| Title | Publ. Date | Blurb | Action |
| The Undivided City | 4/5/1968 | In the wake of the Six Day War, Shmuel discusses the historical and spiritual significance of the unification of the Jews' ancient capital. (Note: Text incomplete) | Download PDF |
| Will Appeasement Lead To Peace | 1/1/1969 | This Pamphlet argues that the Sinai desert, The Golan Heights, and Judea and Samaria are necessary for Israel's defence, and that Israel has a historical right to them. | Download PDF |
| Battleground | 1/1/1973 | A fully documented, dramatic history of the turbulent events which shaped the crisis of the Middle East. Every key problem, conflict and decision is carefully analyzed, from the questionable polices of Britain in 1948 to current issues. | Download PDF |
| The Assault of Soviet Imperialism | 11/16/1973 | Shmuel Katz writes an open letter to U.S. Secretary of State
Henry Kissinger attacking his position that Israel must make
concessions to appease Arab and Soviet demands. 'The scenario of your
policy, it seems to me, could have been written by Neville
Chamberlain,' Katz writes. | Download PDF |
| The Crisis Of Israel And The West | 1/1/1974 | Katz shows how the Israeli Labor government, under U.S. pressure, gave up the Sinai step by step after the Yom Kippur War. He also gives his view of the strategic implications of Egyptian control of the Suez Canal. | Download PDF |
| The 'Peace Plan' is Now Defunct | 2/10/1978 | Katz argues that the 'peace plan' currently being negotiated with
Egypt is dead. Sadat, having been promised from the get-go that all of the
Sinai will be his, has therefore focused his demands Judea, Samaria and the
Golan. Further negotiations will only mean further concessions, Katz says,
bringing Israel closer to withdrawal from 'all the territories.' | Download PDF |
| From No-Man's Land to 'Sacred Soil' | 2/28/1978 | Katz shows that the Sinai peninsula never legally belonged to Egypt.
Sadat's claim that it is 'sacred soil' is 'nonsense even more arrant than
the usual nonsense of Arab propaganda.' Israel should treat Egypt's refusal
to let it remain in less than 1 percent of the territory, an area essential
to its minimal security needs, as sufficient reason to withdraw its offer. | Download PDF |
| How Begin's Initiative Became 'The Sadat Initiative' | 3/8/1978 | It was Begin's initiative to reach out to Egypt, Katz reveals. But
Sadat, with the help of Israel, made it seem the initiative for peace came
from him. In truth, he already had Begin's promise for virtually the whole
of Sinai, minus 2%, in his pocket when he came to Jerusalem. 'Israeli
leaders actively collaborated with Sadat in disseminating his untruth which
stole the 'show' from their truth ' with all the grim implications for the
contest to win public opinion,' Katz writes. | Download PDF |
| The Prime Minister is Heading for a Trap | 3/10/1978 | 'Israel's status in Washington has deteriorated considerably ever
since her leaders manifested the policy of subservience (or 'co-ordination')
to American official 'ideas,'' writes Katz. He describes Begin's current
trip to the U.S. as a trap and the invitation of the 'more pliant' Defense
Minister a week before as an obvious sign that the administration means to
work through him to 'moderate' Begin's position, bringing him closer to
meeting American, i.e., Arab demands. | Download PDF |
| *Mark Siegel Opened a Window* | 3/17/1978 | Mark Siegel, President Carter's liaison officer with the Jewish
community of the United States, resigned his post in protest against
American policy toward Israel, particularly its contributions to Saudi
Arabia's military build-up. Katz describes his action as a noble step,
one that
'serves to draw attention to the gradual development of a new and most
tangible military danger on Israel's south-eastern border. The public in
Israel should open its eyes to the fact that a fourth front is being
prepared for us.' | Download PDF |
| The Blunder Functions | 4/14/1978 | When a group of Jewish leaders met with National Security Advisor Zbiegniew
Brzezinski, they did not know how to answer his charge that the
'settlements' are illegal. This is not their fault, Katz writes, as they
hear the charge repeatedly from the president on down and haven't been given
the necessary information by the Israeli government, which is in essence
saying 'We are not playing this game,' abandoning the field to the other
side. | Download PDF |
| To Talk Turkey to Mr. Mondale | 6/30/1978 | Mayor of Jerusalem Teddy Kollek said he would not receive U.S. Vice
President Walter Mondale on his coming visit to Jerusalem following news
that Mondale would not accept an official Israeli escort to the Old
City.'Mr. Teddy Kollek reacted on the subject of east Jerusalem with
dignity '
reflecting, moreover, political wisdom. The same degree of dignity
reflecting political wisdom is required in the totality of Israel's
relations with the United States.' | Download PDF |
| To London ' Without Prior Concessions | 7/5/1978 | The government of Israel should insist on direct negotiations without
prior conditions with the Egyptians, Katz says. In short, 'negotiations as
conducted among the world's nations, normal negotiations between equals.'
Israel's government makes a mistake if it thinks America will take its side.
America has its own interest, dominant of which is how to satisfy the Saudi
Arabians. | Download PDF |
| Hanging Security on Thin Air | 7/28/1978 | The Arabs have succeeded in creating a fictional history in which they have a long-standing connection to the Land of Israel, Katz writes. Their success goes hand in glove with Israel's failure 'to instill and to strengthen in the hearts of people everywhere the consciousness of the exclusive national affinity of the Jewish people with Palestine.' | Download PDF |
| The Vance Team Prepares the Landmines | 8/18/1978 | Given the growing number of concessions Israel will be expected to
make if it goes to Camp David, Katz urges the government to extricate itself
from the situation. 'Extrication now involves the most serious political
difficulties; it demands a many-pronged national effort, the likes of which
Israel has seen only in time of war. The alternative however is to be
propelled still further in a process that threatens gradually to undermine
our independence and to gnaw at our very being as a nation.' | Download PDF |
| Illusions and Deceptions On the Road to Camp David | 8/23/1978 | The implications of the Israel government's continued clinging to the
'peace plan' are grave, Katz writes. The plan has become a trap, whereby
Israel will be coerced into retreating to the 1949 Armistice lines. This
should come as no surprise, he says. For years, 'the Americans and the
Egyptians, the two other parties to the Camp David talks, have made it
clear, in varying degrees of politeness or discourtesy, that they are
determined that Israel shall withdraw' to those borders. | Download PDF |
| U.S. ' Egypt Teamwork | 9/1/1978 | 'American co-ordination with Egypt has indeed been the salient
characteristic of the developments of the past nine months,' Katz writes.
It's Washington's close identification with Arab demands that leads Mr.
Sadat to insist that the U.S. become a 'full partner,' in other words, that
America be fully present to 'twist Israel's arm.' | Download PDF |
| No End to the 'Salami Process' | 10/20/1978 | 'There is a long tradition in the State Department of opposition to
Zionism and of efforts to thwart its purpose,' Katz writes. Therefore,
special attention should be paid to the words of the likes of Assistant
Secretary of State Harold Saunders, who has given Israel a 'revealing lesson
on Washington's methods in the negotiations.' | Download PDF |
| Irresponsible Attitude on Oil | 12/8/1978 | The Ayatollah's people promise that one of their first acts when they
seize power will be to cut off Israel's oil. The crisis 'throws into bold
relief the almost incredible amateurishness, the light-hearted abandon, with
which Israeli governments have handled the problem of the country's supply
of oil,' Katz writes. | Download PDF |
| The Chimera of Coordination | 12/22/1978 | Alignment leaders like Yitzhak Rabin persistently charge the Likud
with failing to coordinate policy with Washington. But there was no such
coordination during the years of Alignment leadership. 'The fact is that
there simply could not be coordination of any major policy matter, because
Washington's doctrine on fundamental issues in the Middle East, and on the
dispute in Eretz Yisrael in particular, has been diametrically opposed to
the Israeli outlook,' Katz writes. | Download PDF |
| Keeping The Faith | 3/13/1979 | Katz defends the rights of Jews to settle anywhere in the Land of Israel, including Judea and Samaria. | Download PDF |
| Firing Line: "Peace in the Middle East" | 3/16/1979 | Shmuel Katz appears on a special edition of Firing Line taped in Tel Aviv. He debates Shlomo Avineri on the Israel-Egypt treaty. | Download PDF |
| The Bare Realities | 3/30/1979 | Israel released 76 Arab terrorists, all convicted of murder, at the
behest of Sadat. Why on the eve of signing a peace treaty has Sadat made
this demand? 'The very act of asking for the release of PLO members, is
stark testimony to Sadat's attitude to Israel, to its people, especially to
the mothers whom he has claimed as his 'allies' in Israel ' and to the
nature of the peace he has in mind for Israel,' Katz writes. | Download PDF |
| America's Bad Joke | 4/6/1979 | America invented the idea that 'settlements' are illegal. Katz does an excellent job answering this false charge. | Download PDF |
| Clouding the Issue | 5/8/1979 | The Camp David agreement signed on September 17, 1978 contains 'the
charter for the impending negotiations on the autonomy proposed for 'the
West Bank' and Gaza.' Katz details how the document signed at Camp David
takes out of Israel's hands the authority to establish the autonomy and puts
it in the hands of Egypt and Jordan. It ensures that no Israeli governmental
authority remains in the area. | Download PDF |
| Egyptian Intransigence | 5/25/1979 | In Israel's rush to hand over El-Arish, various problems emerge.
