Articles
2006
- Editor’s Notes: A terrible silence
The UN’s ‘Never Again’ convention obligates it to prevent genocide, says Canada’s former justice minister Irwin Cotler. Yet it hasn’t so much as debated Iran’s avowed intent to eliminate the Jewish state
December 29, 2006
- Editor’s Notes: Easing traffic, bolstering Jewish values and rotten apples in Teheran
Jerusalem’s Mayor Uri Lupolianski sets out his view from City Hall
December 22, 2006
- Editor’s Notes: A satisfied mayor
Uri Lupolianski doesn’t claim to be ‘enjoying’ the job, but he’s certainly pleased with the progress he says he’s making – balancing the city budget, meeting ‘strategic goals.’ He’s also appreciative that the improved security situation of late has enabled the city to thrive and has revived tourism. Addressing very specific issues in this interview – relating to cleanliness, building policy, traffic, education and more – the mayor acknowledges that not all his goals have been achieved. He fully intends, he says, to ‘finish the job’
December 22, 2006
- Editor’s Notes: It’s the regime, stupid
The Israeli security establishment is now starting to internalize the scope of the Iranian threat
December 15, 2006
- Lupolianski says unwarranted property tax exemptions for church holdings are costing city hundreds of millions and must end
Mayor’s comment comes after Olmert meets the pope at the Vatican
December 14, 2006
- Ahmadinejad’s spiritual mentor seeks key post in Friday elections
Mesbah-Yazdi and former president Rafsanjani compete for dominance in Iran’s Assembly of Experts
December 14, 2006
- Editor’s Notes: Iran the vulnerable?
In the Israeli corridors of power they insist that Ahmadinejad will not determine the fate of the Jewish state. But as time ticks away and the world does nothing to thwart Teheran’s nuclear drive, it gets harder to understand their confidence
December 8, 2006
- Editor’s Notes: In my country there is problem – with Borat
Can Sacha Baron Cohen be justly confident that his protagonist’s dreadful caricaturing will do more good than harm?
December 1, 2006
- Editor’s Notes: Ignoring the lessons of the past
Why would Syria, Iran and the terror groups they jointly sponsor so utterly deride the notion that the West will ever unite to effectively deter them? An early case in point is the small matter of Nezar Hindawi and the Syrian bid to bomb El Al 20 years ago
November 24, 2006
- Editor’s Notes: US Jews in trouble! What about Israeli Jews?
Listening to Zeev Bielski’s warnings, American Jews might reasonably retort: Stop worrying about us, and start worrying about yourselves
November 17, 2006
- Editor’s Notes: Plotting ‘memorable black days for the enemies of Islam’
How a nice Hindu boy from northwest London became a would-be mass murderer. And why the dismal transformation of Dhiren Barot (right) underlines the imperative to thwart Teheran’s nuclear program
November 10, 2006
- A diplomat’s prerogative
The successes of the first days of the war against Hizbullah created a misplaced euphoria among Israelis, says Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni. But when complex reality bit, the public again overreacted – becoming despondent about perceived failure. Now she is off to tell US Jews, too, that things aren’t so bad here
November 10, 2006
- Livni tells ‘Post’ new Palestinian unity government won’t be enough
Abbas, Haniyeh fail to strike a deal
November 7, 2006
- Editor’s Notes: ‘Mr. Reassurance’ sounds the alarm
In the wake of the war with Hizbullah, the program for next weekend’s annual UJC ‘General Assembly’ of North American Jews has been hurriedly restructured to focus overwhelmingly on Israel. American Jews are deeply worried about us, says Nachman Shai, the former IDF spokesman who is now the UJC’s Israel director. And, Shai adds, they’re right to be
November 3, 2006
- Editor’s Notes: Tackle Teheran or face A-bomb Ahmadinejad
Already, the Iranian president’s very pursuit of the bomb, combined with his relentless assertions that Israel will soon be swept aside, have reversed the process under which Middle Eastern regimes and their peoples, however grudgingly, were coming to terms with the fact of Israel’s permanence
October 27, 2006
- Javier Solana to the ‘Post’: Hamas does not want to destroy Israel
October 27, 2006
- Editor’s Notes: Father of the reform
Uriel Lynn is entirely convinced that the agitation for electoral change is going nowhere this time, ‘because the public isn’t up in arms demanding it’
October 20, 2006
- Editor’s Notes: The president vs. the police
The body that we citizens rely upon to uphold law and order has asserted that the holder of our state’s most significant ceremonial office is a dangerous sexual offender whose presence in Beit Hanassi is an offense to us all
October 20, 2006
- Editor’s Notes: Assad’s push for a Golan realignment
It is ‘the height of arrogance,’ says Syria expert Moshe Maoz, for Israel not to ‘at least check out’ Damascus’s intentions
October 13, 2006
- Editor’s Notes: How many people do you want to kill?
