Israeli diplomacy Archives - David M. Weinberg

Time for Israel to get tough

May 6, 2022

My Buby (grandmother) taught me that Jews should never be a “shmatte,” a dishrag; never allow others to treat Jews like dirt. That truism certainly applies to the modern, sovereign state of the Jews, the State of Israel. Other countries can legitimately disagree with policies promulgated in Jerusalem, but the leaders of this country must never allow others to treat Israel as dross....

Plenty to give thanks for. Dayenu!

April 15, 2022

A Passover eve celebration of Israel’s blessings. In grand perspective, see how many benefits and blessings the Heavens have showered upon Israel! It enjoys a strong economy, coronavirus and political stability (at least for the past year), diplomatic and security heft, renewed Aliyah, national resilience that stems from faith, and global Jewish support.

Beware Turkish wolves in sheep’s clothing

March 10, 2022

Erdogan needs to be handled cautiously and, yes, respectfully. He also needs to be cut down to size.

Selling out to Iran is ghastlier than bowing to Putin

February 25, 2022

Allowing Iran to march merrily forward with its nuclear bomb and ballistic missile programs and its hegemonic regional ambitions is an even worse threat to world security than the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and certainly to Israel’s security.

INSS misses the mark

January 28, 2022

The Strategic Survey for Israel 2022 published this week by the Institute for Strategic Studies (INSS) misses the mark. Where is the Zionist fervor to upgrade Israel’s security situation by taking the offensive against our enemies?

Israeli medical humanitarianism is under-appreciated

January 21, 2022

Israel gets almost no international credit for its many humanitarian medical activities. And Palestinian leaders get the best medical care in Israel even though they constantly issue the most bloodcurdling libels about Israeli “apartheid.”

My crystal ball for Israel in 2022

January 14, 2022

Looking ahead, this is what I see: A rotten nuclear deal with Iran, conflict with Hamas and Hezbollah, government stability but stagnation, and despite it all – a banner economic year for Israel.

There is no diplomatic tsunami

January 7, 2022

The specter of Israel’s sequestration and boycott by the world is exaggerated, often purposefully so by the Israeli Left. This includes FM Yair Lapid, who this week warned that Israel had better open a diplomatic dialogue with the Palestinians, otherwise the threat of Israel being designated an “apartheid state” will grow severe. You would think that BDS and lawfare are greater “threats” than, say, the Biden administration’s capitulation to Iran on the nuclear issue!

Misplaced global priorities

November 5, 2021

What is truly more urgent: Curbing greenhouse gas emissions or quashing Iran’s nuclear bomb drive?

Bennett’s scorecard is shipshape

October 1, 2021

For the moment, the Bennett-Lapid government seems to answer the desire of many Israelis for leadership that is neither radical left nor radical right, neither anti-religious nor obnoxiously religious-coercive, neither feeble nor fierce. And it has six real achievements so far.

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