Articles
2005
- Editor’s Notes: Peretz and the falling ceiling
Valid though they may be, economic and social concerns cannot exclusively dominate the general election agenda in a small, embattled country like ours
December 30, 2005
- Lupolianski: No chance of building homes in E1
World simply won’t permit residential link to Ma’aleh Adumim, says capital’s mayor
December 28, 2005
- Editor’s Notes: In praise of ‘Prime’
A movie’s unexpected subtlety and Jewish authenticity
December 23, 2005
- Editor’s Notes: Sharon and assorted others
Kadima may not quite be a one-man party, but much of its appeal undeniably derives from the stature of that one man. It will flourish in these elections only if its dominant presence is Sharon – the cheerful embodiment of contradiction, yet the most reassuring of all Israeli politicians to middle Israel
December 23, 2005
- Koch chews out Sharon over eating habits
Former New York mayor: ‘When he came to visit me in New York, he ate off my plate’
December 22, 2005
- Editor’s Notes: Brutally silenced
Aged 48, Gibran Tueni himself joined the lengthening list of the dead three days after this column criticizing Syria appeared, blown up on Monday by a massive bomb that was detonated as his car made its way through the Beirut suburbs
December 16, 2005
- Editor’s Notes: Orlev’s dilemma
The National Religious Party leader may have to choose between his principles and his party’s political wellbeing. Defying recent norms, he vows he won’t capitulate
December 16, 2005
- Editor’s Notes: Waiting for the end of the world
Mohamed ElBaradei, the man principally charged with preventing nuclear apocalypse, acknowledges that he is increasingly incapable of doing so
December 9, 2005
- ElBaradei to ‘Post’: No nuclear ‘smoking gun’ in Iran
But IAEA chief says ‘open questions’ remain
December 7, 2005
- Editor’s Notes: ‘Everyone is sick of war; everyone wants an accord’
Meir Sheetrit, the fastest speaker I’ve ever interviewed, considers the establishment of Kadima, and its strong showing in current voter surveys, to be a vindication of the dovish mind-set he’d previously championed in what he claims used to be a more tolerant and diverse Likud
December 2, 2005
- Sheetrit to ‘Post’: Don’t build more in W. Bank
December 2, 2005
- Editor’s Notes: An inauspicious start
When it comes to the Palestinians, the discerning voter would at this stage be hard-pressed to ascertain precisely how Labor, Sharon and the Likud might differ
November 25, 2005
- Restorative for a shrinking Israel?
JNF chief says now is the perfect time to settle the Negev ‘frontierland’
November 23, 2005
- Editor’s Notes: Peretz and the ripple effect
The new Labor Party leader has splashed down like a rock in the heart of Israel’s stagnant political pool
November 18, 2005
- Jewish oilman sues Israel for thwarting drilling bid
Jack Grynberg says Israel should be begging him to explore; government says he doesn’t meet criteria
November 15, 2005
- Editor’s Notes: The PM’s new map
As US ambassador here, Martin Indyk was frequently treated to Ariel Sharon’s lectures on the transcendent importance of Gaza’s settlements. Indyk believes he understands why Sharon changed tack so drastically, and where that means the PM is headed now
November 11, 2005
- Editor’s Notes: The anniversary
It is hard to resist the sense that, sooner or later, Rabin would have concluded that his ‘partner’ was not genuinely making the shift from terrorist to statesman
November 4, 2005
- Editor’s Notes: Speaking his mind
Plain old common sense should have required Iran’s president holding his tongue. Instead this week, in the boldest language imaginable, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad made plain that, where Israel is concerned, a nuclear Iran under his watch would be anything but benign
October 28, 2005
- Arsenal hopes soccer will boost harmony in Israel
Top English club plans series of programs for Jewish and Arab youngsters
October 26, 2005
- Editor’s Notes: London and us
How has Israel’s youth cornered the market in selling toys to Brits in their own stores?
October 21, 2005
- Editor’s Notes: The revolutionary power of football
Football is about freedom and possibility and individual creativity, about sex appeal and mass celebration thoroughly mortal in its inspiration. These are not the qualities, values and pleasures most prized by Iran’s Islamist rulers
October 14, 2005
- Editor’s Notes: Deconstructing Dan
The chief of staff’s ‘feel good’ factor
October 7, 2005
- Halutz’s ‘work plan’ to keep us alive
Four months into the job, an upbeat chief of general staff tells ‘The Jerusalem Post’ that Israel has never looked safer and terrorism can be defeated, but that too much of the region is still far from reconciled to the fact of our presence here
October 7, 2005
- Halutz to ‘Post’: IDF can beat terror
Chief of staff warns Iran that Israel ‘won’t be anybody’s hostage’; says dangers of all-out war in Mideast now lower than ever
October 6, 2005
- Editor’s Notes: For the New Year
Assad’s future, American persuasion, economic inequality and an appeal for less of the wrong kind of tolerance in the months ahead
September 30, 2005
- Editor’s Notes: Enlightened moderation?
