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May 7, 2008: Rejoice at 60!
This evening begins Yom Ha’atzmaut , Israeli Independence Day — our 60th. And a time for rejoicing it is. Repeatedly I’m seeing essays that celebrate...
May 6, 2008: And Now?
Late last night I consulted with my experts regarding the situation. Key among them is an Arabic-speaking Israeli journalist who is in contact with the...
May 5, 2008: Who Knows?
Who knows how this latest potential scandal with Olmert will play out… In spite of the fact that police are arguing that the investigation and...
May 4, 2008: Could It Be?
Might the authorities really have something on Ehud Olmert serious enough to topple the government? It hasn’t happened until now , in spite of the...
May 1, 2008: Words of Power
A portion of the incredibly moving words of the IDF Chief of the General Staff, speaking at Auschwitz today to "The March of the Living":...
April 30, 2008: Yom HaShoah
Holocaust Day, or, as it is more properly known in Israel, Day of Remembrance of Martyrs and Heroes — the feeling being that those who...
April 28, 2008: That Hudna
A correction: When I wrote about the US case against Kadish recently, I indicated that we had friends in Congress, the Pentagon and other places...
April 27, 2008: Israel and Iran
This evening the Israel Law Center, Shurat HaDin, sponsored a talk by Brig. Gen. Yossi Kupervasser, former head of Military Intelligence, on the subject, "Does...
April 17, 2008: Carter’s Destruction
Today is the day that Jimmy Carter –in defiance of requests from several quarters that he not do so– is going to be meeting with...
April 16, 2008: Without End
I begin by correcting a goof of major proportions (and thanking Dianne E. for picking it up). Martin Indyk has NOT joined the Obama team,...