Articles by Elyakim Haetzni

• November Harvest This year in particular, there was significance to the proximity of Holocaust Remembrance Day to the celebrations of Independence Day. The prime minister of Israel -- the Israel that's been likened to the phoenix rising from the ashes of the Holocaust -- met on the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day with the leader of the Palestinians whose doctoral thesis asserts the double claim of Holocaust denial and blaming Zionism for the Nazi persecution of the Jews.

• The Last Zionists, Israelis should embrace Christian supporters instead of shunning them

• The Peace that Oslo Wrought "Diplomatic solutions" have created only hatred.

• 11 Palestinian Plagues The price tag of 'peace' and creation of Palestinian state is too high

• Now legal experts and politicians are having regrets:... Now legal experts and politicians are having regrets:  Why did we boycott the proceedings of the International Court of Justice at The Hague, why didn't we take advantage of our right as a State, to ensconce one of our judges on the tribunal, why did we abandon the forum to the Arabs?  But these questions are merely formal.  The material question is, what would have been our argument had we appeared there?  What would our judge have written?  To this question the Israeli establishment has no answer.  And thus, the nation with the highest claim to justice in the world is acting like someone who "has no case"!

• Not much time… Today is the 16th of June. The government decision that left the people of Israel nine months to temper the evil decree was on the sixth of June. That means that the period of grace has already been shortened by ten days. What have we done in that time to save ourselves from catastrophe?

• FIGHT THIS INSANITY During the Oslo period, when it was so difficult for anyone with common sense to understand the madness that was raging all around us, I managed to maintain my sanity by performing a simple exercise: I imagined that it is all taking place in the closed ward of a mental hospital, of an asylum for the criminally insane. With this assumption in place, the picture became crystal clear.

• Jewish Army cleanses Jews from Judea Unfortunately, Israel has not paid due attention to a statement made by Dr. Condoleezza Rice some time ago, according to which the "nation-building" of "Palestine" is part of a pattern. In this context, Dr. Rice noted Bosnia and Afghanistan. Today, she could add Iraq as well.     What Dr. Rice did not mention was another feature common to all nation-building endeavors, namely the application of military force to make such efforts possible: In Bosnia/Kosovo, NATO forces bombed Serbia into submission; in Afghanistan and Iraq, American troops beat the Taliban and Saddam Hussein's respective regimes to the ground.

• A Plan We have no intentions to propose a solution to the struggle between Jews and Arabs over life and dominion in the Land of Israel . Proposed paper solutions were either consigned by time to oblivion while others appear today as mere caricature. Solutions, which were actually implemented, drowned in blood. A precondition for a rational approach to the subject is an understanding that this conflict is sui generis, a direct result of the singularity of the Jewish people's existence and fate. Never was there a dispute, where two peoples demanded that very same portion of land and regarded the same city as their capital.
• Summary of Israel's Situation 10/19/01 Sharon’s comparison between Israel’s position today and the tragic fate of Czechoslovakia in 1938 – Is it correct? Is it fair?

• Controlling the Temple Mount According to the Hebrew poet Uri Zvi Greenberg "whoever controls the Temple Mount controls the entire Land of Israel." When he uttered this prophecy he could not foresee that in the future an Israeli Prime Minister would invite the United Nations to exercise sovereign control over the Temple Mount…

• RESTRAINT Wars today are decided on the television screen. This dictates for example that one can only lose in a contest against children. If you strike them, you appear monstrous; if you let them beat you - you look pathetic. It is precisely for this reason that Arafat urges them forward. During the daytime he stage-manages battles with rocks and in the nighttime he fires bullets.

• Victory is not all The eggs have not yet hatched and Sharon and Netanyahu are already counting the chickens and squabbling over who will get the victor's share. Netanyahu meets with key political figures, prepares a comeback, while ignoring Likud's Chairman Sharon, who over the course of the year revived the movement from the political gutter into which it had sunk.

• My valorous heroic brothers: As these lines are written, Yossi Baruch who was shot in the head on Tuesday evening near the community of Macabeem, is fighting for his life. His friend who was wounded together with him in the same vehicle is still undergoing treatment and the blood of Talya and Binyamin Kahane, murdered on Sunday near Ofra has not yet dried.