In “Gone with the Wind”, the greatest movie of all times, there is a memorable scene: theNorthern army has already overrun most of the South. Rhett Butler (Clark Gable) is bringingScarlet O’Hara home through the enemy lines. Suddenly he stops, gets down from the cart andtells her that he is going to join the beaten … Read more
On Sunday evening, a public debate on the subject “Blank Vote – Yes or No?” will take place atTel-Aviv’s Eretz Israel museum. The question is not a rhetorical one. Ten days before theelections, there are still hundreds of thousands of citizens, both Jewish and Arab, who aretormented by this question, afflicted by doubt, vexed and … Read more
I am in turmoil, more so than for a long, long time. All my life I have opposed the blank ballot. I have written articles against it,much more convincing than the current propaganda cliches of Yossi Sarid.the Ehud Barak slip, my hand will tremble and refuse. I know all the arguments. A blank ballot is … Read more
We Israelis need a scarecrow to frighten ourselves, one frightening enough to pumpadrenaline into our national bloodstream. Otherwise, it seems, we cannot function. Once it was the Palestinian charter. Very few Palestinians ever read it, even fewerremembered what it said, but we compelled the Palestinians to abolish its paragraphs in asolemn ceremony. Who remembers it … Read more
Two boxers enter the ring. One is a heavy-weight champion, his opponent is a feather-weight.Everyone expects a knock-out at the beginning of the first round. But, miraculously, the first round ends – and there is no knock-out. The second round ends – noknock-out. When the feather-weight is still standing up after the third and fourth … Read more
It resembles a movie on the mafia. The heads of two “families” meet, embrace and kiss eachother. On the way home, the “soldiers” of one family wait in ambush for the other one and”liquidate” them. This has happened now in Israel. And not in the mafia. We heard the Palestinian version of this event last … Read more
The devil knows who put into Barak’s head the four words “end of the conflict”. When he demanded to put the “end of the conflict” into the “frame-work agreement” (anotherBarak coinage), he put the refugee issue squarely onto the negotiating table. Since then it’sbeen lying there like a ticking bomb. It was self-evident that no … Read more
General Montgomery had a photo of his opponent, the German general Erwin Rommel, on his desk.When he was asked why, he explained that at every stage of the campaign he would look at thepicture and asked himself: What does he think? What does he feel? What will he do? It’s hard to imagine Ehud Barak … Read more
“War is too important to be left to the generals,” said Georges Clemenceau, the French premierduring World War I. He knew what he was talking about, even if he did not know Shaul Mofaz and BugiYa’alon. “Peace is too important to be left to the politicians,” one could say today in view of ourcurrent election … Read more
Ehud Barak has set a trap for himself. And because he is brilliant, the trap was so good that hepromptly fell into it. To quote Psalm 7 (16): “He made a pit and digged it, and is fallen into theditch which he made.” For many months now he has been spreading the mantra: “I have … Read more