The Separation Fence and I did not enjoy an instant romance. When I heard how much money was to be spent building the thing, my first reaction was to imagine how many more Israeli lives would be saved if we put the same money into traffic safety – after all, even in the worst years […]
Archives for September 2005
The Great Gaza Strip Synagogue Wimp-Out
This is the way the Israeli occupation of the Gaza Strip ended: not with a bang but a wimp-out. After all the politicking; after all the fortitude; after all the heartbreak; after all the planning; after all the skilled execution; after all the ineptitude, or at least after some of it – we’ve finally left […]
Intifada 101 – Preparing for the Aftermath
As one of the world’s few practicing intifadologists, I bear a heavy responsibility. It’s up to me and my colleagues to decide on such things as what phases the Intifada has gone through, and what learned jargon we will use to designate various aspects of the conflict. This is truly an awesome burden, but – […]
Settler as Saint
Rant time! Am I the only Israeli who’s getting sick of hearing about how wonderful the Gaza Strip settlers were? I have no problem thinking of them as nice people, good Israelis, good Zionists, or whatever; but the extent to which they’re being portrayed as heroic, pioneering agricultural miracle-workers is frankly nauseating. Both before and […]
Time for a New Law: Compensation for “Jewish” Terror Attacks
In the aftermath of the Shfaram attack, it has emerged that Israel’s law for the compensation of terror victims and their survivors does not cover attacks carried out by Jewish terrorists. Because perpetrators such as Eden Natan Zada are not considered “hostile to the State of Israel’s existence”, the Families of Soldiers Who Fell in […]