Essays and Opeds — 2006-2008

2008

  1. “Bad Timing: B’tselem and the Durban Conference” – Jewish Week, December 30 2008
  2. “No Good Options” – Bitterlemons.org, December 22 2008
  3. “Arab Peace or Durban War?” – Jerusalem Post, November 25 2008
  4. “Double Standards and the Other ‘Occupations’” – Canadian Jewish News, November 7 2008
  5. “Elections to Test Israeli Pragmatism” – October 28 2008″
  6. “Jerusalem Terror, Predicable ‘Spontaneity’” CJN October 10 2008
  7. US Congress joins fight on Durban II“, Jerusalem Post, October 5, 2008
  8. Some Reasons to be Hopeful – 5769” September 26, 2008
  9. “A Letter To Bob Rae” – Canadian Jewish News, September 11 2008
  10. “Power, gravity and the state of nature”, Jerusalem Post, August 13, 2008
  11. “Bush Recognizes Opportunity” – Ynetnews.com (English translation from Yediot Ahronot), July 23 2008
  12. “Obama Reconsidered: An Israeli View” – Jewish Week, July 23 2008
  13. “NGO Black Hole in the Foreign Ministry” – Jerusalem Post, July 8 2008
  14. “Analysis: Terror’s Predictable Spontaneity” – Jerusalem Post, July 3 2008
  15. “Olmert’s Best Chance” – Bitterlemons.org, June 30 2008
  16. “Funding Israel’s Detractors” – Wall Street Journal Europe, May 6 2008
  17. “60 Years on the Map” – Jerusalem Post, May 5 2008
  18. “Is Canada Funding ‘Human Insecurity’?” – Canadian Jewish News, April 17 2008
  19. “Durban 2009: Will the NGOs Join Canada?” – Canadian Jewish News, March 20 2008
  20. “Watching Human Rights” – International Herald Tribune, March 8/9 2008
  21. “Occupying Gaza, Again” – Canadian Jewish News, February 2008
  22. “Overselling Peace Hopes, Again” – Canadian Jewish News, January 24 2008
  23. “Antisemitism and the Propaganda War in Gaza” – March 3 2008
  24. “The Bush Visit and Tensions in the U.S.-Israel Relationship” – Jerusalem Issue Brief, Vol. 7 No. 27, January 7 2008

2007

  1. “A Jewish State” – Canadian Jewish News, December 20 2007
  2. “Righting Rights Wrongs” – National Review Online (revised and extended version of article published in the Jerusalem Post), December 10 2007
  3. “From defenders to defamers” – Jerusalem Post, December 9 2007
  4. “Decoding the U.S. National Intelligence Estimate on Iran’s Nuclear Weapons Program” – Jerusalem Issue Brief, Vol. 7 No. 24, December 5 2007
  5. “Annapolis: Guide for the Perplexed” – Themedialine.org, November 21 2007
  6. “Why Are the IAEA and Dr. Mohammed El-Baradei Protecting Iran?” – Jerusalem Issue Brief, Vol. 7 No. 19, November 4 2007
  7. “Ignoring Burma” – Washington Times, October 2 2007
  8. “Israeli Politics: What’s next?” – Canadian Jewish News, September 26 2007
  9. “HRW’s damage can’t be undone” – Jerusalem Post, September 6 2007
  10. “Europe to host NGO attack on Israel” – Jerusalem Post, August 23 2007
  11. “Peace castles in the air?” – Bitterlemons.org, Palestinian-Israeli Crossfire (Edition 30), August 13 2007
  12. “It’s time for a debate on the New Israel Fund” – Canadian Jewish News (page 10), August 2 2007
  13. “One Step Forward?” – New York Sun, July 9 2007 (For an expanded version click here)
  14. “Britain’s obsessive boycotters” – Jerusalem Post, May 30 2007
  15. “Scrutinize Amnesty International” – New York Sun, May 23 2007
  16. “Anti-Israel boycotts: A British disease” – Jewish Week, May 18 2007
  17. “Where Europe fails” – Jerusalem Post, May 9 2007
  18. “Abusing the Holocaust” – Jerusalem Post, April 14 2007
  19. “Watching the Watchers, Part Two” – New York Sun, March 20 2007
  20. “Weak leaders and no common ground” – Bitterlemons.org, Palestinian-Israeli Crossfire (Edition 11), March 19 2007
  21. “Avoid the ‘grand solution’ temptation” – Jerusalem Post, March 15 2007
  22. “Reining in CIDA’s radicals” – Canadian Jewish News, March 8 2007
  23. “Manipulating ‘civil society’” – Jerusalem Post, February 1 2007
  24. “The next Zionist revolution” – Jerusalem Post, January 28 2007
  25. “A realistic strategy for peace” – Jerusalem Post, January 6 2007

2006

  1. “There couldn’t be a more perfect time” – Jerusalem Post, December 10 2006
  2. “Still ‘third world’ after all these years” – Jerusalem Post, November 19 2006
  3. “The Source of Ignatieff’s Myths” – Canadian Jewish News, November 9 2006
  4. “Getting beyond slogans of Palestinian victimization” – Jerusalem Post, November 5 2006
  5. “Ken Roth’s Blood Libel domestic politics after the war” – Jerusalem Post, August 24 2006
  6. “Israeli disengagement frozen; de facto Palestinian trusteeship: Analysis of Israeli domestic politics after the war” – Bitterlemons.org, August 7 2006
  7. “Is a Sustainable Cease-Fire in Lebanon Realistic? If Not, What is the Alternative?” – Jerusalem Issue Brief, Vol. 6 No. 5, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, July 30 2006
  8. “NGOs that Take Sides” – Jerusalem Post, July 30 2006
  9. “Europe’s Disproportionate Criticism” – Wall Street Journal, July 17 2006
  10. “Can the G8 succeed where the UN failed?” – Jerusalem Post, July 16 2006
  11. “Return to Gaza: Disengagement has failed” – National Post (Canada), June 29 2006
  12. “Gaza beach – when politics trumps human rights” – Onlineopinion.com, June 23 2006
  13. “Anti-Israel obsessions” – Canadian Jewish News, June 15 2006
  14. “Why ‘this night’ is still different” – Jerusalem Post, April 9 2006