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Haaretz’s publisher: US president can’t act against Israeli Apartheid
December 9, 2011Haaretz’s publisher Amos Schocken had a very strong op-ed this weekend titled “The necessary elimination of Israeli democracy.” Schocken is referring to the settlers’ ideology as “promoting Apartheid” and accuses all Israeli governments, except Rabin’s during Oslo and Sharon’s during the disengagement, of playing along. Schocken has also something to say about [...] Promised Land
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Haaretz’s publisher: US president can’t act against Israeli Apartheid
December 5, 2011Haaretz’s publisher Amos Schocken had a very strong op-ed this weekend titled “The necessary elimination of Israeli democracy.” Schocken is referring to the settlers’ ideology as “promoting Apartheid” and accuses all Israeli governments, except Rabin’s during Oslo and Sharon’s during the disengagement, of playing along. Schocken has also something to say about [...] Promised Land
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Muammar ‘Hearts’ Barack
February 24, 2011Apparently, Colonel Qaddafi digs President Obama. In a speech published on Saturday, Qaddafi called Obama “a friend.” Speaking in Sirt at an event marking the 24th anniversary of President Reagan’s retaliatory attack on Libya after a Libyan terrorist strike, Qaddafi said, “At the time, we were the target of the American cannon, the American navy [...]
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A rather convenient coma
February 16, 2011As far as graceful exits go, this one isn’t. Al Arabia reports that deposed Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak fell into a coma.
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Pillar of Italy Jewish community dies
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Rabbi Aviner: Katsav is innocent
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Anwar al-Awlaki, and a Goldblog-Greenwald Convergence
December 2, 2010Some unfinished business. I was talking a couple of weeks ago to Nick Baumann of Mother Jones Magazine — he called to ask me to describe what I thought a proper airport security system should look like — and somehow we turned to the subject of Anwar al-Awlaki, the radical Islamist propagandist and American citizen. [...]
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What We Talk About When We Talk About the GANew Voices
November 11, 2010Here’s an excerpt from Caroline Kessler’s post at New Voices about the Jewish Federations of North America GA. …here are some impressions: To explain the “big-deal-ness” of this to non-Jews: just mention that Vice President Biden spoke, and they raise their eyebrows, as if they are impressed, and then squint, saying, “Is he Jewish?” To [...]
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What It All Means
November 4, 2010Several guesses about the meaning of the mid-term elections:1) Once again we learn that this is a center-right country, that voters in 2008 were repudiating a President and his party-chosen successor, not embracing center-leftism. I covered McCain; great American hero, terrible candidate, with a wackadoo running mate, and he still won almost 46 percent of [...]
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Jewish Voters, Do Not Let President Obama and the Dems Take You for Granted
November 2, 2010With 78 percent of Jewish voters going for President Obama in the 2008 election despite his tendency to trivialize Jewish-Americans’ concerns about Israel’s security, is it any mystery that during the past two years, the U.S. President has repeatedly sought to de-legitimize Jewish communities in the West Bank, and even in [...]
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Is It Counterproductive to Speak Kindly of Islam?
October 27, 2010Reuel Gerecht, in a Washington Post op-ed that jumps off from the Juan Williams controversy, asks if President Obama should be asking the question — to borrow a phrase from Gerecht’s mentor, Bernard Lewis — what went wrong with Islam? Gerecht argues that, by making the struggle about terrorism ostentatiously not about Islam, we do [...]
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PITY US TROOPS IN AFGHANISTAN
September 22, 2010I cannot imagine a worse horror story than our poor American soldiers fighting according to a six page strategic paper written by our military ignoramus president. But that is what has been happening. Surprise, surprise, the war is not going well. Or in other words, like the economy, it is not going as well as “expected!” How [...]
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About That Speech….
September 1, 2010So in the end, President Obama gave President Bush a sort of half-hearted shout-out in his speech on Iraq tonight. It wasn’t enthusiastic or graceful, and it lacked the class of a truly mature and distinguished character. It more or less amounted to: “Yo, Bush: Wassup?” But at least he said SOMETHING about Bush. That [...]
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President Peres: Save Us from Ourselves
August 31, 2010Noted Yediot Achronot columist, Yigal Sarna, writes a plaintive “letter to the President,” asking Shimon Peres to intercede to stop war with Iran. It is a touching and deeply- felt piece: A Letter to the President: Save Us from Ourselves ["from our own hands"] Mr. President: I turn to you because you are the elected [...]
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Indyk: U.S. More Likely Than Israel to Bomb Iran
August 17, 2010Martin Indyk, the former U.S. ambassador to Israel (and now the vice president of the Brookings Institution), dropped this line to Goldblog about the Atlantic cover story on Iran and Israel. Martin is always worth reading:My interpretation of the facts, for what it’s worth, is a little different: President Obama came into office determined not [...]