRAY: Gaza-Collapse of “Land-for-Peace” Concept
Israel must convey that it will consider the continuation of the “March of Return” an overt act of war, and all the participants in it, enemy combatants—who must expect to face all the risks that entails.
INTO THE FRAY: The Bahrain Conference: Failure Foretold
The endeavor to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict by economic means not only shows a grave defect in understanding its underlying causes, but inverts the causal relationship that generates & sustains it.
INTO THE FRAY: Incentivized Emigration: An idea whose time has come?
Of all the policy paradigms for the resolution of the conflict between Israel and the Palestinian-Arabs, incentivized Arab emigration is the most humane if it succeeds and least inhumane if it does not
Reason, Reasonableness & Realpolitik
Under Biden, important foreign policy interests are being sacrificed domestic ones
Into the Fray: What if the GOP Wins? – Potential Payoffs and Pitfalls for...
The changes in the Republican platform are a welcome development, but they create new challenges for Israel & much depends on how it meets them
Into the Fray: Incredible Imbecility
By MARTIN SHERMAN
The historical record bodes ill for initiatives to engineer a Pax Israeliana (an Israel induced peace) between Israel and its Arab adversaries.
INTO THE FRAY: The Smotrich Plan -Right Direction, but…
Several flaws in MK Smotrich’s otherwise bold proposal will prevent it from achieving its long-term strategic goal: Sustainable Jewish
sovereignty over the entire Land of Israel
INTO THE FRAY: The Taylor Force Act – Putting “Palestine” in perspective
The Palestinian population is not some hapless victim of the terror groups but the very crucible from which they emerged
Into the Fray: D-Y-S-T-O-P-I-A!!
The opponents of the proposed judicial reform are not defending liberal democracy, but promoting Orwellian dystopia
INTO THE FRAY:Imbecility Squared – Part 2
With changing patterns of Arab enmity, the major challenge to Israel’s existence as the Jewish nation-state is no longer repulsing invasion, but resisting attrition.
INTO THE FRAY: Biden—The First Frightful Month
But no matter how gullible or skeptical over the electoral outcome one might happen to be, the die has now been cast. The ominous trajectory for the American people—and for much of the world—has been set.
INTO THE FRAY: Trump-Can Israel seize the moment?
Will Israeli leadership remain captive to old molds of thought—thus proving a constraint rather than a catalyst, impeding rather than inducing, the opportunities the Trump administration may afford?
Into the Fray: Will the ‘Right’ Snatch Defeat from the Jaws of Victory …...
It’s not enough to point out the flaws, however fatal, of the “left.” Rather, the “right” must present the public with a plausible and persuasive alternative that does not merely replace a geographic peril with a demographic one.
INTO THE FRAY: “Palestine”—Countervailing Hypotheses
Do the Palestinian-Arabs genuinely wish to establish a state for themselves? Or do they really wish to dismantle the state of the Jews?
INTO THE FRAY: Israel and American Liberal Jewry: The REAL Reasons for the Rift
Incredibly, according to Israel’s “liberal” detractors, the only remedy for Israel’s “democracy deficit” is to establish yet another Muslim-majority tyranny.
INTO THE FRAY: Palestine: Perverse and Perplexing Paradox
Why do professed liberals persist in support of an entity that would comprise the utter negation of all the values they allegedly cherish?
INTO THE FRAY: The Imperative for Incentivized Arab Migration & the Emerging Inevitability of...
Once inconceivable, the dismantling of UNRWA; the naturalization of stateless Palestinian residents in Arab countries; and the emigration of Palestinians from Judea-Samaria & Gaza are slowly emerging as realistic outcomes
INTO THE FRAY: INSS’s Puerile, Preposterous Proposal
The cynically minded may be forgiven for suspecting that the prime goal of INSS’s newly launched plan is the demolition of Jewish communities, rather than the future resolution of conflict or enhanced Israeli security
INTO THE FRAY: Israel Victory Initiative – Quo vadis?
It is unrealistic to expect that the Palestinians will experience a sudden “aha moment”, slap their forehead in epiphanic realization of the futility of their Judeocidal endeavors—and, of their own volition, docilely declare defeat
INTO THE FRAY: Rift on the Right—over Sovereignty (cont.)
A rift is emerging among opponents of the 2-state idea between those who believe Israel can endure as the Jewish nation/state with a large permanent Arab population west of the Jordan and those who don’t
INTO THE FRAY – A Port in Gaza: Preposterous & Perilous Proposal
Hamas are not burrowing tunnels because Gaza has no port. They are burrowing them despite the fact it does not have one.
INTO THE FRAY: A Sense of Betrayal
Past deeds of heroism are no justification for present acts of subversion
INTO THE FRAY: Duma-one year (and THREE arson attacks) Later
With continuing unsolved arson attacks in Duma, seven months after a coerced confession & an indictment wildly at odds with eyewitness accounts, troubling questions must be raised.
Into the Fray: Arab Violence: Root Causes and Red Herrings
If difficult socioeconomic conditions in the haredi community have not produced the rampant crime that afflicts Arab society, why should poverty be assumed to be the culprit among Israel’s Arab citizens?
INTO THE FRAY: Au Contraire
The last vestige of the left’s undemocratic power is threatened, a prospect it views with a mixture of horror and disbelief.
INTO THE FRAY: When Generals Stray into Politics…
This week--despite the resounding failure of the “land-for-peace” formula—3 former IDF generals penned an Op-Ed, urging the Biden administration to “keep open a path to an eventual two-state solution”
INTO THE FRAY: Obama at the UN – Why he was right…almost
Obama’s UN address was an eloquent concoction of soaring rhetoric & banal platitudes, of statements of the obvious & of the obviously false, delivered with impeccable polish and panache.
INTO the FRAY: Edelstein Draws a Line in the Sand
Edelstein drew a much-needed line in the sand against judicial intrusion into the sphere of the legislature and thwarted yet another attempt at the usurpation of both its autonomy and authority
INTO THE FRAY: Law Enforcement in Israel – Something to Worry About
Legal proceedings are being carried out with scant regard for the law. In some cases, the law is blatantly disregarded; in others, factual evidence is ignored; in yet others, infractions are invented to fabricate charges. All cases have been approved by the courts.
Obsessing over Oslo: Einat Wilf in ‘The Atlantic’
Wilf seems oblivious to “pesky details” such as the murderous terror unleashed by the Palestinians, their Judeophobic indoctrination and Judeocidal incitement, as “grand obstacles to peace”