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2008
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- Analysis: A head-spinning time-out
December 31, 2008 - Analysis: Barak not heading for the exit yet
December 30, 2008 - Analysis: Don’t forget the Iranian connection
December 29, 2008 - Analysis: Fighting Hamas in the shadow of 2006′s mistakes
Have the lessons of the war against Hizbullah been learned?
December 28, 2008 - Editor’s Notes: The lame duck and the amputee
In a few days’ time, there’ll only be one elected Palestinian leadership: Hamas
December 26, 2008 - Israeli innovators’ dramatic claim: Obama may adopt our electric car to help revive US economy
December 19, 2008 - Editor’s Notes: From pumps to plugs
The Obama administration may be poised to set off an electric car revolution, based on Israeli brainpower
December 19, 2008 - Editor’s Notes: ‘This time, it will be different’
US army Gen. Keith Dayton is quietly overseeing the recruitment and training of a seven-battalion Palestinian National Security Force. Already partially deployed in the West Bank, the NSF is intended to confront the bad guys – not the Israelis. The general well understands why Israelis may doubt the viability of this effort. And he fully believes the skeptics will be proved wrong
December 12, 2008 - Dayton: New PA forces are the most capable ever
US general to ‘Post’: Nothing I’m doing here will jeopardize Israel * No idea how Gaza can be reclaimed
December 11, 2008 - Editor’s Notes: Urgent priorities
There are some lines that we can, and must, draw for ourselves, right now
December 5, 2008 - Analysis: From party of government to laughingstock
If Labor can’t run its own primary, voters might ask, how can it run the country?
December 3, 2008 - Comment: Lives of noble purpose cut short in a war the free world must not lose
November 30, 2008 - The terrible wait
Rabbi Holtzberg barely had time to report that his Chabad House was being attacked
November 28, 2008 - Editor’s Notes: Spoilt for choice
Use the two months ahead to scrutinize the parties’ claims and track records, and prepare to vote for one that at least purports to want to represent the entire nation
November 28, 2008 - The enemy is getting stronger, but so are we
The Defense Ministry’s Amos Gilad talks candidly about the security challenges facing Israel, the lessons learned from past conflicts, and the importance of choosing ‘the right moment’ to act
November 23, 2008 - Editor’s Notes: Toward a ‘grand bargain’
The world’s would-be peacemakers may try to tackle Iran and Israel-Palestine simultaneously
November 21, 2008 - Ayalon, Melchior aim to partner with Greens in new party
We’ll become ‘the buzz’ of the election campaign, predicts Melchior
November 19, 2008 - Iran feeling impact of sanctions, Miliband tells ‘Post’
British foreign secretary queries settlement policy
November 17, 2008 - We will not let Iran go nuclear – Amos Gilad
Teheran wants to ‘get rid of Israel’ * Thwarting it would be a challenge, he says, but so was hitting Osirak
November 14, 2008 - Editor’s Notes: The wrong speech
In a single address, Olmert misrepresented Israel, undermined his would-be successor, sullied Yitzhak Rabin and risibly exculpated Mahmoud Abbas
November 14, 2008 - Editor’s Notes: America energized
Barack Obama’s dazzling electoral success was built on that empowering ‘Yes, we can!’ mantra. His presidential success will depend on defeating those malicious global forces that peddle darkness and misery, and that are sneering to themselves right now: ‘No, you can’t’
November 7, 2008 - Analysis: The challenge
November 6, 2008 - Editor’s Notes: As America votes
America, in Iraq, fought the wrong war, or at the very least fought it in the wrong way. As things stand, neither victor on November 4 will easily be able to persuade his countryfolk that it may soon be necessary to fight the right one
October 31, 2008 - Editor’s Notes: Turn out
If America’s Jews represent a relative ray of sunshine in the annals of voter participation, their Jerusalem non-haredi counterparts are a veritable eclipse
October 24, 2008 - Editor’s Notes: Hardman’s humanity
Leslie Hardman’s life, to this respectful former congregant, was lived in the spirit of Hillel’s summary of Jewish principles
October 17, 2008 - Editor’s Notes: The reckoning
An end-of-year follow-up shows what happened next, and what didn’t, in 10 areas covered by this column. Some of them are relatively inconsequential. Other are anything but…
October 10, 2008 - Editor’s Notes: National maturity
We prevailed in our past wars here because our enemies were divided while we were united in the battle for our very existence. The danger now is of roles reversed
October 3, 2008 - Analysis: Glad he got us into his life
Paul McCartney hit all the right notes – and not only at his concert in Tel Aviv on Thursday night
September 28, 2008 - Editor’s Notes: Mahmoud or Macca?
