The peace negotiation process as set out in the Oslo Accords was intended to lead to peace between Israel and the Palestinian People and mutual recognition of each other’s "mutual legitimate and political rights" (Preamble, Oslo I and Oslo II)

Unlike then-Foreign Minister Shimon Peres, Rabin's longtime nemesis, Rabin was not so much a peacenik as a leader who had been beaten down by the beautiful people and international pressure. His response was to drink the Kool-Aid and go for the Nobel Prize. The only thing that must have put a damper on his pact with the devil was to have to share this Holy Grail with Peres and Arafat, to whom he also had an aversion.

Rather than acknowledging that Netanyahu has served more terms as prime minister than any other Israeli politician precisely because the electorate keeps being mugged by the reality that no Palestinian leader will accept the Jewish state, the peace camp directs its vitriol at Israeli realists.

Instead of waking up to the fact that Rabin was wrong -- and that the repercussions of the Oslo process continue to drip blood -- they hold on to his "legacy" for dear life. When fewer people turn up at rallies on his behalf, the Left says that Amir not only killed Rabin but also slaughtered the "peace process," and that the Right has prevailed.

Funny how they never fault the actual killers of the possibility for peace.

Europeans cannot live with their past. They cannot live with their present, and do not plan to have a future, for they do not bear enough children to forestall demographic ruin at the hundred-year horizon. With its high fertility, national spirit, religiosity and unabashed national self-assertion, Israel reminds the Europeans of everything that they are not. Much worse: it reminds them of what they once desired to become.

Special JPost interview with PM Netanyahu: ‘Who turned out to be right?’

Surprisingly buoyant, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu sits down with ‘the Post’ and extols policy-making based on looking at the region as it truly is, without wishful thinking.

Having now spent nearly nine years as prime minister, without a serious political challenger anywhere on the horizon, Netanyahu is a man who feels not only confident, but vindicated. He is looking out at the world with a barely suppressible I-told-you-so attitude.

Netanyahu is a leader who feels he has correctly predicted the future, often going very much against the grain to do so.

את תפקידו המסורתי של הימין קיצוני כמעורר פרובוקציות, תפס בימים האחרונים דווקא השמאל הרדיקלי: "תגובתו חושפת את חוסר היושר האינטלקטואלי המאפיין אותו. היושר להכיר במציאות התרבותית במזרח התיכון ובמאפייני הכוחות הפועלים בזירה"

This is a common sentiment among many commentators today: Obama ‘doesn’t care about foreign policy’.  However, a closer look at his presidency would reveal quite the opposite.   Obama cares more about foreign policy than anything else, so long as it relates to Israel.  This focus of his on Israel, moreover, is hardly benign; here too, it is quite the opposite.  Indeed, this writer would submit that Obama’s intention to weaken our ally, Israel, is the central feature of his presidency.

Early in 1940, the Brits came up with an incredible invention...

HAPPY 66th BIRTHDAY, ISRAEL. WHAT PRESENTS ARE YOU GETTING?