If the context of President Musharraf’s New York address to Jewish leaders was unquestionably historic, the content was, in parts, rather less so
September 23, 2005
- Musharraf: Israel must leave West Bank soon
Pakistan president tells ‘Post’ he has no timetable for ties with Israel
September 19, 2005
- Editor’s Notes: Because sometimes we forget
A Zionist reminder from Worcester, Mass.
September 16, 2005
- Dr. Ramon and his medicine for Israel
Taking swipes at both Right and Left, Haim Ramon sets out his remedies for an ailing nation, and laments others’ inability to quickly recognize that only he has the cure
September 16, 2005
- Editor’s Notes: Fighting the flood
The capacity of the New Orleans Jewish community to survive this crisis, and maintain a semblance of normality amid the dislocation, has been immensely boosted by the remarkable outpouring of goodwill and practical assistance from Jews nearby, across America and even further afield
September 9, 2005
- Ramon: Reroute fence to exclude 50,000 J’lem Arabs
September 9, 2005
- Peres rules out pre-election ‘big bang’ union with Sharon
September 8, 2005
- New Orleans Jews begin rebuilding their community – virtually
Federation official says many Jews will choose to restart their lives elsewhere
September 6, 2005
- Editor’s Notes: Off to the political circus
In private it is said Sharon would bolt the Likud and set up a new party rather than risk losing the leadership to Netanyahu – that he will set out a clear vision of Israeli borders in the West Bank in line with the security barrier with minor additions, and that the dire historical precedents concerning failed new party ventures need not cause too much dismay given that the would-be party chief this time is a popular, serving prime minister
September 2, 2005
- ‘PM will set out dovish vision if he bolts Likud’
Sharon, ‘Post’ told, will quit the party if its central committee defies him this month and votes for the leadership contest sought by Binyamin Netanyahu and Uzi Landau
September 2, 2005
- Editor’s Notes: A proud, bitter aftermath
Eviction from Gaza was one of religious Zionism’s finest hours, argues Israel Harel
August 26, 2005
- Editor’s Notes: The internal fallout from Gaza
Our political system is in chaos, marked by incoherent, puny factions riven by internal conflict. We need leaders to articulate a long-term strategy, we need to make our electoral choice, and we need to live by it – or risk not living here at all
August 19, 2005
- Editor’s Notes: Religious Zionism’s crumbling partnership
A plea for moderation from the president of Bar-Ilan University
August 12, 2005
- Editor’s Notes: 48 hours
On August 15 and 16, the army is going to send thousands of soldiers to encourage as many Gaza settlers as possible to leave there and then. They will have registered a protest by staying on, the army can essentially escort them out, and they won’t lose compensation
August 5, 2005
- IDF: 50% of settlers will go by Aug. 17
If Palestinian violence continues, army offensive may precede pullout
August 4, 2005
- Warnings from an old campaigner
At Yamit, says Tzahi Hanegbi, ‘I was in exactly the same emotional place’ as the anti-pullout activists are now. But today’s leadership is departing from the ‘iron principles’ of legitimate struggle, and Israel may pay a terrible price. You can’t, in the hope of thwarting disengagement, be prepared to create social chaos, to make refusal a widespread phenomenon, to force the army to surrender
August 2, 2005
- Editor’s Notes: Tony Blair’s finest hour
What a ray of hope to witness a British prime minister acknowledge the grim challenge posed by terrorists, and begin to grapple with the process of beating them
July 29, 2005
- UK envoy: Nowhere is safe from global terror
‘If it were up to me, the BBC would call terrorists terrorists’
July 29, 2005
- Hanegbi: Pullout opponents are going too far
‘You can’t, in the hope of thwarting disengagement, be prepared to create social chaos,’ says Likud minister
July 29, 2005
- Editor’s Notes: Marching on ‘Disengagement II’
What is in danger of getting lost amid the rising climate of intra-Jewish hostility is that once the summer is over, we will – all of us, on both sides of the disengagement divide, in and out of uniform – have to go on living here together
July 22, 2005
- American Jews need to hear ‘from people like me’
Communications Minister Dalia Itzik heads to the US and Canada to articulate disengagement from the standpoint of someone who, as she puts it, is ‘not a natural in this government’
July 22, 2005
- Itzik: PM will turn back to the Right after pullout
July 21, 2005
- Editor’s Notes: The bombers within
While there have been a number of instances of Israeli Arabs assisting Palestinian terrorists, the central role played by four British Muslims in four coordinated suicide bombings in their own capital far outstrips the most heinous terror roles of Israeli Arabs here since 2000
July 15, 2005
- Georgia’s new Jewish envoy symbolizes bid for deeper ties
‘My mother is Jewish. I know the halacha!’ says Zhvania
July 12, 2005
- ‘You can’t fool around with terrorist groups’
Ehud Olmert reflects on the lessons for Europe from Thursday’s attacks, and on the violent precedent set by David Ben-Gurion for ensuring that a nascent state has only a single force legitimized to carry arms
July 10, 2005
- Olmert to ‘Post’: Disengagement should take only two weeks
July 10, 2005
- Editor’s Notes: The man who captured Gaza
‘We didn’t fight that war to conquer territory,’ says Maj-Gen. (res.) Yeshayahu ‘Shaike’ Gavish, now 80, of the 1967 war. ‘We went to Gaza to save the state. That land is not ours, and we have to get out. We can’t rule another people. You can’t rule over a million, two million people’
July 8, 2005
- Comment: Britain’s 9/11
Now in the UK, as then in the US, those who lust for death have struck at the heart of a civilized nation, exploiting trust and freedom to cause indiscriminate murder and mayhem
July 8, 2005
- Editor’s Notes: Worlds apart
For all the stated areas of common ground between Ami Ayalon and Jibril Rajoub, they are sparring – and over fundamentals, at that
July 1, 2005
- McCain wins! Rice is VP!
