Monday, January 27, 2014

An Alternate Reality - NY Times Guide to Negotiation Coverage

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...In the real world, negotiations involve demands and counter-demands by each party. Success is accompanied by give and take on both sides....
Sunday, January 26, 2014

Getting to the true nature of the conflict

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...Unlike certain members of the Israeli public, who believe the root of the conflict lies with our victory in the 1967 Six-Day War and the ...

Dear AFP, Jerusalem is Still the Capital of Israel

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...Unfortunately for the French wire service, this is no scoop. Rather, it's an erroneous identification of Israel's capital. Journa...

Jon Stewart and the funny side of the Iranian regime's nuclear threat

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...Even if you strip away his vile slanders, the basic message of Stewart’s rant, like that of other defenders of the rush to rapprochement ...

The chimerical quest for a melodramatic resolution of all problems

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...It is not that Israel cannot tacitly cooperate with Sunni Arab states, cannot successfully deter them from military aggression, and that ...
Saturday, January 25, 2014

Washington Post Editor Goes Gaga over Rouhani

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...Didn't all these Netanyahu points merit some recognition by Baron and the Washington Post ? Evidently not. Readers are left with an a...

Who Would've Thought? An Obama and Kerry Lobby in Israel

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...Leading Israeli defense officials regularly and publicly make their views on the key security matters of the day widely known within the ...
Friday, January 24, 2014

Israel Antiquities Authority, the Waqf and the Secrets from the Temple Mount

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..."The fact that after everything we know today we still have tractors and equipment on the Temple Mount and that we can only do work ...

Terrorist organizations and asymmetric warfare? It works like this

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...“For the Palestinian people death has become an industry at which women excel and so do all people on this land: the elderly excel, the ...

A realpolitik cynic or patent-medicine messiah?

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...Our unwavering message to the wannabe messiah must be that we have had our fill of officious earthly redeemers. The hardly beneficent ble...

Israel, the state of the Jewish people. What's difficult to understand?

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...The Palestinians are not keeping their right to self-determination within the 1947 lines or the 1967 borders, but they are actively striv...

To not think casually of the sacrifice that was asked

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...This ground was made sacred by what these soldiers did here. American diplomats should be brought to Ammunition Hill, before they begin p...
Thursday, January 23, 2014

(Video) No Water, No Electricity, No Truth, No Shame

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Somethings are easier to verify than others. A quick drive out to Arara by Regavim makes short shrift of MK Ahmed Tibi's latest fictitio...

The UN Year of Solidarity with the Palestinian People 2014

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...All visitors to UN Headquarters in New York, including school children from across America, walk off the elevator straight into the “Pale...

About This Trust Thing, Israelis Were Right

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...Thus, the U.S. decision to embrace an interim nuclear deal that does nothing to dismantle Iran’s nuclear infrastructure (a position reaff...

A Day to Remember Gush Katif, Past and Future

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...In longing to return to Gaza, Jews are not driven by dreams of militarism or belligerence, but by the natural and healthy ambition that a...
Wednesday, January 22, 2014

The assertion that time is not on Israel’s side simply defies logic

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...As for the assertion that time is not on Israel’s side, it defies logic. Israel is a success story, while our Arab neighbors are plagued ...

Disclosed today: Major wave of Al Qaeda-inspired terror attacks from Jerusalem thwarted

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...Certain voices in the news media are fond of asserting that the desire of the Palestinian Arab side to carry out terrorist actions of the...

Misdemeanor terrorism and the need to oppose all degradations of Jewish sovereignty

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...There are neighborhoods in Jerusalem and Arab towns where a Jewish driver stands the risk of being dragged from his car and lynched. And ...

Creating Refugees Who Insist on the Impossible, and Those Who Encourage Them

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...the answer to their problems is not more money for UNRWA and its employees nor for a Palestinian Authority that has no interest in helpin...