A major piece I have written on the situation in Gaza and the role of Islamic Jihad has just gone up on Front Page Magazine. 

Binyamin Netanyahu deserves credit for having sounded the alarm at an early date on the dangers of Iran, and sounding it often since. This is

  Shouldn’t be quite this way.  We should be doing what we have a right to do, just because we have we have a right. 

It’s Gaza. Again.  Last Wednesday, Grad Katyusha rockets were fired into southern Israel from Gaza.  On Saturday afternoon, the Israel Air Force hit a terrorist

Motzei Shabbat (After Shabbat) This posting will have a slightly different format, as it is, quite literally, a response to a letter.  The letter is

Negotiators representing the Quartet parties — the US, the UN, the EU, and Russia — along with Quartet Envoy Tony Blair have now met separately

When I speak of integrity, I am referring to soundness, state of being whole. For Israel as a nation, this applies to a great many situations. 

Theories abound as to why Netanyahu agreed to the Shalit trade now.  The decision was undoubtedly “over-determined.”  As is often the case in life, many

This will be the last posting I will send out until after the holiday is over.  We are commanded — commanded! — to be joyous

Who doesn’t remember the horrendous, the breathtakingly obscene lynching in Ramallah in 2000 of two IDF soldiers who had lost their way?  The picture of