If the speed camera network set up in the UK 15 years ago had been immediately replicated here, an estimated 3,140 Israelis would still be alive today
October 6, 2006
- Editor’s Notes: No happy ending
Is it possible that the president could, logistically speaking, have carried on in the alleged manner while, in the offices all around him, the presidential staff went about their work in blithe ignorance? Almost inconceivable, runs the answer
September 29, 2006
- Editor’s Notes: Abbas’s new-old adviser
The unity government talks are a waste of time, says Nabil Amr with typical briskness. Hamas will never accept the Quartet’s conditions. ‘If it does, it’s not Hamas’
September 29, 2006
- ‘I had no illusions about this job’
After a nightmarish first summer in office, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s self-confidence is undimmed as he looks back at the war and forward to dealing with Iran, the Palestinians and domestic opposition in this forthright interview
September 29, 2006
- In an interview with ‘The Jerusalem Post’: PM says Bush won’t allow nuclear Iran
Listening to Zeev Bielski’s warnings, American Jews might reasonably retort: Stop worrying about us, and start worrying about yourselves
September 26, 2006
- Editor’s Notes: Walking into the war
A few words of appreciation for our journalists
September 22, 2006
- Editor’s Notes: Next year, we need to stop ‘winging it’
Giora Eiland, just resigned as national security adviser, says the dysfunctional nature of governance in Israel made his work impossible. A jaw-dropping, deeply worrying interview…
September 22, 2006
- Editor’s Notes: Miri Eisin takes on the world
A fascinating, sometimes disconcerting, first interview with Ehud Olmert’s sole soldier on the global English-media battlefield
September 15, 2006
- Analysis: The realm of the unthinkable
Experts now publicly contemplate the `terrible dilemmas’ posed by Iran
September 15, 2006
- Eiland to ‘Post’: Iran will get the bomb
PM disagrees, believes Teheran can be deterred
September 15, 2006
- Visiting Labor MPs say Blair’s Israel stance not central to his fall
September 13, 2006
- Cotler advises US to arrest Ahmadinejad for inciting to genocide
Iranian president intends to speak at General Assembly later this month
September 12, 2006
- Comment: A changed world since 9/11
September 11, 2006
- Editor’s Notes: Gridlock
Three-and-a-half weeks after the fighting ended, Israel’s political and military leadership is paralyzing itself in an orgy of in-fighting and blame-trading
September 8, 2006
- Adams to tell Hamas of need for two-state solution
Sinn Fein leader urges Israel to open a dialogue with Hamas, and Europe to `bring some sense’ to region
September 6, 2006
- Editor’s Notes: Fix the ‘mediocracy’
Israel’s political and military leadership knew full well in advance of the fighting that we had no answer to the Katyusha threat
September 1, 2006
- Critical generals believe Halutz will ‘draw the necessary conclusions’
September 1, 2006
- An insult to our intelligence
Matan Vilna’i: When the chief of staff presents a war plan, ministers have to ask him the right questions, to be sure they know what Israel is getting into. That didn’t happen
August 29, 2006
- Editor’s Notes: Removing the pretext
To Israel’s grave detriment, the two prime champions of a strategic challenge to the march of Islamic extremism are nearing the end of their respective political roads
August 25, 2006
- ‘Ahmadinejad would sacrifice half of Iran to wipe out Israel’
Ex-nat’l security advisor Eiland warns of looming danger
August 25, 2006
- Editor’s Notes: Vital lessons from a ‘premature’ war
A conflict that Iran and Hizbullah may not have anticipated exploding this summer has given Israel the opportunity to learn from its own arrogance and complacency, and thus to defend itself better against a still greater threat
August 18, 2006
- Editor’s Notes: The absent Nautilus
Yuval Steinitz has long been a critic of what he has perceived as complacency in the face of the threat of terrorists
August 11, 2006
- Analysis: The ethical dilemmas of the Jewish state at war
Must Israel reinterpret what its Jewish values require it to do in order to survive in the cynical, merciless Middle East?