The coincidence of Ahmadinejad at the UN and McCartney in Israel only underlines the choice that now faces the free world
September 26, 2008 - Upbeat McCartney plays up his peaceful message ahead of Tel Aviv concert
Ex-Beatle talks to ‘the Post’ about fame, inspiration and the ‘amazing’ human race
September 21, 2008 - Speaking words of wisdom
A full half century after The Beatles began to take shape, Paul McCartney still sounds awed, modest and appreciative when discussing the lasting resonance of their music. Ahead of his Tel Aviv concert on Thursday, McCartney talks here to ‘The Jerusalem Post’ about his beliefs, about how he copes with near-universal fame, about the puzzling, even ‘magical’ inspiration for some of his songs, and about his abiding, insistently optimistic outlook on life
September 21, 2008 - Analysis: Unspoken grievances of a humiliated man
In ridding itself of a liability, Olmert, Kadima has lost a key asset, Mofaz
September 19, 2008 - Editor’s Notes: Misreading Abbas
Dennis Ross, the Clinton envoy who watched Camp David fail, explains why Olmert and Rice, however sincere, are wrong to believe that a deal can be done in the near future
September 19, 2008 - Analysis: The meteoric Ms. Livni
A resignation away from the premiership on fewer than 20,000 votes
September 18, 2008 - Editor’s Notes: Because there are no Jews in Pakistan…
A trailblazing visitor seeks to enlighten his people about ours
September 12, 2008 - ‘Commandos were nearly exposed in Syria’
September 5, 2008 - Editor’s Notes: A losing battle, so far
Investigative reporter Ronen Bergman’s book on the effort to keep Iran from the bomb charts decades of dismal failure. There’s still time, but not much…
September 5, 2008 - Editor’s Notes: Hey Jews!
A semi-serious A to Z set list for Paul McCartney’s Tel Aviv show next month
August 29, 2008 Editor’s Notes: Capital comparisons - Editor’s Notes: Palestinian inflexibility bulldozes Israeli vagueness
It’s no wonder the Palestinians have not been wowed by Ehud Olmert’s latest offer of territorial compromise. The security barrier already represents an Israeli declaration of intent to relinquish 93 percent of the West Bank
August 15, 2008 - Editor’s Notes: That elusive balance
The lessons of this week’s Fulbright fiasco and Gaza influx
August 8, 2008 - Editor’s Notes: No victors in Olmert’s defeat
The people of Israel did not heave a collective sigh of relief at the sight of the prime minister coming publicly to terms with the impossibility of his situation on Wednesday night. There is no profound national sense that salvation is now imminent
August 1, 2008 - Editor’s Notes: Obama’s presidential vision for Israel
Firmly diplomatic on Iran, upbeat about Syria and distinctly critical of the settlement enterprise, the Democratic front-runner speaks exclusively to ‘The Jerusalem Post’
July 25, 2008 - If Teheran won’t respond to ‘tough diplomacy,’ its excuses will have been ‘stripped away’
Obama tells `Post’: I will do everything in my power to stop Iran getting the bomb
July 24, 2008 - Analysis: Brown’s (endearingly mis)pronounced friendship
July 22, 2008 - Editor’s Notes: The prime minister against the state
Olmert’s escalating battle to clear his name depends on undermining the very institutions that the citizenry is required to respect. It’s a fight that should not be waged from the Prime Minister’s Office
July 18, 2008 - Editor’s Notes: No repeat of Osirak
Iran may be braced for a replication of the IAF’s raid on Saddam’s nuclear facility. Israel knows this. And so, since Israel’s position is that it cannot be reconciled to a nuclear Iran, one has to anticipate, and certainly to hope, that Israel has other last-resort options in mind if international pressure fails to deter the ayatollahs
July 11, 2008 - Editor’s Notes: The ‘P’ word
No real poverty in Israel? Take a closer look
July 4, 2008 - Analysis: Another attack from ‘within’
The driver who maneuvered his massive yellow Caterpillar tractor along Jaffa Road had devastation, not construction, on his mind
July 3, 2008 - Editor’s Notes: YES STARS beats a tonsorial Zionist gagfest
Adam Sandler’s new comedy is an unsubtle assertion of Israeli humanity and Arab villainy. And it’s not even the best Israeli propaganda film currently playing
June 27, 2008 - Editor’s Notes: Bursting the bubble
Olmert may be convinced he is indispensable. But his continued tenure threatens to stain every national project on which he embarks
June 20, 2008 - Editor’s Notes: Please, no more of the same
Bad enough that we now face the paralysis of new elections. Worse still if we get a similar batch of inappropriate leaders in an unreformed, ungovernable system
June 14, 2008 - Editor’s Notes: Thinking the unthinkable
Is President Bush prepared to defy conventional wisdom about lame-duck presidents sitting with their arms folded in their final months?
