Category Archives: Israel and Palestinian Arabs

Twenty-five years after Oslo, the PLO is dying

Posted on September 16, 2018 by Victor Rosenthal

Almost exactly 25 years ago, on September 13, 1993, Israel committed the greatest single strategic mistake in its 70-year history by signing the “Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government Arrangements,” otherwise known as the Oslo I Accord. The disaster of … Continue reading →

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Upsetting the narrative

Posted on September 9, 2018 by Victor Rosenthal

Do you want to know what your enemies are thinking? Listen to what they say. Usually they won’t tell you where and when the next terrorist attack will be but they will tell you their intentions and their strategy. Even … Continue reading →

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The root of our conflict goes deeper than you thought

Posted on July 27, 2018 by Victor Rosenthal

If you read a history book or today’s newspaper, you will see certain kinds of conflicts that repeat themselves, time and again. There are economic conflicts, situations in which one group wants something – land or property – that another … Continue reading →

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The perverse and vicious Palestinian “refugee” weapon

Posted on July 20, 2018 by Victor Rosenthal

Suppose someone told you that they wanted to take a billion and a half dollars of American and European taxpayer money each year, and use it to raise an army. It would feed and house more than five million people, … Continue reading →

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New thinking required to defeat Hamas

Posted on July 17, 2018 by Victor Rosenthal

Back when music came on Bakelite discs that spun at 78 rpm, the very fragile records would crack easily. When you tried to play a cracked disc, often the stylus (what everyone called the “needle”) would strike the crack and … Continue reading →

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What drives anti-Israel politics?

Posted on June 29, 2018 by Victor Rosenthal

Erdoğan and his party obtained a solid victory in the election this week, guaranteeing that relations between Turkey and Israel will get even worse. This is because the Turkish president has a history of anti-Israel rhetoric and actions whenever he … Continue reading →

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The Fires

Posted on June 22, 2018 by Victor Rosenthal

It’s impossible to write about anything except the fires. Foreign media are concerned with other things, but in Israel only the arrest of a former government minister charged with spying for Iran has come close to dislodging the fires from … Continue reading →

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Why don’t we defend ourselves?

Posted on June 18, 2018 by Victor Rosenthal

Great swaths of land in the Negev desert near the Gaza strip, agricultural land and nature preserves formerly the habitats of numerous endangered plant and animal species, have been reduced to ash and smoke by Palestinian fire-kites and balloon-borne incendiary … Continue reading →

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