Conflicting Indykations…writes Michael Kuttner

Nothing is predictable in politics and international events, especially in this part of the world. However even a novice could have foretold that those who tried to destroy Israel in 1948 and have been trying ever since then to finish the job, would make sure to scuttle the latest misnamed peace talks and prepare the ground for laying the blame on Israel’s doorstep. Read more

Dayenu – Enough Already…writes Michael Kuttner

One of the amazing characteristics inherent in the Israeli approach to life is the refusal to be cowed by threats, implied or overt, and to live life to the full at every opportunity. Read more

Peace Partner? Judge for Yourselves

The three wise men of our generation, Barak Hussein Obama, John Kerry and Shimon Peres, together with other followers of the illusory holy grail of a vanishing mirage, continue to assert and maintain that Mahmoud Abbas, whose term as President of the Palestinian Authority expired quite a few years ago, is a genuine partner for peace. Read more

Dummies Guide to Peace…by Michael Kuttner

Another week and we are facing yet more unbelievable statements and pronouncements cascading from those involved in the ongoing farce called the “peace” process. Read more

Inauspicious omens for 2014…writes Michael Kuttner

As we bid farewell to the old year and look forward to the new year according to the Gregorian calendar, it is timely to take stock of where we are at the moment and prognosticate what the coming twelve months are likely to bring. Read more

Straws in the Wind…writes Michael Kuttner

Jack Straw, a former Foreign Secretary of the United Kingdom, has caused controversy because of his statements recently about Israel. Read more

United Nations: The Farce Continues…writes Michael Kuttner

Just when you thought that this world body couldn’t sink any lower they amaze us all and prove everyone wrong. Read more

An Illegitimate Celebration…writes Michael Kuttner

 On Sukkot (Feast of Tabernacles) hundreds of thousands of Israelis are celebrating this Biblical Festival in an illegitimate manner. That’s not my description but rather that of the European Union and the rest of the UN whose warped definition of Judea, Samaria, the Golan and half of Jerusalem as illegally “occupied” seems to have become something almost divinely ordained. Read more

We are not amused…writes Michael Kuttner

Israel has received official visits from a large number of heads of state during its 65 years of re-established independence. Read more

Advice galore!

What are friends for if not to give solicited or unsolicited advice at any time?…asks Michael Kuttner. Read more

Fantasia – Illusions, Delusions and Confusion…writes Michael Kuttner

I remember as a child in New Zealand many years ago watching the first animated Walt Disney movie called Fantasia. Read more

Campus virus – a worldwide pandemic…writes Michael Kuttner

During the waning years of the Weimar Republic in the early 1930’s, my late father was a student at the university in Karlsruhe, Southern Germany. Read more

Fayad – Hardly a Moderate

The recently resigned former Palestinian Prime Minister Salman Fayad is being eulogized as the late great hope of moderation for the Palestinian Authority write Michael Kuttner and David Bedein. Read more

Giving moderation a bad name…writes Michael Kuttner

 When is someone called a moderate not really one at all? Read more

April Fools

The dust has hardly settled after the Obama big top packed up and left town and we are faced with yet another act. This one is entirely predictable with the performers being second grade material but this neither detracts from their brazen chutzpah nor the reaction of the local and international media…writes Michael Kuttner. Read more

From Shushan via Berlin & Moscow to Tehran…writes Michael Kuttner

As we celebrate Purim this year it is imperative that we take time to remember what it is we are exactly celebrating and why it has relevance for us today. Unfortunately, this Festival in our religious calendar has become for too many a time to get drunk senseless and therefore an ideal opportunity to suffer from amnesia as to why we are celebrating in the first place. Read more

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