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Congresswoman: Safeguard American aid to Abbas
The United States must provide safeguards to ensure American weapons and financial aid reportedly being given to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas' Force 17 personal security detail do not wind up in the possession...
We need the guts to say no to Rice
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and his successor Ehud Olmert justified unilateral disengagement on the grounds that we were obliged to take initiatives to break the impasse in the absence of a Palestinian peace partner.
In...
Israel – The American Interest
The question of whether Israel is or is not an asset to the United States is one we rarely bother to ask ourselves. Time and again, we see prominent Americans -- presidents of the...
Our World: Tzipi Livni and us
Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni is an interesting case study in how a public image can trump professional competence in Israeli politics.
Livni was brought into politics by then prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu in 1999. The...
Commentary: Double Talk As Policy?
Yuval Diskin, head of the Shin Bet, reported to the Cabinet yesterday that the smuggling of weapons from Egypt to Gaza is increasing. Egypt, I remind you, in case you have forgotten, has a...
Arrest of Man for Blowing the Shofar During Prayer in the Old City in...
We ave been working on this story for the past 48 hours.
The police spokespeople are saying that the shofar blower was arrested AFTER the prayers, claiming that he purposely blew the shofar in order...
Text of Hezbollah leader Hasan Nasrallah’s Speech During “Victory Rally” in Beirut – September...
Hezbollah leader Hasan Nasrallah has addressed in person a rally in Lebanon in which he stressed that the secret to the "victory" of the resistance was that it depended upon "reason, planning, organization and...
WARREN BUFFET COMES TO SEE HIS INVESTMENT IN ISRAEL: A HANDS ON REPORT
When Israelis think of business people from the USA, they often conjure up images of fast talking ambitious go-getters from New York or Los Angeles.
Indeed, during this reporter's 36 years in Israel, it has...
Commentary on Rice-Livni Encounter
It seems sometimes a rule of thumb that if I wait a day, the news changes.
So it is with what I reported yesterday, from The Jerusalem Post, regarding a linkage being made by the...
IRAN: THE RISE OF A REGIONAL POWER
Volume 10, No. 3, Article 10/10
September 2006
One of the most important developments in the early twenty-first century Middle East is the rise of Iran to become a regional great power. This has come about...