El-Arish 'provides, in miniature, a reproduction of the historic
irresponsibility in the government's actions since the opening of the 'peace
process,'' Katz writes. The government didn't consult the defense
establishment or take into consideration the concerns of its citizens. | Download PDF |
| Settlement, Strategy and Hypocrisy | 6/15/1979 | Katz takes issue with the notion that the Likud government's policies are somehow illegitimate and 'contradicts some imagined code of continuity in national policy (which the Alignment seems still to regard as a kind of property exclusively its own).' | Download PDF |
| Time to Take Stock | 6/22/1979 | With the Egypt-Israel treaty behind them, Egypt and Israel have
turned their sites on autonomy talks for Judea, Samaria and Gaza. The talks
will be used to apply pressure on Israel to make concessions. 'Israel is
about to experience, even if in stages, the full impact of the egregious
blunders and surrenders of the past 18 months. Behind the bland discussions
over this or that item in the agenda of the autonomy talks hovers our
greatest and most dangerous crisis since 1948,' Katz writes. | Download PDF |
| Deaf Ears in Jerusalem | 8/17/1979 | Responding to a false statement by President Carter in a New York
Times interview about 'Palestinian refugees', Katz reveals that Arabs have
been proclaiming the 'right of return' long before there were any refugees
from Judea and Samaria. 'The thrust of their demand is directed at the
territory of Israel before 1967. It relates to the Arabs who fled in 1948,
to the homes they left in Jaffa and in Haifa, in Acre and in Ramle. It has
been the central theme of the Arab propaganda offensive against Israel ever since 1948,' Katz
writes. | Download PDF |
| Democracy and the Jewish Presence | 10/19/1979 | Katz attacks the Left's claim that Jewish settlement in the areas captured in the '67 war represent a minority opinion in the country. Another of the 'gross impertinences of Israel's political life' is their claim that they are the defenders of democracy. | Download PDF |
| Dilemma For Linowitz | 12/28/1979 | Shmuel Katz gives a drubbing to Sol Linowitz, a US Special Middle
East Envoy, who hasn't troubled himself to learn the facts, or if he has
learned them, has chosen to ignore them in his desire to cozy up to the Arab
side. | Download PDF |
| Words Versus Deeds | 2/29/1980 | Carter was received warmly when he spoke of Israel's strategic value
to the United States during a recent speech he made to the UJA. But there is
a 'yawning gap' between his statements and his policies. All the
presidential hopefuls should give more than generalities about friendship
for Israel, but also explain in detail how they will deal with the dangers
to Israel and the West from the Soviet threat. | Download PDF |
| Reflections On Jabotinsky | 10/18/1980 | On the 100th anniversary of Vladimir "Ze'ev: Jabotinsky's birth,
Shmuel reflects on the many facets of the greatest Zionist leader of the
last century. | Download PDF |
| Fruits of Myopia | 11/14/1980 | President-elect Reagan 'faces the formidable task of a considerable
reassessment, even a reversal, of fundamental assumptions in American policy
in the Middle East,' Katz writes 'The vital need to the West of a strong
Israel requires that she be not weakened but strengthened; and that means,
first of all, the cessation of pressures for shrinking her
territorially.' | Download PDF |
| Time for Truth | 12/15/1980 | 'A seemingly unlimited capacity for self-deception' by the Israeli
establishment is again on display by its reaction to Hassan Tohami, deputy
prime minister of Egypt, who revealed in an interview his contemptuous view
of Jews and of Israel. Tohami's opening statement is 'The time has come to
tell the truth'. 'Why now?' Katz asks. Because the interview coincided with
the transfer of most of the Sinai to Arab hands, he says. | Download PDF |
| Reagan - More Of The Same | 2/6/1981 | It has become evident that the Reagan administration has not spent
time 'studying the issues' as it said it would, but rather has decided to
repeat the formulations of the Carter administration, including the demand
that Israel cease building in Judea and Samaria. 'It is apparent that,
precisely like the Carter Administration, it is motivated by the over-riding
purpose of appeasing Saudi Arabia,' he writes. | Download PDF |
| Into the Jaws of Catastrophe | 4/3/1981 | Shmuel argues that Israel should immediately desist from further
carrying out the terms of the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty under the maxim
*Rebus sic stantibus*: circumstances have changed. Egypt has flouted the
treaty and the offensive capability of the Arabs has increased dramatically. | Download PDF |
| Closing the Circle | 4/30/1981 | Katz examines the danger from Saudi Arabia, which is being armed
with sophisticated weapons thanks to the United States. Katz pokes holes in
the many flimsy excuses given by the administration for the sale of AWACS
and other equipment which the US had promised Israel it would not provide to
the Saudis. | Download PDF |
| Sadat's Next Task | 9/25/1981 | Once the Egyptian celebrations finish in Sinai, Sadat will turn to
the issue of getting Israel to relinquish control of Judea and Samaria and
Gaza. Sadat will soon be welcomed back into the Arabs' bosom, for he shares
their goals. Soon an international diplomatic offensive which will include
Europe and the United States will be directed against Israel. | Download PDF |
| Arabian Nights in Washington | 10/9/1981 | Katz pokes holes in the ridiculous arguments the Reagan
administration has made in the debate over the sale of AWACS planes to Saudi
Arabia 'in apparent desperation for arguments to justify the deal,
regardless of logic, of rationality ' or of truth. | Download PDF |
| Cards On the Table | 11/6/1981 | The Administration's recent victory in the debate over the sale of
AWACS and 'improved' F-15 planes to Saudi Arabia is similar to Washington's
policy toward nascent Israel in 1948. 'That policy can be summarized thus: when
the Israelis see the 'hopelessness' of resistance to Arab demands backed by
overwhelming superiority (now also qualitative) in arms, and backed by a
formidable looking array of international pressure, not excluding American
'advice,' their leaders will be wise enough to give up and try to get the
best terms they can from the Arabs.' | Download PDF |
| Beware of Washington | 12/25/1981 | U.S. policy, like European policy, is being dictated by Saudi Arabia,
Katz says. That is why Israel is 'punished' for destroying Iraq's atomic
reactor, attacking the PLO headquarters in Beirut and annexing the Golan
Heights. 'It should now be clear to all that we are faced not by isolated
phenomena, but by a many-pronged American policy. Nevertheless to judge by
their behaviour, neither the Government of Israel nor the Labour Opposition
comprehend the grim proportions of that policy and the danger it represents
to the Jewish state,' Katz writes. | Download PDF |
| Peace Hoax | 3/5/1982 | With Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak refusing to come to Jerusalem,
the last remaining Israelis due to leave Sinai in a few weeks and massive
amounts of sophisticated arms pouring into the Arab states, Shmuel Katz
asks, 'Who can now deny that on April 27 Israel will have attained no
greater prospect of peace than it had in September 1977? Who can deny the
manifest bankruptcy of Begin's peace policy? | Download PDF |
| Return to Square One | 4/16/1982 | With the Sinai safely in its hands, Egypt can again rejoin the Arab
states. It has begun in high fashion, announcing its plan at the conference
of 'Non-Aligned' nations in Kuwait. The plan requires Israel's withdrawal
from all territories it captured in 1967, including east Jerusalem, and the
return of 'refugees' to their homes in Haifa, Jaffa, Acre, et al. | Download PDF |
| A Crying Need | 8/6/1982 | Katz calls for the establishment of a Ministry of Overseas Information ("hasbara") capable of responding quickly to the flood of propaganda put out by Israel's enemies. He gives several examples of how a Ministry of Information could have helped answer attacks in the past. | Download PDF |
| Travesty Of Truth | 9/17/1982 | Shmuel Katz examines President Ronald Reagan's plan for resolving the Arab-Israel conflict, the key elements of which he shows to be identical to the Rogers Plan of 1969, which would have required Israel to return to the 1949 Armistice lines. Katz reveals that all American diplomacy since 1969 has worked towards that goal. (Note: The article also includes an anecdote of a meeting between Katz and President Carter's national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski.) | Download PDF |
| Squeezing Israel | 10/1/1982 | Katz warns of America's continued efforts to return Israel to the 1949 Armistice lines, split the Jewish community and encourage Israel's opposition parties against the Likud government. The author presciently warns of another ?darker cloud? on the horizon, ?the campaign for the delegitimization of Israel as a nation and a state. This obscene project is reflected by the new wave of anti-Semitism unprecedented since the days of the Nazis, whose central target is now the sovereign State of Israel.? | Download PDF |
| Loves That Labour Lost | 10/15/1982 | Katz debunks the fanciful notion of Labor leaders, such as Abba Eban, that Israel was received with ?enthusiasm and warmth? when their party ruled the country, as opposed to the hostility that greets Israel now that a Likud government is in power. (Also included is an exchange between Abba Eban and Shmuel Katz and letters to the editor.) | Download PDF |
| Purse-string Tangles | 11/12/1982 | Katz tackles Israel's economic dependence on the United States, demonstrating its dangerous political consequences as Israel surrenders vital interest for fear that the ?tap might be turned off,? a fear that has trickled down to large segments of the population. | Download PDF |
| Labour in the stocks | 11/26/1982 | Katz recommends that the Labour party undergo a ?complete overhaul of its own body, its methods, its personnel and, not least, its ideology,? following a report that Labour party leaders urged America to cut off aid to Israel in order to topple the Likud government. | Download PDF |
| Arbitrary Actions | 12/10/1982 | Katz analyzes the nature of strikes in Israel, which he calls a ?chronic malady?. Strikers are usually organized by small groups of people who have the power to ?paralyze whole segments of industry and society.? The cure, he writes, is obligatory arbitration. | Download PDF |
| The Gilgil Escape: Activities of a Rabbi | 12/24/1982 | Katz reviews a book by Louis Rabinowitz, South Africa's Chief Rabbi, who helped six members of the Jewish underground escape from a British detention camp outside Nairobi, Kenya in 1948. | Download PDF |
| Make-believe Factor | 12/24/1982 | Katz tackles two acts of make believe: 1) That America helped bring about a settlement in Lebanon when it, in fact, hindered it, and 2) that the Reagan Plan is somehow a ?new? proposal when it is same old demand that Israel return to the June 4, 1967 borders. | Download PDF |
| Battletruth - The World And Israel | 1/1/1983 | These essays and articles by Shmuel Katz, selected by Yisrael Medad for this volume, were written over the period from February 1978 to the fall of 1982. Most of them appeared in the Jerusalem Post; the remainder published in Hebrew in Ma'ariv, have been translated by the author. To the reader today, with the benefit of hindsight, they will provide an exciting, sometimes startling experience. | Download PDF |
| House Of Cards | 1/7/1983 | Katz condemns Washington's unjustified demand that it be accorded the status of a ?full partner? in the negotiations between Israel and Lebanon. He reveals this to be no more than a roundabout attempt to pressure Israel into accepting the Reagan Plan, which would require Israel to withdraw to the '67 borders. | Download PDF |
| Dumping The Ballast | 1/27/1983 | Katz explains President Ronald Reagan's dismissal of Professor Eugene Rostow as head of the Arms Control and Development Agency as another example of President Reagan's dumping of his pre-election ?pro-Israel? policy for an inimical to Israel post-election one. | Download PDF |
| Defending the Indefensible | 2/4/1983 | Katz writes a devastating critique of American policy in Lebanon, which if successful would deny Israel her minimum security needs along her northern border and bring about the return of the PLO to Lebanon. | Download PDF |
| Dodging The Issue | 4/8/1983 | Katz bemoans the passive acceptance and even complicity of the Israeli government and Jewish Agency in developing procedures that resulted in 80% of Soviet Jewish ?migr?s each year ending up in the U.S. rather than Israel, despite that fact that these emigrants had at first intended to go to Israel. | Download PDF |
| Washington's "Arab Mistake" | 4/22/1983 | Joining the ranks of world statesmen who have made absurd statements regarding the Middle East is U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz, Katz writes. Shultz accused the Arab states of ?making a mistake? in recognizing the PLO as the ?sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people.? Katz points out that the Arab states were the ones who created the PLO. Indeed, the U.S. has also ?recognized? the PLO as the ?sole representative,? even affording protection to the terrorist organization. | Download PDF |
