Are Israelis simply too weary to make it in the long term? Why do Israelis and Palestinians deserve less than the Irish, the Cypriots, the Serbs, the Bosnians or the South Africans?
It\’s not often that Mel Weiss is heard complimenting President Bush. But after hearing the President\’s response to the victory of Hamas in last week\’s Palestinian elections, that\’s just what Weiss did.
Nov. 4 marks the ninth anniversary of the single-worst moment in Israel\’s history: the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. With hindsight — although many recognized it at the time — it is clear that the Rabin murder achieved the goal of its perpetrator.
In 1832, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the United States government could not force the Native American Cherokee tribe out of its Georgia homes and into reservations in Oklahoma.
The major reason many American supporters of Israel line up behind the policies of the Israeli government is that they do not want to be in the position of second guessing the Israelis.
The bus bombing in Jerusalem demonstrates, as nothing else could, that there is no alternative to implementing President Bush\’s \”road map\” in all its parts.
Question: How is the Middle East road map, which President Bush will submit to Israelis and Palestinians next month, be helpful to the United States and Israel?
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