Shalom Yerushalmi
Right Rips Peres for Citing '67 Lines (P.S.: He Didn't)
Shimon Peres came under furious attack for endorsing Israeli withdrawal to its pre-1967 borders. The funny thing is, the elder statesman never said it.
Will Gaza Rockets Reelect Bibi? Is That Hamas' Aim?
Center-right commentator Shalom Yerushalmi at Maariv argues that the rockets from Gaza seem likely to turn the upcoming Israeli elections once again into a referendum on who has bigger guns, meaning a Likud reelection. Sadly, he says, that would again bury the election that seemed to be shaping up, the one that Israel deserves, the one that’s typical in normal democracies, over the country’s intolerable social and economic inequities.