Sometimes I have a choice: either I laugh, or I weep.  And, as my friends know, while it’s not always possible (I cannot laugh about

I begin today with an article I co-authored with David Bedein, which appears in today’s Jerusalem Post:  “Questions people are afraid to ask Salam Fayyad.”

I wrote last night not long after the announcement had been made by Netanyahu that there would be a 10 month freeze on building in

It’s almost Thanksgiving in the US.  I attended a shiur (a religious lesson) this morning, and a forum tonight, and I was going to pass

The reader comments to my posting yesterday were intense.  And in more than one instance I was asked why I don’t tell it like it

I began writing this post, earlier today, by talking about imponderables, and then focusing on Obama policy with regard to Iran — which policy leaves

Before I look at that angle (of necessity, briefly, before Shabbat), I want to add one other news item about Jerusalem housing that I inadvertently

“UN Human Rights Violation!” As those of you who read my postings regularly are probably aware, Anne Bayefsky, director of Eye on the UN, is

No standing firm on the ground for these guys.  With what I suppose they imagine to be nimble steps, they move this way and that. 

Well, some reason, anyway — and from a surprising source.  The PA had appealed to the EU for support in their efforts to unilaterally declare