Published in The Kansas City Jewish Chronicle During my recent trip to Israel, I visited the Golan heights and understood the reasons why a majority of the Israeli people don’t support withdrawal from all the Golan even for a “peace treaty’. For many years, Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin also had been talking about withdrawal on... Read More

Published in The Kansas City Jewish Chronicle As an Israeli, I am appalled and angry at the Rabin government’s weakness and naiveté in continuing the so-called ”peace” talks with Arafat, while Israelis are being murdered and slaughtered daily in the heart of Israel. When the Rabin government recognized the PLO, the most notorious terrorist organization... Read More

Published in The Kansas City Jewish Chronicle As an Israeli, I felt displeasure and disappointment with some aspects of President’s Clinton trip to the Middle East. Just one week after the terrorist attack in Tel Aviv that killed 21 Israelis and wounded more than 46 , Mr. Clinton chose to meet “ ex” terrorist Mr.... Read More

Published in The Kansas City Jewish Chronicle As an Israeli, I am appalled and angry at the Rabin government’s weakness and naiveté in continuing the so-called ”peace” talks with Arafat, while Israelis are being murdered and slaughtered daily in the heart of Israel. When the Rabin government recognized the PLO, the most notorious terrorist organization... Read More

Published in The Kansas City Jewish Chronicle As an Israeli, I wanted to feel thrilled and happy when Rabin and King Hussein shook hands in Washington and agreed to end the state of war between Jordan and Israel, but I couldn’t. Instead I felt dread and apprehension since I only saw pictures of destruction and... Read More

Published in The Kansas City Jewish Chronicle I am an Israeli, who practices law in Kansas City. In June, I visited my family in Israel and I was surprised to see a country in an economic boom on one side, but with emotional despair, fear and helplessness on the other. So many people told me... Read More

On September 13, 1993 the signing ceremony of the Oslo Agreement took place on the White House lawn with President Clinton hosting Israeli Prime Minster Yithak Rabin and PLO Chairman Arafat. During the ceremony, which I watched while visiting my family in Israel, Shimon Peres and Mahmoud Abbas signed the Declaration of Principles, which outlined... Read More