MY PALESTINE ITINERARY FOR TLAIB AND OMAR
BY BARRY SHAW Jerusalem Post AUGUST 24, 2019 https://www.jpost.com/Opinion/My-Palestine-itinerary-for-Tlaib-and-Omar-599572 Ilhan Omar tweeted, “Yesterday at Social Justice Day a student asked me, ‘How do I stay hopeful that change is going to come?’ This is tough to unpack,” she responded before going on to give a meaningless ramble. More perceptively, @rdunnflorida tweeted, “Only weak people […]
INTO THE FRAY: The Omar-Tlaib affair: Tough questions for AIPAC
For your perusal, my latest INTO THE FRAY column The Omar-Tlaib affair: Tough questions for AIPAC (Kindly consider “liking”, sharing, tweeting – please use hash-tag #IntoFray) Notwithstanding AIPAC’s discomfort over the Omar-Tlaib case, there is more that hint of hypocrisy in its joining the general assault on Israel. It appears this week on the following […]
INTO THE FRAY: The deadly detriments of a doctrine of defense
For your perusal, my latest INTO THE FRAY column The deadly detriments of a doctrine of defense (Kindly consider “liking”, sharing, tweeting – please use hash-tag #IntoFray) “Every round of violence, in which the results are not a clear-cut IDF victory is, in the eyes of Israel’s enemies, another nail in the coffin of the Zionist […]
INTO THE FRAY: The Bahrain Conference: Failure Foretold
For your perusal, my latest INTO THE FRAY column The Bahrain Conference: Failure Foretold (Kindly consider “liking”, sharing, tweeting – please use hash-tag #IntoFray) The endeavor to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict by economic means not only shows a grave defect in understanding its underlying causes, but inverts the causal relationship that generates & sustains it It appears […]
INTO THE FRAY: Cracks in the Dome?
For your perusal, my latest INTO THE FRAY column Cracks in the Dome? (Kindly consider “liking”, sharing, tweeting – please use hash-tag #IntoFray) The huge investments made in defensive systems are slowly emerging as an exorbitant and costly failure—or at best a very partial and temporary success. The time has come to rethink Israel’s strategic paradigm. It […]
זהירות מהפוליטיקה המזרח תיכונית
ד”ר מרדכי קידר אם וכאשר תיעלם או תצטמצם הסכנה האיראנית בדרך זו או אחרת, עלולה להיעלם גם הסיבה העיקרית של סעודיה והאמירויות להתקרב לישראל בשנים האחרונות מסתמן שיפור ביחסים בין ישראל ומדינות סוניות חשובות, דוגמת סעודיה ואיחוד האמירויות, ויחסים חדשים אלו מצטרפים להסכמי השלום שיש לישראל עם מצרים החל מ-1979 ועם […]
Beware of Middle Eastern Politics
By Mordechai Kedar If and when the Iranian threat weakens or disappears , we may witness a weakening or the complete disappearance of the main reason Saudi Arabia and the Emirates developed relations with Israel For the past few years, there seems to be a gradual improvement in the relations between […]
INTO THE FRAY: Let the PA collapse
For your perusal, my latest INTO THE FRAY column Let the PA collapse (Kindly consider “liking”, sharing, tweeting – please use hash-tag #IntoFray) Despite possible short term difficulties, Israel should seize on the impending collapse of the Palestinian Authority as an opportunity to extricate itself from the deadly cul-de-sac, into which the Oslo process has lured it […]
INTO THE FRAY: Restoring Jewish Sovereignty
For your perusal, my latest INTO THE FRAY column Restoring Jewish Sovereignty (Kindly consider “liking”, sharing, tweeting – please use hash-tag #IntoFray) Intensive investment must be made in civil society frameworks that can not only draw the idea of extended Israeli sovereignty into the main-stream discourse as a legitimate political objective, but as one that can dominate […]
INTO THE FRAY: Gaza – Disaster foretold
For your perusal, my latest INTO THE FRAY column Gaza: Disaster foretold (Kindly consider “liking”, sharing, tweeting – please use hash-tag #IntoFray) What has unfolded in Gaza should not really surprise anyone willing to face up to the inclement realities. After all, it was not only entirely foreseeable, but easily foreseen It appears this week on […]
INTO THE FRAY: Israel’s High Court-When Legality loses its legitimacy
For your perusal, my latest INTO THE FRAY column Israel’s High Court-When Legality loses its legitimacy (Kindly consider “liking”, sharing, tweeting – please use hash-tag #IntoFray) In overturning a previous decision of the Knesset’s Central Elections Committee, the High Court took another giant step towards further undermining the already dwindling public confidence in the Israeli judiciary. […]
“Palestine” – Time to say “No!”
For your perusal, my latest INTO THE FRAY column “Palestine” – Time to say “No!” (Kindly consider “liking”, sharing, tweeting – please use hash-tag #IntoFray) The two-state paradigm’s deadly detriments are now so glaringly apparent that it is becoming increasingly difficult to reconcile calls for Palestinian statehood with genuine concern for the well-being of the […]
