Articles
2007
- Jordan rebuffs Mashaal bid to revive ties
Amman also said to have told Cairo it is ‘making mistake’ in not tackling Hamas more firmly
December 28, 2007
- Editor’s Notes: Man of the year, 2007… we hope
The more Gabi Ashkenazi realizes his goal of deterring our enemies, the less we’ll be aware of his successes
December 28, 2007
- When England, briefly, fell in love with Israel again
From the best sports moments of 2007
December 28, 2007
- Editor’s Notes: Exposing Iran’s ruthlessness
Investigator Alberto Nisman has proved, to the satisfaction of Interpol, that the Islamic republic carried out the worst terror attack ever staged in Argentina because its nuclear ambitions were being thwarted. If only the feckless international community would take note…
December 21, 2007
- Visiting Argentinean prosecutor urges pressure on Iran to give up AMIA bombing planners
Buenos Aires blasts underline Teheran’s nuclear ruthlessness, says Alberto Nisman
December 19, 2007
- Editor’s Notes: The year of engagement
The American intelligence assessment of Iran’s halted nuke program means not only that US military intervention is out of the question in 2008, but that Israel won’t take action either. It’s a case, Israeli experts say, of enter the diplomats. Again
December 14, 2007
- Halevy: US-Iran talks imminent and Israel ‘must be in the room’
The region’s future cannot be determined with Israel outside the door, says ex-Mossad chief
December 12, 2007
- Editor’s Notes: Bushwhacked
His intelligence agencies’ shock report on Iran’s ‘halted’ nuclear weapons drive has reduced the chances of decisive presidential action from slim to zero. Which leaves the ball, or rather the bomb, in Israel’s court…
December 7, 2007
- Editor’s Notes: Trying to change the status quo
Having previously championed unilateralism, Annapolis marks Olmert’s effort to achieve a divorce from the Palestinians by mutual consent. But the idea at the heart of the new process – ‘delinking’ diplomacy from security – seems unworkable
November 30, 2007
- Analysis: PM radiates confidence, but the challenges are formidable
November 29, 2007
- Analysis: Going for broke
As with all previous peace efforts, diplomacy will count for nothing if the bombers are able to wreak havoc
November 28, 2007
- Analysis: With the world watching, Abbas is flying high
Prominence of Palestinian flag emblemizes PA president’s reasons to be cheerful
November 27, 2007
- Israeli desire for Saudi normalization gets left out in the Washington rain
PM: I won’t try to impose a handshake on Faisal
November 27, 2007
- Background: From farce to real drama?
November 26, 2007
- Editor’s Notes: The challenge of Annapolis
Why hurry to a deal, some Palestinians ask, when a two-state solution is so obviously an Israeli interest, and when the single, binational state which inertia might bring spells suicide for Israel?
November 23, 2007
- Editor’s Notes: The ‘Jewish Israel’ genie
The prime minister says he won’t negotiate unless the Palestinians recognize Israel as the ‘state of the Jewish people.’ The Palestinians say ‘never’…
November 16, 2007
- Alleged Georgia coup plotter believed to be in Israel
November 12, 2007
- Editor’s Notes: If a two-state solution is in your interest, then try to make it happen
Quartet envoy Tony Blair speaks to ‘The Jerusalem Post’ about peacemaking, thwarting Iran and wrongheaded Western thinking on the battle against terrorism
November 9, 2007
- Blair urges Israel to make ‘psychological shift,’ but is not certain Abbas can deliver
Quartet envoy to ‘Post’: Israel should put the PA to the test * Int’l community must be tough on terror and facing down Iran
November 5, 2007
- Editor’s Notes: Springsteen strikes a chord
Discredited over Iraq and sounding superficial on Iran, does the Bush administration know what it’s doing on the Israeli-Palestinian track?
November 2, 2007
- Editor’s Notes: Abbas’s opportunity
The PA head would serve Palestinian, Israeli, moderate regional and global interests through a public rejection of the refugee ‘right of return,’ an endorsement of Jewish Israel and a commitment to combat terrorism as the first step toward reviving a peace process. But does he dare?
October 26, 2007
- Bruce’s kibbutz violinist
For a few magical months, half a lifetime ago, Suki Lahav played with the finest band in the world
October 22, 2007
- Editor’s Notes: Listen up, class, this is important
Don’t think of the teachers’ strike as a familiar demand for raised salaries. It’s more a howl of outrage at a collapsing system
October 19, 2007
- Editor’s Notes: Lockerbie – a sinister miscarriage of justice?
October 12, 2007
- Lockerbie appeal opens
October 12, 2007
- Lockerbie bomber will go free on appeal, experts tell ‘Post’
Libyan is only man jailed for UK’s worst terror attack. Spotlight again likely to fall on Iran and PFLP-GC
October 10, 2007
- Editor’s Notes: Either treat them as equals, or …
Grappling with Iran * Walking through Jerusalem * An eccentric challenge to ‘Red Ken’
October 5, 2007
- Editor’s Notes: Mr. Television’s farewell
What was Haim Yavin thinking, as he presented the news all these years?
