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January 24, 2008: Gaza Reality
First there was the comment cited in today’s Post by Khaled Abu Toameh. One Ibrahim Abu Taha, a Palestinian from Gaza, had moved through the...
January 23, 2008: Challenging the Arrogance
I had written the other day about the army reservists who were starting to take action — in anticipation of the final Winograd Report —...
January 21, 2008: Tu B’Shvat
Tu B’Shvat technically is the New Year for trees , which is of Jewish legal significance when the age of trees is calculated. It begins...
January 20, 2008: Gaza and Sderot
In the course of this past week , 160 Kassams and some 70 mortar shells have been fired from Gaza into the western Negev, primarily...
January 17, 2008: Read It and Weep
Jeff Jacoby writing on the "Death of the Bush Doctrine" in the Boston Globe: "The Bush Doctrine – born on Sept. 20, 2001 , when...
January 16, 2008: On the Way
Finally, finally, MK Avigdor Lieberman has resigned from his post as Strategic Affairs Minister and announced that he is pulling his party, Yisrael Beitenu, out...
January 15, 2008: Politics Trumps Law
I have written a few times about the dispute regarding Shalom House, the large building situated in the Israeli controlled area of Hevron. Sitting on...
January 14, 2008: Revisiting the Al Dura Case
Yesterday I heard Prof. Richard Landes of Boston University speak at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs about the Muhammad Al Dura case. He didn’t...
January 12, 2008: More on Bush
Glad to see him go, won’t be eager to have him come back. But there are a few observations to be made regarding his final...
January 10, 2008: Dangerous Dementia
"I believe it’s possible — not only possible, I believe it’s going to happen, that there will be a signed peace treaty [between Israel and...