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Hirsh Goodman: The Hole in the Wall
We have this sausage dog. More...

Gershom Gorenberg: The Escape Artist
The report that General Ariel Sharon proposed a coup d��tat in May 1967, like so much else we have heard about the man, is both shocking and utterly unsurprising. More...

Ehud Ya'ari: Leader or Figurehead?
It took Anwar Al-Sadat just half a year in 1970-71 to shed the legacy of his predecessor, Gamal Abd al-Nasser, an extremely popular folk hero, and to revolutionize Egyptian policy on both the domestic and Israeli fronts. More...

HIRSH GOODMAN: A Window for Bush
A rare confluence of events should bring a respite from the past four years of war between Israel and the Palestinians: Arafat is off-stage, Bush has been reelected and Ariel Sharon is determined to go ahead with unilateral disengagement from Gaza. More...

EHUD YA'ARI: Now the Legacy
We surely won't miss Yasser Arafat. More...

STUART SCHOFFMAN: They Don�t Like You
As I glumly watched John Kerry concede the election, I felt suddenly impelled to make what West Bank settlers (albeit in a vastly different context) call "an appropriate Zionist response." I stood tall, switched off the TV, and hiked off to the Jerusalem Cin�math�que to see a film aptly entitled "Anything Else," last year�s offering from Woody Allen. More...

Hirsh Goodman: Nothing Learned
I sit here at the beautiful Mate-ya lodge in the Medikwe game reserve on the South African-Botswana border, far from the daily onslaught of headlines Israel wakes up to each morning. More...

Gershom Gorenberg: Your Sublease is Up. Please Leave Gaza.
"Transfer," "expulsion," "war crimes." Those terms now feature regularly in the shpiels of settlers and right-wing politicians against evacuation of Gaza Strip settlements. More...

Ehud Ya'ari: It�s Only a Draft
At the end of the road, when the disengagement plan finally reaches the point of implementation, it is doubtful whether it will even resemble the original draft drawn up by Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. More...

Hirsh Goodman: Mickey Mouse and Mandela
Yasser Arafat told an interviewer recently that he wants to be remembered like Nelson Mandela, and that he would retire from his current position as president of no state only when the Palestinian state is established. More...

Ehud Ya'ari: The Outer Intifada
Since the first moments of the intifada, Yasser Arafat has been praying for "spillover" -- for the violence to slide across the borders into the neighboring Arab states. More...

Stuart Schoffman: Trick or Treat
In these terrorized times, it's nice to feel loved. More...

Hirsh Goodman: Put Away the Qassams
The Palestinians in Gaza have dramatically stepped up their use of mortars and homemade Qassam rockets in recent weeks. More...

Gershom Gorenberg: Ghost of a Yom Kippur Past
Here's a mysterious little incident from Israel�s past, appropriate for reflection in the days around Yom Kippur. More...

Ehud Ya'ari: Unit 1800
Without sounding the trumpets but also without trying to keep it secret, Hizballah has become the central player in Palestinian terror warfare. More...

David Horovitz: Netanyahu's Moment
In the recent history of Israel, one period stands out as relatively terror-free: the three years from late spring 1996, when Benjamin Netanyahu was Israel�s prime minister. More...

Hirsh Goodman: Beggars in the Promised Land
Most of us can feel the pinch. More...

Ehud Ya'ari: The Pharoah�s Chill
Egypt is getting cold feet. More...

Stuart Schoffman: Anxious Anniversary
Foul winds are blowing in Washington. More...

David Horovitz: Three Years Later
The president made it sound so simple, and in a sense it is -- a simple struggle between good and evil. More...

Gershom Gorenberg: Reform vs. Conform
"FW: Shame on the reform movement" barked the subject line of one of the messages in the overfull inbox that greeted me home to the cacophony of Israeli and Jewish politics after the spurious calm of a summer camping trip. More...

Ehud Ya'ari: A Political Rape
Syrian president Bashar al-Asad has made his decision: He is ignoring the warnings he's received from the White House and the Elysee Palace and is going ahead anyway with his plan to keep Lebanon's President Emile Lahoud installed in Beirut's Ba�abda Palace for another three years. More...

