That’s what can happen to your head as you try to make sense out of the news — for it is forever shifting and changing. 

A goof, which a handful of readers caught and which I correct here: The PA became a member of UNESCO, not UNICEF.  Sorry.  It may

Is yours truly, banging her head against the wall. Prime Minister Netanyahu has just announced that Israel may release to the PA tax funds that

Today this news, which was released on Friday, takes precedence.  From the NY Times:“The White House on Friday threw its weight behind Egypt’s resurgent protest

There’s a marvelous new PBS documentary film about Israel that will be premiered this week:  “Israel Inside — How a small nation makes a big

Motzei Shabbat (After Shabbat) On Thursday, I wrote: “After two hours of talks in Cairo today, PA President Mahmoud Abbas and head of the Hamas

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is not remotely convinced, nor should he be:  In certain quarters of the international community the idea is being promoted that

Various sources — which differ in some particulars — seem to concur that there has been a breakthrough with regard to a Fatah-Hamas unity government. 

Motzei Shabbat (After Shabbat) It was, admittedly, only during the course of the past 1-1/2 weeks that I was focused on family matters intensively enough

Personal matters will be fully occupying my time in the next several days, and so I let my readers know that there will be a