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Subscriber Plugin Problems
March 1, 2011600 of my readers subscribe to this blog via two plugins I use. They receive e-mail notices of new posts I write. I’ve just had the terribly unwelcome news that 388 of those subscribers have been wiped out through some act of God I don’t understand. So if you were used to receiving a daily [...]
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Settlers Call for Palestinian Expulsion, Palestinians Call for Jewish Expulsion
February 26, 2011In a game of tit for tat, battling Israeli Jewish and Palestinian groups have called for forced expulsion of their opposite number from their native lands. Aryeh Eldad, a radical settler leader and Israeli MK has published an ad in Haaretz which calls for Jordan’s King Abdullah to accept the millions of Palestinians living within [...]
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Let the Good Times, and the Generals, Rule the Middle East
February 23, 2011Asaf Geffen’s biting satire from Ynet about Israel’s preference for military strongmen over democracy: It was not surprising to discover that the new international star for Israelis is Egyptian General Tantawi. Indeed, in a country ruled by generals such as our own, what’
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Revenge of the Bloggers Wife
February 22, 2011My wife shared this cartoon with me, clearly agreeing with the sentiment entirely regarding my own attitude toward this blog and you, my readers. When I protested that I didn’t take that attitude toward my blog in conversation with her, she reminded me that I have been known to ask her how many Facebook Friends [...]
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Digital Activism in the Age of Revolution
February 19, 2011Remarks I’ll deliver tonight at a conference on the Egyptian Revolution at St. Mark’s Cathedral: I wanted to make a few remarks on the impact that the Egyptian Revolution will have on relations with Israel, and on Israel’
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Jobs Destroys Jackling House, California Architectural Landmark
February 16, 2011Steve Jobs has earned another distinction in his long career of technological innovation: destroyer of architectural history. He tore down Jackling House, one of the finest examples of Spanish revival home architecture in northern California and he did it in a mere two weeks. The home was designed by famed California archiect, George Washington Smith, [...]
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Ashkenazi Video Admits IDF Bombed Syrian Nuclear Reactor and Created Stuxnet
February 14, 2011Haaretz has just published a story that will certainly disappear due to gag order. In it, Anshel Pfeffer writes that Gabi Ashkenazi prepared a video celebrating his achievements as chief of staff, which was screened at a party marking his final day on the job. What is extraordinary about the video is that among the [...]
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Turkey Flotilla Inquiry: Activists Killed Execution Style
February 12, 2011Turkey’s investigation of the Mavi Marmara massacre contains troubling findings that two victims were killed before any IDF soldiers boarded the ship, in fire from helicopters, that the youngest victim, a Turkish-American, was killed execution style after being wounded in the leg, and that a photographer was killed with a laser-guided weapon while taking photographs: [...]
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Middle Eastern Despots Tell Obama, Go Slow on Egypt
February 9, 2011The NY Times notes that some of the most despotic of the U.S.’ Middle Eastern allies have engaged in a full court press on the Obama administration to persuade it that siding with the Egyptian Revolution would be a bad move for the U.S. and for them. Saudi Arabia, Israel, Jordan and the Gulf States [...]
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Suleiman: Israels Pick for President
February 8, 2011It should help Egyptian interim strongman Omar Suleiman’s prospects of getting the nod to take over permanently for his mentor, Mubarak, after Egyptians read the glowing things Israeli defense ministry officials reported to U.S. diplomats in this Wikileaks cable, which resulted from Israeli consultations in Cairo in 2009. Here the defense ministry’s Arab affairs staffer [...]
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IDF Chief of Staff Ashkenazi Faces Criminal Investigation over Forged Memo
February 4, 2011The campaign over who will be the next IDF chief of staff, already odd and dysfunctional, has taken a new turn for the bizarre. Everyone who reaches out for this rose seems to get pricked. Several months ago, defense minister Barak began considering who would become the next chief of staff. The two top candidates [...]
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Cut Off U.S. Aid to EgyptNow!
February 3, 2011The Obama administration seemed determined Wednesday to put as much daylight as possible between Mr. Obama and Mr. Mubarak, once considered an unshakable American supporter in a tumultuous region, with Mr. Gibbs once again raising the specter of a cutoff of American aid to the Mubarak government if the Egyptian president failed to bend. –N.Y. [...]
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Americas Multiracial Baby Boom, Coming to IsraelEver?
February 1, 2011The NY Times reported this week on a rising demographic phenomenon in American life: multiracialism. One in seven new marriages in the U.S. in 2009 involved members of different races. Multiracial Americans are one the fastest growing groups: Many young adults of mixed backgrounds are rejecting the color lines that have defined Americans for generations [...]
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Makhoul Sentenced to 9 Years, Israeli Democracy Dies Yet Another Death
January 30, 2011Ameer Makhoul, Israeli-Palestinian community leader, was sentenced by an Israeli court to nine years in prison for allegedly spying for Hezbollah against Israel. The court also added an additional year to his sentence on conditional terms. This was essentially the sentence the prosecution had requested, with the defense asking for seven years. The court, as [...]
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Israeli Deputy Prime Minister: Arab Democracy Threatens Israel
January 30, 2011Deputy Israeli prime minister Silvan Shalom made a telling comment in an Israel Radio interview that was captured in Al Ahram (Google cached version) during the Tunisian revolution: ‘