August 14, 2009: Backlash
That's a backlash against the Fatah Conference in Bethlehem, and it couldn't be happening to "nicer" people. According to Khaled Abu Toameh, a large number...
August 12, 2009: Sick
There's a double entendre here. What I am referring to IS sick, as a way of thinking. And it makes me quite sick to my...
August 11, 2009: Hope and Its Antithesis
Prime Minister Netanyahu has promised the people expelled from Gush Katif four years ago that within a year they would all have permanent housing solutions....
August 8, 2009: Bibi's Other Side
Motzei Shabbat (After Shabbat) I wrote the other day about rumors that PM Netanyahu has already promised to freeze settlement construction and indications that this...
August 5, 2009: That Settlement Freeze
For some weeks now we've been hearing that the Israeli and US governments are working on some compromise or accommodation on the issue of a...
August 4, 2009: On Return
My beautiful grandson was born on Tisha B'Av and now I have returned from helping with the care of his seven siblings. This is, first,...
July 27, 2009: For This Too, Never Again!
From now through Tisha B'Av, which is Thursday, you can watch, online, the movie "Home Game," sponsored by the Friends of Gush Katif. If you...
July 24, 2009: Pre-Shabbat Briefs
"Pre-Shabbat Briefs" The big guns are being sent. Coming here in the week ahead are US Med-East envoy John Mitchell, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates,...
July 23, 2009: It Doesn't End
There are things we would hope would end: things that should end because they are foolish or dangerous. And yet they are promoted anyway. One...
July 19, 2009: Good Move, Barack!
Well, old Barack Hussein has finally done it. He has gone too far: In the eastern Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah, there is a compound...