Monday, December 28th, 2009
Oslo was touted as the way to raise Israel’s reputation. It did not. (Indeed, anti-Zionists tried to blame Israel as having offered too...
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Gaza Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh declared that Hamas’ goal is to take over all of Palestine. That would include Israel. Up to now, some...
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Friday, December 18th, 2009
Aluf Benn, columnist for the Israeli leftist newspaper, Haaretz, perceives PM Netanyahu as a peacemaker. Fellow leftists there doubt he is; the NY...
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President Obama came to Oslo, to accept a Nobel Peace Prize that, ironically, he admitted he had not earned. In his speech, Obama described the war...
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What would make peace, and what blocks it? Dershowitz pointed out that Arab slander blocks peace. The Abbas and Hamas regimes alike are raising...
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Ben-Ami alleged that Israel cannot remain a Jewish state unless it divests itself of the Territories. He did not explain clearly. He mentioned it...
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Ben-Ami said that Jewish house-building in the Gilo neighborhood of Jerusalem is a unilateral act that impeded peace-making. As usual, he did not...
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Israel did not miss opportunities to negotiate, said Dershowitz. He supposes that it is engaging even now in back channel discussions. Dershowitz,...
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Ben-Ami referred to Israel’s partial blockade of Gaza as if it were an occupation. Dershowitz, the lawyer, explained to him that a blockade is...
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Stressing U.S. security throughout, though usually not showing why, Ben-Ami treats Iran as an issue of U.S. security. In this instance, he did...
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