Yoram Getzler
A few weeks ago David Kimche, former director general of our Foreign Ministry, and previous to that an agent for the Mossad wrote an article in the Jerusalem Post explaining why Syria might be truly interested in making peace with us. (http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1211434083716&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull <http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1211434083716&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull> )
Mostly it had to do with the antipathy of its Sunni [...]
Interesting, at the moment in Israel, the Peace Now NGO, which has been for the past three decades, one of the flagship institutions of the Israeli political & social Left is celebrating its thirtieth anniversary.
At the same time, the mainstay old time, old line foundation of the Israeli political Left, the Labor Party is all [...]
Not for the first time, but yet again, I hear about the difficulties
that Hillel, the Jewish university campus organization is having dealing
with the anti-Israel sentiments on American campuses.
The latest issue concerns an invitation to the chancellor of the
University of California Irvine, Michael Drake to a Hillel three-day
summit titled “Imagining a More Civil Society” . Evidently [...]
Once again as in 2002 the subject of a cease-fire between Israel and the
Palestinians is a subject of intense debate. The political left is
particularly hot on the subject, pointing out that while Hamas has
requested a cease-fire, it is Israel who has rejected the idea.
With the constant rocket attacks on Sederot and other southern towns,
kibbutzim and [...]
for the sake of all Creation
Last Friday (Dec 28th) Haaretz Israeli newspaper published an op-ed commenting on the controversy of prisoner release by Israel
I appreciate the subject of the release of prisoners being brought to the awareness of your readers. (Reconciliation begins in prison Akivar Eldar Weeks End Dec28)
From the perspective [...]
Nir Barkat is one of the few people who made his fortune in the hi-tech / start-up business in city of Jerusalem. He then set out to improve the city in which he made his fortune. Leaving his successful business he ran for mayor four years ago, under the slogan “Jerusalem Will Succeeded”! His [...]