August 8, 2006
- Analysis: The fingers of blame
Point them at the killers firing the rockets
August 7, 2006
- Editor’s Notes: Measuring success, and failure
What the IDF achieves in these next few days will thus be crucial
August 4, 2006
- Uri Lubrani: Hizbullah feeling pressure, but not desperate
Defense minister’s adviser tells the ‘Post’: World has to face up to the wider threat posed by Iran
August 4, 2006
- Analysis: A leader who ‘gets it,’ and gets castigated for it
For many of the British elites, the world would be a better, safer place if Israel would only disappear. Tony Blair, inconveniently, begs to differ
August 3, 2006
- Analysis: A buffer with a difference
Unlike until May 2000, the zone won’t be clear of Hizbullah cells
August 3, 2006
- Analysis: The turning point?
Central to the uphill struggle now is the fact that Hizbullah – like the well-oiled Palestinian PR machine before it – has outmaneuvered Israel on the ‘second battlefield,’ where the public relations war is waged
July 31, 2006
- Analysis: The later the better for an int’l force
Murderous precedent suggests that no foreign force will be a match for Hizbullah if the fighting ends prematurely
July 30, 2006
- Editor’s Notes: Anything but easy
In a reversal of military norms, Israel is relying on its civilians to absorb a degree of enemy fire so as to enable the IDF to proceed in a relatively narrow and focused fashion
July 28, 2006
- Background: An international force for Lebanon – a nice idea in theory, but in practice…
World players are getting cold feet over what NATO sources call ‘a bit of a tough sell’
July 28, 2006
- ‘IDF has a lot left to achieve’
Maj.-Gen. Benny Gantz: Hizbullah has suffered hundreds of fatalities; Bint Jbail is the symbolic heart of the struggle
July 27, 2006
- Analysis: The weekend the war got complicated
July 23, 2006
- Editor’s Notes: When it’s over
The war Israel is waging against Hizbullah is the product of a radically changed approach to fighting terror. But when the guns fall silent, how much of long-term significance will have been achieved?