David Horovitz: Dude, Film My Country
Israel-bashing message boards on the web are overloaded with critics lambasting Michael Moore for ignoring Israel in his assault on the Bush administration and its war against Saddam Hussein, "Fahrenheit 9/11." More...

Hirsh Goodman: The Next Prime Minister
Is the new Netanyahu, whom we have seen as a hard-working, brave and effective finance minister these past 18 months, prime ministerial material? More...

Ehud Ya'ari: Out of Control
The Iranians are determined to turn themselves into a nuclear power armed with long-range missiles More...

Stuart Schoffman: Back to School
When Ralph Nader says it�s �obvious� that �the United States is the second state of Israel,� he again demonstrates his fondness for fantasies of Jewish manipulation and control More...

David Horovitz: An Olympian Ideal
We weren't certain, at first, that we should be sending Adam, at 10, off to Greece, and a two-and-a-half hour drive from Athens at that, in the company of people he barely knew. More...

Hirsh Goodman: Beware!
If civil war breaks out, the Israeli army will find itself fighting its own elite troops More...

Gershom Gorenberg: The Zealot�s Subtext
The assumption is that if you want to keep every inch of land, you are acting in a purely religious manner More...

Ehud Ya'ari: What New Order?
There is no guarantee that success in curbing the authority of the �rais� will lead to the elimination of the terror infrastructure. More...

David Horovitz: History Repeating Itself
The ruling from The Hague discredits not Israel, but rather the international court and those who support it More...

Hirsh Goodman: Legal Limits
Time after time, the rights of residency have been abused to get suicide bombers into Israel More...

Ehud Ya'ari: Demolish for Peace
The goal should be a plan to utilize the evacuated areas of Gaza for the construction of high-rise apartment blocks More...

Stuart Schoffman: Healing from Zion
My wife returned with news of an Israeli rabbi who had made a blind man see More...

David Horovitz: The Pregnancy Test
My sister-in-law visited from Manhattan recently. More...

Hirsh Goodman: On Top of Everything Else
Sharansky is entitled to be a nationalist and right-wing. More...

Gershom Gorenberg: Return to Hawara
An Israeli flag waves over the main junction between Nablus and the village of Hawara, and Palestinian cars clog at the army checkpoint. More...

David Horovitz: The Elephant and the Gavel
It was abstract in the extreme. More...

Hirsh Goodman: Is The War Over?
This conflict is not about who is militarily stronger. More...

Ehud Ya'ari: Slowing Down
The 300-400 intifada operatives still on the loose spend most of their time in the pursuit of safe refuge More...

David Horovitz: Making Withdrawal Even Tougher
Immediately after the cabinet approved his revised plan for disengagement from Gaza, Ariel Sharon addressed thousands of visitors to Israel at a gala Birthright event in Jerusalem. More...

Hirsh Goodman: A Historic Decision
People are stunned that it is Ariel Sharon, of all people, who is pulling his creations up. More...

Ehud Ya'ari: Handle with Care
Every incident in Gaza could fuel a crisis between Cairo and Jerusalem More...

David Horovitz: Creative Thinking
Proximity is power. More...

Hirsh Goodman: Beneath It All
The army is seriously considering turning Rafah into Venice More...

Ehud Ya'ari: Dreams across the River
The �Jordanian option� is no longer a dirty phrase in the Palestinian lexicon More...

Stuart Schoffman: Ethics of My Father
On Purim I went to visit my parents in their Jerusalem apartment. More...

David Horovitz: Ask All the People
If Sharon pushes on regardless of the Likud vote, he will invite a campaign of deligitimization, with potentially devastating consequences for all of us. More...

Hirsh Goodman: The Disengagement Party
It is perhaps better that the Likud membership did not vote for pulling out of Gaza More...

Ehud Ya'ari: Not So Fast
There�s a growing rumble from among the American officials in Iraq and from the ranks of the U.S. More...

Hirsh Goodman: Still Baffled over Vanunu
He took dozens of photos with an old Yashica camera, large, noisy and not easy to hide More...

Ehud Ya'ari: �Gated Community�
The Gaza population will still be pinned within a tight Israeli grip More...

