Yossi Sarid

You, Barack Hussein Obama, are our last chance, and if that too fades - and evil is determined against us, all hope is lost.

Now, after the south has already done so, the north has also been told to give.

I support every active civil revolt against any occupation, and Israel too is among the despicable occupiers.

One must distinguish between slang, vital to a language's vitality, and simple errors made since time immemorial.

What does the transportation minister have to do that is more urgent and important? What the hell is he doing there in his office if not devoting all his time to saving a plane and its hundreds of passengers from a certain and imminent crash?

We are all in the same delusional boat with its proud sail flapping blue and white on the horizon; there is none like unto us among the nations.

If one politician demands a suitable response to Qassam rockets, a rival will propose otherwise. That?s the way we make decisions in this country, as with the house in Hebron.

Not many intellectuals have chosen to sit in the Knesset. The king's republic and the republic of the book have been in no hurry to mingle.

The rescue efforts have not yet ended, and we have already begun our armchair quarterbacking. An entire battalion of "whys" was dispatched to Mumbai - perhaps it was a commando force.

Each prime minister loves to take but hates to give, becomes addicted to talks on condition that there won't be any results, plants the trees of life yet loathes the fruit of knowledge.

Imagine what will emerge from his mouth at the end of the season of temptation, after the elections, after the bastion of education has fallen into his hands and those who do his bidding.

That's how it is in America and other properly run countries: National security is too complex and serious an issue to be left in the hands of Petraeuses and Bogies.

Two decent people presented themselves for duty this week, to polish the king for the day - Benny Begin scrubbing the candidate's back and Dan Meridor washing his belly, or the other way around.

While Bibi is building the Likud as a cornerstone, Barak is making do with a few stones rejected by builders. This is the last moment: Labor must come to its senses and replace its head.

It is boring to repeat the same experiences every year. To ask ?Where were you that night??; has the lesson been learned or not. We have to lay our hands on new, earth-shattering material, lest the ratings drop.

The leading parties have given you the finger. There are circumstances in which it is preferable to abstain than to participate, when abstaining is more responsible and ethical.

Entire international community now looks up to Obama to fix the errors of the last U.S. administration.

Extortion has a very distasteful quality: It begets more extortion. And if one yields to it the first time, why not surrender the next time? What's the difference?

The mechanism of destruction - sin-repentance, repentance-sin - is a perpetuum mobile.