“What [Israel] need[s] now is a leader who will level with us about our situation, just as
Churchill did when he told the British people: “I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.” No more promises of a fun society for those tired of being brave, tired of winning.” — Jonathan Rosenblum, in the Jerusalm Post, on why the Prime Minister is irrelevant.
Read it here.
By Vic Rosenthal
I’ve more or less had it with muddled thinking.
I am fed up with reflexive and irrational left-wing Israel bashing (I will also no longer listen quietly to right-wing reductions of every problem to ‘socialism’ or ‘political correctness’, but that’s another article).
I want my friends to look closely at events and understand their uniqueness. Forcing chaotic reality to fit procrustean ideologies may be satisfying, but it does violence to truth. Sometimes there isn’t a simple answer.
What other nation would even ask these questions? Read the interview with Prof. Asa Kasher, IDF advisor on ethical issues here.
This is one of the most important and relevant short pieces that I’ve read in years. If you still think in your heart that peace can result if we just work out the necessary details and compromises, you must read this.
Read No Peace, No Peace plans, No price for Peace here.
…as if they don’t have enough weapons!
By Vic Rosenthal
The NY Times reports today that Egypt has sent a shipment of small arms to Mahmoud Abbas’ ‘Presidential Guard’, with Israeli and US coordination. According to various reports, the shipment includes 2,000 AK47’s and 2 million rounds of ammuntion.
Since Fatah has never officially changed its charter to recognize Israel’s existence, and since the Al Aksa Martyr’s brigades, a group currently firing Kassam missiles at Israel, is part of Fatah, this is hard to understand.
