The anti-reform protest reminds me of the Khartoum Resolution

Remember “The Three No’s” of the Khartoum Resolution: No peace with Israel, no recognition of Israel, no negotiations with Israel. That’s what came to mind when I saw a Facebook post in response to Netanyahu’s speech tonight. The post read that we were exposed this evening to a speech by a lying dictator who has […]

I wish Bibi success but did he have to plagiarize Bennett?

After all, Bibi’s success is OUR success. In a Facebook post, I accused Netanyahu of hypocrisy because of one part of what he said in his excellent Rabin Memorial Day speech at the Knesset, I want to respond here to a challenge to that post in the comments below it. First, the quote that shows […]

The opposition missed the chance to turn things around for Israel

For a people with a history measured in thousands of years, why are contemporary Israeli politicians thinking in terms of two years, four years, six months? Based on the behaviour of the opposition leader in the outgoing government alone, it seems that some of our leaders have lost sight of the long-game for the Jewish […]

Caroline Glick: So Much Noise Over 7 Knesset Seats

Journalist Caroline Glick has made Yamina Party head Naftali Bennett a kind of villain in the coalition-forming crisis. It appears to me that she is following a script written by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu even though she once ran on a political party list headed by Bennett. How is one to make sense of this? […]

Suddenly Netanyahu Makes Sense to Me

I have been disgusted and puzzled by Benjamin Netanyahu for quite some time. Then a Facebook friend shared with a Hebrew language forum something that brought it all together for me. All the disparate pieces into a unified whole. It never made sense to me to think that Bibi made a normalization deal with the […]

You are destroying Israeli democracy! No, you are!

First there was the a demonstration to protest Bibi destroying our democracy. People set out in cars, allegedly one person per car, in order to obey the Coronavirus orders of the day protecting the public from contamination. Along with his video of the demonstration, Amir Shlomian wrote: Whoever was not there – their loss. Festival […]