…but it can’t.
By Vic Rosenthal
We are fast approaching the point at which the Palestinian question will get an imposed solution. Israel is not strong enough or unified enough to be the imposer; it will be the United States and other ‘interested parties’ such as Russia and the EU which are not great friends of Israel. We can easily imagine the outlines of such a solution: a Hamas state in Gaza and much of the West Bank, militarized, stuffed with rockets, busily tunneling.
Liberal Judaism and Zionism
By Vic Rosenthal
Many of my liberal Jewish friends have tried to disconnect their Jewish spirituality, ethics, ritual, and peoplehood from Eretz Yisrael. Although there are, of course, Orthodox anti-Zionists who think that only the mashiach can return the Jews to their homeland, the position is quite different: the liberal Jew believes that the Jewish state is simply irrelevant to Jewish life in the Diaspora. Some of them can even support the replacement of Israel by a Palestinian state. This essay is intended for them.
“…however strong the Western hardware, its software contains some potentially fatal bugs.”
Daniel Pipes explains how it’s possible for radical Islam to defeat the West here.
By Vic Rosenthal
On 25 June 2006, several well-armed Hamas terrorists emerged from an almost ½ mile long tunnel they had dug near the Keren Shalom border crossing between Israel and the southern Gaza strip. The tunnel opened 350m inside Israeli territory, making it possible to attack a nearby IDF position from the rear. Two Israelis were killed and five wounded; Cpl. Gilad Shalit, 19, was lightly wounded and was dragged back across the border.
