Category: Politically and Diplomatically Speaking
Leaders have legacies; the rest of us have lives. And normalization is a death sentence for some. Trump may be making his opening gambit for a Nobel Prize. Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas...
A largely overlooked, but videotaped, event from last Friday may now be added to the growing list of ammunition to use against Israel and against Jewish residents of communities in Judea & Samaria (J&S),...
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...
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”...
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...
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...
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...
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...