In every country, agriculture is an economically inefficient occupation, and Israel is no exception. Farms receive free land and almost free water, yet they cannot compete with foreign producers with low labor cost, where Chinese or Palestinian.

Instead of raising import duties, as Israeli agricultural lobby demands to the detriment of consumers, the state should start winding down its massive donations to farmers.

Still, it is a bit odd for the Jews to subsidize the people who openly side with our enemies.

Netanyahu expressed his willingness for ‘further concessions’, but not in Jerusalem. What, however, is the difference between Ramat Shlomo in Jerusalem and any settlement in the blocs? Why residents of the settlements must suffer from overcrowding, unable to enlarge their legally built homes or build new homes nearby for their children?

We can only dream of having an Israeli leader who would tell flatly that we don’t need a peace treaty with Palestinians, are not willing to make any concessions for that piece of paper, and if the Arabs want it, we’re ready to study their concessions.

Arabs rioted in Burin, something to do with a water well dispute with local Jews. Just one Arab was killed with rubber bullet, perhaps a second one would succumb to his wounds.

IAF struck six shacks in Gaza. As usual, Jewish pilots were remarkably precise: only the empty buildings were hit in densely populated areas, so that no Arabs would be killed.

Police banned (‘postponed’) a march by right-wingers in Silwan neighborhood of Jerusalem.

Peres defended the Ramat Shlomo construction because the district is “basically Jewish” and non-negotiable.

The army investigates soldiers for misconduct. None of Palestinian attackers will be punished.

Guess what the Arabs will do the next time they see an unarmed Jew.

Overall, about half of Israeli youth remain sane and reject the Arabs’ right to vote the Jewish state out of existence.

The plan is nonsense. Millions of tourists come to China annually, but none of them supports the communist regime. Apartheid South Africa was a major tourist destination, but suffered condemnation and sanctions. If anything, the tourists would support internationalizing Jerusalem.

It takes a psychiatrist to understand the Jewish longing to be loved by others.

Most of the Arabs wore masks, which will make it difficult to identify them in court.

A crowd of criminals who defy law-enforcement officers and purposely evade identification is an enemy formation, but the police shrunk from shooting at the crowd, possibly out of fear of prosecution. Arabs know that rioters usually go unpunished, so they engage in riots as national sport.

The riots are instigated by the Islamic Movement, an official organization which the Israeli government refuses to ban despite decades of incitement.

Those who think that the Arabs would be satisfied with East Jerusalem might learn from the fact that the current round of riots was caused by the renovation of the famous Hurva synagogue in the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem.

As usual, the actual cost will greatly exceed the projected amount.

The White House is demanding a construction freeze in extremely rude terms. The current crisis is attributable to the scheming Israeli president. Peres expected that Obama would force Netanyahu to formally abandon the construction, and that this decision would provoke a coalition crisis. Netanyahu, accordingly, would have to bring Kadima into the government to prevent it from falling apart, and Kadima would push for further concessions to the Palestinians.

Six years ago, police staged a provocation against the militant Jews of Yitzhar: an Arab was allowed to steal goats and police arrested the Jews who caught him for assault.

The government demonstrates its contempt for religious Jews by settling them in inhospitable areas, and atheist Jews demonstrate theirs by protesting the neighborhoods of haredim but not those of Arabs.

While the EU is busy condemning Israel for imagined war crimes, every day Palestinians try to set Jewish cars and buses on fire.

The dog-bites-man news stories were not as prominent in the media: Arab children hurled rocks at Jewish police in Ras el Amoud, near Jerusalem.

That would be another witch-hunt, much like Ariel Sharon’s criminalization of dissent over the disengagement from Gush Katif. The construction moratorium is merely a government decision—an illegal one at that—and not a law. Its violation cannot be a crime.

If Jews are indicted merely for violating building codes, why do hundreds of thousands of Israeli Arabs who do likewise remain at large?

This, however, is a Jewish country. If not life, then at least death here is governed by Jewish law. The boy had no religious affiliation in his ID papers. He was born abroad and adopted in Israel. The rabbis reasonably doubted his Jewishness.

The rabbis are not monsters. Rather, they deeply mistrust the secular legal system—for good reason—and are not willing to give up one of their own for prosecution by atheists.

A possible solution to the problem of the religious community protecting its scoundrels from secular prosecution would be to allow rabbinical leaders criminal jurisdiction over their members.

The sergeants, who naturally wanted to live, forced Palestinian teenagers to open boxes that had possibly been booby-trapped by their elected Hamas government during the 2009 war in Gaza.

There is not the slightest doubt that the soldiers did the right thing according to Jewish religious law.

Biden, who demanded a contiguous Palestinian state yesterday, called Israel America’s best friend today.

UNHCR also confirmed that the majority of illegals come from Eritrea. The UN people failed to come to the obvious conclusion: the Eritreans are not refugees.

Now that the Sudanese government has signed peace with the Darfur rebels, Sudanese immigrants in Israel have lost any claim to refugee status, and must be deported immediately.

Religious parties oppose a provision of the bill which authorizes any three local rabbis to form a band and start authorizing conversions. Such an arrangement would encourage prospective converts to shop for the most lenient rabbis—who would be in no short supply.

The bill, sensibly enough, closes the conversion loophole to illegal immigrants, who would of course convert for economic reasons. That provision will be opposed by leftists, who love the illegals.

In any case, very few people want to convert. Since the state is not practically Jewish, they are comfortable with their current religious status.

A rally of such magnitude would require about 100 buses and cost close to half a million shekels.