September 28, 2007
- Analysis: For Ahmadinejad in New York, a job worryingly well done
The Iranian president challenged the world order, and then went home to resume translating threats into action
September 28, 2007
- Comment: Big lies and pernicious truths
Ahmadinejad specified a ‘solution’ to the Palestinian conflict that would constitute the elimination of the Jewish state. And he was applauded
September 25, 2007
- Editor’s Notes: The potent fallout from an alleged attack
The reported operation bolstered the process of perceived Israeli military rehabilitation in the wake of summer 2006′s failures. And it might have given the Syrians pause – forcing them to reconsider whether their military options are quite as good as they might have thought after the Second Lebanon War
September 21, 2007
- IAF raid reportedly aimed at Syrian-N. Korean nuke facility
Former US diplomat John Bolton to ‘Post’: Why would North Korea protest an Israeli strike on Syria?
September 16, 2007
- Editor’s Notes: Global amnesia
Ignoring the lessons of the past is a guarantee that the future will be no better
September 12, 2007
- ‘It is possible to correct the future’
President Shimon Peres ushers in the New Year with renewed optimism about options for regional peace
September 12, 2007
- Peres: Olmert and Abbas closing in on ‘Declaration of Principles’
Iran’s regime ‘will be brought down,’ president tells ‘Post’
September 12, 2007
- Editor’s Notes: Humor for the High Holy Days
Meet Yisrael Campbell, the Catholic convert to Orthodox Judaism with a message of mutual respect that’s highly appropriate for this time of year
September 7, 2007
- Editor’s Notes: Jeopardizing American interests
Walt and Mearsheimer, ostensibly bent on protecting the US from malign forces, actually risk achieving the opposite
August 31, 2007
- Editor’s Notes: The insider’s warning
‘I fear the unleashing of a firestorm of violence by homegrown Wahhabi jihadists, inflamed by Islamist rhetoric, on the major cities of America and Britain,’ writes Ed Husain, a former Muslim extremist, in a chilling new book
August 24, 2007
- Russia’s Defense Ministry confirms Soviet sorties over Dimona in 1967
‘Extraordinary disclosure’ hailed by Israeli authors as further proof USSR deliberately engineered Six Day War to destroy Israel’s nuclear program
August 24, 2007
- Editor’s Notes: Wishful thinking
Here we are, after the first intifada and the failure of Camp David, and the second intifada and the failure of unilateralism, defiantly none the wiser
August 17, 2007
- Cantona rolls back the years
More than 10 years since he hung up his boots at Manchester United, Cantona, at 41, still wearing the famed No. 7 shirt, was a joy to behold — on and off the beach soccer pitch
August 12, 2007
- Editor’s Notes: Here we go again?
As the Bush administration belatedly bids to jump-start peace talks, Martin Indyk, a burned veteran of the last such effort, issues a caution
August 10, 2007
- Indyk: Bush has too little time to achieve final status accord
Palestinians ‘don’t have institutions or capabilities to be responsible partners,’ says former ambassador
August 3, 2007
- Editor’s Notes: Leo Laufer’s victory
My father-in-law triumphed over the most murderous excesses mankind has ever perpetrated
August 3, 2007
- Editor’s Notes: Blair’s flock
On the one side is an unpopular Israeli prime minister desperate for the boost of a peace breakthrough. On the other is a weary, worried PA leadership hoping to be shepherded and funded and protected by the international community. And here comes the indefatigable, Bush-backed, would-be shepherd, Tony Blair
July 27, 2007
- Editor’s Notes: Hamas’s new buzz
The well-intentioned Blair Wish Project will founder, as surely as every previous attempt at peacemaking, so long as young Palestinian minds are being poisoned by murderous extremism
July 20, 2007
- Analysis: President Peres, it’s going to be quite a ride
When you’ve been handling controversial matters of state for more than 60 years, it’s evidently hard to lose the habit
July 15, 2007
- Editor’s Notes: Waiting to be wooed
A sizeable chunk of the Israeli electorate is relentlessly willing to believe, generally in defiance of all logic and common sense, that a better political option is out there somewhere
July 13, 2007
- Editor’s Notes: Unbearable loss and indomitable spirit
Rabbi Eli Sadan’s Bnei David military yeshiva academy has 1,800 graduates, 85 percent of whom have served in combat units, and 60% of whom became officers or volunteered for additional service
July 6, 2007
- Editor’s Notes: What Tony did next
It was the Middle East that ultimately brought about Tony Blair’s downfall — and especially his willingness to pan through the tragic TV footage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to the underlying truth that nobody would be dying, on either side, if the Palestinians would simply halt their fire
June 29, 2007
- Editor’s Notes: Bolton’s warning
The former US ambassador at the UN castigates his administration’s failure of will on Iran
June 29, 2007
- Misguided Bush ‘doesn’t see sanctions can’t stop Iran now’
Ex-UN ambassador John Bolton: Military force may be only hope, but US is clinging to failed strategy. ‘Very worried’ for Israel
June 27, 2007
- Editor’s Notes: Leverage in Hamastan
If you tell your neighbor you’re throwing your fridge onto the trash, he’s hardly going to offer to buy it from you
June 22, 2007
- Analysis: Israel’s ongoing Gaza connection
June 17, 2007
- Editor’s Notes: An emblematic moment of grace?
