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
I feel that I am being blackmailed. I don ‘ t like to be blackmailed. When Ehud Barak decided to commit the coup d ‘ etat against himself, he assumed that he has myvote in his pocket. My vote and the votes of all the members of the peace camp, both Jewish andArab. Since the … Read more
“Nothing succeeds like success,” say the Americans. In Israel, the very opposite is true:“Nothing succeeds like failure.” What other explanation can there be for the prospect that in the coming elections twomonumental failures will face each other? Barak and Netanyahu, Netanyahu and Barak: two Prime Ministers who did not succeed infinishing even one term in … Read more
Dear (in both senses of the word) Settler, Let’s not waste time on nonsense words like “dialogue”, “conciliation” and such wordscherished by the feeble-minded. Let’s face the fact that you don’t like me and I do not like you.You believe that my friends and I are “destroyers of Israel”, people who conspire to evict youfrom … Read more
Suddenly I noticed that we were quite alone on the road. A wonderful road, six lanes wide, partsof it still in the building stage. Completely empty. This is a bypass-bypass road, an invention of the occupation. First, they built thecross-Samaria road, from Kafr-Kassem to Ariel and beyond, so as to by-pass the Palestinianvillages. But the … Read more
What an attractive person! What personal charm! What a magic smile! What a convincing way ofspeaking! Who would have guessed that behind these there is nothing? No principles. No moral commitment. No loyalty to an ideal. Nothing. He came from nowhere and he is returning to nowhere. And during eight long years in the mostimportant … Read more
The Labor Party has decided to show a film about Yitzhaq Rabin, but to cut out the picture ofRabin shaking the hand of Yasser Arafat at the signing ceremony of the Oslo agreement. Thus itburied his historic achievement. A film about Rabin without Oslo is like a film about Albert Einstein without the theory ofrelativity … Read more
When a hurricane strikes a forest, every tree is tested. The rotten ones are uprooted and sweptaway by the wind, sometimes far away. The strong ones, those with deep roots in the earth,remain standing. The Israeli peace forces are being tested now. The winds of war are blowing. Some peace campcelebrities (alias “Leftists”) were uprooted … Read more