When it comes to mass murder, it seems that everyone is a pop psychologist. Everyone wants to know why some people strive to become killers, even at the cost of their own lives, as is the case with Palestinians. For years, the talking heads on television and those who wrote about the situation for mainstream […]

Since the existence of the Geneva initiative was publicly announced on Sunday, there has been much criticism of the process that led to the agreement. Once again the same gang of Oslo blazers – a gang not even elected by an Israeli public, who instead denounced it and kicked it out of government and centers […]

Question: How do you tell the difference between liberals and conservatives? Answer: Pose the following question: You’re walking down a deserted street with your wife and two small children. Suddenly, a dangerous looking man with a huge knife comes around the corner, locks eyes with you, screams obscenities, raises the knife, and charges. You are […]

“How could you report the war in Iraq if you sided with the Americans?” “How can you say that George Bush is better than Saddam Hussein?” These are some of the milder questions I received from an audience of some 150 undergraduate students from Tel Aviv University’s Political Science Department. The occasion was a guest […]

The approved guides don’t advise about the hijacked mosques. An extensive Chicago Tribune investigation confirms that Islamist extremists are taking over mosques in the American heartland, driving out normal Muslim clerics and using the houses of worship to raise money for terrorist causes. Citing a mosque in Bridgeview, Illinois, the Tribune reports on a local, […]

Were it not for the evident seriousness of its implications, the David Haivri case would represent little more than the reduction to absurdity of a democratic country’s legal system. Known popularly as the “T-Shirt Trial,” the current court proceedings in Israel are based on an incident in which the defendant was charged with possession and […]

The concept of anti-Semitism, given its well-documented history has evolved in our lexicon as nothing less than a hate crime. The film, “The Passion” has been seen by Jewish experts in anti-Semitism, Genocide and Hate Crimes. Their opinions are that this film is a call for violence against the Jewish people. As a caveat, not […]

When asked in 1787, as the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia came to an end, whether it had created a monarchy or a republic, Benjamin Franklin replied. “A republic, if you can keep it.” His pessimism comes to mind whenever a republic makes a terrible mistake, from the French policy of appeasement toward Germany in the […]

b>It was not an event that any of the big newspapers saw fit to cover, but this past December, a draft United Nations resolution condemning anti-Semitism was quietly withdrawn by Ireland, its sponsor in the General Assembly. In a complicated exchange, Irish Foreign Minister Brian Cowen had promised the measure to his Israeli counterpart Silvan […]

We are nearing the one-year anniversary of the so-called Mideast Roadmap to Peace. The publication of the plan in April 2003 fueled hopes in some quarters that finally a magic potion had been found to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It was a worthy objective, rendered plausible by the toppling of Saddam Hussein in Iraq — […]