You read it here first, courtesy of William Safire – ex-Nixon speechwriter, master of the English language, idealistic believer in the irrepressible human desire for basic freedoms, and, possibly, political pundit extraordinaire
June 28, 2005
- Government is failing to explain disengagement, Ami Ayalon says
June 28, 2005
- Editor’s Notes: Senseless death, absent comedy
Aren’t there enough people out there trying to kill and maim us already without our own impatience, and arrogance, and absurd delusions of immortality piling on fresh corpses?
June 24, 2005
- Editor’s Notes: Signs of the times
June 17, 2005
- Editor’s Notes: Expect the unexpected
The IDF has for months been compiling exhaustive databases on each and every Gaza Jewish family – information to enable the evacuating IDF team leader to build a rapport with the family members, or to enable that team to speedily remove them
June 10, 2005
- Mofaz to give PA plans of Gush Katif this week
Settlers: Decision endangers us
June 6, 2005
- Editor’s Notes: Say goodbye to The Three ‘I’s
Israel is bracketed with Iraq and Iran today as a source of tension between the US and Europe. Now’s the time to change that, argues a leading Republican foreign policy strategist
June 3, 2005
- Editor’s Notes: Not like Lebanon at all
The radical differences between pulling out troops and evacuating reluctant civilians
May 27, 2005
- Editor’s Notes: What if Meridor started a trend?
Nobody in positions of power and influence voluntarily relinquishes their grip. Or, rather, nobody did until now…
May 20, 2005
- Analysis: Ayalon likely loser in battle with Shalom
May 17, 2005
- Editor’s Notes: Love Israel tender
In downtown Jerusalem on Wednesday night, as in parks and public squares and at community centers nationwide throughout Independence Day, we came together with more confidence and harmony than for years
May 13, 2005
- ‘We must reduce the terrorists’ sense of victory’
Binyamin Netanyahu talks exclusively to the ‘Post’ about the dangers of disengagement, why he hasn’t resigned, a vision for Gaza and his prime-ministerial aspirations
May 11, 2005
- Netanyahu escalates attack on PM over Gaza
But finance minister also tells ‘Post’ he accepts disengagement as a done deal that reflects popular will
May 11, 2005
- Editor’s Notes: Bassi’s pendulum
The disengagement chief had believed that Knesset approval would remove the psychological barrier to a smooth evacuation. But Gaza’s settlers, to his dismay, remain paralyzed between hope and despair
May 6, 2005
- Analysis: Tentative relief for AIPAC despite Franklin case headlines
May 6, 2005
- Exclusive: Bassi pushes for more compensation
May 3, 2005
- Editor’s Notes: Geza and the Gospels
An anti-Jewish malaise in the UK? ‘Good gracious, no,’ says Oxford Prof. Geza Vermes. Just look at the warm reception accorded his new book excoriating the New Testament
April 29, 2005
- Editor’s Notes: Meet the prime minister
It’s a momentous and a terrible job, leading Israel. In our unfinished Zionist experiment, failure can be cataclysmic, existential
April 22, 2005
- ‘Whoever thinks that we can countenance the murder of our people is making a mistake’
In an interview with the ‘Post,’ Prime Minister Ariel Sharon emphasizes American understandings regarding long-term Israeli control of major West Bank settlement blocs, evinces no doubt whatsoever regarding the rightness of his decision to disengage from Gaza, and stresses that he has not given up on Mahmoud Abbas
April 22, 2005
- PM tells ‘Post’ leaving Gaza is the only way to salvage major West Bank settlements
Sharon says he’ll never send ground troops back into the Strip to fight terror
April 21, 2005
- Editor’s Notes: Overtures to the deaf
Months of efforts by Israeli officials to foster concrete elements of a partnership with the PA have led absolutely nowhere
April 15, 2005
- Editor’s Notes: The barrier comes of age
March 2002 saw 126 Israelis killed by terrorists. March 2005 passed without a suicide bombing
April 8, 2005
- Editor’s Notes: ‘This cannot be stopped by the street’
Shaul Goldstein, the deputy head of the Yesha Council, believes ‘there is not much possibility’ now of preventing disengagement
April 1, 2005
- Editor’s Notes: A candid new EU voice
