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On The Collapse of Responsibility in Israel
December 14, 2010Liel Liebovitz delivers an impassioned denunciation of Israeli governance, post-fire. He argues that the Israeli government is systemically incompetent and wasteful, and he makes the point, cogently, that it is not for lack of money that this recent fire became a conflagration:This grows even more maddening when one considers how promptly funds are found for [...]
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Standing Up for Tolerance, Swedish-Style
December 14, 2010The Washington Post reports on the aftermath of what appears to be a suicide bomb attack in Stockholm:Sweden’s prime minister on Sunday urged the country to “stand up for tolerance” after a botched terrorist attack in central Stockholm highlighted signs of growing Islamic extremism across the usually peaceful Scandinavian region. Fredrik Reinfeldt condemned Saturday’s attack, [...]
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Nice Work if You Can Get It
December 14, 2010Sam Roberts on the Mufti of Jerusalem’s Nazi salary:In chilling detail, the report also elaborates on the close working relationship between Nazi leaders and the grand mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin al-Husseini, who later claimed that he sought refuge in wartime Germany only to avoid arrest by the British. In fact, the report says, the [...]
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Richard Holbrooke, a Singular Man
December 14, 2010I’m finding it mind-boggling (as is Jim Fallows) that Richard Holbrooke has died, because he was not the sort of person who dies, or at least dies before he’s finished with what he needed to finish. There was too much will inside him to achieve, and he had not yet achieved what he needed to [...]
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On Israels Firefighting Incompetence
December 13, 2010Goldblog seems to have set off a wee controversy by asserting that the proprietor of this blog will not be donating money to the Jewish National Fund in the wake of the terrible forest fire in northern Israel because a) the JNF is schnorring for firetrucks, and it is a commonly-held belief among everyone except [...]
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Who Can Drive on the West Bank?
December 12, 2010Michael Totten fact-checks Helen Thomas: Helen Thomas is at it again. “I can call a president of the United States anything in the book,” she said at an anti-Arab-bias workshop in Detroit, “but I can’t touch Israel, which has Jewish-only roads in the West Bank. No American would tolerate that — white-only roads.” She’s right [...]
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It Will All Be Okay, or Maybe Not
December 12, 2010Hussein Ibish on the so-called peace process:This is not the end of the world, or the end of the peace process. The United States has numerous options for how to proceed, although what the administration’s next step will be is quite unclear. No matter what course the administration takes, it and the rest of the [...]
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Henry Kissinger to Soviet Jewry: Drop Dead
December 12, 2010Okay, I don’t usually blog on the Sabbath day (the Torah says Tweeting is okay, because it’s so short), but I can’t resist posting what I think might become Henry Kissinger’s epitaph. This statement was captured on Richard’s Nixon secret White House recording system, and just now released by the Nixon library:“The emigration of Jews [...]
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Whats With Joe Lieberman?
December 11, 2010Joe Lieberman is going all Javert on the New York Times:Lieberman, who is chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee, told Fox News: “To me, New York Times has committed at least an act of bad citizenship. And whether they’ve committed a crime, I think that bears very intensive inquiry by the [...]
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God Bless The New York Times
December 11, 2010Nick Kristof reports the delightfully heartening news that his employer has placed Joao Silva, the photographer who was severely injured in Afghanistan — he lost his lower legs to a landmine — on staff:Joao was not actually a member of the Times staff, but a contract employee — a common arrangement for photographers in war [...]
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The Indian Ambassadors Sari, a National Security Threat
December 10, 2010Earlier this week, the head of the Transportation Security Administration, John Pistole, told Jim Fallows and me that he was hoping to move his agency toward a more intelligent, discerning posture at our nation’s airports — less focus on the things a person is carrying, more focus on the person himself. This is why, he [...]
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Why Not Use This Opportunity to Give Money to Haiti?
December 9, 2010Ya’acov Lozowick, making sense:I’m also not going to join the chorus of fundraisers. I appreciate people’s willingness to donate money in the aftermaths of calamities, but the situation in Haiti remains vastly worse than anything we’ve got here; Pakistan, too, though it’s not clear your well-intentioned donations will reach their targets in Pakistan. Israel is [...]
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Quick, Look Behind You, Its the Sharia Monster
December 9, 2010A very good Roger Cohen column on the irrational fear of Sharia, which the people who fear it most couldn’t define if their lives depended on it:Shariah is the new hot-button wedge issue, as radicalizing as abortion or gay marriage, seized on by Republicans to mobilize conservative Americans against the supposed “stealth jihad” of Muslims [...]
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TSA Supremo: Well Move to Identity-Based Security
December 9, 2010Jim Fallows and I made the shlep to Pentagon City a couple of days ago, to the unhandsome building that houses the Transportation Security Administration, in order to meet with John Pistole, the new chief of the — what do they say in journalese? — embattled air-safety agency. Our extended interview can be found here. [...]
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Why I Love America, Part 86
December 9, 2010Goldblog reader Michael Rotberg sent along this photo, taken in a Charlotte, N.C. supermarket by a person named, of all things, Kristian Ring: