Former Israeli Knesset Member and Minister of Justice Tommy Lapid argued persuasively, but erroneously in a recent Jerusalem Post op-ed that both Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and opposition leader Binyamin Netanyahu are right in their contrasting approaches to the peace process. Continue reading »

Seemingly intent on facilitating Israel’s ultimate demise, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert this week approved the immigration to Judea and Samaria of 41 Iraqis of “Palestinian” descent. Critics rightly pointed out that Olmert had singlehandedly shattered Israel’s opposition to the so-called Palestinian “right of return.” Continue reading »

Israeli prime ministers are able to increase their public backing by concluding even minor compromise agreements with the Arabs, but the mainstream media and world leaders are 100% mistaken in asserting that such deals provide long-term political traction for Palestinian leaders. Continue reading »

Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was doing his best on Sunday to ignore the strengthening alliance between Iran, Syria, Hizballah and Hamas, while continuing to let Israel’s enemies know that his government is ready and willing to surrender even more land. Continue reading »

Providing further evidence of why this government needs to go and go now, Israeli Education Minister Yuli Tamir on Sunday approved a third-grade history book to be used in Arab schools that portrays the Jewish state’s rebirth in 1948 as a “catastrophe.” Continue reading »

Israel is about to release 250 jailed terrorists in an effort to bolster Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas. What the government of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is really offering so that Abbas can prove he is capable of extracting concessions is an as-yet-undetermined number of Israeli lives. Continue reading »

Israel’s Labor Party is accusing US President George W. Bush of proposing a Middle East peace summit this fall in order to delay Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s inevitable political demise. Continue reading »

Yesterday I wrote on Prime Minister Olmert’s foolish and naive decision to offer amnesty to the worst Fatah terrorists in a ridiculous attempt to “bolster” the group’s leader, Mahmoud Abbas.

Rather than foolish and naive, however, I think this decision can be better described as short-sighted and self-serving. Continue reading »

Prime Minister Ehud Olmert continues to best himself in making what are the most reckless, naive “goodwill gestures” to the Palestinians that I have ever seen. Today, Olmert confirmed that he will offer amnesty to wanted Palestinian terrorists belonging to Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah movement. Continue reading »

This will come as no surprise, but the government of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert still very much intends to uproot thousands of Jews from Judea and Samaria in the very near future.

Vice Premier Shimon Peres said on Israeli television on Saturday that by the end of the current government’s term, at least several dozen established Jewish towns in Judea and Samaria will be no more.

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