June 6, 2008 - Editor’s Notes: The beginning of the end
Israelis’ depleted confidence in Olmert’s ability to safeguard the country in the wake of the war is now compounded by the evaporating faith in his propriety
May 30, 2008 - Analysis: Staving off political purgatory
Have we reached the point where the perceived good of the country is transcending narrow political considerations? Olmert is betting that the answer is no
May 29, 2008 - Analysis: Like much of the Israeli public, Bush wonders whether PM knows what he’s doing
President let the Syrian cat out of the bag last week, when he spoke warily of the ‘decision made’ by Olmert
May 23, 2008 - Editor’s Notes: Speaking up for Obama
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is circumspect in her criticisms of the current president, but effusive in her praise for a would-be successor
May 23, 2008 - Pelosi: US must pressure other countries to stop Iranian nukes
House speaker says Obama prepared ‘to fight’ for peace
May 19, 2008 - ‘Anti-Semitism’ is at root of European media hostility to Israel, Murdoch tells ‘Post’
News Corp. chief cites ‘Jerusalem Post’ and ‘Times’ as exemplars of Internet coverage
May 16, 2008 - Jordanian-trained PA troops will be better than those that failed in Gaza, says Blair
May 16, 2008 - Editor’s Notes: In the Oval Office, the sun is shining
The way Bush tells it, he’s the trusted, powerful friend doggedly seeking to get us what we’ve told him we require
May 16, 2008 - Analysis: On borders, Swiss cheese trumps a four-year-old letter
Where does President Bush want to draw the line?
May 14, 2008 - Bush to ‘Post’: Abbas is a viable partner for peace
President tells Israeli journalists there must be a Palestinian state. Says PM Olmert is ‘an honest guy’. Calls Iran ‘the biggest threat’
May 13, 2008 - Bush: I don’t see how the Middle East evolves without a Palestinian state that’s free and democratic
Excerpts from the Oval Office interview
May 13, 2008 - Editor’s Notes: Look into your heart
It is not your future that is at issue here, Mr. Olmert. It is ours
May 9, 2008 - Peres looks forward to tomorrow
In an Independence Day interview, the president recalls his 60 years at the heart of public life, and extols the virtues of fighting for your beliefs rather than courting popularity
May 7, 2008 - Speaking of consensus
The public is fed up with narrow political bickering, says Knesset Speaker Dalia Itzik, lamenting the failure of her bid to get rival leaders to work together to confront Israel’s key challenges. In a rare interview to mark Independence Day, she says she hopes for the country’s sake that the latest accusations against the prime minister prove baseless, because ‘I want a prime minister who can function. You can’t function like this.’
