Enduring occupation – Palestinians under siege in the West Bank (Communicated by the Justice Ministry Spokesman) Jerusalem, 4 June 2007 Following is the Government’s response to the report released today (Monday, 4 June 2007), by Amnesty International, entitled “Enduring Occupation: Palestinians Under Siege on the West Bank”: “Israel views with the utmost importance the safeguarding […]

By: Editorial Board Wednesday, May 30, 2007 At first blush, the renowned political columnist Hillel Halkin’s proposed solution to the problem he identifies as arising from the rocket attacks on Sderot seems somewhat off the wall. Israel, he wrote last week in the New York Sun, should declare on a given day: Starting exactly one […]

By: Michael B. Oren Wednesday, May 30, 2007 Great wars in history eventually become great wars about history. Only a few years after the last soldier leaves the battlefield, accepted truths about the nature of a military conflict and the motivations for it invariably come under assault by revisionists and counter-revisionists whose vehemence can rival […]

Caroline Glick, THE JERUSALEM POST May. 31, 2007 www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1180527976961&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull Wednesday’s decision by Britain’s University and College Union to call for a boycott of Israeli universities and colleges was not only hypocritical. It was suicidal. It is not simply that the British prefer to boycott Israeli universities than say, Palestinian, Egyptian, Syrian, Iranian, Saudi and Jordanian […]

Ruthie Blum, THE JERUSALEM POST May. 30, 2007 www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1180527966686&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull “The people of Israel must not abscond from their cities at any cost,” said Sderot Mayor Eli Moyal in an interview with The Jerusalem Post on Wednesday at his home in the Kassam-beleaguered development town. Moyal explained, “If we run away from Sderot, we’ll run away […]

April 19, 2007 “Diaspora Jews concerned for Israel’s welfare’ Have the obligation to state their views, and if Necessary, criticize Israeli policies.” Morton Klein The Great Diaspora Dilemma: To Criticize Or Not To Criticize By Morton Klein (As printed in The Jewish Tribune) PHILADELPHIA — Some argue that Diaspora Jews may debate and criticize a […]

By Jeff Jacoby, Globe Columnist | May 9, 2007 IF EHUD OLMERT had been as adroit and resolute in defending his nation from its enemies as he is in defending his grip on power, Hezbollah today would be a disgraced relic, while Olmert would be esteemed from Dan to Beersheba. Instead, the terrorist organization is […]

By: Morton A. Klein Tuesday, May 22, 2007 “This is Islam, that was ahead of its time with regards to human rights in the treatment of prisoners, but our people was afflicted by the cancerous lump, that is the Jews, in the heart of the Arab nation…. Be certain that America is on its way […]

By Jacob Laksin FrontPageMagazine.com | May 28, 2007 Few today are receptive to the idea of a “war on terror.” From a war-weary public, to a political commentariat impatient with such supposedly simple-minded slogans, the country seems determined to move beyond the notion that the fighting underway in Iraq is in any significant way connected […]

Caroline Glick, THE JERUSALEM POST May. 29, 2007 If life were a television show then the Labor Party primaries would be a Seinfeld episode. Like Seinfeld, yesterday’s primaries for Labor’s top-spot were about nothing but being on the air. The frontrunners, former prime minister and IDF chief of staff Ehud Barak, and former Navy commandant […]