Women, don’t be suckers

IN FACT: it wasn't difficult at all to convince Arabs in Tunisia of SUCH A LACK of interest in their country on the side of PLO and that SINCE PLO had been headquarted there for so long: yet not even Kassarine the 4th most important city2Muslims: not even there there is anything. For them to understand all Saudi'S ever wanted was NOT them/theirs SUCH AN EASY THING 2 do: they had then understood Saudi'S had NOT BEEN WORKING for them nor theirs: if not even the 4th islamic city not important at all and that in a country that hosted PLO so long. Even they understood then already: their fellow Palestinians so much BETTER OFF: if with Israel even Palestinians better off. To them: all LIGHTS went on: The Time for CHANGE was suddenly much Closer. And one thing they made clear and had impact on me was: once one Regime starts falling, all will: and that is exactly how things are going. The Power they had as just people had always been underestimated.

From Mark Gardner, Community Secruity Trust, UK. I appreciate your desire to shock and draw attention - but this corruption and debasement of the word antisemitism is not the way to do it. One immorailty does not excuse another; and one idiocy does not excuse another.

Is that the question???

History is continuously being created moment by moment.The future has infinite junctions that it may pass throughout. At this moment Israel's future lies in the hands of one man, P.M. Netanyahu. Will he be remember in the same breath as Churchill, or Chamberlin? Time will tell.

Shalit saga united most of the Israelies .All the hearts of good people were with him and his family ,even his enemies treated him well .So his saga was a victory for Israel as well as for every one who fights for freedom

by UN troops, under ch. 7. Perhaps not all conflicts are the same, and this is not Kosova; however, Israel and Lebanon did have the choice of accepting UN troops in an occupied Lebanon, under ch. 7 and removing Hezbollah rockets. It was Bibi-man and Christian people (one is an LF Lebanon-man) that refused UN occupation to remove Hezbollah rockets; in fact Christians were removing voluntarily their arms. Bibi gave some lame excuse, that if they occupy Lebanon, they will occupy Israel (I doubt it). However, if the day comes, when all else fails, the UN could occupy the whole region to prevent this senseless warfare; I mean it is one alternative to some delusional biblical armageddon or any delusional belief.

Why did the exchange happen at the same time on Fatah's attempt to get Palestine recognised internationally, and in the end releasing the number of prisoners Netanyahu for so long refused to so..simple! the Israeli government prefers to have Hamas strong and Fatah fatally weakened so that it can have the pretext for forever continuing the occupation and expansion of settlments and having 'no partner for peace'!

You are a hawk ?! .

A good shepperd will leave the 99 sheep behind in security ofcourse and will move mountains to seek the one who is lost. The problem and task is that after this action you guy`s will obviously make sure that the Israelian security stays and remains always in good and healthy conditions,...What Israel did towards shalit is something the arab countries around Israel never will do,... what a great and nobel action you all have achieved, `,.... I`m so proud of Israel even I`m a christian who`ll support you in all times. God blesses Israel and its people.Shalom Mr.D

Why isn't Moshe Arens Minister of Defense?

Capturing a soldier during battle can not be called terror. If you want to find sympathy in the western world, do not use the word terror liberally. Everyone are against terror. Most are not against those fighting occupation. The latter is, in fact, legit.

It fairly obvious to us regular readers that you are on staff at Haaretz, and not just some John Q. Public anonymous casual Haaretz reader out there. Oh, and your arguments are your "logic" is ridiculous. To take one example: It's the fence that cut back on the attacks? Really? Really? The fence, and not the reoccupation by IDF and Shin Bet? Really? I know the "right" uses the argument that the fence "stopped the bombings" too. But us intelligent people know that the real reason the bombings subsided was a result of the IDF moving back in and re-occupying the west bank (just as Arens said), and perhaps the fact that the Palestinians bomb controllers got smarter and more mature, and are holding back their resources until it's time to restart the war of independence in earnest. (i.e. after Israel withdraws to the 67 lines). And then you'll see bombers again, but this time in front of the gates of Tel Nof, Ramat David, Ramon, Hatzerim, the Kiryah, the PMs office, the knesset, the kotel, the TA stock exchange, the Haifa refineries, etc. etc. Arens makes logical sense. You don't, with all due respect. But we regular readers do respect and admire your access to all articles via "TalkBack". It's almost as though "Logios" were the secret "all-access" login Haaretz gives it's authors to put in comments on the TalkBacks to their articles.

my brother we are two neighbours who are supposed to live in coexistence,peace and harmony .one way only let us work hard towards ending our endless bloodshed by reaching a final agreement that will be acceptable to both the israeli and palestinian nations. than we all feel relaxed no need for the IDF to enforce peace

As far as I know Mr Arens did not object to be a minister under Yitzhak Shamir a famous terrorist, zum bei spiel.

it is iran that is supplyiing missiles to hezbollah and hamas. without iran these terror groups would not be able to constantly threaten israel. hence, it is impossible to talk of defeat regarding these terror groups. they have the ability to resupply their missile arsenals at all times. more importantly, since they are islamic terror groups, they do not follow the laws of war. israel on the other hand has her hands tied by the international community. the shalit affair is minor in comparison.

The fact that you have to resort to personal attacks covered as some sort of intellectual argument only tells me that Aren's position actually have some merit which you can't deflect

I will mention 2 fundamental problems Arens has, and you can then draw your own conclusions: 1. Arens is an engineer. Unlike Physicists who work to understand the basics, an engineer takes the physicists' understanding as 'given' and uses it to construct useful things. In other words, Arens does not get to the bottom of problems he encounters but relies on "axioms" produced by others (such as Jabotinsky)./ 2. Arens does not give away any conquered territory, regardless of how wise the move might be. Examples: Arens voted AGAINST peace with Egypt (1979); against withdrawal from Lebanon under Peres (1985) even when all the goals of the Lebanon War were achieved years before; and Arens was against the final withdrawal by Barak (2000). (This "no" he still repeats because it is not yet considered a no-brainer by all Israelis.); Needless to say, Arens also objected to Sharon's evacuation of Gaza even though today he realizes that, for him, it solved the Palestinian demographic problem when he recommends annexation of the West Bank. .// The conclusion from point #2 is that Arens has an "anal peronality". His political positions are taken by his "gut", not his head, and represent no more wisdom than that of a child on his potty chair. Arens' intellect is used to JUSTIFY his "gut" positions. He can justify wrong ideas, but not before an inquiring audience. In this article we find an example: If the IDF was able to vanquish terror by its presence in the West Bank, why should we worry about a few hundred Pal4estinian prisoners released there?// Correct6ion to Arens: The Separation Fence is the main factor in removing terror from Israeli cities. Arens and the settlers objected to erecting it so as not to divide the Land of Israel, thus causing many many Israeli deaths.