What other nation would even ask these questions? Read the interview with Prof. Asa Kasher, IDF advisor on ethical issues here.
Ethical considerations of ‘restraint’ and targeted killings
December 29th, 2006Moshe Sharon explains the bazaar
December 28th, 2006This 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.
Israel arms Fatah against Hamas
December 28th, 2006…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.
In a perfect world, Jordan could be Palestine
December 27th, 2006…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.