The public might not have chosen either Peres or Barak. But both men could do a world of good
June 15, 2007
- UK education minister defends British media’s balance on Israel
Bill Rammell tells ‘Post’ academic boycott initiative will fail, British people are not anti-Israel, Hamas could yet moderate
June 12, 2007
- Editor’s Notes: 24 hours in London
When you visit a country intermittently, you sometimes see more clearly than its permanent residents how the tone of its dialogue is shifting. And this latest brief trip to the country of my birth gave me the feeling that those radical anti-Israel activists who used to be branded ‘loonies’ are closing in on the mainstream
June 8, 2007
- Comment: The campaign to delegitimize Israel
Willfully overlooked is the fact that modern Israel is not some upstart Western invention, supplanting the state of Palestine, but the ancestral homeland of the Jewish nation, the land where our nation long lived and has always sought to live
June 3, 2007
- Editor’s Notes: 12,000 reasons not to light up
We all have our little addictions. But we’re talking about a drug here – an addictive drug that kills many of its users and those who come into proximity with them
June 1, 2007
- Editor’s Notes: The confident Iranians
I told Iran’s Muhammad Larijani my name, country and job. He agreed to talk. It was, of course, all self-serving
May 25, 2007
- Iranian official to the ‘Post’: We don’t want to wipe out Israel
Muhammad Larijani says Teheran backs any deal approved by PA, will never seek a nuclear weapon
May 20, 2007
- Editor’s Notes: Building our own Jewish identity
A plea for funding to send our kids to Poland, for a focused message on Iran, and for some common sense in the governance of Jerusalem
May 18, 2007
- Soviets engineered Six Day War ‘to destroy Israel’s nuclear program’
40 years later, Israeli authors’ new book ‘contradicts everything’ previously accepted about 1967 war
May 16, 2007
- Editor’s Notes: Compounding failure
The lingering deterrent of our past military triumphs has now dissipated, even as Arab opposition to our existence has been reinvigorated. Yet Israel is engaged in politics as usual
May 11, 2007
- Editor’s Notes: A searing indictment
The ineptitude catalogued by the Winograd panel beggars belief. Non-ideological in its critique, the report exposes staggering incompetence and lack of basic professionalism at the highest levels of the military and political establishments. Israel will only survive in this region, it makes plain, if it undergoes a fundamental overhaul of the way it governs and defends itself
May 4, 2007
- Editor’s Notes: The new broom
There is a palpable sense of ‘thank goodness’ among those around the no-frills IDF chief, Gabi Ashkenazi
April 27, 2007
- Editor’s Notes: Israel’s challenge at 59
To reassert our own moral clarity, and seek to galvanize the international community to head off a genocidal regime
April 20, 2007
- Editor’s Notes: Role models
The Ayalon Institute is a unique testament to pioneering fervor, innovation, bravery, resilience and dedication
April 13, 2007
- Editor’s Notes: Haim Ramon, ministerial asset?
April 6, 2007
- Editor’s Notes: The great humanitarian
Ahmadinejad ‘played a blinder’ and won the day
April 6, 2007
- ‘Israel is not a corrupt country’
In this concluding segment of his pre-Pessah interview with ‘The Jerusalem Post,’ Prime Minister Ehud Olmert takes issue with the ‘exaggerated self-criticism’ to which he says Israelis are prone, promises a new approach to public diplomacy, and vows to prevail over his critics
April 1, 2007
- Editor’s Notes: Placing the blame
Under-pressure Olmert’s robust mood, a tribute to national soccer and a Pessach prayer for the freedom of all those held unjustly
March 30, 2007
- ‘It has not been the easiest year…’
Interviewed by ‘The Jerusalem Post’ exactly 12 months after his election victory, Ehud Olmert explains the goals of his new series of meetings with Mahmoud Abbas, heaps praise on the king of Saudi Arabia, defends his strategy on Lebanon, and charges that the state comptroller is out to get him. It’s been a hard year, he allows, but he fully intends to hold down the job for a few more
March 30, 2007
- Olmert: The comptroller is out to get me; Lindenstrauss: He’s trying to deflect attention
March 30, 2007
- Olmert to ‘Post’: Not one refugee can return
PM praises Saudi Arabia’s ‘remarkable’ King Abdullah
March 30, 2007
- Editor’s Notes: No happy ending
Cleanliness in government is not only a healthy principle; it is an essential component of competence
March 23, 2007
- Editor’s Notes: Wading into the great debate
The widespread Israeli belief that an accelerated departure from Iraq will destroy the US’s ability to deter Iran is not shared in America, least of all among the Jews
March 16, 2007
- Editor’s Notes: His own worst enemy
Our defense minister lost his cool this week when he was silenced during a cabinet briefing on economic issues. But who marched Amir Peretz to the socioeconomic sidelines in the first place?
