Jay Bushinsky
JERUSALEM — Can Greece replace Turkey as Israel’s foremost strategic ally in the Eastern Mediterranean region? To a certain extent, yes, but not entirely. The Greeks can provide air space for Isr...
JERUSALEM — States, like individuals, should learn from their mistakes. This truism applies to Israel as witnessed by her hasty withdrawal from southern Lebanon, May 24, 2000, and ill-considered e...
JERUSALEM — Now that Special Envoy George Mitchell is shuttling between Israel and the Palestinian Authority in search of the two-state solution to their seemingly endless conflict, this is the rig...
SAVYON, Israel — Should a journalist accept and use stolen goods? I say, “no,” whatever the circumstances or context. This issue came up when a dubious and unwarranted gag order issued by an Isra...
JERUSALEM — None of the proponents of a Palestinian state within the context of the two-state solution have come up with proof that such an entity is feasible — politically or economically — as f...
Some people like to hit the pool to get in shape. Others prefer a good bike ride to get the blood pumping. Running is yet another excellent exercise option. Then there are a few — we’ll call them ...
JERUSALEM — To call Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s “settlement freeze” a diplomatic nonstarter or a political fake-out would be an understatement. Despite the Obama administration’s accolades...
JERUSALEM — American diplomacy in the Middle East appears to be tied up in knots. It is fraught with contradictions and inconsistencies. This is true of the way the United States has been dealing ...
JERUSALEM — Policymakers who have an idee fixe, i.e. a political obsession, tend to ignore or play down contradictory factors. President Obama’s advocacy of two states living side by side in peace...
JERUSALEM — In the Western world, nations meet on the battlefield to wage war and then sit down at the conference table to make peace. But not in the Middle East. Israel fought Jordan in 1967, c...
JERUSALEM — The list of nations that conquered and ruled this magnificent city goes back more than 3,000 years to the era of King David and even earlier. It was and still is the ultimate prize t...
JERUSALEM — How much more proof will President Barack Obama need before he realizes that his idea of “engaging” Iran is a nonstarter? Surely he must understand that if the theocratic clique that r...
JERUSALEM — Thank you Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. It is comforting to learn from you that there will be “retaliation” if Iran carries out a nuclear strike against Israel. As one of the po...
JERUSALEM — “Next time you’re in the neighborhood, stop by.” Those familiar words could have been said to President Obama by his Israeli friends last month when he was in Istanbul and still can be...
JERUSALEM — Martin Gilbert, the eminent British historian, tells a dramatic story about Winston S. Churchill refusing to meet the then-new chancellor of Germany, Adolf Hitler, because of the Nazi l...
JERUSALEM — Israel made a right turn, but signaled to the left. It’s new prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, is who is back in the political driver’s seat for the second time in his career, did th...
It’s as if the Israelis were out to prove that Winston Churchill was right when he said, “Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all those other forms that have been tried from time ...