| The Meaning Of Peace | 5/6/1983 | Katz details how the only material difference as a result of the peace treaty between Israel and Egypt is that the Sinai is now in Egyptian hands, which was the only purpose of the peace treaty to begin with. | Download PDF |
| Surrender To Washington | 5/20/1983 | Shmuel comments on Israel's latest diplomatic surrender to Washington regarding Lebanon as but one in a line of defeats. He examines the many psychological reasons for the repeated collapses in the face of U.S. pressure. | Download PDF |
| Weinberger's "Conversion" | 6/3/1983 | Shmuel remarks on Secretary of Defense Casper Weinberger's about-turn on Israel, in which the formerly antagonistic secretary shows a friendlier side to the Jewish State. Katz explains this as new tactics on the part of the U.S. stemming from its success in pressuring Israel in the Lebanon negotiations. | Download PDF |
| The Disarray In Labour | 6/17/1983 | Katz reacts to Haim Bar-Lev's statement that Israel would be willing to compromise on territory in the Golan, which points to a ?continuing, even growing intellectual disarray in the Alignment opposition.? Exploited by Israel?s enemies, this disarray is a source of weakness no less than the mistakes of the current government. | Download PDF |
| Rewriting History | 7/1/1983 | Katz starts with a remarkable statement by U.S. Under-Secretary of State for Political Affairs, Lawrence Eagleburger that contradicts historical fact and goes into a discussion of the unsound policy of the U.S. to push Israel to adopt the Reagan plan, which is suicide by degrees. | Download PDF |
| Lessons For Reagan | 7/15/1983 | Katz says the time is ripe for Israel to put pressure on the U.S. U.S. policy in the Middle East is in shambles, affording an opportunity for the Israeli government to push America to reassess its assumptions and perceptions and begin with a completely new outlook. | Download PDF |
| Histadrut's Deception | 7/29/1983 | Katz criticizes the Histadrut labor organization's decision to oppose a government plan for obligatory arbitration that was designed to prevent the disruptions accompanying worker strikes in the public sector. | Download PDF |
| Obstacle To Peace | 8/12/1983 | With the 1984 elections approaching, Katz says it's no surprise that Secretary of State George Shultz should introduce a friendly note that Jews have a right to live in the ?West Bank?. However, he notes that the Americans have not changed their view that the settlements are an ?obstacle to peace.? | Download PDF |
| Mutuality Of Interests | 8/26/1983 | On the eve of West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl's visit, Katz looks at the possibility Germany will sell arms to Arab states. Katz recalls the strain in relations between the two countries following a statement by then-Chancellor Helmut Schmidt a year earlier about the ?special? relationship between Germany and the Arab states. | Download PDF |
| Reflections On A Resignation | 9/7/1983 | Katz looks at Menachem Begin's successes and failures in light of the prime minister's resignation. | Download PDF |
| The Back Door To Carterism | 9/23/1983 | Katz bemoans the lack of an ?information war? to counter attacks against Israel and because the work has still not been done to build the necessary machinery to carry on the information war, the state suffers the effects to this day. | Download PDF |
| Flat-earth Syndrome | 10/7/1983 | Israel doesn?t have a Flat Earth Society, but it does have the Labor Party, Katz writes. They continue to believe that once in power, they could propose the Allon Plan and King Hussein of Jordan would come running to sign a peace treaty. | Download PDF |
| Engagement Of Convenience | 12/9/1983 | Katz gives several poignant examples of what underpins American policy in the Middle East ? a desire ?not to infuriate the Arabs.? He warns that America?s reversal in its Lebanon policy to support policies in Israel?s interest is but an aberration. | Download PDF |
| Cairo's True Position | 12/23/1983 | Katz asks if any rational people in Israel are left who still believe that the reason Egypt signed the peace treaty with Israel is because it wanted peace. As the latest evidence, he gives the example of Egypt?s reaction to joint U.S.-Israel military exercises. | Download PDF |
| Dissent Or Deceit? | 1/6/1984 | Katz shows how the doveish leaders of certain American Jewish organizations are not representative of Jewish Americans. He gives examples of how they distort, misinform and commit downright fraud to advance their aims. | Download PDF |
| Vision Of Freeze And Withdrawal | 1/20/1984 | Katz compliments Israel's minister of finance for attempting to stem the downhill slide of a society living beyond its means. Labor leaders set the nation in its economically irresponsible direction and, to add insult to injury, propose cutting investment in Jewish settlement in Judea and Samaria as a way out of the economic crisis. | Download PDF |
| Unfunny Humour In U.S. Policy | 2/3/1984 | Katz details the twists and turns of Washington policy-makers as they ignore historic and geographic realities in the Arab-Israel conflict. Katz describes the unintended humor of Washington's efforts to uphold fairy-tales and promote fraudulent claims relating to Jerusalem, the ?Palestinians? and the Egyptian peace deal, which Washington knew to be a dead letter and a sham, but wouldn't officially reveal because it was considered a diplomatic success. | Download PDF |
| Confronting The Reagan Plan | 3/2/1984 | Katz takes on the Reagan Plan, which he exposes as nothing more than an ?up-to-date version of the entrenched State Department doctrine that Israel must be squeezed back into the 1949 Armistice lines. That doctrine is the basis of the Arab dream about their final assault on the ?Zionist entity.? | Download PDF |
| Brutalization Of Society | 3/16/1984 | Katz uses a recent attack by Orthodox Jews on a caf? open during Shabbat as an example of a society becoming increasingly brutal, a state of affairs reflected, indeed encouraged, by the state of labor relations in the country, which include strikes by doctors and health care workers who disregard the sick for higher wages. As a solution, he argues for compulsory arbitration. | Download PDF |
| Monumental Hoax | 3/30/1984 | Katz takes on the hoax that is the PLO, examining its history, its acts of murder, who supported it and how it was founded. The PLO came about because the Arabs, who Katz concedes are superb propagandists, realized that the West did not respond favorably when the Arab nation, comprising some 14 million square kilometers attacked the much smaller Jewish State, and so created the fiction of the ?Palestinian people?. | Download PDF |
| Moving The U.S. Embassy | 4/18/1984 | Katz examines America's failure to place its embassy in Jerusalem. Given the flimsy excuses and ?absurd extremes? the U.S. is willing to go in not placing its embassy in Israel's capital, Katz concludes that it must come from a deeper passion, ?a historic 'religious' prejudice, which cannot tolerate the notion of Jewish statehood at all and which recoils from the very idea of Jews actually ruling over the Holy City.? | Download PDF |
| Room To Cooperate | 4/27/1984 | Those who call for a National Unity government must realize it's impossible under the present circumstances, Katz writes. But he says there is room on the home front for cooperation in regards to various crucial issues, like national arbitration, Lebanon and the growing social rift between the Orthodox and secular. | Download PDF |
| Waiting For Shamir's Plan | 5/4/1984 | Katz worries that Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir and Defense Minister Moshe Arens are weakening their own case in their struggle for Judea and Samaria. Katz launches into an analysis of the failure of Begin's treaty with Egypt. He says Israel must make the truth known to the world that the treaty is a dead letter and without Judea and Samaria, Israel would lose its deterrent power. | Download PDF |
| Reactionary Coalition | 6/3/1984 | Shmuel Katz is attacked by Reuven Alberg, who accuses Katz of being part of a secular side of an "unholy alliance" which includes those who don't care about democratic social values and "religious extremists who thirst for a theocratic racist country." Katz answers this slanderous charge in his reply "Big-Lie Technique." [Letter to the Editors by Alberg and Katz included.] | Download PDF |
| Getting Their Act Together | 7/27/1984 | Katz reveals that what emerges from the most recent "exit polls" is that the new government will continue to be afflicted by the coalition ills that plagued the previous government. Katz calls for a reform of the root cause of the problem: Israel's electoral system. | Download PDF |
| Certified Sanity | 8/10/1984 | Katz eviscerates veteran Hashomer Hatzair leader Yaakov Hazan's comment that he is a "sane Zionist". Katz uses historical examples to show how Hazan and his party have been anything but sane - from Hashomer Hatzair's support for a "bi-national" state with Arabs enjoying 50% statutory control to Hazan's comment during the days of Stalin that the U.S.S.R was his "second homeland." | Download PDF |
| The War Of Words | 8/24/1984 | The Christian world is deeply divided towards Israel. One side shares an attachment as powerful as the staunchest of Zionists. But "there are others completely at one with the worst enemies of the Jewish state. Prominent among these - and perhaps the most active - is the Quaker American Friends Service Committee." [Letter to the Editor from American Friends Service Committee included] | Download PDF |
| Countering Propaganda | 9/26/1984 | Katz takes on the historic neglect of Israel's government to effectively counter anti-Israel propaganda. The answer, he says, is a hasbara "War Office," a ministry of information dedicated to countering the "incessant propaganda campaign being waged throughout the world against Israel." Katz reveals he has developed a detailed plan for just such a ministry. [Letter to the Editor included] | Download PDF |
| Dissent And Responsibility | 10/12/1984 | To face the deepening economic crisis, the government must make it fashionable to economize and save, Katz says. He suggests that one of the "ministers without portfolio" become, whether officially or unofficially, a director of economic restraint, giving detailed guidance to both public figures and private citizens of means of effecting savings. [Letter to the Editor included] | Download PDF |
| Truth From Egypt | 10/26/1984 | The senior adviser to the President of Egypt asserted in a speech that Egypt's obligations to the other Arab states took precedence over its obligations to Israel. Katz reveals that the Egyptian adviser is, in fact, correct. President Sadat refused to sign the agreement until wording to that effect was put into the treaty. In other words, the treaty itself permits Egypt to freely attack Israel. | Download PDF |
| With Clean Hands | 11/9/1984 | Katz takes on the insensitivity of Israeli governments in dealing with Soviet Jewry. The need for a sustained, worldwide campaign is more urgent than ever, he says, as a new era of Stalinist-like oppression is taking hold in the Soviet Union. The first step of such a worldwide information campaign should be a massive national demonstration in Israel. [Letter to the Editor included] | Download PDF |
| Whitewashing The Egyptians | 11/23/1984 | In response to an interview of Professor Shimon Shamir, who headed the Israel Academic Centre in Cairo, Katz reveals as "twaddle" Shamir's assertion that Israeli behavior explains the failure of Egypt to meet its obligations under the treaty. Katz asks: "How does "Jewish terror" (not directed against Egypt) in 1984 justify Nazi-style propaganda in Egypt in 1979 or 1981?" [Letter to the Editor from Shamir and Katz included] | Download PDF |
| The Meaning Of Words | 12/7/1984 | Katz exposes "the hollowness of the subtle semantics" with which Israeli intellectuals bolster Arab myths, the most recent example being an article where the writer proposes "joint rule" on the "West Bank". Katz gives a brief history of the "West Bank" whose true name is Judea and Samaria. | Download PDF |
| Bedevilled Government | 12/21/1984 | Prime Minister Shimon Peres promises a period of economic growth. Katz asks how this will be possible without first solving the secondary problems of partisan demands and showing more economic restraint. Israeli governments have encouraged the people of Israel to live beyond their means. "The most understanding, the most patriotically oriented nation will sink into wasteful exhibitionism and even to slothful acceptance of economic dependence if encouraged to do so by a government presumed to know what it is doing and invested with the power of economic control," he writes. | Download PDF |
