August 4, 2008 : Update and Onward
Well, seems Abbas has been convinced to take the members of Fatah who fled from Gaza, saying that he recognizes their lives would be at...
August 3, 2008: Where to Start?
I confess: I feel so inundated with evidence of official stupidity — including some very dangerous stupidity — on both sides of the Atlantic that...
July 31, 2008: Just Suppose
Political predictions are never written in stone, and certainly I make no claims that what I’m about to write here is anything other than a...
July 30, 2008: How About That!
Would have sworn it wouldn’t happen and it has: Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has announced that after Kadima elects a new leader in its September...
July 28, 2008: Hamas in Jerusalem
Yuval Diskin, head of Shin Bet, provided a report for the Cabinet yesterday. Some Jerusalem neighborhoods, he told them, were becoming hotbeds of Hamas activity...
July 27, 2008: Still Obama
The Jerusalem Post ran an exclusive interview with Barack Obama on Friday. Along with it the paper ran an editorial on what he had to...
July 24, 2008: Obama’s Visit and Policies
Obama’s whirlwind tour of Israel is completed, and I find that readers are seeking comments on that visit. He did it all right while here:...
July 23, 2008: Severe and Growing
The statistics are disturbing. From 2001 through the end of 2007 — six years, there were 270 Jerusalem Arabs detained for involvement in terror. Now,...
July 21, 2008: AGAIN??
It’s just aout three weeks since an Arab resident of eastern Jerusalem utilized a heavy tractor to overturn buses and cars in a terrorist attack...
July 20, 2008: Tough Times
Military Intelligence Chief Maj.-Gen. Amos Yadlin, in a report to the Cabinet today, indicated that an attack in the north by Hezbollah might be coming...