Stuart Schoffman: A Measure of Kindness
From the standpoint of Jewish ritual, the seven springtime weeks between the festivals of Passover and Shavuot are a time of sadness. More...

Judy Maltz: Bibi�s Bonus
Netanyahu�s new tax cut has some unintended benefits. More...

David Horovitz: Learning From Lockerbie
Back in December 1988, in the days when we could still afford to remain protractedly outraged by what were then relatively intermittent acts of mass terrorism, Pan Am Flight 103 was blown up over Lockerbie, Scotland, and 270 people were killed. More...

Hirsh Goodman: Happy Independence Day, Despite It All
Living in Israel makes it almost impossible to write about Israel More...

David Horovitz: But Was It Wise?
Switching on the television late at night, my first response was gut-wrenching fear. More...

Ehud Ya'ari: Keep the Gloves Off
What was the case on the eve of the Yassin assassination is much more true now: Hamas will murder as many Israelis as it can More...

Stuart Schoffman: Under the Banner of Heaven
On flag day in 1954 -- June 14, in the US civic calendar -- President Dwight D Eisenhower signed into law an alteration of the Pledge of Allegiance, adding the words "under God" to the patriotic mantra that every American knows in his sleep. More...

David Horovitz: As the Walls Close In
The Palestinians call it the "Apartheid Wall," and many the world over dutifully echo the description. More...

Ehud Ya'ari: The Eastern Border
The settler lobby is dragging far behind events, perhaps because its leaders haven�t grasped that Sharon is changing the rules of the game More...

Gershom Gorenberg: Sharon�s Bulldozers, Then and Now
On an overheated afternoon, I drive a country road through the wheat fields and orchards of the northern Negev to Kibbutz Nir Oz, tucked in the corner of Israel that borders the Gaza Strip on one side and Egypt on another. More...

Ehud Ya'ari: Get It Right This Time
The Israeli prime minister surprised Washington unnecessarily More...

Judy Maltz: Bank Shots
The little guy is the banks� main cash cow. More...

David Horovitz: Steering Blind
We so want to believe that he has a vision. More...

Ehud Ya'ari: The Road to Katif
Without Arafat, nothing will move. More...

Gershom Gorenberg: Fundamentalism on Film
Benny Elon -- Israeli tourism minister and head of the far-right Moledet party -- has an excruciating sense of timing. More...

David Horovitz: A Baffling Exchange, or Worse
I have lost count of the number of people abroad who have called or written to me these past few days, baffled by the lopsided Israel-Hizballah prisoner deal, assuming that distance is fueling their incomprehension, and seeking enlightenment. More...

Ehud Ya'ari: It�s Not So Bad
Contrary to the flood of exaggerations on the nervous op-ed pages of the Israeli press, Hizballah did not come out of this prisoner exchange deal crowned with roses. More...

Stuart Schoffman: Regime Change
The situation grows desperate. More...

David Horovitz: Park Your Caravans Elsewhere, the Envoy Says
Her majesty's ambassador, a black-haired, ivory-toothed, square-jawed Clark Kent of an envoy, has a message for Israel�s new unilateralists. More...

Ehud Ya'ari: Marking Time, Regressively
Arafat sees chaos as the ultimate answer to Israel�s threat of unilateralism More...

Gershom Gorenberg: Dump Bush, Help Israel
Four more years of Bush�s �support� will be ruinous for Israel More...

David Horovitz: A Strategy for Disengagement
Ariel Sharon is promising, first, to remove all the illegal outposts on dozens of hilltops and clearings across the West Bank -- outposts his own government has hitherto often facilitated (using state funds to pave roads, supply electricity and install telephone lines). More...

Hirsh Goodman: Get Smart
If a child is not getting an education at home or through private tutors, he or she will get little education at all More...

Ehud Ya'ari: Why There, and Not Here?
Iraq is still a promising investment from the U.S. More...

Stuart Schoffman: Going South
Three flashes of good news, as we sail into 2004: A team of adventurers, four Israelis and four Palestinians, with the blessing of the Dalai Lama, Kofi Annan and Shimon Peres, embarked on a journey to the end of the earth in search of peace, crossing the treacherous Drake Passage from southern Chile to Antarctica. More...