| Handling The Superpowers | 1/4/1985 | Katz criticizes Israeli reluctance to let the U.S. set up a Voice of America transmitter in the country out of fear of Soviet displeasure. He says the voices of resignation must be ignored and Israel should protest loudly the treatment of Soviet refuseniks and the ongoing persecution of its Jewish citizens. | Download PDF |
| Anti-Semitic Manifestations | 1/6/1985 | In a response to an op-ed by the editors of Time magazine, Katz describes his own experiences with the magazine as an envoy of Menachem Begin. The Time editors claim their periodical is not anti-Semitic. Katz says they can't be acquitted of the charge. | Download PDF |
| Non-Kosher Pressure | 1/18/1985 | Katz opposes an amendment to the Law of Return pushed by the religious parties. From their urgency, one would think there was a flood of inadequately converted gentiles converging on Israel. The truth is, Katz says, that the religious parties are not motivated by religion but want to maintain their monopoly on religious ruling and don't want to recognize the authority of the conservative and reform. [Letters to the Editor included] | Download PDF |
| Lessons the Arabs taught | 2/1/1985 | Katz examines the attitudes of Jewish leftists, like Amos Oz and Mordechai Bar-On. He says their opinions "represent a mood, indeed a mode of thought, that has coloured Jewish political action ever since the days of deep galut. Among its main ingredients is wishful thinking, a recoil from harsh reality, a retreat into delusion." Another example of this retreat into delusion is a recent visit by Abba Eban to Egypt. | Download PDF |
| Helping Israel - From Within | 2/15/1985 | Katz describes as "impertinence" the president of the American Jewish Committee's remarks that the AJC wishes to expand its activities in Israel to help make it more like America. Katz says the AJC president's comments reflect a "recent tendency on the part of some American Jews and organizations- self-styled as "liberals" - who, expressing distaste for Israeli policies, real or imagined, talk and behave as though they have a right not only to criticize but to interfere actively in Israeli political - or what is even more insidious, educational - affairs." | Download PDF |
| On The Road To Purim | 3/1/1985 | Recent comments by Rabin demonstrating his complete misreading of the intentions of the militant Shi'ites on the Lebanon border encapsulates the whole story of Israel's relations with the Arabs, Katz writes. "It is the story of groundless assumptions." [Letter to the Editor included] | Download PDF |
| No Solution To The Arab-Palestinian Problem | 3/1/1985 | This Pamphlet focusses on the myth of the forcible expulsion of the Palestinians, and also examines how a Palestinian identity developed among Arabs who originally did not think of themselves as having a national identity. | Download PDF |
| Behind The Ballyhoo | 3/15/1985 | Katz examines the maneuverings of Mubarak, Arafat, Hussein and the American government to push Israel back to the 1949 Armistice borders. The tactical plan doesn't involve Israel immediately. Rather, it starts by convincing America to accept "non-PLO personalities approved by Arafat" after which America will pressure Israel to do the same. Katz also comments on the fallacy of Shimon Peres's school of thought. | Download PDF |
| Camp David Revisited | 3/29/1985 | "The most glaring myth disseminated about the content and thrust of the Camp David agreement on Judea, Samaria and Gaza was that its projected autonomy regime was intended as the solution to the Arab-Israeli conflict," Katz writes. What is, in fact, spelled out in the agreement is a five-year "transitional arrangement" in which Israel would transfer authority to an Arab government. The coalition to see that happen is being re-formed and it is time for the Likud to "turn its back on the dangerous blunders inherent in the Camp David agreement." | Download PDF |
| Ignorance And Prejudice | 4/11/1985 | Ignorance in high places of basic facts about Israel's history fuels hostile U.S. policies toward Israel, Katz writes. "Through ignorance and prejudice and false assumptions, the history of U.S. policy in the Middle East has been studded with blunders, tragic for the U.S. and for us," Katz writes. The fault, he says, lies in large part with the failure of Israel's information services since 1948. | Download PDF |
| Government's Duty | 6/7/1985 | Katz condemns Israel's release of 1,150 terrorists, including hundreds of convicted murderers, by Israel, which undermined Israel's national interest, security and morale. Katz gives several more examples of Israel's collapse in the face of pressure. "Only a conscious, radical change in the government's conception of its obligations to the nation and in its behaviour can put an end to the dangerous mindset which has established itself in the management of the affairs of an embattled Israel," he writes. | Download PDF |
| Insult to Zionism | 6/11/1985 | Katz attacks the executive vice-president of the American Joint Distribution Committee for helping Soviet Jewish immigrants who promised to go to Israel make their way to America instead. "By their going to the U.S. instead, they dishonour their undertaking, and the integrity of the State of Israel is impugned," Katz writes. | Download PDF |
| Lessons of History | 6/21/1985 | An inclination toward make-believe continues to be an important ingredient of American foreign policy, particularly where Israel is concerned, Katz writes. Responding to comments by Secretary of State George Shultz at Yad Vashem to the effect that America has always stood with Israel, Katz says not only are the comments misleading but the motive is to reduce Israel to "a state of maximum vulnerability." | Download PDF |
| The Hijack's Godfather | 7/5/1985 | Katz says Israel's release of 1,150 terrorists led to the hijacking of an American plane in Lebanon by Shi'ite terrorists. Katz criticizes the West's praise Syria. | Download PDF |
| Missing Mandate | 7/19/1985 | The Labour party led by Shimon Peres pretends it has a mandate to decide the fate of Judea and Samaria, but it forgets the origins of the National Unity government of which it is part, Katz says. The U.S. encourages the Labor party to act as if it has a mandate. "The U.S. government has a view of its own, firmly held and untiringly pursued for years. It accepts implicitly the essential Arab premises and their demands," Katz writes. | Download PDF |
| Soviet Challenge On Emigration (2) | 8/2/1985 | In the wake of a leaked conversation between Israeli Ambassador to Paris Ovadia Sofer and Soviet Ambassador Yuli Vorontsev, Katz describes the scandal of Jews leaving the Soviet Union under the condition that they go to Israel and then heading to the U.S. instead with the help of organizations like Hias. "The proponents and perpetrators of the hoax, after vainly trying to suggest that they were in fact 'saving' Jews, finally pounced on the fine-sounding story that the emigrants had the right to 'freedom of choice,'" Katz writes. Katz explains why this is hypocritical nonsense. | Download PDF |
| Mubarak's debt | 8/16/1985 | Katz gives several examples of how some Israelis - politicians, spokesmen, media people - have adopted Arab fabrications. The latest is in regards to Egypt's demand for Taba, four dunams of hilltop bordering Eilat. Egypt claims it has not fulfilled the 1979 peace treaty because of Taba. This is false, yet the Labor government has fallen in with Mubarak's version of events. This also reveals "a crucial weakness in Israeli political thinking and behaviour. that Israel must resign itself to the fact that agreements signed with Israel, or relating to Israel, are not necessarily binding on the other party." | Download PDF |
| Who Are The Fanatics? | 9/13/1985 | Katz gives a history of Hebron starting with the 1929 massacre of its Jewish community by the Arabs and with the approval of the British mandatory regime. Katz criticizes the Labor governments of Israel, which, in effect, accepted the verdict of the murderers of 1929. A Jewish presence in Hebron was achieved by private initiative alone. Labour party leaders, Katz writes were "overwhelmed by an obsessive myopia, indeed a fanatical forgetfulness." They "had evidently suppressed within their hearts any affinity for Eretz Yisrael beyond borders approved by the UN." | Download PDF |
| Self-Abasing Stance | 9/27/1985 | Katz castigates the National Unity government for its willingness to submit to international arbitration on the issue of Taba. The government should at least confront the Egyptians about all the treaties it has not honored in the last six years and see that those are fulfilled first before making new demands. | Download PDF |
| Ganging up on Israel | 10/11/1985 | Noting the international support, including from Britain, for the latest campaign orchestrated by the Arab states and Arafat to convene an international conference to pressure Israel, Katz looks in detail at the history of Britain's perfidious behavior in Mandate Palestine, showing how its actions now are consistent with its actions then. | Download PDF |
| Chamberlains Galore | 10/25/1985 | Three weeks since seven Israeli tourists - a man, two women and four children - were shot by an Egyptian soldier and allowed to bleed to death by his comrades, Katz examines the cause of this inhuman behavior, identifying Egypt's unceasing incitement against Jews and Israel. Putting an end to hostile propaganda was the most important Egyptian obligation under the treaty. Israelis share in the guilt, suppressing information about the Egyptian government's role in inciting hatred. "The Chamberlain school lives on." | Download PDF |
| King Hussein as teacher | 11/8/1985 | Washington's desire to meet directly with Arafat was put on hold following the Achille Lauro hijacking and so it turned to Jordan's King Hussein and his plan for an international conference. Israel should have nothing to do with such a conference. "Every one of the proposed invitees has long since lost any claim to Israel's allowing them to take part. All without exception - in violation of solemn pledges they gave in 1957 after the Sinai campaign - abandoned Israel facing the Arabs' aggression," Katz writes. | Download PDF |
| From Ras Burka to Pollard | 12/6/1985 | "The greatest danger facing Israel derives not from the unchanged belief of the Arab leaders that its elimination can be achieved, but from the assumption of political leaders in Israel that the danger does not really exist; that in fact the Arabs will be appeased and pacified if they are given slices of Western Palestine," Katz writes. He traces this idea to the psychology of galut. Mr. Peres and his colleagues talk if this continuous self-abasement will lead to peace. "How myopic, how unteachable, can ambitious politicians be?" Katz asks. | Download PDF |
| Stop the Middlemen | 12/20/1985 | America can't let in all the immigrants who wish to come to its shores, so it establishes a rule that applicants must show that they are subject to persecution. Yet, the U.S. makes exception for Jews coming from the Soviet Union, who leave with the promise that they are going to Israel. Once out of the Soviet Union, the U.S. proclaims them refugees, though they have a home waiting for them an Israel. This is an affront to Israeli sovereignty, Katz writes. The key organization which runs the drop-out-to-America operation is Hias, the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society. | Download PDF |
| Rome and Ras Burka | 1/3/1986 | Katz connects the attacks at the Rome and Vienna airports and at Ras Burka to paint a picture of Arab support for Arafat, an unwillingness of the West to fight terror, and a "deep spiritual connection" between Egypt and the PLO. | Download PDF |
| The Blind Side To Taba | 1/17/1986 | Though failing to return its ambassador to Tel Aviv, nor enacting any other clause of the peace treaty signed seven years ago, Egypt insists that Israel negotiate over Taba. The Israeli government has its share of the blame, Katz writes, for it "has given de facto legitimization to Egypt's unilateral violation of the peace treaty." | Download PDF |
| Insult from Cairo | 1/31/1986 | After working feverishly for 15 months to solve the Taba dispute, the Israeli government's efforts were met with insult by Cairo, which added fresh demands. Israel's government accepted this humiliation and contempt. | Download PDF |
| Reaching out to the PLO | 2/14/1986 | Katz responds to a State Department statement that "the Palestinian problem is more than a refugee question." Although, it almost sounds like the truth, the State Department issued the statement to conceal the truth, Katz writes. He clarifies: "The Palestinian problem, correctly defined, lies in the failure of the Arab nation to destroy Israel and to take over all of Palestine. The refugee problem is the problem created by the Arab states as a means of retrieving that failure." | Download PDF |
| Ras Burka motive | 2/28/1986 | Five months have passed since Ras Burka and still no investigation by Egypt of the tragedy, Katz says. The reason this monstrous crime is considered a "small matter," by Egypt is that killing Jews is a "mitzvah" in the eyes of the Arabs, he says. "The Israeli government's culpability is in their suppressing the knowledge that Ras Burka and its aftermath were made possible by the process of injection into the Egyptian people's consciousness, year after year, almost day after day, of a demonic image of Israel as a state and the Jews as a people; and that the peace treaty did not put a stop to that process." [Letter to the Editor included] | Download PDF |
