Netanyahu: Mine will be a government of solutions   ——————————————————————————–   CAROLINE B. GLICK Nov. 7, 2002 ——————————————————————————– In an exclusive interview with The Jerusalem Post on Wednesday, newly sworn-in Foreign Minister and Likud leadership candidate Binyamin Netanyahu elaborated on his differences with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, explaining why he believes he is the best man to lead the country.…

Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and former prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu are locked in a match of political wills and wiles. Each, today, rightly believes that his political future will, to a large degree, be determined by how this match plays out.   Both Sharon and Netanyahu know that Sharon's request of Netanyahu to accept the position of foreign minister in…

The large boom that reverberated throughout Jerusalem on Tuesday morning threw the city's residents into a momentary panic. Windows of homes and offices rattled. As my dog nose-dived under the bed, I, heart pounding, went over to the window to see if smoke was rising from any tall buildings around my shaking home. Seeing none, I decided it must have…

In an interview with Ha'aretz published last Tuesday, new Palestinian Authority Interior Minister Dr. Hani al-Hassan explained that as far as he is concerned, murdering Israeli civilians who live in Judea, Samaria, and the Gaza Strip is a legitimate operation of "resistance" against "occupation."     Tuesday night, a terrorist from the Fatah's Aksa Martyrs Brigades infiltrated the community of…

Since the 1980s, under the direction of Shimon Peres, the Labor Party establishment has become one with the leftist ideological fringe. It was in the era of unity government in the 1980s that Peres discarded his security-minded and ideologically motivated support for the settlement movement in Judea, Samaria, and the Gaza Strip of the 1970s and embraced appeasement as a…

"Reality," John Lennon once quipped, "leaves a lot to the imagination." But he spoke truer than he knew.   Over the last seven days, two distinct dramas have unfolded, each containing, for a separate segment of the public, its own version of reality. On Saturday, at Gilad Farm, near Nablus, settlers and security forces faced off in a dispute over…

A roadmap to misery     As US President Bush’s envoy to the region, it would see reasonable to presume that Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs William Burns is committed to advancing Bush’s Middle East policy. In order to assess Burns’s chances of success in advancing Secretary of State Colin Powell’s boss’s plans, we think it is…

In an interview with London's Guardian this past February, revisionist historian Benny Morris referred to the Palestinian Authority as "a virtual kingdom of mendacity." On Monday, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's office announced that his government supports this kingdom.   Ahead of Sharon's junket to the White House, a high-ranking official in his office told this newspaper that Israel has agreed…

In the shifting sands of Arab alliances, it is hard to find instances of enduring relationships. But in a world where raw power struggles and dictatorial jealousies reign sovereign, one alliance stands out for its vitality, durability, and the mutual benefit it accrues to both sides. This rare relationship is Yasser Arafat's partnership with Saddam Hussein.   Fuad Shubaki, Arafat's…

As the beat of the US’s war drums against Saddam Hussein boom ever louder, the voices of opposition sound ever shriller. On Monday night, US President George W. Bush gave yet another speech in which he set out to answer these voices.   One of the primary arguments that have been made against the Bush administration’s plans is that by…