INTO THE FRAY: Iniquitous indictments for invented infractions
For your perusal, my latest INTO THE FRAY column Iniquitous indictments for invented infractions (Kindly consider “liking”, sharing, tweeting – please use hash-tag #IntoFray) Despite his remarkable success, Netanyahu has been ceaselessly assailed by his political adversaries. Indeed, it is perhaps his very success that has generated such raw rancor against him It appears this week […]
INTO THE FRAY: Israel’s dysfunctional electorate?
For your perusal, my latest INTO THE FRAY column Israel’s dysfunctional electorate? (Kindly consider “liking”, sharing, tweeting – please use hash-tag #IntoFray) Despite its many undoubted merits, democracy has one glaring detriment. There is never a dictator to blame for the fate that befalls the people. They alone are responsible for whatever befalls them. It appears […]
INTO THE FRAY: Merited mistrust?
For your perusal, my latest INTO THE FRAY column Merited mistrust? (Kindly consider “liking”, sharing, tweeting – please use hash-tag #IntoFray) “There is something sick in the State Prosecutor’s Office; Shai Nitzan is not fit to be the State Prosecutor” – Judge Hila Gerstel, former Commissioner for Prosecutorial Oversight It appears this week on the […]
INTO THE FRAY: Democracy devoid of the demos?
For your perusal, my latest INTO THE FRAY column Democracy devoid of the demos? (Kindly consider “liking”, sharing, tweeting – please use hash-tag #IntoFray) Former Justice Minister, ‘Tommy’ Lapid: “…the legal system in Israel is being undermined by an over-zealous State Prosecutor’s Office, that is losing esteem and credibility with each additional trial…” It appears […]
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 […]
Israelis can reclaim their land at the ballot box
By Barry Shaw – in the Times of Israel On September 10, Benjamin Netanyahu pulled off one of his famous political masterstrokes when he made a dramatic announcement one week before a contentious national election in which it looked far from certain that he would hold onto his record-breaking office as Israel’s prime minister. The […]
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, […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