| The Mass Expulsion Lie | 3/14/1986 | Katz takes on the new assertion that there are two conflicting versions of the mass flight of Palestinian Arabs in 1948 - one being the Arab leaders asked them to leave and the other being that Jewish community planned a campaign of expulsion. Katz shows the real conflict is between the Arabs own version in which they said the Arab leaders told them to flee and the later falsehood they concocted that the Jews expelled them. | Download PDF |
| Surrendering To Pressure | 4/11/1986 | Israeli governments have a habit of succumbing to pressure on vital issues, Katz writes. He urges American Jewry to bolster this weakness of character by applying pressure when they see an obligation to stand up for the security of Israel. [Letter to the Editor included] | Download PDF |
| Dealing With The Six Day War | 4/25/1986 | A simple litmus test to uncover the tactical gimmick of Israelis who want to give up territory to the Arabs is to see how they deal with the Six Day War, Katz writes. None of them will say that it was prompted by an Arab invasion seeking Israel's annihilation. 'They do not, manifestly they cannot, answer coherently the crucial questions that stare out from the events that * preceded* the Six Day War,' he writes. | Download PDF |
| False Prophets Won't Face The Facts | 5/9/1986 | Katz responds to a Jerusalem Post article by David Krivine who stated that Jews have no right to live in Hebron or any part of Judea and Samaria. Katz reminds the author that the Jews have a 3,000-year-old right to the Land of Israel. [Letter to the Editor included] | Download PDF |
| Message Misrepresented | 5/13/1986 | Katz answers a charge by ADL head Abe Foxman that he has been urging American Jews to pressure Israel to change its policies. 'This is almost diametrically opposite to the message I have been conveying,' Katz writes. Katz urged Americans, Jews and non-Jews, to put pressure on the American government to stop pressuring Israel. | Download PDF |
| Interdependence In U.S. Israel Relations | 1/1/1988 | Washington's behavior toward Israel reflects a perception that Israel is a "poor relation" because of the aid it receives. But the relationship is actually one of interdependence. A friendly Israel has the ability to actively serve U.S. interests. (Katz also gives an interesting history of American pressure for concessions over the years). | Download PDF |
| Salami Tactics | 11/1/1991 | With the Camp David Agreement as an example, an agreement in which Israel was slowly persuaded to agree to one amendment after another until the Americans got what they wanted, Katz shows how continues to resort to that'"salami tactic" to slice off Israeli resistance piece by piece to accommodate Arab power and ambition. America, he says, cannot be considered an "honest broker". | Download PDF |
| Camp David Will Lead Us To War | 11/15/1991 | Implementation of the Camp David Accords means Israel will lose Judea, Samaria and Gaza, Katz writes. Based on the text of the agreement, he describes the scenario by which the loss of the territories will come about. | Download PDF |
| Pawn In The U.S. Elections? | 11/29/1991 | Katz says that America has taken the Arab side in the Arab-Israel dispute for some time. He hopes that President George H.W. Bush's behavior will have the positive effect of waking up the Israeli government and people "to the bitter and now imminently dangerous reality that the U.S. government is not, cannot and will not be an honest broker between ourselves and the Arabs." | Download PDF |
| A Failure Of American Jewish Leadership? | 12/13/1991 | While America bullies and hectors Israel to take steps toward the ultimate goal of returning to the Armistice lines of 1949, American Jewish leadership has made no effort against the process. American Jews have a moral responsibility to help their brothers and sisters in Israel, Katz argues,'and one place they could put their efforts is in helping in the absorption of the large influx of Jews from the collapsing Soviet system. | Download PDF |
| Silwan - Memories of Sixty Years Ago | 12/27/1991 | History repeats itself as Jews who legally bought homes in Silwan are accused of throwing Arabs out. Katz draws a parallel between Silwan and Wadi Hawareth in 1931 in which Jews bought land at outrageous prices, worked it and were then chased off by the same Bedouin who sold it. He notes that part of British policy of undermining Jewish rights was spreading the lie that Jews were driving Arabs from their lands. | Download PDF |
| What Aridor Didn't Say to the U.N. | 1/10/1992 | Katz criticizes UN Ambassador Yoram Aridor's weak response to the Security Council Resolution against Israel's deportation of 12 terrorists. Aridor should have pointed out that Fourth Geneva Convention, which is invoked to delegitimize Israel's presence in Judea, Samaria and Gaza, has absolutely nothing to do with Israel's situation and the way it came into control of those areas. (Note: Letter to the Editor and rebuttal) | Download PDF |
| Camp David's Choke Hold | 1/24/1992 | Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir said "We are committed to the autonomy proposal under the Camp David Agreements." Katz asks "With whom does Israel have this agreement?" Neither the Palestinian Arabs nor Jordan signed. Egypt signed but what happens in Judea, Samaria and Gaza doesn't affect them.,'Israel should invoke the internationally accepted "escape" clause - rebus sic stantibus, i.e., circumstances have changed. | Download PDF |
| Zionist Principles Are Not For Sale | 2/7/1992 | U.S. pressure to freeze communities in Judea, Samaria and Gaza is nothing less than an attempt to undermine Israeli sovereignty and subvert Israeli democracy, Katz writes. He says that American Jews should be unanimous in their opposition to President George Bush and James Baker's attempts to dictate to Jerusalem what Israel should or should not do. | Download PDF |
| Norm of Punishing the Innocent | 2/13/1992 | Katz descries the hospital strike that holds thousands of sick hostage. He calls it "hijacking on a mass scale." Only one in a long list of strikes that crippled the country, Katz says the way to end the abuse of human and civil rights, "legitimized" by ugly strikes, is through obligatory arbitration. Israeli judges can solve the problem of labor disputes and should make all strikes in public services illegal. | Download PDF |
| The Mortal Danger of Camp David | 2/21/1992 | Israeli officials' have harsh words for the PLO following the murder of three IDF soldiers by that terror organization. But Katz says the politicians' words are unfair since the Israeli government has been negotiating with the PLO in Washington without ever once asking that terror be stopped. Katz also discusses "the central blunder in the Camp David Agreement" - the failure to establish Israeli sovereignty in Judea, Samaria and Gaza. The choice is either implement the Arab solution, which means driving out the 120,000 Jews living in those areas, or declare Israeli sovereignty, Katz says. | Download PDF |
| Sorry We Troubled You, Mr. Bush | 2/27/1992 | Israel must reject the Bush administration's attempt to link loan guarantees for the absorption of hundreds of thousands of Jews from the Soviet Union to the subject of Jewish settlements in Judea, Samaria and Gaza. Katz says that the Jewish world has the financial resources to handle the absorption of the refugees and should do the work itself and no longer seek the loan guarantees from the U.S. | Download PDF |
| This US-Israel Crisis Is Unnecessary | 3/6/1992 | Speaking of the American Jewish organizations, Katz asks, "How much accumulated humiliation can they tolerate?" American Jewish groups continue to ask President Bush for guarantee loans to Israel to help with the absorption of Soviet Jewish ?migr?s despite a year of rejection. But their guilt isn't as much as the Israeli government's, which should have recognized Bush's tactic of stringing Israel along in order to make her desperate for the loans and more willing to accept American conditions. | Download PDF |
| The Big Lie On US Aid | 3/20/1992 | Katz takes on Professor Zbigniew Brzezinski, who served in President Carter's administration as national security adviser and who claimed that Israel received $77 billion in aid. Not only was the number factually incorrect, with Israel receiving half that amount, but Katz shows Brzezinski's suggestion that this money was a handout to be a lie. America gets its money back in full in Israeli contributions to American security. | Download PDF |
| It's Time to Start Fighting Back | 4/3/1992 | "Health Minister Ehud Olmert charged in Ma ariv a fortnight ago that the current US president was the most hostile ever to Israel. A quick survey will show that Olmert has hit on the truth," Katz writes. He goes on to say that all American administrations since 1967 have urged Israeli surrender.'Katz also talks about the one-sided propaganda war waged against Israel by the Arab world, Europe's media and a large section of the American media. He says it can be faced "even at this late hour." | Download PDF |
| Rabin Means Business With Bush | 4/22/1992 | "Rabin Means Business With Bush" is not meant the way it sounds. It doesn't'mean Rabin is prepared to get tough with Bush, rather that Rabin is ready to deal with Bush and is sending a message prior to the Israeli elections that,'if elected, he is prepared to 'freeze' settlements. | Download PDF |
| Myth Of The 'Billions' | 5/1/1992 | "Israel has paid a heavy price for the obstinate rejection by its political leaders of a rational game plan for fighting the propaganda war being waged against us for the last 25 years," Katz writes. The Likud's failure to fight myth that it has sunk billions into building up Judea, Samaria and Gaza to the detriment of the rest of the country, which is patently false, is but one example. | Download PDF |
| An Admirable Ally Of The Arabs | 5/15/1992 | Secretary of State Baker's willingness to endorse the Arab "Right of Return"'should finally be enough to convince "even the most myopic" of Israel's'leaders that America is anything but an honest broker in the Arab-Israel conflict. | Download PDF |
| A Reversal of Jewish National Policy | 6/1/1992 | Katz describes as inane Likud's pre-election attack on Rabin as a drinking man - a political attack that will only win him sympathy and only serves to distract from the real issue, which is the danger that comes with a Labor victory, namely the freeze on building of the Jewish towns in Judea, Samaria and Gaza. The Labor government will form a coalition with the militant Meretz party and will be dominated by Peres and the leftwing of its own party, which is using the more popular Rabin as a front to get elected. | Download PDF |
| What Peace | 6/12/1992 | Katz asks the two party candidates running for election to stop prevaricating. They should stop claiming that their prime objective is peace, which creates the impression that the one formula for peace is in his party's exclusive hands. The Arabs will not give Israel peace, he writes. Israeli concessions to win it have merely taught the Arabs to continue pressure for further withdrawals. | Download PDF |
| You're Quite Wrong, Mr. Gorbachev | 6/26/1992 | Asked a question by a Russian-Jewish journalist about the crimes of the Soviet Union toward Israel, Gorbachev said there was no point in looking backward. Katz provides a laundry list of the way the Soviet Union encouraged and armed the Arabs in their wars to annihilate the Jewish State.'Katz says the past must be remembered and a massive campaign of information in Russia must begin in order to create a relationship based on mutual respect. | Download PDF |
| The Truth About Those PO-LI-TI-CAL Settlements | 7/10/1992 | Katz says Rabin is wrong to break up the settlements into "security"'settlements (which he wants) and "political" settlements, which he is willing to give away. Rabin seems satisfied with the Jordan Valley as a'security line. But there must be a second line of defense and a third. Katz cites American military studies which concluded that Israel must at a'minimum control Judea, Samaria, the Golan and Gaza. [Section of article missing] | Download PDF |
| The Unspoken Warning to Rabin | 7/24/1992 | In the eyes of the world, American loan guarantees and a "freeze" on building in the territories are linked. Israel shouldn't allow the guarantees to be linked to political conditions. "Of all the 60, repeat 60, governments to whom the US has been giving loan guarantees over the years, Israel is the only one (repeat, the only one) on whom the US administration insists on imposing political conditions," Katz writes. The Rabin government should look elsewhere for its loan guarantees. | Download PDF |
