Articles
2011
- Postscript: The editor’s farewell
July 1, 2011
- Editor’s Notes: Jimmy Wales’s benevolent Wikipedia wisdom
Most people are fundamentally decent, and we’re now in an era where people can communicate with each other much more effectively than ever before. That, says the online encyclopedia pioneer, gives Israelis a real opportunity for very personal ambassadorship
July 1, 2011
- Editor’s Notes: The Great Israeli Cottage Cheese Uprising
Our well-mannered dairy revolt illuminates the forgotten side of the Israeli economy – the sectors that are being left ever further behind
June 24, 2011
- Editor’s Notes: Why Meir Dagan speaks
There has been widespread criticism, but no plausible explanation, for the ex-Mossad chief’s anguished repeated warnings against an Israeli military strike on Iran. Don’t we owe this remarkable individual rather more than a rush to condemnation?
June 17, 2011
- Editor’s Notes: Guess what: Our enemies lie
The IDF showed on Sunday that it had learned many of the lessons of its Nakba Day failure. But it continues to pay a high price for its incomprehensible refusal to counter, in real time, the relentless distortion of unfolding events and, especially, the falsehoods about death tolls
June 10, 2011
- Editor’s Notes: The battle for Europe
For all that Netanyahu raged against Obama’s flawed vision, the president’s effort to draw Europe away from a ‘yes’ vote for Palestinian statehood is certainly in Israel’s interest. And Israel is deluding itself if it fails to internalize how far Europe has tilted toward ‘Palestine’
June 3, 2011
- Editor’s Notes: Worlds apart
With Netanyahu bitterly rejecting the president’s flawed talk of ’67 lines, and the Palestinians not being asked by Obama to abandon the ‘right of return,’ it is the Jewish state that is seen to be defying its ally again, to the benefit of the disingenuous PA
May 27, 2011
- Analysis: Preaching, eloquently, to the choir
The prime minister told the US Congress everything he thinks Obama should be telling America and the world
May 25, 2011
- Analysis: A ‘misrepresented’ Obama tries to set the record straight
But even the president’s improved formulations will still leave many Israelis feeling uneasy
May 23, 2011
- Comment: Obama’s failure to internalize Palestinian intolerance
The president’s new parameters show him blind to the significance of the demand for a ‘right of return’
May 22, 2011
- Editor’s Notes: A time for honesty, clarity and leadership
We need to reassert our sense of common purpose. And we need bold, selfless, far-sighted governance
May 20, 2011
- Editor’s Notes: ‘I won’t turn my back on the Palestinian peace camp’
In emphatic contrast to the prime minister, President Shimon Peres does not regard the Fatah-Hamas pact as potentially marking the end of the Israeli-Palestinian diplomatic road
May 13, 2011
- Abbas ‘absolutely’ still our partner, Peres tells ‘Post’
If world recognizes Palestinian state without addressing Israel’s security, ‘that will mean a continuation of the conflict,’ president says
May 9, 2011
- Editor’s Notes: Out of the ashes, to the height of self-sufficiency
As Israel turns 63, nobody better exemplifies the near-miraculous transformation of the Jewish nation than the IDF’s new chief of staff
May 6, 2011
- Comment: Where is the outrage?
The international community has chosen indulgence and disingenuousness in the face of Abbas’s capitulative embrace of the Islamic extremists
May 2, 2011
- Editor’s Notes: The guy with the bandage
Four months after she was shot in the head, Rep. Gabrielle Giffords flew to Florida this week to watch her astronaut husband’s shuttle take-off. Bernard Bar-Natan, a former IDF combat medic with an inquisitive mind and a great deal of tenacity, may have played a central role in her survival
April 29, 2011
- Editor’s Notes: The moralist
When your enemies do not follow the rules of war… An eye-opening interview with Asa Kasher, the man who helps set the IDF’s ethical parameters
April 22, 2011
- Editor’s Notes: As Assad tries to hang on
A friend of mine recently visited the Syrian capital, where he had previously been a student. This column sets out the impressions of Damascus he conveyed to me on his return
April 15, 2011
- Comment: Those fiendish Jews and their life-saving innovations
Iron Dome? In a million years, we didn’t think it would work. They’re going to shoot our rockets out of the sky? Impossible. But heaven help us, they’ve done it
April 10, 2011
- Editor’s Notes: Playing poker over Palestine
There are even some voices around the prime minister – a minority, it should be stressed – suggesting that Netanyahu should call the Palestinians’ statehood bluff at the UN this fall
April 8, 2011
- Comment: Goldstone, the belated penitent
By alleging, unfoundedly, that we were an immoral enemy, the sanctimonious judge put all of our lives at greater risk. From him, and everyone else who rushed to demonize Israel, an apology just isn’t good enough
April 3, 2011