It is clear to the EU, says it new envoy Ramiro Cibrian-Uzal, that in order to make progress we must have a PA leadership that is fully committed and proactive in the fight against terrorism
March 25, 2005
- New EU envoy says lull in terror ‘not enough’
EU is ‘a friend of Israel and a friend of peace’
March 21, 2005
- Editor’s Notes: The battle for E1
For more than a decade, no bulldozer has stirred up dust in the corridor of construction designed to link Ma’aleh Adumim to Jerusalem
March 18, 2005
- Editor’s Notes: The eclipse of Assad
Tuesday’s purported pro-Syrian rally in Beirut was a blatant exhibition not of Assad’s primacy but of Sheikh Nasrallah’s
March 11, 2005
- Editor’s Notes: They should have gone to the Negev
The regrets of Arye Nehemkin, the man who sent the first Jews to Gush Katif
March 4, 2005
- Editor’s Notes: Iran: The moment of truth
The nuclear order that has held since the late 1960s is crumbling before our eyes
February 25, 2005
- The optimistic Zionist
Although the rate of immigration has fallen to its lowest point in 16 years, Jewish Agency Chairman Sallai Meridor believes that ‘aliya by choice’ from Western nations has the potential to double in the coming years
February 20, 2005
- Editor’s Notes: Meridor’s mission
The Jewish Agency chief is desperately pressing to facilitate increased aliya after more than four years of terrorism here, amid Israel-apathy or downright opposition among many Diaspora Jews, and at a time of falling Agency funding and a strapped Israeli economy
February 18, 2005
- Editor’s Notes: Hope springs eternal
Is the terror war over?
February 11, 2005
- Editor’s Notes: Inspiration from Iraq
One can well understand Abbas’s current preference for the path of least resistance – cajoling Hamas and the other terror groups toward a cease-fire, while shrinking back from confrontation. The problem – for Abbas, for the Palestinians and for Israel – is that appeasement doesn’t work with terrorists
February 4, 2005
- Editor’s Notes: Two days in Poland
The nation’s leadership wants the 25,000 or so young Israelis who come to the death camps each year to see the wider Poland too
January 28, 2005
- Putin failure to mention Jews in Auschwitz speech upsets Israel
January 28, 2005
- Katsav blasts Allies for not stopping Shoah
The Germans knew that they were going to lose, but they continued, even accelerated, the destruction of the Jews, says president
January 28, 2005
- Putin tells ‘Post’: Missile deal with Syria possible
Russian president says `defensive’ weapons won’t harm regional balance
January 28, 2005
- President to ‘Post’: No guarantee against another Holocaust
‘I do have doubts that the world, humankind, will always remember the lessons,’ says Katsav en route to ceremonies marking the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz
January 27, 2005
- Editor’s Notes: A confused nation and its numbskull prince
Given its tendency to indulge slights – and worse – that the American Jewish establishment would regard as unacceptable, it seems ironic and bizarre that Anglo Jewry has chosen to protest so emphatically, davka, at the ignorant antics of hapless Prince Harry
January 21, 2005
- Editor’s Notes: Our own worst enemies
We, the Jewish nation, are insistently drowning ourselves in a sea of internal hatred, tearing ourselves apart in an orgy of self-flagellation
January 14, 2005
- Editor’s Notes: His master’s (very loud) voice
Sharon’s high-volume spokesman Ra’anan Gissin on counter-tsunamis, inadequate deputies and Mahmoud Abbas as a reluctant parachutist
January 7, 2005
- ‘Abbas’s own security fears will keep him from Temple Mount’
Gissin: Not clear whether PA head will come to Jerusalem at all ahead of Sunday’s elections
January 5, 2005
- Fearing attack, Iran boosts air defenses at nuke sites
January 5, 2005
- Looking beyond the lamppost
A former head of the Mossad and briefly Sharon’s national security adviser, Ephraim Halevy stresses that he has been out of the intelligence business for quite a while now. But perhaps with distance, he muses, he sees some of the threats facing Israel more clearly
January 2, 2005
- Ex-Mossad chief fears Syria, Egypt have bought nuke parts
January 2, 2005
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