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July 24, 2009: Pre-Shabbat Briefs
“Pre-Shabbat Briefs” The big guns are being sent. Coming here in the week ahead are US Med-East envoy John Mitchell, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates,...
July 23, 2009: It Doesn’t End
There are things we would hope would end: things that should end because they are foolish or dangerous. And yet they are promoted anyway. One...
July 19, 2009: Good Move, Barack!
Well, old Barack Hussein has finally done it. He has gone too far: In the eastern Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah, there is a compound...
July 16, 2009: It’s Not Pretty
In fact, a good deal of what I’m going to write about here is downright ugly, if not totally obscene. According to The Times (London)...
July 15, 2009: That Meeting
The Monday meeting, of course, with 16 representatives of American Jewish organizations and President Obama, accompanied by White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel and...
July 13, 2009: The Double Standard
Because I’ve run up against that perennial problem of insufficient hours in the day, and because I wrote a major article today (hopefully to be...
July 12, 2009: Blood Pressure Rising
Shimon Schiffer reported in Friday’s Yediot Ahronot that Obama will be meeting with “heads of the American Jewish community” on Monday (that’s tomorrow) “and will...
July 8, 2009: More of Same
I would like to begin today with Caroline Glick’s latest piece, “Avoiding an American Ambush,” which addresses issues I wrote about in my last posting....
July 6, 2009: The Saudis and Iran
The Sunday Times (London) reported two days ago that Mossad head Meir Dagan has assured Prime Minister Netanyahu that Saudi Arabia would allow Israel’s jets...
July 5, 2009: The Netanyahu Statement
This morning the weekly Cabinet meeting was held, and Prime Minister Netanyahu began by making a statement. It included the following: “We attained national consensus...