March 9, 2007
- Editor’s Notes: Giving ‘Jesus’ the silent treatment
The Israel Antiquities Authority should open up (literally) to the debatable claims of ‘The Lost Tomb of Jesus’
March 2, 2007
- Analysis: Raiders of the Lost Tomb
Rallying academic and scientific expertise behind their assertion that Jesus, his mother, brother, wife and child were buried in a Talpiot tomb that was casually treated by the Israeli authorities when uncovered 27 years ago, filmmakers Simcha Jacobovici and James Cameron claim there’s only a 1 in 30,000 chance that they’ve got their facts wrong. Israeli experts are dismissive. Should they be?
February 27, 2007
- Israel may consider opening ‘Jesus family’ tomb in Talpiot to the public
Will filmmakers be allowed to do further tests on controversial ossuaries?
February 27, 2007
- New film reignites claims Jesus was buried in Talpiot
Tomb with 10 ossuaries was found in 1980 * Inscriptions said to relate to Jesus, two Marys * Israeli archeologist dismisses thesis
February 25, 2007
- Editor’s Notes: Now it’s up to us
The Magidor Commission spent 17 months drawing up an admirable program for electoral reform. But MKs aren’t likely to rush to change a system that got them elected, however flawed it may be. That, says Magidor, is where the public comes in
February 23, 2007
- Editor’s Notes: Rooting out corruption
The finance minister is limiting his authority. The prime minister wanted to fire him. Now Accountant-General Yaron Zelekha is preparing a blueprint to clean up government finances and practices
February 16, 2007
- Editor’s Notes: The Taiwan effect
America’s dependence on Taiwan’s hi-tech brain power has ensured an ongoing defense commitment, too. Israel should watch, learn, and invest more in its brightest minds
February 9, 2007
- Editor’s Notes: We must spread the blessings of liberty
Iran derides the potency of the international forces that are urging it to halt its nuclear drive. It may be right about much of Europe. But does a personal note from the US president to an Israeli author hint at a more resolute White House?
February 2, 2007
- ’The Iranians do not expect to be attacked’
Ahmadinejad and his colleagues have ‘a very low estimate’ of the forces arrayed against them, says Prof. Bernard Lewis. ‘What we see as free debate, they see as weakness, division and fear.’ Which makes them all the more vulnerable…
February 1, 2007
- Editor’s Notes: Facing ‘wide-eyed believers with no inhibitions and apocalyptic goals’
Ultimately, says Binyamin Netanyahu, Iran’s genocidal ambitions will be thwarted by the forces of freedom. But how long will it take, and what will happen to the Jewish state in the interim?
January 26, 2007
- Katsav staffers hope Mazuz may yet drop rape charge
January 26, 2007
- Netanyahu: Stopping Iran must now be ‘guiding purpose’ of gov’t
Don’t unnecessarily sow panic inside Israel, Olmert says
January 25, 2007
- Comment: Katsav’s rending battle cry
January 25, 2007
- Editor’s Notes: Accepting his share of the blame
Dan Halutz’s resignation is no cause for celebration. But his departure was inevitable and appropriate, given the extent to which he misread the big picture
January 19, 2007
- Editor’s Notes: Riding the waves with Ami Ayalon
The former Navy commander and Shin Bet chief unfurls his claims to the Labor leadership, castigates the current crew, and offers rare optimism about Palestinian winds of change
January 12, 2007
- Israel pressing for beefed-up sanctions against Ahmadinejad
Foreign Ministry exploring legal options for indicting Iran but won’t go directly to international courts
January 10, 2007
- Editor’s Notes: Mourning Teddy Kollek
Is it misty nostalgia that places the select likes of Kollek, whose idea of personal betterment lay solely in the growth not of his bank account but of his city, on a higher plane than his national leadership successors? I strongly doubt it
January 5, 2007
- New year finds Jewish groups in FSU unifying under Hillel banner
Rare case of bureaucracy slashing intended to bolster efficiency, boost funding
January 1, 2007
- Comment: A wish for 2007
January 1, 2007
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