David Bar-Illan was an Israeli journalist, pianist, and political figure who served as director of communications and policy planning in the office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. He wrote commentary on Israeli politics and Middle Eastern affairs for The Weekly Standard in 1996, analyzing Palestinian leadership and Israeli electoral realism. Bar-Illan was also editor of the Jerusalem Post before entering government service.
Jerusalem PRIME MINISTER SHIMON PERES'S defeat was far more dramatic than the result of his head-to-head contest with Benjamin Netanyahu might indicate. His government coalition, which commanded a bare but unshakable one-seat majority in the Knesset (61 of 120), suffered a shattering trouncing in…
Jerusalem PRIME MINISTER SHIMON PERES'S defeat was far more dramatic than the result of his head-to-head contest with Benjamin Netanyahu might indicate. His government coalition, which commanded a bare but unshakable one-seat majority in the Knesset (61 of 120), suffered a shattering trouncing in…
WHEN SADDAM HUSSEIN'S sons-in-law returned to Baghdad from their haven in Amman only to be murdered promptly by the grandfather of their children, Israelis were flabbergasted. What they could not fathom was not the routine Iraqi atrocity, but how men born and bred in the Middle East could be…