UncategorizedSeptember 27, 2008: Iran, the UN, and MoreArleneSeptember 26, 2008 by ArleneSeptember 26, 20080258 Motzei Shabbat (After Shabbat) According to a story in The Guardian (UK) late this past week, European sources who claimed to have been in touch
UncategorizedSeptember 26, 2008: Not a Done DealArleneSeptember 25, 2008 by ArleneSeptember 25, 20080245 At least not yet: The coalition agreement between Kadima and Labor. According to my information, this is the scenario as it’s playing out so far:
UncategorizedSeptember 24, 2008: PatheticArleneSeptember 23, 2008 by ArleneSeptember 23, 20080265 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
UncategorizedSeptember 23, 2008: Yet AgainArleneSeptember 23, 2008 by ArleneSeptember 23, 20080256 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
UncategorizedSeptember 21, 2008: NarrativeArleneSeptember 21, 2008 by ArleneSeptember 21, 20080266 In the Torah reading for this past Shabbat — Ki Tavo — Moses speaks to the children of Israel shortly before they cross the Jordan
UncategorizedSeptember 18, 2008: No BargainArleneSeptember 18, 2008 by ArleneSeptember 18, 20080249 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
UncategorizedSeptember 16, 2008: InexcusableArleneSeptember 16, 2008 by ArleneSeptember 16, 20080269 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
UncategorizedSeptember 14, 2008: Rumors and GamesArleneSeptember 14, 2008 by ArleneSeptember 14, 20080265 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
UncategorizedSeptember 11, 2008: Nine-ElevenArleneSeptember 11, 2008 by ArleneSeptember 11, 20080256 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
UncategorizedSeptember 9, 2008: Warming That MolassesArleneSeptember 9, 2008 by ArleneSeptember 9, 20080269 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