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/ Last week a dramatic exchange a generation in the making ensued, Netanyahu and Abbas squared off on the world scene, delivering at the UN what amounted to these two nations conflicting narratives. Since then the dust has settled somewhat and the conflict marches on. Abbas, surrounded by applauding leaders from around the world, confirmed the victory of Palestinian public diplomacy. But last week, Netanyahu, standing on the podium minutes after Abbas called for Palestinian independence, did something very different, he made a speech not to convince the elite actors in the capitols of nations..

@font-face { / font-family: "Times"; / }@font-face { / font-family: "Cambria"; / }p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal { margin: 0in 0in 10pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; }div.Section1 { page: Section1; } / Earlier this month, Tzipi Livni strode away from yet another Knesset press conference making alarmist statements of government incompetence and scathing attacks on Benjamin Netanyahu’s premiership. “The prime minister doesn't know how to make decisions… and Israel is weak. Two years later, the time has come to change this horrible government. Kadima always was..

Yossi Beilin’s opinion piece “The New Ghetto” (Jerusalem Post, August 8) which compared today’s State of Israel to the Jewish ghettos of history, reminded me of the disturbing feelings I had as a small child, upon reading those verses in the Torah where the Jews, newly liberated from Egypt, cried out to return to their task-masters, for there at least, they had enjoyed meat. It was with this tragic episode I realized early on that with true freedom comes great responsibility. The Jewish sages of old interpreted this biblical scene as a lesson to mankind - that bondage, though a physical predicament..

*This article appeared in American Thinker 14/02/10 >>> click here / / A short fifteen-minute drive outside Kerbala, Iraq, one can witness the frontlines of the clash between East and West, Islamism and progress. There, in the small town of Al-Kifl, lies -- at least at the time of this writing -- the 2,500-year-old Tomb of the Prophet Ezekiel. But for the first time in recorded history, the Tomb is threatened not by the collateral damage of war, nor the ignominies of thieves and bandits, but by a planned, government-authorized, and taxpayer-funded demolition. / / The Jerusalem Post..

As it appeared in the Jerusalem Post Sep. 7, 2009  / / Earlier this month, Ori Nir, a spokesman for Americans for Peace Now and former Haaretz reporter, revealed an alarming, even terrifying, bit of news in an opinion piece for the Washington Jewish Week: There are bogeymen in the hills of Israel. Citing only an incident in 1988, and one in 2000, Nir argued that the "brutality" of soldiers and settlers in the West Bank has spread across the Green Line, causing the wave of violent crime the country seems to be experiencing lately. / / Never mind, for the moment, that Israel has one of the lowest..

Joel H. Golovensky & Ariel Gilboa take a candid and shocking look at Israel's justice system is undermining zionism.Also, explains how the very idea of Jewish settlement have become illegal in the State of Israel.

/ Commentary on Israel never ceases, and yet most of it seems to miss the point entirely. To gain an accurate understanding of any culture, one must begin with a point of reference, a so-called cultural perch, enabling the spectator a broader picture.The Typhoon, a novel written by Joseph Conrad and published in 1902, provides that necessary and meaningful cultural metaphor when one approaches Israel. In The Typhoon, Conrad writes about a vessel (the Nan Shan) and its crew that inadvertently sails into a typhoon and is beset by all the traumas that such an ordeal implies.Captain MacWhirr, the..