- Editor’s Notes: They tried to kill us, we won, now we’re changing the world
Saul Singer, co-author of the Israel-redefining ‘Start-Up Nation,’ urges Israel and its supporters to internalize just how profoundly our phenomenal capacity for innovation can better this planet
April 1, 2011
- Analysis: Assad the intimidator
We’re reforming all the time, smiled Syria’s tyrant. So anyone demanding more must be an enemy. And we all know how our enemies are treated…
March 30, 2011
- Editor’s Notes: How the Palestinans will use the UN General Assembly to advance statehood
Israel’s complacent assumption has been that even an overwhelming vote to establish ‘Palestine’ at the GA in September would have merely ‘declaratory’ impact. Wrong. Jerusalem had forgotten about UNGA Resolution 377
March 25, 2011
- Shalev: UNGA resolution on ‘Palestine’ may have dramatic impact
Israel ‘only just found out’ about Resolution 377, which was used to advance Namibian independence and delegitimize South Africa
March 25, 2011
- Editor’s Notes: Wanted: The PM’s vision for Israel
If Netanyahu continues to dodge the specifics, various international players, the US included, will intensify their efforts to impose their idea of a solution
March 18, 2011
- Editor’s Notes: Playing chess against Tehran
In an extraordinary interview, Israel’s most senior civil servant, Uri Lubrani, discloses his recipe for ousting the mullahs, and a great deal more besides…
March 11, 2011
- Lubrani urges Obama to fully support Iranian people
A clear, public demand by the US for freedom in Tehran would be ‘electrifying’, says veteran official; currently, the regime is not threatened
March 11, 2011
- Editor’s Notes: Okay, so there goes the neighborhood. Now what are we going to do about it?
Rather than wringing our hands, we’d better look to constructively influence this era-defining process of regional change
March 4, 2011
- Editor’s Notes: A mass expression of outrage against injustice
Historian Bernard Lewis diagnoses the fundamental cause of the region-wide explosion of protest, and dismisses Western notions of a quick fix
February 25, 2011
- Editor’s Notes: The end is near, but they won’t go quietly
The ayatollahs’ regime is ‘artificial,’ argues Menashe Amir, who has been broadcasting from Jerusalem to his native Iran for more than half a century. Now it’s up to the West to help the Iranian people bring it down
February 18, 2011
- Analysis: This may be the first spark of revolution in Iran
If the people don’t go home, the regime will have a problem, says Menashe Amir
February 14, 2011
- Analysis: Prepare the ground for a genuine transition to democracy
For fumbling West, Sharansky’s formula for real change is worth heeding
February 13, 2011
- Editor’s Notes: Maybe this is the moment to put our trust in freedom
A quarter-century after his release presaged the disintegration of the Soviet Union, an ‘even purer’ push for democracy is unfolding in our region, says Natan Sharansky
February 11, 2011
- Sharansky: Protests offer chance to build new pact with the Arab world
In interview with ‘Post’, Natan Sharansky says free world must help Arab masses who are bidding to be rid of their autocratic leaders
February 11, 2011
- Analysis: Dangerously underestimating the Muslim Brotherhood
The Brotherhood’s tactical absence from the front lines of the protests has been misread as evidence of marginality or a lack of ambition. In fact, Egypt offers fertile ground for the fundamentalists, and they will do their best to exploit it. So why is the US encouraging the involvement of a group that would subvert any prospect of genuine freedom and democracy?
February 6, 2011
- Editor’s Notes: The reversal of a generation’s momentum
For the first time in more than 30 years, as Egypt implodes, we face the specter of our diplomatic achievements being rolled back
February 4, 2011
- Daily Telegraph: Israel faces danger in every direction
The Egyptian crisis is ringing alarm bells in Jerusalem
February 1, 2011
- Editor’s Notes: Missing a moment of truth
Instead of denying the ‘PaliLeaks’ charges of seeking a viable peace accord, Abbas should be telling his people that that’s exactly what he and his negotiators have been doing
January 28, 2011
- Editor’s Notes: Not a fait accompli, after all
Departing Mossad chief Meir Dagan’s final vital act, backed up by the reported success of Stuxnet, was to shatter the illusion that Iran’s drive for nuclear weapons is unstoppable
January 21, 2011
- Editor’s Notes: The wisdom of 1977
A third of a century ago, a Canadian law professor delivered a message from Anwar Sadat to Menachem Begin that helped precipitate peace negotiations. In the last few days, Irwin Cotler retold this story to both Mahmoud Abbas and Binyamin Netanyahu, with a key accompanying lesson
January 14, 2011
- Editor’s Notes: Rabbi. MK. Heretic?
Shas claims its nonconformist MK Haim Amsalem is aligned with the ‘haters of Torah.’ But is it really Amsalem who has betrayed authentic Judaism?
January 7, 2011
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