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Incisive Commentary from Arlene Kushner, Augu. 5th-10th, 2007
Posting: August 10, 2007
"Our IDF"
I want to return here to the issue of soldiers who refused to participate in evicting Hevron residents from the marketplace, Mitzpe Shalhevet.
The story as it was widely presented, was...
Incisive Commentary from Arlene Kushner
Posting: July 27, 2007
"Courage"
Their names were Avshalom Haviv, Meir Nakar and Yaakov Weiss, and their memories stand as a blessing. In yesterday's Post, Yehuda Avner told their story:
It was 1947. As the days of...
Wanton Police Violence in Jerusalem
The chareidi protest against the gay parade two weeks ago resulted in a police pogrom against the chareidi community. The police knew that there would be unrest and demonstrations in the chareidi community due...
Sderot Tenses for the Next Round
An Israeli TV crew joined us on our trip to Sderot the other day.
They are in the process of shooting a short documentary on Gush Katif refugees in which we appear.
"The bombing of Sderot...
Sderot under attack
We visited Sderot yesterday. Leaving Nitzan we gave a lift to a Gush Katif student learning in the Sderot Hesder Yeshiva combining Torah studies and army service.
"How are you holding on?" I asked.
"Okay. It's...
Commentary on the War Commission Report
To date, we are seeing the following in response to the interim Winograd report:
A special Cabinet meeting was held today. A committee, chaired by former chief of staff Amnon Lipkin-Shahak, is being formed to...
Robert Rechnitz: A man with a vision for Israel’s National Camp
Robert Rechnitz, from Los Angeles, the president of a Zionist organization known as Bnai Zion, married with three children and two grandchildren, served as the chairman of the recent Jerusalem Conference, held after Purim...
Commentary: In the Aftermath of the Palestinian Unity Government
Well, the Palestinian National Council approved the new unity government today, with 83 votes out of 87 council members participating. (There are 132 seats in the legislature, but 41 members are in Israeli prisons.)...
Europe To Moderate Gaza Dispute?
According to Shlomo Breznitz's, a professor of psychology who specializes in situations of stress, proposal, this step, which he calls an "international greenhouse," would be led by the European community, not the U.S., which because of its involvement in Iraq, "has lost its status as an honest broker in the view of the Palestinians and the Arab states."
Olmert Associate: Offer to European task force to run Judea and Samaria
A freshman member of the Israeli Knesset Parliament, Prof. Shlomo Breznitz of the Kadima Party, a close associate of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, has offered a plan that would hand over the administration of...