| Camp David: Born In Sin | 8/14/1992 | "One sometimes gets the impression that Likud spokesmen - who proclaim their undying devotion to the ideal of Eretz Yisrael, yet declare that their policy aims are the consummation of Camp David - have not read the agreement or have forgotten what it says," writes Katz. The Likud party must admit its mistake at Camp David. It's the only way for it to build a strong opposition to a future Palestinian State. | Download PDF |
| A 'Special' Resolution | 8/21/1992 | "What drives an American president to such relentlessness in his demand that Jews should not live in Judea and Samaria?" Katz asks. Bush is not the first U.S. president to make it his business, but he is the most obsessive. Katz notes a line in the platform in the Republican National convention which seems to suggest that Jews still must wait for their right to Jerusalem to be granted them. Rabin's willingness to conform to Bush's hateful policies must make the opposition work harder to defeat his government, Katz says. | Download PDF |
| What Do You Mean, Mr. Rabin? | 9/4/1992 | In a BBC interview, Prime Minister Rabin said Jews have a right to live anywhere in Eretz Yisrael. If he means it, then why are his subordinates working to do the opposite, Katz asks. The Israeli government is trying to convince the public that "a Jew's right to live where he pleases in Jerusalem is subject to veto - by the mayor, police or government. This is dangerous nonsense," Katz writes. Rabin continues to ignore the central fact, as did his predecessors, that the Arabs are not interested in compromise. | Download PDF |
| The Golan And Assad's 'Human' Face | 9/18/1992 | When the Syrians controlled the Golan Heights, they rained shells down on the Galilee, turning life there into a purgatory. Israel has since built up'a vibrant Jewish community there. Yet, now Rabin revives the moribund Resolution 242, which conferred victim status on the aggressor and imposed defeat on the victor. As part of this grotesque change, Israel's leaders attempt to rehabilitate Syrian President Assad. | Download PDF |
| Facts And Fixations | 10/2/1992 | Katz remarks on the attitude of Israel's left that it alone is fit to rule.'"The idea persisted in Labor circles that it was all a mistake, that the Likud were somehow usurpers, that they really had no right to take decisions unacceptable to Labor," Katz writes. The Left believes it is intellectually superior, and accuses the right of "fixations", yet it is the Left that is trapped in a state of retarded mental development, fixated on the idea that territorial compromise can bring peace with the Arabs. | Download PDF |
| Tragic Posture Of A Defeated Nation | 10/16/1992 | An innocent bystander, listening to Israel after witnessing its numerous victories in war wouldn't believe his ears, Katz writes. Israel sues for peace and appears ready to pay any price. "Negotiations revolve round the single axis: how much of the unchanging terms being dictated by the Arabs the Israelis are prepared to concede." Katz hopes that the Israeli people,'who are organizing against Rabin, will no longer accept a posture of defeat. | Download PDF |
| Empire-Builders Hoped To Use Zionism As A Front | 10/30/1992 | Katz reviews the "The Question of Palestine: British-Jewish-Arab Relations 1914-1918" by Isaiah Friedman, which looks at the personalities and motivations that led to the Balfour declaration. He says the "work may surely be described as a classic." [Note: article missing section] | Download PDF |
| A Stark Betrayal of Trust | 10/30/1992 | "Conflicting statements out of the two sides of the same authoritative mouth are commonplace in Israel's political history; but it is hard to recall a'case of obfuscation so deliberate, an effort to mislead the people so blatant, as the performance by the Rabin government on the Golan issue,"'Katz writes. Unlike other territories, holding onto the Golan was never a'matter of debate. To make a turnover palatable, Rabin's deputy, Mr. Peres,'proclaims that Assad has changed. | Download PDF |
| More Of The Same Would Be Sad | 11/13/1992 | Katz finds it hard to believe that Israel's leaders don't understand that all concessions are viewed by the Arabs as a process of surrender of Israeli sovereignty. It's even seen that way by some Americans. He cites Eugene Rostow, who said how surprised he was to hear an American diplomat describe Israel as "a passing phenomenon." Katz says while Israel's leaders may be deceived, the majority of Israelis are not. | Download PDF |
| Classic Gestures of Disbelief | 11/27/1992 | Arab discontent with the progress of the "peace talks" is a lot of hot air,'Katz writes. While the Arabs would naturally like still more progress, they are, in fact, euphoric over the advances they have made, even though their propaganda machine daily parrots the formula that the Israelis have offered'"nothing." The Arabs' plan now is to wait for President-elect Clinton, whom they feel certain will be on their side. Their belief is well-grounded, Katz says, as recent US presidents have gone with the Arabs. | Download PDF |
| Encouragement To Our Enemies | 12/25/1992 | In response to Secretary of State Eagleburger's public criticism of Israel's decision to deport Hamas terror organizers, Katz warns that Hamas is a threat to the region and not just a local, anti-Israel phenomenon. Hamas' goal is to become the leader of all Moslems and take vengeance on the West. Katz also notes that Israel's leaders do not answer to the U.S. but to the Israeli people. | Download PDF |
| False History, Phoney Peace | 1/15/1993 | One of the great hoaxes of history was recently commemorated. January 1, 1964 marked the start of the struggle of a homeless "Palestinian people" to regain its homeland. The date itself exposes the hoax. Katz takes on the completely fabricated history of the "Palestinian people." He quotes Moslem theologian Al Ghazzali: "If a lie is the only way of obtaining a good result, it is permissible. We must lie when truth leads to unpleasant results." The Arab propaganda has been enormously successful and part of the blame belongs to successive Israeli governments, which fail to maintain a constant program of public education abroad. | Download PDF |
| Sheer Distortion | 1/22/1993 | Katz says the Israeli government must counter the charge, repeated almost daily, that the deportation of Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorists contravenes the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949. The Fourth Geneva Convention was intended to prevent mass deportations of the kind carried out by the Nazis in World War II. " By what stretch of a sick malevolence can the deportation of a group of terrorist inciters, organizers and executioners, whose declared immediate objective is the murder of Jews and sometimes of Arab dissenters, and whose ultimate declared purpose is the destruction of the Jewish state, be twisted into a reflection of the terms of Article 49?" Katz asks. | Download PDF |
| Keep Those Murderers Out | 2/5/1993 | Rabin's collapse in the face of American pressure resulting in the return of 100 of the Hamas deportees will restore the Hamas infrastructure and increase the likelihood Israel will lose the war the Arabs wage against her,'Katz says. Katz notes that a survey showed 65% of Israel's population favored deporting Hamas terrorists even if sanctions were imposed,'demonstrating that Israelis are braver - and wiser - than their leaders. | Download PDF |
| Rabin's 'Great Achievement' | 2/19/1993 | Rabin and Peres have spun their decision to reverse the Hamas deportations as a "great achievement" - improved relations with Washington. What Rabin and Peres have, in fact, done is affirm a UN resolution describing Israel as an "occupying power" and pulled the rug out from under Israel's friends. "A'long and arduous pull will be needed to repair the damage that has been wrought these past weeks; and there is no sign that it is in sight," Katz writes. | Download PDF |
| Golan: More Than Geography | 3/5/1993 | Katz comments on US Secretary of State Warren Christopher's remarks after taking a helicopter tour of Israel's borders. Christopher's statements show that US policy is based on false premises. But what Christopher overlooked were the thriving Jewish communities on the Golan, which have set down roots they do not intend to forsake. | Download PDF |
| A Little Push From Washington | 3/19/1993 | The Rabin-Aloni government, which is being given a friendly push by Washington to abandon the Golan to Syria, can expect the same pattern that accompanied the peace process initiated by Prime Minister Begin in 1977: A'salami process, jointly confected by Americans and Arabs, whereby Israel is asked to concede more than it planned and various agreements signed by the Arabs remaining dead letters. | Download PDF |
| Rabin's Risks Won't Bring Peace | 4/2/1993 | Rabin figured out how to "improve relations" with the U.S. in 1975 during his first term as prime minister. The recipe? Simply conceding to its demands. Under pressure from Kissinger, Rabin gave up the Gidi and Mitla passes, and also the Abu Rodeis oilfield. He repeats the formula, this time announcing that he's willing to "pull back on the Golan Heights" at a joint press conference with President Clinton. [Note: End of article missing] | Download PDF |
| Suitors With Dishonorable Intentions | 4/16/1993 | Katz reacts to reports that Israel's government has agreed to let Faisal Husseini, a resident of Jerusalem, take over the leadership of the Palestinian Arab delegation. This needs to be discredited by the government immediately if it doesn't want to give the impression that it is recognizing Arab rights to Jerusalem, Katz warns. He sums up Moslem historic claims to Jerusalem, which are non-existent and contrasts that with Jerusalem's'central place in the Jewish religion. | Download PDF |
| The World Is Full Of Empty Promises | 4/30/1993 | In the years leading up to the Holocaust, Britain locked the gates of Palestine to fleeing Jews and no other country wished to take them, encouraging the Nazis in their plans. The Jewish people should have learned crucial lessons from this. Now the successors of those governments urge Israel to return to the 1949 Armistice lines, which would mean her destruction. Does Rabin intend to retreat to those lines? As the election of June, 1992 was not backed by a popular majority, a new general election must be called immediately. | Download PDF |
| Rabin's Theater Of The Absurd | 5/14/1993 | Katz describes the current Rabin-Peres-Aloni government as the most bizarre government in Israel's colorful history. The minister of the interior is on the verge of indictment. The minister of education attacks revered Biblical figures and thinks young Israelis shouldn't visit the death camps for fear it will awaken nationalist feelings. And the foreign minister says there's'no need for a "hasbara" department and has sent out instructions to diplomats to treats the PLO with kid gloves. | Download PDF |
| Strikes That Are Too Bitter To Swallow | 5/28/1993 | Katz describes a nurse's strike that left patients lying in bed, racked with pain, begging in vain for painkillers. In Israel, the right to strike overrides every law of humanity and morality, he says. It is time to say enough. Labor disputes, like any dispute, must be brought before a court,'presided over by a judge. | Download PDF |
| A Comic Incident, A Cautionary Tale | 6/11/1993 | A "pilgrimage" of 182 Libyans to Jerusalem was a public relations gimmick, and a comical episode as the Israeli babes-in-arms who fell for the trick were forced to endure the insults and threats of the Libyan envoys they had fawned over only a day before. Katz warns though that there's a cautionary tale in the trip. It's evidence of the Arab's absolute hostility toward any Jewish national existence. | Download PDF |
| National Consensus Vs. The Con Men | 6/25/1993 | President Ezer Weizmann visited the Jewish communities across the Green Line and asked them not to do anything to create a schism in the nation. This suggests that somehow they are the ones at fault when it's the Rabin government that has reneged on its pre-election promises, Katz writes. It has been argued in defense of the Rabin government that other governments, which also represented a minority of the population, have negotiated without constraint. In reply to this, Katz notes that these governments were not given their government majority by means of a confidence trick. | Download PDF |
| A Trap In The Guise Of Compromise | 7/9/1993 | The Americans are trying to put across as a compromise, a transparent trap, Katz writes. They say that Jerusalem will not be discussed until the "final phase" of negotiations. This means that if the Arabs can relent on their constant pressure for rights (to which they do not have), Israel will later be obliged to concede a portion of those rights. | Download PDF |
| Unbalanced Book Review | 7/9/1993 | Katz writes a letter to the editor defending his biography of Jabotinsky from an attack. | Download PDF |
| America's Pre-Programmed Policy | 7/23/1993 | Secretary of State Warren Christopher is due in the region, and although he admitted surprise at the geography of Israel during a previous trip, nothing about America's approach will change as the State Department has the answers and solutions ready-made. [Note: This article is incomplete] | Download PDF |