David Horovitz: Qadhafi or Saddam
In the space of just five days, we saw the tramp Saddam captured in his pit and learned that the outcast Col. More...

Hirsh Goodman: A Quiet Earthquake
I was recently at a meeting in Washington attended by Palestinians and Israelis, including ministers from both sides. More...

Gershom Gorenberg: Legacy of the Kiosk Caper
I�d like to tell an incident from Israeli history. More...

Ehud Ya'ari: An Offer in Disguise
A thorough examination of Prime Minister Sharon�s Herzliyah speech leads to one significant conclusion: Sharon is ready to remove settlements -- not just illegal outposts -- as an early step in the context of implementing the road map. More...

David Horovitz: Dr. Olmert�s Diagnosis
Ehud Olmert, the deputy prime minister, former mayor of Jerusalem and hitherto staunch defender of the Greater Israel dream, has undergone a metamorphosis. More...

Ehud Ya'ari: The Northern Slippery Slope
Bashar al-Asad has, it seems, come to the conclusion that he doesn�t want to get into a military confrontation with Israel. More...

David Horovitz: Intolerable Complacency
President Bush devoted lengthy passages in the major speech of his late-November London visit to the crimes and failings of the Palestinians and their leadership. More...

Ehud Ya'ari: �Shabbat Shalom, Dirty Jews�
Only now, after the suicide bombing scare has spread with a vengeance to Muslim countries, has a relevant, focused and urgent debate about the phenomenon gotten under way in the region. More...

Judy Maltz: Formula for Tragedy
The 30th anniversary of the Yom Kippur War prompted some heavy-duty soul-searching and revived old debates about how and if this terrible tragedy could have been avoided. More...

David Horovitz: Not Just Anti-Semitism
Back in 1978, when Michael Howard, a brilliant Cambridge graduate and lawyer, was seeking a seat in the House of Commons, he found himself repeatedly rejected as a Conservative candidate. More...

Hirsh Goodman: A Look in the Mirror
I know a number of our very wealthy brethren who have spent a lot of money on trying to improve Israel�s image as this war with the Palestinians grinds on. More...

Ehud Ya'ari: Pipe Dreams
In the corridors of power in Jerusalem, people are huddling over what could be described as the "Idi Amin scenario." That is, the possibility that Yasser Arafat, under heavy pressure from his Arab colleagues -- President Mubarak, Crown Prince Abdullah and co. More...

Stuart Schoffman: Uncomfortable Positions
On the day after Rabin's yahrzeit -- the eighth anniversary of his murder -- I found myself in a sunny apartment not far from the Old City, at a meeting of peace activists, most of us Jewish. More...

David Horovitz: The Travails of a Rejected Politician
How frustrating it must have been these past three years to be Yossi Beilin. More...

Hirsh Goodman: Amir's Curse
A shadow fell on Israel on November 4, 1995, the day Yigal Amir shot and killed prime minister Yitzhak Rabin. More...

Gershom Gorenberg: Prefer Peace to the Temple Mount
One might think the Geneva accord is the formula for a pyschedelic drug rather than a model for Israeli-Palestinian peace: It produces hallucinatory reactions in its opponents. More...

Ehud Ya'ari: The Hamas-Jihad Axis
The Palestinian Islamic terror organizations are changing both pace and direction. More...

David Horovitz: Sharon Loses Israel
For more than two years -- through his first term as prime minister, and into his second -- Ariel Sharon led the national consensus. More...

Hirsh Goodman: Cries in the Dark
Oh, no - not Yossi Beilin again. More...

David Horovitz: He�s Winning
Deportation, if not execution, is looming. More...

Hirsh Goodman: Message from Above
On the even of Rosh Hashanah, Yediot Aharonot, the country�s largest-selling newspaper, had two messages for its readers: that 27 pilots had signed a letter to the air force commander that essentially accused the Israel Air Force of war crimes and were refusing to serve in missions over the occupied territories, and that 72 percent of Israelis do not believe that the country�s youngsters have a future here. More...

Ehud Ya'ari: Meet Abu Ala
Ahmed Qurei, or as he is better known, Abu Ala, is the PLO�s ultimate smart operator. More...

