Poor Menachem: Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory

Israel's leadership has a long and painful history of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. Here are some examples. Thus, the sweeping strategic advantages, won in victories of the Six Day War, have been foolishly squandered.The Sinai Peninsula with its strategic depth, mineral wealth and economic potential is now deteriorating into a lawless “no-go” region, rapidly falling under the

Netanyahu won't be the first

The Shmuel Katz blog reports that if Prime Minister Netanyahu caves in to President Obama and agrees to 'negotiations' based on the 1949 armistice lines, he will join a long line of Israeli leaders who abandoned reasonable positions under American pressure.Unfortunately, Netanyahu joins a long list of backpedaling Israeli leaders whose talk doesn’t match up with their walk. In “Surrender to