and you dont & never will (make alot of sense)

from the talkbacks. This guy lost his eye for Israel, served the country for 30 years and cares deeply about Israel. The right simply does not get it. The world is sick of settlements and either Israel will stop building them or eventually, Israel will not be.

"an altered eye alters all". From his learned but pathetic viewpoint, he cannot defend israel. He has already been influenced by the enemies of israel and accepted their opinions as fact. In the USA, the majority do not have the opinion of the socialist europeans. Before WW2, european negative opinions of Jews were commonplace and socially acceptable. He may not like that antizionism is antijew but it is a fact that we must swallow no matter how much we want to integrate into the world. Why do these same european socialists accept that the new PA territory be Judenrein. There is no equality in these altered minds except false justification and jew hatred.

yes, i agree with you! it is very difficult, very hard, and sometimes dangerous to stand up for israel, fight a vicous enemy, and consider the interest, safety, even the survival of the jewish state above all! i am sure you'll find a new carrier with gadhafi, mubarak and the likes. i am also sure hamas and the pa are very happy with your decision.....

aware of their existence. Israel will do well for itself if it will continue building for it is the only way to convince Palestinians that peace is in their best interest.

Can you not come up with something more intelligient than "self hating Jew", "athiest" "leftist" "secularist"? is this mantra of epithets going to convince even one wavering gentile or one questioning Jewish college student? Quite frankly I think your rantings are a sign of desperation as the broad middle of the Israeli electorate is just about ready to separate from you, the occupation, your overt racism and your rabbis. whatever!

The U.S. will never support the initiative to transform Jordan into Democratic Palestine. Why? Who knows. The American people will probably embrace the idea, but the U.S. state department will never.

Stop building settlements or give them up? do tell us. "Israel will never be" For your sake, I'll pretend I did not read that !!

I would agree, "self-interest" in the form of oil can offer a partial explanation, you are correct. Jew-hatred has been around long before oil was discovered and used for modern commerce.

they can rid of the jews they had on hand.. Wake Up Israelis, and get your head out of cloud 9.. YOU ARE THE BANKERS MOST FAVORITE... UNLESS YOUR GOD IS GREEN, YOU SURE ARE NOT GODS FAVORITE PEOPLE LIKE YOU THINK YOU ARE..

Goodbye and retire in hell!

The "settlements" have nothing to do with it. It is an excuse for anti-Semitism, simple, old-fashioned hatred of Jews. If Israel withdrew from all the "settlements" next they would demand the Golan. Then Jerusalem. Then the whole country. They won't stop until Israel is free of all Jews. Listen to the Muslims' own statements. See the posters with magen davids scrawled on Mubarak and Gadhafi's faces. See how the "new Egypt" is allowing Iran to gain control of the Mediterranean. Two Iranian warships just sailed by the coast of Israel for G-d's sake! As Hitler was not satisfied with Czechoslovakia, the Muslims will not be appeased with some little Jewish towns. To the contrary, it will encourage them to go the next step: the complete destruction of Israel. Meanwhile, Gabriel, you worry about Jews building too many apartments.

Listen guy, they invented Palestinians and even if that problem went away today, they'll invent something else to hate you over. Show me a time in the history of the Jewish people when we were not hated, descriminated against, butchered, forced to convert, forced to flee, exiled, etc, etc. You killed my god, you killed Palestinians, you control the media, you gut kids for matza, you this, you that, you stole my land. It will never end, unless we end those who want to end us.

and notice that the far right opinions are coming from americans... not israeli jews..

start paying israeli taxes then give your currently irrelevant opinion... you are not in the israeli reality and your attitudes and comments do not help israel, in fact they thoroughly harm it..

Ilan is a rare breed these days in Israel. He is to be commended for standing up for his principles and calling out this terrible government that is setting Israel way back in the eyes of the international community. Israel is supposed to be a light unto nations, not an international pariah as Bibi and Lieberman are turning it into.

your a diplomat and don't know what is going on ?

Yet another leftist goes home crying to momma, genuinely believing that his homeland and his birthright belong to the people who stole it from him. But hey, what can we expect from people in a government so stripped of leadership that it can't make up its mind and instead treads along the middle, too cowardly to assert control and too meek to lay down a definitive policy.

It is unprofessional for a diplomat to publicly criticize a minister and to criticize foreign policy. Action should be taken against him.

#32 Gabriel. A cursory glance at a map is all it takes to prove Judea and Samaria make Israel viable. Only a fool could believe Israel would be viable with an 8 mile waist (15 minute tank ride to cut our Homeland in half). Jews are occupying only our own land in Judea and Samaria. Land that has rightfully belonged to us for thousands of years. We are staying forever.

#37. Where have you been during the last couple of decades? First of all, Jews are "occupying" our own land in Judea and Samaria. Judea and Samaria have been ours for thousands of years. Secondly, the patriotic right isn't disappearing. It grows stronger with each election. The left is disappearing. Meretz is all but dead. Labor has split and Kadima is in big trouble.