May 7, 2008 - The Daily Telegraph: Happy birthday, Israel
But after 60 years of embattled independence, the Jewish state is in more danger than ever before
May 4, 2008 - Analysis: Boris rides to the rescue
There’ll be fresh thinking in London after Ken Livingstone’s defeat as mayor
May 4, 2008 - ‘Israelis must rediscover Jewish values, mutual respect’
President Peres to ‘The Jerusalem Post’: Everyone here begrudges everyone else
May 2, 2008 - Editor’s Notes: The state of the nation at 60
We have spent most of the lifespan of our revived country tearing ourselves apart over whether to absorb some or all of the West Bank, failing to agree on how to reconcile ancient rights and ties, current security needs and future demographics
May 2, 2008 - Editor’s Notes: Stopping Iran
In the months after Israel marks its 60th anniversary of independence, the government may have to take what is arguably the modern state’s most significant decision ever
April 25, 2008 - Netanyahu: If PM can’t fix Gaza, he should go
Likud leader backs Olmert on Iran but tells ‘Post’ that Hamas will eventually have to be toppled
April 18, 2008 - ‘Our policy should be that Iran will not acquire nuclear weapons, period’
In a pre-Pessah interview, opposition leader Binyamin Netanyahu tells ‘The Post’ why – despite his dips in the polls, and though he sees ‘eye to eye’ with the prime minister on the nuclear threat – the government’s performance will ensure his return to power in the near future
April 18, 2008 - Editor’s Notes: Economic growth, or else
The Israeli economy simply has to keep growing, insists Bank of Israel Governor Stanley Fischer. Why? Because otherwise we won’t have the resources necessary to defend ourselves
April 18, 2008 - Fischer to ‘Post’: Economy must keep growing to pay for defense costs
Concerns over inequality and poverty must not be allowed to hold back growth, Bank of Israel governor says in wide-ranging interview
April 15, 2008 - Former Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov to the `Post’: ‘Iran’s leaders are not so stupid as to think they can destroy Israel’
April 13, 2008 - Editor’s Notes: It was always a jihad
Benny Morris’s new book on the 1948 war argues that, while Israel’s early leaders failed to appreciate the nature of the threat, it was implacable Islamic opposition to Jewish sovereignty that catalyzed Arab hostility 60 years ago, just as it does today and will throughout our lifetimes and beyond
April 11, 2008 - Editor’s Notes: A vital affirmation of our awe-inspiring history
Interspersed with the music on two CDs produced to mark Israel’s 60th anniversary, Rabbi Jonathan Sacks has compiled a stirring, staggering narrative of the Jewish people’s miraculous survival and sovereign rebirth. He says it is mainly intended for Jewish audiences. But he should do his utmost to make sure the rest of the world listens, too
April 4, 2008 - UK chief rabbi calls Saudi king’s interfaith proposal ‘admirable’
March 30, 2008 - Editor’s Notes: High noon with marshal Zelekha
The former accountant-general argues that Israel’s well-being depends on the continuation of the cleanup of corruption he started
March 28, 2008 - The nature of the enemy is hydra-headed
In an exclusive interview with ‘The Post’ this week, Republican presidential candidate John McCain spelled out an unequivocally pro-Israel platform
March 21, 2008 - Editor’s Notes: The challenge of the would-be presidents
John McCain and Barack Obama both talked common sense about the nature of Islamic extremism this week. But while one of them is grappling for ways to thwart it, the other won’t break with the preacher who so misrepresents it
March 21, 2008 - The Republican presidential candidate, in an exclusive interview, says the US must not dictate terms for peace to Israel
McCain to ‘Post’: Hamas, Hizbullah want to destroy everything Israel, the US and the West hold dear
March 19, 2008 - Editor’s Notes: Save the Sycamores
Reuven Rubin helped preserve the grand trees on Tel Aviv’s King George Street. Will someone now preserve his painting of them for the cultural heritage of the city?
