The EU has been the deepest honey-pot the Palestinians could ever hope for. It has poured good money down the drain, and bankrolled extremism and obstructionism.

There is little doubt that Palestinian authorities are assaulting the Temple Mount and other antiquities in the West Bank so as to erase any vestige of archaeological evidence for Jewish (and Christian) history.

Perhaps the Shalit deal, albeit risky and humiliating, will move us into a new period of tactical and mutually-beneficial understanding with Hamas.

How can a Jew fulfil the religious obligation of joy and prayer before God with terrorist lulavs from Gaza?

The Palestinians are far from being “ready” for statehood for reasons ranging from impotency to insolvency, and from maximalist expansionism to raw anti-Semitism.

The Palestinian Authority president blew his last chance to prove he is a moderate, compromise-seeking leader.

By ignoring Israel’s concessions for peace while treating the Palestinians like a spoiled child, the world is pushing off the chances for peace.

Obama just commanded Israel to facilitate a 1967-borders-state for the Palestinians including Hamas – without an end-of-conflict situation for Israel.

There are many severe and game-changing security/diplomatic implications for Israel of a Hamas-Fatah unity accord.

The Mavi Marmara still docks in Ashdod, and other ships are on the way from Iran and Lebanon to similarly challenge Israel. Israel may yet end up with a flotilla of “humanitarian attack” craft. What are we going to do with all these boats? Here are ten things Israel could usefully do with the first, trailblazing terrorist trawler.