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Immediately upon the close of Shabbat tomorrow night we begin Tisha B’Av (the ninth of the month of Av): a day of Jewish national mourning...

What do you do if you are a lame-duck prime minister with a single digit approval rating and you’ve been negotiating a very problematic deal...

The recent incidents involving Hamas-Fatah violence have had some interesting and positive repercussions internationally.  Less and less is the world sympathetic to a people that...

Well, seems Abbas has been convinced to take the members of Fatah who fled from Gaza, saying that he recognizes their lives would be at...

I confess: I feel so inundated with evidence of official stupidity — including some very dangerous stupidity — on both sides of the Atlantic that...

Political predictions are never written in stone, and certainly I make no claims that what I’m about to write here is anything other than a...

Would have sworn it wouldn’t happen and it has:  Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has announced that after Kadima elects a new leader in its September...

Yuval Diskin, head of Shin Bet, provided a report for the Cabinet yesterday. Some Jerusalem neighborhoods, he told them, were becoming hotbeds of Hamas activity...

The Jerusalem Post ran an exclusive interview with Barack Obama on Friday.  Along with it the paper ran an editorial on what he had to...

Obama’s whirlwind tour of Israel is completed, and I find that readers are seeking comments on that visit.  He did it all right while here:...