March 14, 2008 - Editor’s Notes: Moral blindness
Over time, those fair-minded international policy-makers and opinion-shapers who do understand exactly who here is the victim and who the victimizer get pummeled into submission by the sheer weight of awful, bloody, unexplained footage. And they become defensive and apologetic and ultimately fall silent
March 7, 2008 - Not aiming to end Hamas rule… yet
Analysis: Hamas’s cease-fire parameters are both untenable for Israel and unlikely to change
March 3, 2008 - Editor’s Notes: When Jewish communities lose their voices
The world today includes all-too many Venezuelas and potential Venezuelas – countries where the Jews are already in crisis or on the brink, where Jews close their eyes to the scale of the threat even as they fall silent. That’s where Israel should come in…
February 29, 2008 - Editor’s Notes: When there is no benign explanation
A history lesson from Churchill’s biographer
February 22, 2008 - Kouchner to ‘Post’: Israel must reach cease-fire with Hamas
Visiting French foreign minister says Israel has to ‘take the risk’ of group exploiting any lull to rearm
February 18, 2008 - Editor’s Notes: What we meant to say was…
Two months too late, the director of US national intelligence is trying to amend the report that eased Iran’s path to the bomb
February 15, 2008 - Argentinean prosecutor: This is not justice
Nisman feels ‘no sorrow’ at Mughniyeh’s death, but would rather have seen him in court
February 14, 2008 - The relentless facilitator
Undeterred by the deteriorating situation in Gaza and the lack of discernable progress in Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, Tony Blair remains convinced that a peace accord this year is viable and determined to impress upon both sides that their own best interests require it
February 11, 2008 - Blair to ‘Post’: Arab view of peace ‘very close’ to Israel’s
February 10, 2008 - Editor’s notes: Yehezkel Dror: I cannot make up my mind whether Olmert should resign
A political storm is raging over the purported politicization of the Winograd Committee, based on comments attributed to one of its members, Yehezkel Dror. Before that storm broke, The Jerusalem Post spent two hours getting an insider’s account of Winograd from Dror, as well as many insights into his own thinking. Did he help produce a skewed war report? You can judge for yourselves
February 8, 2008 - Dror to ‘Post’: I don’t know if PM should go, and we didn’t discuss it at Winograd
February 7, 2008 - Editor’s Notes: Looking the other way
Even as the prime minister was marshaling his defenses against the Winograd critique over Lebanon, a similar failure was playing out in Gaza
February 1, 2008 - Analysis: Winograd’s dire warning
Israel ‘cannot survive in this region’ without ‘the political and military leadership, military capabilities, and social robustness’ to deter and if necessary overcome its enemies
January 31, 2008 - Editor’s Notes: It sould have elicited a ‘Wow!’
The constellation of Jesus-linked names in the ‘Talpiot Tomb’ is extraordinary, says the eminent academic who just chaired a symposium on the controversial Jerusalem burial cave. Now, he aims to (literally) get to the bottom of it
January 25, 2008 - Tawfik Hamid’s warning
Clearly this speaker was not unfamiliar with the nuances of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
January 18, 2008 - Editor’s Notes: Crunch time for Barak
Burned by Arafat in 2000, the Labor leader has never shared Olmert’s optimism this time around
January 18, 2008 -
Haredim likely to block new excavation at Talpiot tomb
Archeologists deny cover-up at burial cave linked by some to Jesus
January 18, 2008 - My husband knew he’d found the tomb of Jesus
Archeologist’s widow makes dramatic declaration at academic conference on Talpiot burial cave
January 17, 2008 - Editor’s Notes: Self-inflicted wounds
It was the third thrust of the knife that did the worst damage – in his upper chest, near the heart
January 11, 2008 -
Former al-Zawahiri disciple backs alternate Islam
“I am a Muslim by birth, a Christian by the Spirit, and a Jew by heart. Above all, I am a human being” — Tawfik Hamid
January 8, 2008 - Editor’s Notes: The asymmetry confronting Bush
Why would Palestinian leaders make compromises beneficial to Israel and opposed by many of their own people when the status quo is widely seen to be working in their favor?
January 4, 2008 - ‘Every solution will be painful’
In an interview with the Post to usher in the new calendar year, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert waxes poetic about ‘our friend’ in the White House, warns of the dangers of a one-state solution and wishes he were at liberty to provide the public with more details of everything he’s doing to serve Israel
January 3, 2008 - PM: Current coalition can pass peace deal with Palestinians
Israel Beiteinu, Shas: Not so fast
January 2, 2008 - Olmert: Even Israel’s good friends see our future based on the ’67 borders, with Jerusalem divided
The prime minister opens 2008 with an interview to ‘The Jerusalem Post’
January 1, 2008 - History’s second draft
Gershon Agron’s baby, with its initial 1932 print-run of 1,200 copies, has not only maintained a devoted readership here in Israel, but is also now read minute-by-minute on the Internet by millions the world over
January 1, 2008
What Paris can teach Jerusalem
August 22, 2008
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