July 21, 2006
- Hizbullah still at half its strength
Killing Nasrallah would be significant but not deemed critical; war costs NIS 50m.-100m. per day
July 19, 2006
- Analysis: A deepening consensus behind the imperative for action
The respect afforded Olmert in the Knesset reflects a rare degree of national unanimity
July 18, 2006
- Analysis: Nasrallah cornered but still dangerous
July 17, 2006
- Analysis: The air force’s test
Unlike until May 2000, the zone won’t be clear of Hizbullah cells
July 16, 2006
- Editor’s Notes: Changing the rules of the game
Doron Almog, the general who kept terrorists from crossing into Israel from Gaza for three full years, says he recognizes the limits of Israeli military power. But there’s no choice now, he argues, but to strike hard at Hizbullah – ‘from the top of its leadership, all the way down’
July 14, 2006
- Analysis: Israel at war
A fascinating, sometimes disconcerting, first interview with Ehud Olmert’s sole soldier on the global English-media battlefield
July 14, 2006
- Editor’s Notes: The sun shines, again, on Luz
The Israeli solar energy pioneers, who made better use of the sun’s potential than any other firm worldwide, are getting ready for a comeback
July 7, 2006
- Editor’s Notes: The president roars
For six years, Moshe Katsav kept private his thoughts on the competence of Israel’s elected leadership in its dealings with the Palestinians. Until this week
June 30, 2006
- ‘I’d love to tell Israelis how we protect them, but then the enemy would adapt’
In an unusually heartfelt interview, air force chief Eliezer Shkedy describes the dilemma of grappling with terrorists who surround themselves with civilians because they know Israel will hold its fire
June 30, 2006
- IAF chief: Scope of Gaza operation yet to be decided. We pass up 10 targeted killings for every one we carry out
June 29, 2006
- Katsav blasts successive gov’ts for getting ‘nothing’ for concessions to Palestinians
President says disengagement should have been coordinated with Abbas and unilateral realignment would have no diplomatic value
June 28, 2006
- The interior minister’s unique dilemma
Roni Bar-On is a strong advocate of realignment – relinquishing territory to preserve a Jewish Israel. But he’s also facing massive demands for citizenship from non-Jews, including foreign workers and Sudanese refugees. ‘It’s quite a problem,’ he acknowledges
June 27, 2006
- Editor’s Notes: Argentina’s failure of justice
An investigation into the collapsed probe of the 1994 Buenos Aires bombing is exposing a degree of cynicism and disrespect for morality that one would have liked to think had no place in today’s governance of enlightened nations
June 23, 2006
- Editor’s Notes: Mixed messages for the PM
Talk to us, urges a Palestinian spokesman; pound Gaza, demands Sderot’s Eli Moyal
June 16, 2006
- Editor’s Notes: Making friends in Nuremberg
Keep politics out of international sport’ is the discredited mantra of racists and their appeasers, invoked at their convenience, and ignored at their convenience, too
June 9, 2006
- Desperate for tax money, Hamas sends a letter to ‘Jerusalem, Israel’
June 9, 2006
- European support for Palestinians ‘crashing’
Decline so sharp that surveys were redone to confirm
June 4, 2006
- Editor’s Notes: Rising from the rubble, in the middle of nowhere
‘People think we’re crazy. Gaza, they understood: the beach, the sea. Here, there’s nothing but sand’
June 1, 2006
- Halutz: The Islamists are on the rise
A year into his job, the IDF’s chief of the General Staff is less upbeat than he was when he started out. In a lengthy and candid interview, Dan Halutz details his concern at the growth of Islamic fundamentalism and the threat from Iran, wonders about the relevance of PA President Mahmoud Abbas, and takes aim at some of the leaders of the settlement enterprise. Worryingly, he asserts that ongoing defense cuts will leave Israel with a ‘mediocre’ army
June 1, 2006
- Halutz: Budget cuts will leave ‘mediocre’ IDF
June 1, 2006
- Editor’s Notes: Michael Steinhardt’s maverick Jewish vision
The iconoclastic philanthropist unveils his strategy for saving the Diaspora, and details a personal Judaism that has no place for God
May 26, 2006
- Only ’20-30 settlements’ to be dismantled under Olmert’s plan
Key adviser believes Beit El and other ‘blocs’ beyond the security barrier will be retained
May 23, 2006
- Comment: Iran is already far beyond yellow badges
May 21, 2006
- Editor’s Notes: Fire Alarm
Lag Ba’omer – the festival of robbery, irresponsibility, wanton destruction and environmental disregard
May 19, 2006
- Editor’s Notes: William Hague and the ‘slight muddle’ over Iran
It was quite a surprise to the international community, said the Conservatives’ visiting foreign policy chief, when Iran announced it had produced quantities of enriched uranium via its small number of centrifuges
May 19, 2006
- ‘By Georgia! Don’t call us Gruzia,’ Israel urged
Request for name change mirrors growing tensions with Russia
May 17, 2006
- Editor’s Notes: What’s in a name?
What to call Olmert’s ‘hitkansut’ plan?
