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
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