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INTO THE FRAY: A strange thing happened on the way to the polling booth

For your perusal, my latest INTO THE FRAY column A strange thing happened on the way to the polling booth (Kindly consider “liking”, sharing, tweeting – please use hash-tag ‪#‎IntoFray)  Arguably, Netanyahu’s gravest strategic miscalculation was not to call elections in May 2016 rather than capitulate to Liberman’s demand to be given the Defense portfolio.  It […]

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INTO THE FRAY: On domes and drones

      For your perusal, my latest INTO THE FRAY column  On domes and drones (Kindly consider “liking”, sharing, tweeting – please use hash-tag ‪#‎IntoFray) Will the growing use of drones by the Gaza-based terror groups make the billion dollar Iron Dome and anti-tunnel barrier useless—or at least irrelevant? It appears this week on the […]

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With this Palestinian Authority (PA), we need to recalculate the route to peace

    By Lt. Col, (res.) Maurice Hirsch, Adv.      PLO emblem: “…from the River to the Sea…” Twenty-five years have passed since Yasser Arafat entered Gaza as part of the “Peace Agreements” between the State of Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization, and the establishment of the Palestinian Authority (PA). It is now […]

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INTO THE FRAY: Sept. 17: Will the Right snatch defeat from the jaws of victory…again?

      For your perusal, my latest INTO THE FRAY column Sept. 17: Will the Right snatch defeat from the jaws of victory…again? (Kindly consider “liking”, sharing, tweeting – please use hash-tag ‪#‎IntoFray)   The continued existence of the Left as a viable force in Israeli politics, despite the manifest failure of its political credo, […]

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INTO THE FRAY: Incentivized Emigration: An idea whose time has come?

For your perusal, my latest INTO THE FRAY column  Incentivized Emigration: An idea whose time has come? (Kindly consider “liking”, sharing, tweeting – please use hash-tag ‪#‎IntoFray)   Of all the policy paradigms for the resolution of the conflict between Israel and the Palestinian-Arabs, incentivized Arab emigration is the most humane if it succeeds and least inhumane […]

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