May 12, 2006
- Editor’s Notes: When Katsav met the rabbis
As with the president’s ongoing discussions and debate with various Israeli Arab leaders, his interaction with the rabbis, more depressingly since all around the table are members of the same faith, is largely a dialogue of the deaf, or at least the extremely hard-of-hearing
May 12, 2006
- Analysis: Where principles meet practicality
Even if Hamas chooses not to change, as has been the case to date, the international community doesn’t want to see a humanitarian crisis
May 9, 2006
- Editor’s Notes: Undoing the ayatollahs
This year marks the centenary of a pro-democracy revolution in Iran. What are the chances of a repeat?
May 5, 2006
- A healing of rifts
In an exclusive Independence Day interview with The Jerusalem Post, President Moshe Katsav asserts that the gaps between Israel’s political parties are narrower than they have ever been, and believes there is now a real opportunity for greater internal dialogue and understanding
May 2, 2006
- Editor’s Notes: Vicki and Leonard take on Iran
Ten years after their son was killed in a Jerusalem bus bombing, Matt Eisenfeld’s parents are making real progress, against all odds, in their bid to create a financial deterrent to terrorism
April 28, 2006
- Out of the shadows
A legendary intelligence chief, Efraim Halevy, breaks a lifetime’s code of silence
April 28, 2006
- Editor’s Notes: ‘Sharon shaped a new consensus’
There’s now solid, bipartisan American support for Israel’s retention of the major settlement blocs, says Sen. Joe Lieberman. The US, he indicates, might even back Israeli annexation of such areas
April 21, 2006
- Katsav to Iranians: Your regime is bad for you
Diplomatic bid to thwart nuclear drive has failed, says president
April 21, 2006
- Solid US support for keeping major settlement blocs, says Sen. Lieberman
April 20, 2006
- Sen. Lieberman: US could try to knock out ‘some components’ of Iran’s nukes as last resort
April 18, 2006
- Editor’s Notes: In every generation
In his new book, former Mossad head Efraim Halevy explains why it is proving so hard to forge an effective counterstrategy to terrorism. The book’s publication in the Pessah season only heightens the impact
April 14, 2006
- Editor’s Notes: Olmert’s fractured Israel
We are increasingly split, geographically, along lines of religious observance, the election results show. We are also horribly divided economically
April 7, 2006
- Editor’s Notes: The numbers and their nuances
Olmert has to bring in one or more partners who do not fully endorse his ‘convergence’ plan. Parties ideologically sympathetic to the settlement enterprise together constitute 50 seat
March 31, 2006
- Analysis: The vindication of Sharon
If the results of the Tuesday night TV exit polls are reflected in more final figures on Wednesday morning, then the 2006 elections are a vindication of Sharon – the stricken prime minister, the man who so conspicuously wasn’t there for this campaign. Sharon, it appears, didn’t merely break away from the Likud with Kadima. He broke the Likud
March 29, 2006
- It’s all over, except…
March 28, 2006
- Analysis: A ‘West Wing’ lesson for Olmert?
March 27, 2006
- Editor’s Notes: On Tuesday
Many people are not voting on policies at all this time, but rather on personalities, and in the negative – choosing the leader and party that least offend, rather than most entice
March 24, 2006
- Most evangelicals are seeing the error of ‘replacement theology’
Pastor John Hagee, Texas-based initiator of a new Christian-style AIPAC, says the notion that the Church has ‘replaced Israel’ is both false and being rejected by more and more evangelical leaders. And so, while whoever chooses to come into his church ‘is going to hear my witness of Jesus as the way to redemption,’ Hagee says he doesn’t target Jews for conversion. As for his support for Israel, it is ‘without condition,’ he insists… but he doesn’t think Israel should give away biblical land
March 21, 2006
- Editor’s Notes: In the shadow of Hamas
If Camp David created an Israeli consensus that the Palestinian leadership was not seeking peace, the Hamas victory has dramatically widened the circle of Israelis who have concluded that the Palestinian public does not seek coexistence either
March 17, 2006
- Editor’s Notes: Terry Gilliam & the Meaning of Life
Some say you should never meet your heroes. In this case, they are at least partially right
March 17, 2006
- PLC member from Hamas list to attend EU parley in Brussels
March 17, 2006
- Where are Muslim satirists, asks Python’s Terry Gilliam
March 17, 2006
- Editor’s Notes: Men of their word
It may not be long before rhetoric gives way to action on Iran
March 10, 2006
- Editor’s Notes: Pragmatic borders?
