The bold re-jiggering of the Israeli political map can only be explained as preparation for tackling the biggest of all challenges: the Iranian nuclear threat.

We already have a reasonable Israeli government that represents what most of the public wants and what is realistically attainable, and the margins for significant policy change are slim.
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Israel is guided by an astral calculus that is not always perceptible. This explains why we sometimes stubbornly refuse to recognize the rational calculations of diplomatic cost and benefit – calculations politely impressed on us by well-meaning allies.

Abbas would be better off not threatening us with his own demise. Israel can manage without him and his Palestinian “authority.”

In a deliberate American campaign to scuttle any planned Israeli hit on Iran, the Obama administration is leaking classified intelligence assessments and documents that rip deep into Israel’s most sensitive military zones.

The cold peace gets even colder. And the Mediterranean basin is in danger of becoming an Islamic sea. Time to rebuild Israel’s defenses in the south.

National responsibility demands that Shaul Mofaz and Avi Dicter take Kadima into Netanyahu’s coalition government, and the sooner the better.

The ideological hate of the left-wing for settlers and settlements is in full view this week. Tearing down an icon of the Yesha Council –is what the current campaign is all about.

Livni may win the Kadima party leadership vote, but the party will rupture, and the Mofaz-Dicter combo will have the political upper hand.

Noam Schalit outrageously tells us that if he were Palestinian he too would try to kidnap IDF soldiers. Time to tell him: clam up! Our patience has run out on the elder Mr. Schalit’s insensitive and tendentious statements.