David Horovitz: Don�t Avenge Us, Protect Us
Have we become like two weary fighters, neither prepared to back down, locked in a battle to the death? More...

Hirsh Goodman: A Harmful Illusion
If you want to witness madness, take yourself on a tour of the security fence now being built around Jerusalem. More...

Ehud Ya'ari: It�s Either with Him -- or without Him
The extended effort to bring about the political castration of Yasser Arafat has ended in failure. More...

Stuart Schoffman: Close to Home
A Tuesday night in early September. More...

David Horovitz: Give Them All an F
There's no assembly hall and only a tiny gymnasium at the Jerusalem elementary school that all three of my children attend. More...

Hirsh Goodman: Gosh! We Have a Problem
The Orr Commission of inquiry into the events that surrounded the killing of 13 Israeli Arab citizens during demonstrations in October 2000 took almost three years to present its report. More...

Ehud Ya'ari: Counterattack
Yasser Arafat has completed his defensive phase -- successfully in his view -- and has now moved to the counterattack. More...

David Horovitz: In a Land Too Near Chelm
Jerusalem Report Editorial Assistant Yael Kliers has just published a slim volume of stories from Chelm, retelling the familiar tales of self-defeating silliness from the mythical Jewish town whose elders contrived ever more absurd schemes for rendering straightforward tasks impossible. More...

Stuart Schoffman: Rejoicing with Rafaela
On the mid-summer shabbat following the fast day of Tisha Be�av, Jews the world over chant the 40th chapter of the Book of Isaiah, in which the prophet offers consolation in the aftermath of destruction. More...

David Horovitz: Happy �Hudna�?
We haven't seen the center of Jerusalem like this for, well, almost three years: Stores on and around the Ben-Yehuda pedestrian mall with lines at the cash registers, tables laid out and occupied all over the lawn at the downtown oasis that is the Anna Ticho House restaurant, security guards everywhere waving people past with only the most lackadaisical inspection of their bags and their waistlines. More...

Hirsh Goodman: The Silence of the Lambs
All in all, things do not seem to be going well for Sharon. More...

David Horovitz: Ilan Ramon�s Vital Perspective
At the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, where the doomed space shuttle Columbia lifted off on January 16, forklifts and cranes are putting in place the final panels of a large outdoor memorial to the seven crew members, including Israel�s first astronaut, Ilan Ramon. More...

Hirsh Goodman: Time to Take a Bow
Now Arafat should let go, and allow others to transform the fruits of his war into a better future for his people More...

Ehud Ya'ari: Syria�s Silent Earthquake
In the weeks that have passed since the war in Iraq, the illusion of domestic stability has been flowing out of Syria More...

Gershom Gorenberg: Anti-Family Values
The bill would single out Palestinians as ineligible to join their Israeli spouses More...

David Horovitz: Don�t Open the Champagne Yet
When enemies ideologically committed to your destruction announce a halt to years of premeditatedly killing your civilians, it is wise to carefully examine what they are saying before beginning the victory celebrations. More...

Ehud Ya'ari: It�s Over
The Palestinian leaders recognize that the violent enterprise has failed More...

Hirsh Goodman: Boom Baby Boom
At the US Consul General's 4th of July party in Jerusalem the other night, a Palestinian friend came up and asked me whether I had heard that the Palestinian population in the occupied territories had risen by 9 percent over the past two years, the highest growth rate in the world after the Negev Beduin. More...

David Horovitz: The Glass Half Full
It is enormously seductive to comport with kings and queens and princes and ministers. More...

Hirsh Goodman: Civil War, Uncivil Behavior
If Lieberman was making a threat, Sharon should fire him and the attorney general should charge him with sedition More...

Stuart Schoffman: The Circumcision Monologues
�Why Jews Are Cooler Than They Seem�: Ten Executive Snippets More...

David Horovitz: As the Pastoral Memories of Aqaba Fade
To a Rip van Winkle, it would have seemed so encouraging. More...

Hirsh Goodman: Sharon the Unspontaneous
Some people wonder if Prime Minister Ariel Sharon will be able to outflank those in the Likud who oppose the idea of even a provisional Palestinian state and who want to bring him down. More...