| Memory Lapses Of The Perilous Kind | 8/6/1993 | Katz describes two memory lapses. The first is Walter Lacquer, who seems to have forgotten he's the author of "A History of Zionism" - judging by a letter he wrote dismissing Jabotinsky as a litterateur. But in his book, "Laqueur devotes 47 of its 600 pages to Jabotinsky - almost as much as to Herzl." The second memory lapse is Abba Eban, who once described the June, 1967 borders as "Auschwitz" borders but now seems to be saying he will gladly withdraw to them. | Download PDF |
| Kosher For Both Or For Neither | 8/20/1993 | Katz describes the double standard that exists when it comes to the mention of the word "transfer". The transfer of Jews is alright for the Rabin-Aloni government. But the mere mention of the "transfer" of Arabs causes an uproar. "Does it mean that only the transfer of Jews is permissible (and there has been one example in our generation - the forcible expulsion of Jews from Sinai in 1979)? Does this mean, in other words, that Israel accepts the age-old anti-Jewish principle of the "double standard" and is prepared to serve as the prime promoter on a grand scale of end-of-century antisemitism?" | Download PDF |
| The PLO Is Being Truthful | 9/15/1993 | The charade on the White House lawn was meant to give the impression that what was signed between Israel and the PLO was a "sacred international agreement." It is nothing of the sort, Katz writes. It's an agreement between a private organization which was never elected and an Israeli leader who never obtained a mandate to negotiate with the PLO. | Download PDF |
| PR Hoaxes And Horrors Old And New | 10/1/1993 | Aggressors often accuse their victims of aggression. After losing their war of extermination in 1948, the Arabs proceeded to launch a propaganda campaign completely based on lies in which they cast themselves in the role of the victim. Katz gives a true account of the War of Independence and how the West did nothing to help the nascent Jewish State. | Download PDF |
| Israelis As 'Schutzjuden' - By Choice | 10/15/1993 | In the Diaspora, the Schutzjuden were protected Jews. A local ruler would take a community of Jews under his wing in exchange for a price - special taxes or other means. These defenseless Jews were then guaranteed security from attack. Israel's leaders want to repeat this degrading existence, only by choice. Rabin's government is willing to abandon the Golan and place American troops there as a "guarantee". | Download PDF |
| Shas's Lamentable Lack Of Logic | 10/29/1993 | Katz, who studied Talmud in his youth and appreciated its unbeatable logic, expresses disappointment in the head of the Shas religious party, Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, who props up the Rabin government and supports the Oslo Accords on the basis of pikuah nefesh: the need to save lives. But the situation is much more complex than the rabbi's simplistic calculation and Jews continue to be killed even with the agreement. Rabbi Yosef has failed. | Download PDF |
| Fibs My Foreign Minister Told | 11/19/1993 | Arafat's refusal to speak out against, let alone stop, Hamas's murder of Jews reminds Katz of a story from South African Jewish folklore. [Note: Article incomplete] | Download PDF |
| Rabin's Giving Away Of The Golan | 12/3/1993 | Katz examines the Israeli High Court's rejection of a petition to call on the government to refrain from negotiating on the future of the Golan Heights. He says the court should have taken into account the razor-thin Labor-Meretz majority rule in the Knesset and the opposition's narrow majority in the popular vote - "surely a significant moral factor in an issue so grave as the claimed mandate for a historic initiative to give away the Golan." | Download PDF |
| Where Angels Fear To Tread | 1/14/1994 | Katz responds to comments made by the Egyptian Ambassador that Syrian President Hafez Assad will honor any peace agreement. As evidence, the Ambassador cites Assad's punctilious adherence to the "Separation of Forces" agreement of 1974. Katz explains that the reason Assad keeps the agreement is because Israeli tanks and planes are placed 30 miles from Damascus, not out of any honorable motives. | Download PDF |
| Assad And A Memory of Auschwitz | 1/28/1994 | As he lies about the Golan, so Prime Minister Rabin lies about Jerusalem. Katz describes a meeting in which Rabin addressed the religious sports organization, Elitzur, promising that Jerusalem will remain undivided. The prime minister was surprised by the hostile questions from the audience, which was well aware that the Rabin government promised Jerusalem Arabs the right to vote for the autonomy institutions, just like the Arabs of Judea and Samaria, and had permitted Jerusalemite Faisal Husseini to become head of the PLO delegation. [Note: Article incomplete] | Download PDF |
| Seek Peace - But Do Not Pursue It | 2/11/1994 | Israel has demonstrated a pattern of behavior for decades, in which it acts as a defeated nation under pressure to make peace when it's the other side which has been defeated. Katz says Israel would gain wisdom from Henry Kissinger's book, "A World Restored," which reveals that the most peaceful times were those in which nations did not seek peace. [Note: article incomplete] | Download PDF |
| Sorry, No Solutions Up Their Sleeves | 2/25/1994 | Katz takes on defeatist academics in Israel who try to come up with formulas for more territorial concessions. Among them he includes Yehoshafat Harkabi, who wants to give up Judea and Samaria even without a peace treaty, and Mark Heller who calls for American guarantees if Israel should leave the Golan. Katz says these academics should "stop trying to persuade the nation that they have solutions for life-and-death problems up their sleeves, when they haven't." | Download PDF |
| Strikes And Other Natural Disasters | 3/11/1994 | Israel has been luckily free of natural disasters but seems intent on creating man-made ones in the form of strikes, putting the health, careers and lives of Israel's citizens at risk. "It boggles the mind that year after year, this nation goes on denying itself the one manifest means of relief from the sometimes horrific excesses of strike action in public services: binding arbitration. Israel has a body of judges as able, and processes of law as fair, as any in the Western world," Katz writes. | Download PDF |
| The Palestinian 'White Paper' | 8/19/1994 | In a Letter to the Editor, Katz takes on an op-ed by Jerusalem mayor Teddy Kollek, in which Kollek wants Israel to forgive the Arabs as quickly as it forgave the British. Katz explains why this is a chilling comparison. | Download PDF |
| PLO Leader's Confidence Trick | 12/23/1994 | PLO leader Arafat hasn't changed the Palestinian Covenant calling for the destruction of Israel because he never had any intention of changing it. Arafat knew he wouldn't have to change it based on the behavior of the Rabin-Aloni government. Even if the whole covenant were to be abolished, its aims would still be pursued, Katz writes. | Download PDF |
| One Of A Kind | 1/6/1995 | In connection with a symposium in memory of Sen. Henry "Scoop" Jackson, Katz gives several examples of why the late senator must be remembered, from his staunch support of Israel during the Yom Kippur War to his efforts on behalf of Soviet Jewry. | Download PDF |
| Blowing In The Wind | 2/24/1995 | "There is an ill wind blowing from the Egyptian Foreign Ministry," Rabin said. Katz describes this as one in a long line of fatuities coming out of Rabin's two-and-a-half years of government. To suggest that the wind is something new ignores history. The wind has been blowing since 1948. Katz gives an account of Arab hostility from the beginning of Israel's creation up to the present day. | Download PDF |
| A Convenient Case Of Amnesia | 6/16/1995 | Katz describes the Secretary of State Warren Christopher's trip to Israel in 1993 when he visited the Golan and was shaken by the situation on the ground. "There is no question that the geography complicated the matter and changes the situation very greatly," he said. Christopher has since pushed to surrender the Golan. He's no the only one with a convenient case of amnesia. | Download PDF |
| U.S. Forces on the Golan Heights? | 7/1/1995 | In a Letter to the Editor to Commentary magazine, Katz criticizes Michael Eisenstadt of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy for advocating handing over the Golan Heights to Syria. | Download PDF |
| Title Unknown | 8/25/1995 | In a recent dust-up over who has the right to make policy decisions regarding Israel, Katz says that if the criteria is that whoever faces the life-and-death struggle of war and terrorism should decide their fate in life-and-death matters then it can be argued that the majority of Israelis are against a Golan withdrawal based on a recent Knesset vote. | Download PDF |
| Yitzhak Rabin's Own Chutzpah | 10/20/1995 | 'What justification has Yitzhak Rabin for the demand that he be accorded unqualified support by American Jews, on whom he recently poured abuse, because they believe his policies are dangerous and say so?' Katz asks. Katz describes as chutzpah Mr. Rabin's own accusation of chutzpah toward American Jews who protest the giving of American money to Arafat. | Download PDF |
| Mischief By Other Means | 5/28/1996 | Before he was assassinated, Yitzhak Rabin demanded that the Palestinian Covenant be abrogated or amended within two months of the meeting of the Palestinian National Council. Otherwise, the "peace process" would be halted. It didn't happen, said Katz. Instead, there has been a conspiracy by Israel's own government to say it has been amended. Katz adds that the Palestinian Covenant isn't important in the sense that the document isn't what gave birth to the Arab purpose of eliminating Israel. | Download PDF |
| Less Cozy, More Clear | 6/21/1996 | On the eve of Prime Minister Netanyahu's trip to the US, Katz says that the prime minister is "duty-bound to forgo the traditional patterns of coziness that have characterized reports of past meetings at the White House." He must make it clear that he was not elected to continue the policies of Peres and his ilk. | Download PDF |
| Arafat's Lies | 7/11/1996 | Katz attacks a letter by Misha Louvish for attempting to whitewash Yasser Arafat and ignoring the fact that Palestinian National Covenant is still in force. Katz notes there was only one correct statement in Louvish's letter, a result of an editing mistake in Katz's piece. The editor of the Jerusalem Post editor adds an apology. | Download PDF |
| An Education In Violence | 8/9/1996 | Not only has Arafat not spoken out against terrorism, but he actively promotes it, most recently at a eulogy for Hamas killer Yihye Ayyash. Every one of Arafat's speeches is in favor of terror, Katz writes. "To Arafat's good fortune, the Rabin-Peres-Aloni regime, which after all was working toward fulfillment of Arafat's dream of a Palestinian state, did not evince or unduly encourage negative reactions to Arafat's rhetoric." | Download PDF |
| Israel Basher | 1/24/1997 | Katz writes a letter in defense of Mort Klein, president of the Zionist Organization of America, who attacked Thomas Friedman, a prominent "Israel basher" who received an award from, of all places, the Anti-Defamation League. | Download PDF |
| A Very Pernicious Process | 1/27/1997 | Katz draws a sharp comparison between the events that led to the election of Neville Chamberlain and those that led to the election of Bibi Netanyahu. Chamberlain, a conservative leader, did the opposite of what the electors had hoped. So, too, does Netanyahu do the opposite, continuing a process that will lead to war with Israel reduced to a state of utmost vulnerability. | Download PDF |
| Without Jerusalem | 3/12/1997 | A recent international outcry over Israeli plans to build a housing project in Jerusalem is motivated by age-old Christian anti-Semitism, Katz reveals. The Catholic church has been most actively hostile to Zionism. They fear that "Jewish rule over the Christian holy places constitutes a direct challenge to the almost preternatural assertion that (because of the Jews' rejection of Jesus) no Jewish polity would or could ever arise again in Jerusalem." | Download PDF |
| Camp David Redux | 7/11/2000 | Katz writes a Letter to the Editor in response to an article by Former U.S. Ambassador to Israel Samuel W. Lewis. | Download PDF |
| And Netanyahu's Candidacy | 12/22/2000 | A Letter to the Editor by Katz criticizes the behavior of Benjamin Netanyahu. | Download PDF |
| Dennis Ross Confesses | 7/11/2001 | Katz ridicules as 'psychobabble' U.S. negotiator Dennis Ross's apologia for Arafat, which he uses to explain away the failure of the 'peace process'. 'There is not the slightest reason for anybody, least of all Ross, to delve into the depths of Arafat's mind in order to understand why he 'can't do a deal.' Arafat himself has openly, indeed defiantly, been telling the world time after time what his plan for Israel is. That plan is no chimera, but a practical strategic objective,' Katz writes. | Download PDF |
