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Daniel Pipes

The positive implications of Israeli Muslims recognizing the Jewish state override coalition-building.
Each hinterland fights for its cause. Each provides diplomatic support, financial aid and armaments.
The conflict with the Palestinians has changed the IDF into a police force with a defensive mentality viewing stability as a goal in itself.
Amman does not go so far as to deny any Jewish connection, but it, too, makes a hash of history.
What would Ben-Gurion do?
The founding father and first prime minister of Israel would reject paying a probably massive price for self-indulgent symbolism.
I hardly expected my article to arouse high emotions. It deals with a tactical issue distant from philosophical foundations, principles or ideology.
Ron Huldai’s autocratic reaction to an Israel Victory Project ad campaign is yet another demonstration of Israel’s die-hard left increasingly relying on police methods as it continues to decline.
Negotiations, mediation, compromise, concessions and other gentle means have replaced victory as an Israeli goal.
Unofficial reports, which have been slammed by the White House as misleading, suggest the plan repeats the great miscalculation of traditional Palestinian-Israeli diplomacy: asking too little of Arabs and too much of Israelis.