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DAVID BEDEIN: ON ASSIGNMENT IN ANNAPOLIS FOR THE PHILADELPHIA BULLETIN
11/26/2007
"The Annapolis Summit Has Begun"
Jerusalem - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert arrived in the U.S. yesterday and said that Israel would take a positive view of Syrian participation in the Annapolis conference and negotiations...
Incisive Commentary
Posting: November 18, 2007
"Anyone's Guess"
Will the conference be held in Annapolis on November 27? Still possible, but looking less likely.
Khaled Abu Toameh is reporting in the Post that PA officials are saying they are...
Incisive Commentary from Arlene Kushner
Posting: November 11, 2007
"Protest"
I am in a holding pattern on personal matters. I cannot apologize for putting first things first -- for what matters more than attending to family when a new life is...
Annapolis Summit: Plans Are On, Gaps Remain
The die is cast. The Annapolis summit is on.
On Monday, the Israeli Ministry of Finance received Knesset Finance Committee Approval for a $1.5 million budget to cover the Israeli government costs of expenses pertaining...
Incisive Commentary from Arlene Kushner
Posting: October 9, 2007
"Speechless?"
Not quite. It takes a lot to render me speechless. But the events of the last few days push me in that direction. The foolishness, the essential errors in thinking, the...
Incisive Commentary from the Past Ten Days
"A Pre-Sukkot Contemplation"
I received an e-mail from a very serious reader (who shall remain anonymous here, as I've not received permission to use his name). Things are dire, he told me with a heavy...
Commentary from Arlene Kushner
Posting: September 12, 2007
"There it is!"
Olmert and company exposed with their intentions out front for all to see.
We are not to "play into the hands of Hamas" by going into Gaza, you see. As...
Arlene Kushner News Analyis from Jerusalem, Israel
Posting: August 17, 2007
"Duplicity, duplicity"
News has broken that Olmert and Abbas have been meeting to work out a framework for the "core" issues of refugees, Jerusalem and borders before the conference proposed by Bush...
U.S.-Saudi Arabia Arms Deal Is Viewed As Threat To Israel
After initial comments by Prime Minister Ehud Olmert that the American-Saudi deal was simply a gesture to a moderate Arab regime, Israeli officials issued a clear statement of condemnation of the deal as "counterproductive...
Incisive Commentary from Arlene Kushner
Posting: August 2, 2007
"Hot Air"
It's hot air, all right. Foul hot air, but air none the less. Consider all of the following:
Abbas, who cannot get his act together and couldn't run a nation if...
