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A confusing identity
Originally published 6 May 2004 in
The Jerusalem Post
One of the left’s most celebrated gurus recently tried to explain our existential predicament, the true, if hidden nature of our conflict with the Palestinian Arabs. Our guru, A. B. Yehoshua has also devised a solution that may heal not only our guilt-ridden Israeli psyche, but will also resolve a deep conflict besetting our very nature as Jews.
The amazingly simple solution is a unilateral withdrawal from practically all of the West Bank, the eradication of most of the settlements (an original sin if there ever was one, for Yehoshua) and the demarcation of a fenced border along the 1967 line.
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No substitute for strategy
Originally published 25 Mar 2004 in
The Jerusalem Post
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Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, Yasser Arafat
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Despite its brilliant tactical victories, Israel has never truly won a war against the Arabs. In fact, Israel has habitually snatched diplomatic defeats out of the jaws of military victory. In part this was due to the lack of an overall strategy, as none of Israel’s leaders defined goals for war or the means to achieve them, or to consistently pursue them.
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About deception and decency
Originally published 28 Aug 2003 in
The Jerusalem Post
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Equality, freedom, democracy, justice, pluralism and other generalities at the New Israel Fund
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My previous column, “NIF’s not-so-hidden political agenda” (14 August 2003) claimed that the New Israel’s Fund website misrepresented its Negev Beduin program as yet another civil rights initiative. I thought it was a calculated effort to radicalize the Beduin and provoke a confrontation between an erstwhile loyal community and Israel.
Through its Shatil executive arm the New Israel Fund has supported Beduin who break Israeli law by seizing strategic government land, apparently with Palestinian Authority help and encouragement. Shatil activists named this project “The Palestinian Project,” even though the Beduin are Israeli citizens, not Palestinian ones. In this way they try further to erode Beduin fealty to Israel and transfer it to the PA.
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NIF’s not-so-hidden political agenda
Originally published 14 Aug 2003 in
The Jerusalem Post
The New Israel Fund’s director, Eliezer Ya’ari, recently denied charges that his fund, and its Shatil subsidiary, are exploiting the single mothers’ protest to promote a radical leftist and anti-Zionist political agenda, and that they have patronizingly imposed the unelected Knafo group as “representative leadership.”
He insisted that the NIF is “an apolitical civic organization” assisting “social change” and human rights, providing a voice to weakened sectors. Ya’ari never defines what kind of “social change” the NIF promotes, but the fact that almost all of the many organizations Shatil has spawned among immigrants and “development-town” residents espouse a radical leftist ideology, while none are centrist or right, makes it clear.
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Well, well! We belong here after all
Originally published 17 Jan 2002 in
The Jerusalem Post
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Israeli Declaration of Independence by Arthur Szyk, 1948
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It is sad, but true, that decades after the Declaration of Independence defined this country as “a Jewish state in the land of Israel,” the greatest achievement of a self-appointed group of opinion-shapers who formulated an updated Kinneret Compact, was that everyone who composes such groups agreed to forcefully reiterate the conviction that Israel must remain a Jewish state.
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