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Incisive Commentary
Posting: December 31, 2007
"Setting Priorities"
That is what I've had to do in recent days, my friends. I have refrained from taking the time to post because I have beeen at work on a major...
Condi Rice Hangs a “No Jews Allowed” Sign
Condoleezza Rice has got some nerve. First, the US Secretary of State had the hutzpa to compare Israel's treatment of Palestinians to that meted out to US blacks during the bad old days of...
Applying Jim Crow to Israel: An Open Letter to Secretary Rice
Madame Secretary,
Allow me to introduce myself. I am an American-born Israeli, and since my early childhood I have been sympathetic to the civil rights movement in the US, and human rights movement around the...
Middle East Coverage: Philadelphia Bulletin December 11-14th
This news item was prepared in cooperation with Noam Bedein, head of the regional news service for Sderot and the Western Negev in southern Israel.
The first salvo was fired on Thursday at 7:30 a.m.
Four...
Incisive Commentary
Posting: December 15, 2007
Motzei Shabbat (after Shabbat)
"Har Homa"
The plans to build further units in Har Homa -- they would not extend Har Homa, but would be built inside the area already established -- were...
Incisive Commentary
Posting: December 13, 2007
"When Does It Get Better?"
"The resignation of Sderot's mayor constitutes a great victory for the Palestinian resistance. This is a political victory, a victory for morale, it adds to the humiliation...
Incisive Commentary
December 6, 2007
"Stumbling Blocks"
Here we have, as if they were needed, more reasons why negotiating with the PA is impossible:
The Hamas-dominated Palestinian Legislative Council has passed a law (first reading) saying that any concession...
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...
Bush To Make Visit To Israel
It was announced last night that United States President George W. Bush will make his first official visit - while in office - to Israel and the Palestinian Authority in January.
This visit will be...
A SHORT GUIDE TO BAZAAR NEGOTIATIONS
Everybody says that his donkey is a horse.
There is no tax on words. (Two Arab proverbs)
On December 25th 1977, at the very beginning of the negotiations between Israel and Egypt in Ismailia, I had...