Avigdor Lieberman wants to remake the map of Israel, relinquishing areas where 450,000 Arabs make their homes
March 3, 2006
- Fighting for his political life
Likud leader Binyamin Netanyahu talks to ‘The Jerusalem Post’ about his victory in the Likud Central Committee this week and the tougher battle that lies ahead in the March 28 election
March 3, 2006
- Netanyahu tells ‘Post’: My ‘forceful persuasion’ will win Likud vote
Judge to decide fate of central committee meeting
March 1, 2006
- Editor’s Notes: Try, try and try again
Maybe Mahmoud Abbas can yet save us from Hamastan, says Yossi Beilin
February 24, 2006
- Editor’s Notes: Four mothers
Six months after the pullout, the pall of bereavement hangs over the alternative housing site at Nitzan
February 17, 2006
- Editor’s Notes: Turban-bomb tragedy
That the dominant response to publication of the Muhammad cartoons has been incandescent anger, the burning of flags, the torching of embassies and legations, deaths and injuries in clashes with security forces and dire threats of murderous revenge only underlines the original illustrated barb. Leveling accusations of insensitivity and bias and blasphemy, responding with violence and vowing more, the would-be defenders vindicate the very critique they claim is so outrageous
February 10, 2006
- Editor’s Notes: A self-imposed terror attack
Amona featured all the accompanying horrors to which we have become so tragically accustomed: the screaming, bloodied faces of the victims; the mounting toll of the injured; the convoys of ambulances ferrying the casualties to hospital emergency rooms… But a building block dropped a few inches one way or another, one heavier thwack with a baton, and Wednesday’s Amona bloodshed would have been followed by Thursday’s funerals
February 3, 2006
- Editor’s Notes: Those sinister Israelis
Ever wonder why Israeli diplomats attempt to protest an absence of fair-mindedness and context in so much reporting from our conflict? Ever wonder why so much of international public opinion is so hostile to Israel’s narrative of what is unfolding here? Lauren Booth’s reporting, and her newspaper’s presentation of it, are just a small part of the answers
February 3, 2006
- Hirchson says he’s hearing hints of moderation from some in Hamas
Tourism minister tells ‘Post’ that government is leaving the door open to a hoped-for transformation
February 3, 2006
- Editor’s Notes: The earthquake
Now there can be no escaping the Islamist reality
January 27, 2006
- Editor’s Notes: No longer the caretaker
Ehud Olmert would have us believe that his time has come
January 27, 2006
- Tribute: Andy Bronfman, the hands-on philanthropist
January 25, 2006
- Editor’s Notes: Only a matter of time?
Marwan Barghouti, Yigal Amir, and dangerous precedents
January 20, 2006
- Editor’s Notes: Why the Palestinians are voting for Hamas
The bottom line: Abbas’s PA has lost the trust of ordinary Palestinians. ‘People think Hamas will do better, be fairer’
January 13, 2006
- Analysis: In bitter hindsight
I don’t know whether Sharon’s doctors told him he would be putting his life at dire risk if he returned to work so rapidly after the first breakdown. But even had they issued the starkest warnings, I doubt that Sharon would have heeded them
January 8, 2006
- Editor’s Notes: After Sharon
Between the Labor and Likud poles, the electorate so masterfully wooed by Sharon now waits and worries
January 6, 2006
- The wage warrior
He has strong views on how to restart the peace process, but Labor’s prime ministerial contender Amir Peretz considers the country’s most pressing conflict zone to be the socioeconomic arena
January 3, 2006
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