Moshe Arens

Israel entered the Yom Kippur War in denial, unlike the Egyptians, who realized they do not need an air force to math the IAF.

Like the rest of us, Israel's Arabs do not like to be offended, but most of them can take it without flying off into a wild rage. They have undergone a gradual process of modernization.

The idea that Obama, if reelected, will let rancor toward Netanyahu get the upper hand in making decisions concerning Israel is ridiculous and reflects complete ignorance of the American system of government

Israel Aircraft Industries and the Israeli economy missed a great opportunity. If not for the aborted Lavi project, IAI could have become a large Israeli industry, competing with the best and greatest aeronautical industries, producing the world's finest aircraft.

Hezbollah's rockets are the Iranian nuclear project's first line of defense. Is it not reasonable to attack that first line of defense before doing anything else?

Nothing demonstrates better the divergence between the programs presented by the Israeli 'left' and the views of the mainstream Israeli public in the past 20 years than the steadily declining fortunes of the 'left.'

Never before in any previous race for the White House have U.S.-Israel relations played such a prominent role in the campaign. What accounts for that?

A special branch should be established in the IDF with the aim of increasing the service of the ultra-Orthodox and Arabs on a gradual basis.

More than 10,000 Israeli students from all over the country, both Jews and Arabs, are studying at the Ariel University Center of Samaria.

So where can you hit the butcher of Damascus where it hurts? Does he have a soft spot?

It was only on Netanyahu's return to office that the National Security Council began to execute the function for which it was designed, in an attempt to avoid bad decisions.

When did the government take the decision, in complete disregard of the rights of those people who had made their homes on territory they mistakenly believed had been legally acquired?

Civilians have now become equal partners with the Israel Defense Forces in the war against Israel's enemies. That is not the way it was supposed to be.

There is no perfect balance. The question is whether there is a better balance than the present system. Or, alternatively, whether the present system and its built-in instability makes the country ungovernable.

Why is it that the Arabs do not accept that it was the war that they began in 1948, which is the cause of their suffering?

The exemptions granted from service can be lifted one segment at a time, until all Arab citizens share the ultimate obligation of citizenship with the rest of Israel's citizens.

Is it worth taking the risk and plunging the country into a premature election that is going to cost us about NIS 400 million, based on expectations about the situation four months from now? Is this a calculated risk?

In retrospect, the Gaza uprooting is now seen by many as a gross miscarriage of justice, similar to the case of the expulsion of U.S. citizens of Japanese origin from their homes in World War II.

Jordanian spokesmen insist over and over again that Jordan is not a Palestinian state, and the assertion heard now and then that Jordan is Palestine is considered subversive propaganda in Amman.

In fact, the law would only allow soldiers, tourists, El Al crews, students, professors and other bona fide Israelis to vote while overseas on election day.

We may be taking the road that could lead back to a political system based on two major parties. That would be a welcome development.

Pawel Frenkel and his fighters were the victims of this attempt to control the past. It is high time to set the record straight.

Hezbollah, along with its tens of thousands of rockets in Lebanon, poses an even bigger threat to Israel than the one from the south.

When the total cost of the project is calculated, the Jerusalem light-rail project will be seen as one of Israel's worst boondoggles.

It was not right that the attention of the Tal Law's cancellation has all been focused on the ultra-Orthodox community's absence from the IDF, while the Muslim and Christian community has been effectively disregarded; equality is indivisible.