In that pregnant pause between World War One and the unleashing of the unprecedented human disaster that was World War Two, democracies had the opportunity to change history; to forestall Hitler’s naked aggression. What was missing was neither […]
I was watching the American talk show “Ricki Lake” the other day. The hostess, a plump Jewish girl with a good heart, was trying to reform young haters by letting them spend the day with the object of […]
The day Israeli troops began to pull out of their encampments on the Lebanese side of the border, a banner headline in Israel’s most widely read newspaper, Yediot Acharonot, screamed: “The Degradation!” Inside, the paper showed panic-stricken residents […]
When the pipe bomb went off in the lively seaside village of Netanya recently, I remember thinking: Oh no. Here we go again. The bombings. The “I can’t condone” of the Palestinians (why can’t they say “We condemn?”) […]