Ehud Ya'ari: Riding Low
On home turf, Abu Mazen found himself beaten and bruised, stuttering and biting his tongue More...

David Horovitz: Lobbying, and Its Limits
On stands arrayed across the front of the hall, posters advertised forthcoming missions to Israel. More...

Hirsh Goodman: My Yiddishe Brother
�Reform!� he said, spitting on the ground as he said it. More...

Ehud Ya'ari: Yes Now, Buts Later
The price demanded from Israel in return for an end to the intifada is not particularly high in the opening stage More...

David Horovitz: Goodbye, Mitzna. Goodbye, Labor?
So farewell, then, to the sad-eyed Amram Mitzna, a decent man who would have us believe he was undone by the absence of others of similar integrity in the Labor party. More...

Hirsh Goodman: Boss Sharon
Those in power become more powerful and they can do whatever they want with impunity More...

Ehud Ya'ari: The Baghdad Effect
Asad�s fiery speeches condemning any settlement with Israel have suddenly been forgotten More...

David Horovitz: By Their Tourist Sites You Shall Know Them
And as it marked its 55th year of independence, a new Israel was born. More...

Hirsh Goodman: A �Nebechdik� Race
The paucity of candidates to run the world�s most sensitive city is astonishing More...

Ehud Ya'ari: The Small White Hope
Arafat has not been relegatedto irrelevancy. More...

David Horovitz: Thinking the Unthinkable
The Iranian nuclear program may now have passed the point of no return, shifting the balance of power to Israel�s enormous disadvantage More...

Ehud Ya'ari: A Pesah Miracle
The fall of Saddam Hussein has far-reaching strategic implications for Israel. More...

Gershom Gorenberg: Where the Free Market Flunks
But the university should fight for the idea that our society needs some riches whose value can never be measured by the market More...

David Horovitz: Hoping for a More Peaceful Pesah
The security guard, a tall, long-haired woman in her early 20s, places herself firmly in my path as I enter the hotel, and asks me two or three questions before establishing that I�m no threat and letting me pass. It is a quiet afternoon and there�s nobody in the lobby. More...

Hirsh Goodman: 'In-bedding'
The American military's media policy of "embedding" journalists into its forces is ingenious. In the 1991 Gulf War, the Pentagon was criticized for hiding the world�s finest army from its people and the world and for not having documented one of the momentous tank battles in history, the allied routing of the Iraqis in the 1991 battle for Kuwait. More...

Ehud Ya'ari: Where Have All the Flowers Gone?
There is no longer any best-case scenario for this war; that illusion is already behind us More...

Stuart Schoffman: The Memory of Egypt
You remember the old joke about two European Jews on a train in the 1930s: One is reading a Yiddish paper, the other is reading Der St�rmer. First Jew says, what are you reading that Nazi rag for? More...

David Horovitz: Meanwhile, in Iran...
It was a shaken and garrulous Carlos Menem who welcomed The Report�s Argentinian-born staff photographer Esteban Alterman and me to his spacious presidential office in Buenos Aires in August 1994, a month after a huge bomb had torn apart his country�s main Jewish community offices, with the deaths of 85 people. More...

Hirsh Goodman: On the Firing Line
Psychologically, Israel would have preferred not to be in the space it was in as the countdown neared zero More...

David Horovitz: Ejected
If January's elections panned out much as predicted, the coalition that has now emerged to govern Israel came out of left field. More...

Hirsh Goodman: On Hope
It is possible that Ariel Sharon's new cabinet can redefine Israel. More...

Ehud Ya'ari: Mahdi Now
In the quiet, internal dialogue the Arab world holds with itself, usually away from the newspaper headlines and the TV screens, a new and interesting phenomenon has come to the fore in recent weeks: A revival of the belief that the messiah -- or the Mahdi, in the Islamic version -- is waiting right around the corner. More...

David Horovitz: The Highest Stakes
"Get back to Israel fast," a friend from Jerusalem quipped on the phone to Chicago, where I was on a brief trip in mid-February. More...

Hirsh Goodman: Danger: Big Spender
Sharon cannot be allowed to solve the country�s economic problems by emptying the country�s last line of fiscal defense, its reserves More...