How Many Times Has The Red Cross Visited Israeli Prisoners in Gaza?
Tell me, Mr Barghouti – how do your prison conditions compare with those of Gilad Shalit who was abducted and held by Hamas in Gaza for five years? How do they compare with the...
Category: Politically and Diplomatically Speaking
Why I Won’t Join An Israeli-“Palestinian” Peace Organization (Yet)
I wonder if, in order to be invited to take part in conjoint “Palestinian”-Israeli make-nice meetings, I have to stop writing “Palestinian” in quotation marks and I have to agree that Israel is “occupying”...
Self-Assertiveness, Nationalism And Israel
Or: How did nationalism get such a bad rap? And: What’s a proud Israeli to do? People on the left side of the political spectrum talk about nationalism as if it is a dirty...
Daqamseh’s Release: Why Are 117 MKs Keeping Their Mouths Shut?
It is two weeks after Ahmed Daqamseh’s release — you remember: the murderer of 7 Israeli 13-year-old girls — and I still have a question. Search Twitter for reactions to Daqamseh’s release on the...
Flood Libel In Hebron
Flooding causes hardship. In this day and age, there is no reason that a shop owner should lose his or her products because of winter rains that can come down suddenly and hard. But...
Negotiated Deals: How To Write One You Can Trust
Two recent observations made it very clear that negotiated accords are often only a temporary measure, easily reversed when a new regime comes to town: President Trump set about to cancel the Iran Deal...
Fahad Almasri: Roadmap For Peace Between Syria And Israel
In a previous article about founder and leader of the National Salvation Front of Syria, Fahad Almasri, I wrote that I was unable to find an online copy of the organization’s Roadmap for Syrian-Israeli...
Newfangled UN Trickery: Is Tzipi Livni A Fair Trade for Salam Fayyad?
Tzipi Livni has reason now to leave Israeli politics for greener fields. Head of Hatnua political party, she wanted to be Prime Minister of Israel and has not been able to break through the...