But Interpol is playing a foul game: they cannot be arrested. No doubt, the passport photos were digitally altered a bit. Border guards wouldn’t have noticed the difference, but positive identification has become impossible.

The purpose of the Dubai/Interpol operation is to create a headache for Mossad. With close to 50 members of its Spear unit compromised, the intelligence service will have a hard time conducting similar operations for a year or two.

Abdullah Barghouti, a terrorist serving 67 (!) life terms in an Israeli jail, declared PM Netanyahu guilty of refusing to agree to the prisoner exchange. In the warped Muslim mind, it is not the serial murderer who is guilty, but the prime minister who refuses to submit to terrorist demands. It does not raise eyebrows in Israel that a convicted terrorist freely makes political declarations.

Turkish PM Erdogan claimed that the tomb of foremother Rachel was never Jewish and that Netanyahu destabilized the Middle East by including it on the Jewish Heritage Sites list.

Wakf, an Islamic organization entrusted by mad Israelis with the upkeep of the Temple Mount, defended Friday’s riots, which left 18 policemen wounded. The preacher, mind you, merely asked good Muslims to defend their sites against Israelis.

The UNSC expressed its concerns over the Temple Mount clashes. For some reason, the UN remains unconcerned with dozens of other conflicts throughout the world, which claim millions of lives.

Abbas, who depends on IDF for protection against Hamas and on the Israeli treasury for his salary, joined the chorus of Jew-bashing.

Syria, which used to kill 20,000 Muslim Brotherhood members in a day, and 8,000 Palestinians on the next day, has suddenly embraced pan-Arab views. Its secular Alawite regime lambasted Israel for desecrating sacred Islamic sites—that is, our Temple Mount.

Meanwhile, Jews remained quiet and abstained from name-calling and accusing the other side. So in the world’s eyes the Arabs looked determined and righteously indignant, while the Jews appeared to have been silenced by their guilt.

Arabs fled from Jaffa in 1947, but have since come back with a vengeance in such ever-increasing numbers that police have a hard time keeping order there.

All six Arabs are dead.

Police arrested only a handful of Arab cheerleaders and let the majority of the attackers escape. Instead of taking the necessary security measures, police forcibly evacuated Jews who were praying at the Western Wall.

Jewish religious law leaves no doubt about the proper punishment for natives who refuse to submit to Jewish sovereignty in the Land of Israel.

In jail, Yigal has never been implicated in violent behavior or any other gross violation of rules, which are the only legal reasons for solitary confinement.

Of course Israeli Arabs hate the sight of Jewish soldiers, who oppress their brethren. The question is, why do Jews insist on integration with people who hate them?

The court refused to allow the police to ban the event despite the fact that demonstrators have attacked police on previous occasions.

The Israeli Supreme Court acts as the administrative High Court, a function which requires it to hear routine petitions against government agencies and micromanage the state’s affairs.

Rabin was killed shortly after he changed his dovish position and told the Knesset that “Israel’s borders lie in the Jordan Valley in the widest sense of that word.”

Of the 2009 construction projects, just 1,130 were private buildings, which adds a mere 1.5% to the housing capacity, well below the natural growth rate.

Muslims consider the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron to be their holy site. Until 1967, Jews were banned from the building, and could only ascend the first seven steps toward it. In 1967, Moshe Dayan gave the keys back to the Arabs.

There is no room for compromise for the Jews either: Orthodox Jews believe in the site’s sanctity, and secular nationalists object to being humiliated by Arabs.

In matters of national pride, there is no room for holy sites to be treated like condominiums.

Renewed every 18 months, the amendment bars the foreign spouses of Israel Arabs from the country; if an Israeli Arab loves his inexpensively purchased Iraqi spouse so much, let him move to Iraq with his other three wives.

Ultra-leftists of Jewish origin routinely challenge the law. The government defends the law on shaky security grounds instead of stating clearly that we do not want more Arabs here.

The court left the amendment standing but ordered the government to review its criteria. Most probably, the court will eventually lift restrictions on spouses purchased in Egypt, the West Bank and Jordan, which are technically not enemy states.

Even the United States, the most open society in the world, does not grant foreign spouses residence rights automatically. At a minimum, they must not become a drain on public resources. Israeli Arabs who do not pay taxes won’t be able to meet that standard.

The Israeli government was sufficiently foolish—or more probably, corrupt—to issue unrestricted concessions to private drilling companies. Free-market policies might be good for large countries with plenty of gas reserves, where many competing companies will assuredly supply national needs for centuries to come; but in Israel, Noble Energy has become a gas monopoly.

This private company will export the gas reserves of the Land of Israel, the field will be emptied in about a decade, and Jews will be left without gas again.

Jews discovered gas fields in Sinai—and gave Sinai away to Egypt; we discovered gas fields near Gaza—and passed the offshore reserves to Arafat; discovered gas fields near Haifa—and conceded them to a foreign company. God gave us good land with sufficient reserves, but we Jews have squandered them.

If only Israel were indeed an apartheid state, but in the allegedly apartheid Israel, our Arab enemies serve in the Knesset.

Zahalka’s and Baradei’s trips to Israeli Apartheid Week events might be financed by the Knesset, like most MK’s trips.

Normal people would have lynched the Arab, but Jews are nice.

The soldiers did not get medals, and their commander was suspended.

Police stormed the Mount, but did not dare to enter the Arab shrine called Al Aqsa, where the rioters had retreated to.

Hamas and the PA condemned the actions of the Israeli police.