| Tinkering With 'Hasbara' | 8/16/2001 | In the wake of a meeting on Israel's hasbara challenges held by Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, Katz expresses his approval, but insists that what is needed is a permanent Ministry of Information to counter the sophisticated Arab propaganda campaign that goes on throughout the world. | Download PDF |
| Curse of the Tongue-Tied | 11/6/2001 | Katz talks about the need for a permanent ministry of information as sophisticated as the special department of information set up by Winston Churchill in World War II. | Download PDF |
| In Politics: No Friendships, Only Interests | 11/15/2001 | Katz demonstrates through example how a foreign leader might be personally friendly toward Israel, yet pursue policies that inimical to Israel's interests. The latest is George W. Bush's attempt to exclude Israel from the coalition against terror because he wants Saudi and other Arab support. | Download PDF |
| On Blunders And Distortions | 11/29/2001 | Katz pillories a recent speech by Secretary of State Colin Powell, which he calls an 'amazing concoction.' Powell refers several times to Israel's 'occupation' and draws a moral equivalence between Arab violence and Israel's retaliation. Worse is Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's and Foreign Minister Shimon Peres' approval of the speech. | Download PDF |
| Get The Word Out | 12/17/2001 | Katz offers an account of the Carter administration's efforts to brand 'settlements' as illegal. Israel never fully recovered from this false charge, in large part because it did not launch a counter-campaign to expose the smear. Israel needs a national policy of information to explain the 'whys and wherefores of our existence.' | Download PDF |
| A Twin For Arafat | 1/8/2002 | The left has a new icon, Sari Nusseibeh, a Jerusalem-born Arab and Oxford graduate, Katz writes. But he's nothing more than another 'unrestrained promoter of vicious Arab propaganda.' | Download PDF |
| A Bitter Reminder | 10/24/2002 | In this Letter-to-the-Editor, Katz reminds British PM Tony Blair of Britain's behavior during World War II when it blocked Jews fleeing Hitler from entering Palestine. | Download PDF |
| Sharon's Egregious Blunder | 1/3/2003 | Sharon promises a Palestinian state is a historic victory for the Arabs, Katz writes. And his call for a demilitarized state would never work. He likens Sharon to Menachem Begin, who relied on members of the Labor party to pass his Egypt treaty and is even now calculating how many opposition ministers will be needed to ensure his majority. | Download PDF |
| Flawed To The Core | 5/5/2003 | Katz attacks the 'road map.' He describes the behavior of the Quartet's members as eerily reminiscent of the four statesmen who made the Munich pact. Katz explains why the road map is no different than all the other plans for Mideast peace proposed by various U.S. administrations and why they are all flawed to the core. | Download PDF |
| Middle East History for Dummies | 6/11/2003 | Katz discusses central historical facts about Israel-Arab history to demonstrate that the makers of the road map rest their policy on Arab fabrication and untruth. | Download PDF |
| Ariel Sharon Trips On The Road Map | 8/8/2003 | Katz shows how Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, who publicly said that he favored the creation of a Palestinian state, is the catalyst for the 'international ganging up on Israel' by the Quartet members. By accepting a document 'made in secret, hostile in purpose,' Sharon undoes Israel's military victory over PA terror in the preceding years, Katz says. | Download PDF |
| America Turns Its Back On '242' | 8/22/2003 | The Bush administration wants Israel to return to the 1949 Armistice lines as demanded by the Arabs. 'The administration thus comes into stark conflict with the one legally binding resolution on the dispute by the UN Security Council, Resolution 242 of November 1967,' Katz writes. Resolution 242, pushed by the U.S. at the time, rules out the return to the 1949 borders. | Download PDF |
| The Great Refugee Scam | 9/19/2003 | Katz provides an overview of another Arab hoax -- the story of the Arabs who left the coastal areas of Palestine in the spring of 1948. 'The Arabs are the only declared 'refugees' who became refugees by the initiative of their own leaders. The concoction of the monstrous charge that it was the Jews who had driven out the Arabs of Palestine was a strategic decision made by the leaders of the Arab League months after the Arabs' flight,' Katz writes. | Download PDF |
| Anatomy Of A Disaster | 10/9/2003 | Katz says Israel should declare it is not obligated to carry out the road map as the plan was concocted by powers hostile to Israel's interests which have ignored continued Arab terror, making a mockery of the sequence of events laid out in the plan. At the same time, these powers insist Israel carry it out to the letter. | Download PDF |
| The Man With A Plan | 10/23/2003 | In light of the 30th anniversary of the Yom Kippur War, Katz examines former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's crucial role in denying Israel the fruits of its victory. | Download PDF |
| With Syria, Trade Peace for Peace | 1/20/2004 | Israel can offer Syria peace, Katz says, only if Syria is willing to end the promotion of terror and anti-Semitic and anti-Israel propaganda. To offer it the Golan, which Syria wants only as a base to destroy Israel, and expect peace in return is delusional. | Download PDF |
| A Brief To The International Court | 2/24/2004 | Shmuel comments on the ICJ (International Court of Justice) and its hearings on Israel's security fence. Katz describes the ICJ as biased and having already indicated what its verdict will likely be. Before the ICJ can form an opinion it must look back at the 'substantial modern legal and historical testimony' backing Israel's claim to the lands in question, he says. | Download PDF |
| Road Map U-Turn | 4/15/2004 | The road map makes a return with a statement by President Bush that a Gaza withdrawal would not 'replace the road map'. The road map should be considered dead, Katz says, given that the Arabs have no intention of renouncing terror, a key ingredient of the plan. 'Unfortunately, it is the Israeli government's diplomatic policy that has kept the road map alive. When Israel first received the document and saw what it contained, minimal self-respect dictated that it send it back with the brief notation 'Unacceptable' and 'Return to sender,'' he writes. | Download PDF |
| Wiseacres and Pragmatists | 5/20/2004 | Katz uses the historical example of Weizmann and Jabotinsky to show that the supporters of the Gaza disengagement have it reversed when they accuse the opposition of being impractical ideologists while they assume the mantle of the hard-headed, sensible pragmatists. | Download PDF |
| To Fester No Longer | 6/16/2004 | Katz criticizes the Sharon government for the misrepresentations it uses to sell the disengagement plan to the public. One such is the claim that President George W. Bush will renege on his 'guarantee' to oppose the 'right of return' of the so-called refugees. But Bush has made no such threat and it's up to the Arabs, who created the refugee problem, to solve it, Katz says. | Download PDF |
| A Few Words About Steadfastness | 7/20/2004 | Katz writes a paean to his hero and mentor, Ze'ev Jabotinsky. | Download PDF |
| Unsettling thoughts on occupation | 8/4/2004 | Katz describes a recent decision by the International Court of Justice at The Hague that found Israel to be an illegal occupier of Judea and Samaria as a travesty of justice. In order to arrive at this judgment, he says, the court had to ignore international law and history. 'The Jewish presence in the whole of western Palestine, the Land of Israel, can be much more closely described as a historic act of restitution.' | Download PDF |
| End of An Ideology | 11/5/2004 | An interview with Shmuel Katz on the eve of the Knesset vote on the
disengagement from the Gaza Strip. | Download PDF |
| Sharon, The 'Ex-Messiah' | 12/9/2004 | Katz condemns Sharon for embracing the ideas of the Left and his callous disregard for the Gush Katif victims he plans to expel. 'He has followed the predictable course of the traditional apostate. Having embraced the beliefs of the Labor Party and the wishful thinking on which they are based, he treats those who have remained faithful to the ideas they had in common with him as though they were ignorant peasants,' Katz writes. | Download PDF |
| A Palestinian State Will Not Bring Peace | 3/16/2005 | The evidence is overwhelming, though it isn't fashionable to say so, that a Palestinian State will be the next stage for gaining all of Israel, Katz writes. 'It would inevitably make a serious contribution to the grievous weakening of Israel, strategically and politically. It is illusory in the extreme - and shockingly misleading - to suggest that it will bring peace.' | Download PDF |
| Disengagement is no solution | 6/14/2005 | Katz reviews the Arab goal to destroy Israel and how the Arabs changed their tactics to a staged strategy after suffering several military defeats. Ariel Sharon, with his disengagement plan, now catapults Israel into this Arab plan of 'phases'. Katz says it is time for Israel to stop appeasing its enemies. | Download PDF |
| Flight of Fancy | 10/6/2005 | 'The leaders of Israel must do some deep rethinking,' Katz writes. 'A nation cannot fight wars against an enemy aiming at its destruction while its leaders are occupied with fatuous flights of fancy about peace and formulae for negotiations.' Katz describes the dire situation created by Sharon's abandonment of Gaza and the damage his manipulations did to Israel's parliamentary democracy. | Download PDF |
| Israel's Living History Book: An Interview with Shmuel Katz | 11/5/2005 | Katz is interviewed by The Jewish Press. | Download PDF |
| The Phantom Arab Moderate | 11/29/2005 | Katz describes as complete fiction the idea that there is such a thing as an Arab moderate with which Israel can negotiate. 'Moderate Arabs' differ from the most immoderate Arabs only in the method they choose to eliminate the State of Israel, he says. | Download PDF |
| Two Faces Of A Bully | 12/30/2005 | Katz criticizes Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, who is brave when it comes to expelling the residents of Gush Katif but a lamb in foreign relations, caving to American pressure regarding the road map and allowing Egypt and the European Union to monitor border crossings into the Gaza Strip. | Download PDF |
| The Real Reason That The IDF Was Unprepared | 9/27/2006 | In an analysis of what went wrong in the Lebanon campaign, Katz reveals the two defining moments in the war with Hizbullah. | Download PDF |
| Our State Of Confusion | 11/22/2006 | 'The peace-at-any-price brigade is back in business,' Katz writes. Katz describes a divide within Israel that started before the state was created between those who believed the Arab threats and those that did not ' despite hard evidence to the contrary. The events after the Gaza disengagement have vindicated those who said the Arab threats are real, but sadly with little effect. | Download PDF |
| Educating Mr. Sarid | 1/11/2007 | Katz takes apart the fabrications of former Knesset member Yossi Sarid who ignored key facts about the Six Day War in a recent interview. 'He does not confine himself to major issues. He lies at all levels,' Katz writes. | Download PDF |
| They Hunted Us Like Animals | 5/1/2007 | A recent revelation that Teddy Kollek helped hand over Jewish fighters to the British during the period known as 'The Season' came as a shock to many but not Shmuel Katz, a member of the Irgun high command who remembered the behavior of the Labor leadership in those days. | Download PDF |
| Fabricating an emotion | 5/29/2007 | Katz shows how what has long been known as the 'Oriental imagination' has come to take a key part in shaping world events. Arab propaganda has enjoyed great success, not least in its 'usurpation of the Jewish patrimony of Jerusalem.' Jerusalem was never holy to Islam and was long considered a backwater by the Muslims, Katz writes. | Download PDF |
| Mr. Prime Minister, Do Not Abandon The Golan | 8/9/2007 | With an eye to history, Katz explains why it is important that the Golan Heights must remain in Israel's hands. He describes Olmert's proposal as 'high in the scale of blunders committed and disasters generated by the prime minister in the past two years - first as adjunct to his mentor Ariel Sharon and then on his own account.' | Download PDF |
| The Looming Danger Of Annapolis | 11/22/2007 | 'The Jewish state is in greater danger than anytime since the 1948 War of Independence. The danger stems not from current Arab violence, nor the threat of future violence. It lies in the convocation of the Annapolis conference conceived and promoted with almost frenetic enthusiasm by US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice,' Katz writes. | Download PDF |
| On The Rights of 'Settlers' | 12/28/2007 | Through an analysis of British Mandate history, Katz shows that the Jewish settlers are, from the point of view of international law, as legal as any resident of Manhattan or of Shreveport, Louisiana. | Download PDF |