Yoel Marcus

The pope's visit was picturesque and important, but to a certain extent it was like a pilgrimage to the burial place of a family member.

Maybe it?s time for Benjamin Netanyahu to cross the road, give up his old tricks and acquaint himself with Washington?s new politics. If he shows some goodwill, Barack Obama will oblige him to some degree.

We must take into account that an air attack on Iran, as successful as it may be, would also make our home front a target for large missiles that would hit the big cities.

This is the only country in the world which is at war every seven years, which replaces its government every two years. A country full of life, yet restless and stronger than its leaders.

Camp David's great achievement was not that it paved the way to peace with Egypt, but that it set the precedent that the price of peace begins and ends with the removal of settlements and the withdrawal from the territories, to the last millimeter.

This is the last call to Tzipi and Bibi: You have the power to form a government of 79 Knesset seats without Lieberman. Where are the leaders who have the courage to call for change before it's too late?

Obama's United States will not allow us to act alone - the destruction of Iran's nuclear power is a task too big for us.

Lieberman puts a question mark on Israel's commitment to peace and could lead the Obama administration to show its claws.

In at least one thing, the new government has been successful. It stole my original title for this op-ed, 'The April Fools' government,' by completing its formation seven minutes before midnight on March 31, so as not to go into April 1.

Sly and charismatic, a victim of his own greed that embroiled him in alleged criminal dealings, Olmert was, all in all, not too bad a prime minister.

While the media are focusing on the brutal, not to say stinking, maneuver carried out by Ehud Barak at the cost of a near rift in his party, the true victory for now is that of Benjamin 'Bibi' Netanyahu.

If Barak joins Bibi's government as defense minister, in the process splitting or rupturing Labor, he will become a professional minister, an under-minister or a senior Bibi official, not to say a mercenary.

The obligation to bring back a hostage alive never ends. The problem does not lie in the goal, but in the implementation.

The proposal to establish a unity government with Tzipi Livni came, surprisingly enough, from Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu.

However one looks at the situation, Bibi's government in this format is not the answer to the grave problems the country faces at this time.

The Iranian threat became a popular discussion topic with public figures saber-rattling over Iran.

Barak has a lot of good qualities, but he is not always sincere, not to mention that he does not habitually speak the truth.

It is vital to treat what Clinton says as if it came from the president's mouth, and keep our promises.

If Livni does not have a last-minute change of heart, Likud and the extreme right will come to power.

Whatever happened to Tzipi Livni, the fan favorite, the one commentators once wrote was driven only by self-respect?

It will soon be 1,000 days that Shalit has been in captivity, and the government is still in a mess - or dilemma - about how to bring him back.

Livni and Netanyahu must both realize that if they cannot comprehend that the future of one hangs on that of the other, they will find themselves hanging separately.

Internal surveys about the state of the nation show that the fear level in Israel is at one of its highest points ever: 60 percent of Israelis are pessimistic about the country's future.