'Yesterday's people' and the treaty of Hudaybiyya

Shavua tov, a good week to everyone.

In a couple of weeks, we will reach the 20th anniversary of the Oslo Accords (on the secular calendar, they were signed on September 13, 1993 and on the Jewish calendar, it was the Monday before Rosh HaShanna, the 27th of Elul, 5753). Yitzchak Rabin, Shimon Peres, and the other fools who brought us the Oslo Accords, used to refer to those who opposed them

How Peres duped Israel again

Take this with a grain of salt, because it is the Sunday Times of London, but Shimon Peres, who negotiated the Oslo Accords behind Yitzchak Rabin's back, played a major role in the current 'negotiations' getting started, apparently behind Binyamin Netanyahu's back. This was behind a paywall, but I got it by email.

SECRET talks in the Jordanian capital, Amman, earlier this year between Shimon

“The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars. But in ourselves, that we are underlings.”

I'm passing on verbatim an email I just received from Dan Friedman in New York. Dan has added his own comment at the top.

[The notion that “American pressure” motivates Israel’s many strategic blunders may have held water 25 years ago, but now it’s just a convenient excuse that serves the purpose of various parties in Israel and the Diaspora, on the Left and on the Right. Today, “Friends of

The 'Peres Center for Peace' and the poritz syndrome

Like a good galuth (exile) Jew who fears what the poritz will think, Shimon Peres and his 'Peres Center for Peace' are ashamed to tell the world that Israel is the national home of the Jews (Hat Tip: Shy Guy).


The Peres Center has decided not to enter the presentation of
“Snowball” to the itinerary of the Barcelona team while they are
visiting Israel, after it was deemed to contain the