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September 24, 2008: Pathetic
It feels as if the world is going to hell in a handbasket. Barak seems to have forgotten that he once said he wouldn’t want...
September 23, 2008: Yet Again
There was a terrorist attack about 11 PM last night. An Arab, Kasem Mugrabi, 19, from the eastern Jerusalem neighborhood of Jebl Mukaber ran his...
September 21, 2008: Narrative
In the Torah reading for this past Shabbat — Ki Tavo — Moses speaks to the children of Israel shortly before they cross the Jordan...
September 18, 2008: No Bargain
So, Tzipi Livni has won the Kadima primary, making her the new head of the party, beating runner-up Shaul Mofaz not by the landslide polls...
September 16, 2008: Inexcusable
In a word, Ehud Olmert is not even a poor excuse for a prime minister. For he has abandoned the Israeli narrative and lost the...
September 14, 2008: Rumors and Games
Changes are rapidly approaching: There is the Kadima primary, scheduled for this Wednesday, and then, three months hence, the end of Bush’s administration — by...
September 11, 2008: Nine-Eleven
It’s been seven years since the horror of the World Trade Center destruction and the attack on the Pentagon. As with the Holocaust, the by-word...
September 9, 2008: Warming That Molasses
Yesterday I wrote that the process of removing Olmert from the government is as “slow as molasses.” But what I’m seeing now might — just...
September 8, 2008: Slow Like Molasses
Getting rid of Olmert is that slow. At long last, after months of investigation, the police on Sunday evening recommended that Olmert be indicted on...
September 4, 2008: Hope
Yes, hope. I didn’t realize how hungry for it I was, how bereft of it I felt, until today… I sit here, along with many...