The Magnes Zionist

Last week the IDF dropped a bomb on the house of Hamas leader Nizar Ghayan, killing him, his four wives, and some of his children. Reports h...

After arguing on purely pragmatic grounds that the present war on Gaza is unnecessary, stupid, and liable to cause enormous suffering to Isr...

American Israeli Bradley Burston, who, for some unknown reason, writes a blog for Haaretz , penned a particularly offensive piece recently e...

Let's assume what Israel thinks is the best case scenario. The ground offensive, which started a few hours ago, is a relatively temporar...

This beautifully written piece appeared in the Washington Post . My thanks to my friend, Shammai Leibowitz, for sharing it with me. Here is ...

This unnecessary war, which has claimed so many lives already, and which has kept two populations in terror (but only one in constant suffer...

Wow, wasn't that an exciting fake-out Israel pulled over the weekend? I mean, Barak authorized the border crossings to be opened to lull...

I thought I would share this item from politico.co.il here Dov Khenin: "The role of the Left is to say 'No' to a crazy war...

Arutz Sheva/Israel National News is reporting here that Meretz ended its support for the Gaza War today, less than a week after it announce...

Lest my world readers think that all of Israel society is mad, I have decided to devote occasional posts to some voices of sanity. Today...

The Gaza war is falling into a predictable pattern, with the so-called Zionist left in Israel, a.k.a. the Meretz party, also acting predicta...

Plus ça change, plus ç'est la même chose . After the expiration of the cease-fire between Hamas and Israel, the Kassams started up, the...

Every once in a while an op-ed is published in Haaretz that expresses almost precisely what I feel. Lily Galili, a veteran Israeli journali...

Today's print Haaretz has a large ad addressed to Israeli soldiers and police serving in the Occupied Territories. Here is a rough parap...

Not a day goes by without more speculation and disinformation about Obama's Middle East team flooding the media, especially the Jewish m...

All right, this is ridiculous. But when I read the following passage in a Jerusalem Post editorial written by Elliot Jager : Leftist i...

Well, with pseudo-Jewish settlers on the rampage as I write -- smashing, burning, throwing rocks, and even shooting at defenceless Palestini...

Finally, after a string of appointments that have not made me particularly happy, Obama is poised to appoint Dan Kurtzer as Special Envoy to...

Elections for Israel's parliament are scheduled for February 10, 2009. Israel, the least stable parliamentary regime in the Middle East,...

Yesterday, a group of North American rabbis on a tour sponsored by Rabbis for Human Rights, and led by the IDF veterans' group, Breaking...

The New York Times reported today that Martin Eisentadt, the purported source of the "Palin-Didn't Know-That-Africa-Is-A-Continent...

The Washington Post and other media outlets suggest that the Obama transition team is considering Hillary Clinton Secretary of State. The C...

N.B. The following post is based on conversations I have had in the last few days with folks who are close to Obama's inner circle, as w...

Several weeks ago I predicted that Barack Obama would win in a landslide. He didn't win by double digits, but he defeated John McCain h...

It is 2 am in Washington, DC. Horns are blaring "ta-ta-taa" (or, if you like, "teki'ah"), code for "Yes, we can...

Just got an email from an Israeli American friend telling me that he voted, much to my surprise, for Obama. It seems that my friend, an old...