Tuesday's general elections will officially end the briefest and most nonchalant electoral season Israel has ever experienced. Regrettably, the importance of these elections is inversely proportional to their lack of intensity. These are the most fateful elections Israel has ever had. The events of the past week make this point clearly. On Monday Iran successfully launched a domestically manufactured satellite…
At the annual Herzliya Conference yesterday, former CIA Director R. James Woolsey discussed the nature of the threat emanating from Wahabi Islam. He noted that while Saudis make up only one percent of the world’s Muslims, they finance over 90 percent of the Sunni Islamic institutions in the world. This means that through their oil money they are able to…
Operation Cast Lead caused many people to reassess the viability of the sacrosanct "two-state solution." A growing number of observers have pointed out that Hamas's Iranian-sponsored jihadist regime in Gaza is proof that Israel has no way to ensure that land it transfers to the PLO-Fatah will remain under PLO-Fatah control. This reassessment has also provoked a discussion of the…
According to Aviation Week the US Navy blocked the Israeli Navy from seizing the Cypriot flagged Iranian weapons ship en route to Hamas forces in Gaza. The Aviation Week report claims that the US feared the an Israeli seziure of the ship would endanger US naval forces around Iran. Instead, they asked the Cypriot Navy to seize the ship and…