settlements Archives - David M. Weinberg

Just who is pogroming whom?

March 3, 2023

Compared to the ongoing Palestinian terrorist mega-pogrom against Israeli Jews, the Huwara rampage must rank as one the weakest pogroms in the ugly history of pogroms. So where is the anguish over Israeli Jews continuously murdered by Palestinian terrorists?

Israel’s best response to Palestinian terror is more settlements

February 17, 2023

Fight fire with fire. The terrorists want to chase Israel off this land; in response, Israel should lay stakes on more land each time they fire a shot.

Radicals with “Ben-Gvir-Phobia” purposefully seek to crash Israel’s diplomatic relations

November 11, 2022

I am less concerned about the direction of the emerging new government than I am about the hysterical reactions to the possible government by foreign and hard-left observers. People like Tom Friedman and Asa Kasher swiftly grab the opportunity to declare Israel a lost cause, and seem only-too-happy to jettison their associations with Israel and Judaism.

Why bother?

June 10, 2022

President Biden should not come to the Mideast without a useful agenda that includes truly confronting Iran.

‘Settler violence’ is isolated, Palestinian violence is daily

February 4, 2022

A focus on isolated settler violence obscures the far greater violence perpetrated in the West Bank every single day by extremist Palestinians against non-violent Israelis.

Myths about Sovereignty Assertion

July 3, 2020

Critics say attaining sovereignty will undermine the peace process and ruin Israel's reputation abroad, but these myths do not hold up to scrutiny.

Curb the imperious Supreme Court

June 12, 2020

“Reasonableness” is authoritarian jargon which allows Israeli justices to substitute their own sensibilities for law and government decision-making. Time to legislate limits on the High Court’s reach; or at the very least, enact an override provision.

Scaremongering about sovereignty

May 28, 2020

The sky will not fall in if Israeli law is applied to settlements and security zones.

Henry Siegman’s Israel Problem

February 9, 2003

Out to save Israel from itself, no amount of Palestinian malfeasance and corruption really bothers Siegman.

Tom Friedman’s Settlement Obsession

June 9, 2002

For at least a decade, the eminent New York Times columnist, the maharishi of Mideast punditry, has relentlessly pushed the canard that settlements are a main obstacle to Mideast peace. Why?

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