Happy Independence Day: A Letter from the Prime Minister of Israel to the President of the Palestinian Authority

If I were Prime Minister of Israel, which of course I’m not, this is what I would write to Mahmoud Abbas, President of the Palestinian Authority. Dear President Abbas: Next week, we will hold Yom HaZikaron, Memorial Day for our Dead, of all these wars, and the day after, we will celebrate Yom HaAtzmanut, Independence Day. [...]

Israel: Land of the Silent Majority: Part 1

Israel:  Land of the Silent Majority: Part 1 by Erin Solaro In any human endeavor, the standard is not perfection.  The standard is the alternative. Not just, what should you do, but what else can you, might you do?  And what else might others, similarly situated, do . . . or threaten to do? The [...]

America, Israel and Russia

America, Israel and Russia by Erin Solaro Genuine decadence is not the refusal to meet previous, and often putative, standards of excellence, but the refusal to do the things necessary to survive. By that standard, Russia is not decadent, it is enormously serious about its survival, at times far too much so in the past, [...]