The Rebbe’s View

The war of attrition

After the Six-Day War, the Arab hostilities against Israel continued. Across the entire stretch of the Suez Canal, bloody artillery battles were fought between Israeli and Egyptian troops.At that time, the Nixon administration expended considerable effort to broker a cease-fire between the two sides. During the lengthy negotiations the Rebbe warned Israel against entering into …

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Why won’t we say what the emperor is not wearing?

Why won’t the Israelis face the facts and speak about them openly? Why won’t they acknowledge that from the beginning until the present all the peace process has accomplished is to strengthen the Arab position?There are two reasons. First of all, it would jeopardize their own credibility. They risked entering into negotiations and/or agreements with …

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Lebanon

In 1982, after the residents of the Upper Galilee had been forced to spend night after night in bomb shelters out of fear of Katyusha rockets, the Israeli army invaded Lebanon with the intent of rooting out the PLO terrorist bases there.At the outset, the campaign met with almost miraculous success. One enemy position after …

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A Viable Option

by Rabbi Ben Tzion Krasnianski The tragic assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzchak Rabin has effectively humbled into submission any meaningful voice of dissent to the current peace process. There is no opposition today worthy of its name. This eerie silence, at a time when Israel is deciding its very fate, is unsettling and very …

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