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...
July 18, 2008: Contemplation
When I cited Ofer Regev yesterday , I let his words stand on their own. I didn't feel it was my place to add comment...
July 17, 2008: The Day After
I wrote yesterday that, while I absolutely believe the prisoner trade that was made yesterday should never have happened (and that opinion holds!), I acknowledge...
July 16, 2008: A Day of Sadness and Shame
It should not have happened. We received two coffins with the remains of Eldad Regev and Ehud Goldwasser (seen on the left and right, respectively,...
July 15, 2008: Northward
The Cabinet has ratified the prisoner exchange with Hezbollah. The reason most commonly given was to ease the minds of the Goldwasser and Regev families,...