By Vic Rosenthal
Lately, construction of the security fence has been slowed by environmental issues, budgetary problems, and the ever-popular legal challenges. This is unfortunate, because there is good reason to believe that the fence, where it has been completed, has been successful in reducing terrorist infiltrations.
By Vic Rosenthal
A Syrian representative at the Mideast peace conference that kicked off in Madrid on Thursday afternoon said that his country’s calls to renew negotiations with Israel expressed the needs and will of the entire region.
Doctor Ya’ad Daoudi said that the return of the Golan Heights was a vital step in establishing regional peace and that Israel must return to the 1967 borders…
Osama el-Baza, the political advisor to Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, said that Israel needed to be pressured into renewing talks with Syria because Damascus “holds the key to the region.” – Jerusalem Post
We are beginning to see some of the Lebanese-war chickens coming to roost.
By Vic Rosenthal
Ze’ev Chafets in the LA Times:
Given the evident failure of American diplomacy and U.N. sanctions, Israel has two basic choices. It can sit and wait, hoping the Iranians do not drop a bomb on Tel Aviv; or it can preemptively attack, hoping to destroy, or at least retard, the Iranians’ nuclear capacity…
By Vic Rosenthal
As everyone knows by now, Ariana Huffington talked to sometime presidential candidate Gen. Wesley Clark recently.
By Vic Rosenthal
Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni and Defense Minister Amir Peretz have both come up with peace plans. By now, every imaginable permutation of Israeli withdrawals and Arab promises has been presented by somebody.
