Organized Lying
We expect politicians to lie—some more than others. We expect politicians to lie especially in wartime. That’s when lying becomes organized. It seems to me,...
Category : Politicians
An Unreliable Alliance
Speaking before a gathering of the National Religious Party (NRP) activists, Likud chairman Benjamin Netanyahu lent some credence to rumors of a potential alliance of...
An Interview with Benjamin Netanyahu
On June 6, 2007, Likud chairman Benjamin Netanyahu was interviewed by Victoria Vexelman of the Russian Channel-7. I have an English rendering of excerpts of...
Israel’s Virtual Idiots
Israelis have found that the Hebrew word for “fools,” tipshim, does not quite describe Israel’s political leaders. Hence they have Hebraicized and pluralized the word...
Shimon Peres and the Betrayal of Israel
[Transcript of the Eidelberg Report, Israel National Radio, October 30, 2006.] Seven years ago, Prof. Wolf Perlman and I co-authored an article on Shimon Peres...
Israel’s Degenerate Prime Minister
On June 9, 2005, Ehud Olmert revealed what he is made of in a speech to the Israel Policy Forum in New York. Israel’s government,...
The Sanctification of Ariel Sharon
Shades of Yitzhak Rabin! The campaign to sanctify Ariel Sharon has begun. While the media’s melodrama surrounding his stroke is vintage Hollywood, the fiction of...
Is Israel Being Sold out by its Prime Minister?
On December 23, 2003, Ha’aretz’s Baruch Kra published a summary of a video that links the entire Sharon family to a Greek island tourist resort...
An Appeal to All Feiglinites
I do not doubt Moshe Feiglin’s good intentions. I only question his practical wisdom. Please suspend, if only for a few minutes, your preconceptions and...
How Tyranny Developed in Israel
The present tyranny in Israel did not begin with Ariel Sharon; he only made it conspicuous by giving his police black shirts and forcibly expelling...