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Incisive Commentary
Posting: July 31, 2008
"Just Suppose"
Political predictions are never written in stone, and certainly I make no claims that what I'm about to write here is anything other than a speculation. But I think it's...
Olmert Did Not Yet Resign: He Holds On to the Reigns of Power
Even as the Israeli Prime Minister announces his intent to resign, he acts as if he will make himself indispensable to the country, while he recruits Diaspora Jews to his cause.
After all, when a...
Israeli Legislators Confront The UN: REPLACE UNRWA WITH UNHCR
Today, an unusual coalition of conservative and liberal factions, which usually war with each other, formed in the Israeli Knesset.
A broad-based coalition of Israeli legislators called a packed press conference at the Israeli parliament...
A Sderot delegation visits the Knesset: A Knesset Lobby for Sderot in Formation
On Monday morning, July 28th, a delegation of Sderot residents arrived to the Knesset to raise concern over the blatant misconduct by the Israel Tax Authority in their handling of Sderot residents and their...
“Obama’s Visit & Policies”
Obama's whirlwind tour of Israel is completed, and I find that readers are seeking comments on that visit. He did it all right while here: Visiting Yad VaShem (the Holocaust Memorial -- required stop...
Obama Visits Sderot 1
"I can assure you," Barak Obama said, speaking at the local police station against a backdrop of Kassam rockets, "if someone was sending rockets into my house where my two daughters sleep at night,...
Samir Kuntar and the Last Laugh
Israel has lived the past sixty years more intensively than any other country.
Its highs - the resurrection of a two-thousand year old state in 1948, history's most lopsided military victory in 1967, and the...
An Israeli Watershed: Strike on Syria
Summer 2008, pp. 57-62
On the morning of September 6, 2007, Israel Air Force (IAF) planes penetrated deep into Syrian airspace and attacked a nuclear facility near the town of Dayr al-Zur in the northeastern...
SALAFI JIHADISTS IN GAZA: ‘Compared to Us, Hamas Is Islamism Lite’
Global power is their goal, and they are willing to slaughter innocents to get there. A group of ultra-radical Islamists are training in the Gaza Strip, and SPIEGEL ONLINE met with one of their...
Funerals End One Stage Of Israel, Lebanon War As Next One Begins
The funerals of two murdered Israeli POWs, Udi Goldwasser and Eldad Regev, borne on the shoulders of 12 noncommissioned officers of the Israeli army's Golani Brigade, concluded this stage of the 2006 Lebanon War.
The...
