Category Archives: ‘Peace’ Process

Goldberg struggles to defend administration nonsense

Posted on November 2, 2014 by Victor Rosenthal

Jeffrey Goldberg, the journalist who broke the ‘chickenshit‘ story, tried to put a good face on the Obama Administration’s pretense of frustration with PM Netanyahu. Let’s see why his — and the administration’s — position doesn’t make sense. The Israeli … Continue reading →

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What is the alternative?

Posted on September 28, 2014 by Victor Rosenthal

All courses of action are risky, so prudence is not in avoiding danger (it’s impossible), but calculating risk and acting decisively. Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not the strength … Continue reading →

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Why the Palestinian Arabs lack civil rights

Posted on September 18, 2014 by Victor Rosenthal

Israel’s Left is unhappy. Nobody votes for their parties and their chance of returning to power is negligible. You can see them boiling with frustration — they used to run things here, and now they are a permanent opposition, reduced … Continue reading →

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URJ officials: ask your cabdriver for the facts

Posted on August 22, 2014 by Victor Rosenthal

When the Oslo accords were signed in 1993, many Israelis and American Jews alike believed that the end of the Israeli-Arab conflict was in sight. Now, after the Second Intifada, the Second Lebanon War and multiple wars in Gaza, very … Continue reading →

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Game over

Posted on June 6, 2014 by Victor Rosenthal

The establishment of a Palestinian Authority (PA) unity government that includes Hamas is the last inning of a ballgame which has been in extra innings far too long. The PLO and its Fatah faction which have controlled the PA since … Continue reading →

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The Hamas paradox

Posted on May 14, 2014 by Victor Rosenthal

The players: Hamas — The Palestinian Muslim Brotherhood; Sunni Islamists committed to the destruction of Israel; believe that killing Jews is a religious mitzvah. Fatah — Yasser Arafat’s gang, secular terrorists committed to the destruction of Israel, the single organization … Continue reading →

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How many times must Jews be expelled?

Posted on May 9, 2014 by Victor Rosenthal

Then a new king, to whom Joseph meant nothing, came to power in Egypt. “Look,” he said to his people, “the Israelites have become far too numerous for us. Come, we must deal shrewdly with them or they will become … Continue reading →

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A fable for dumb American negotiators

Posted on May 8, 2014 by Victor Rosenthal

Suppose two men living in the same house are in love with the same woman, the wife of one of them. The other can think of nothing else, and even has come to believe an elaborate fantasy of how she … Continue reading →

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