April 4, 2008: Muslims Considered
I would like to focus on a two-part lecture I attended yesterday at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. It sheds further light on an...
April 2, 2008: Tension in the North
A report by a 'top military intelligence officer" to the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee yesterday included a warning that Hezbollah is getting ready...
April 1, 2008: Surreal
Even in the irrational environment with which we are coping, this gets a "most surreal" award: Khaled Mashaal, political head of Hamas in Damascus, has...
March 30, 2008: Deplorable
Well, it was unlikely that Rice , who is here, would have readily walked away without further concessions from Israel for the sake of the...
March 29, 2008: Regarding Abbas
An Arab summit is being held in Damascus this weekend, but is being boycotted by several Arab nations: Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan, and Lebanon. The...
March 28, 2008: Dangerous Stupidity
The stupidity alluded to here pertains both to US and Israeli policy. And it is with regard to the practice of continuing to arm and...
March 26, 2008: Ongoing
The number of concessions we are apparently willing to make in order to "strengthen" Abbas. The latest is an Israeli decision to allow the PA...
March 25, 2008: Concessions for Condi
Yesterday I wrote about concessions to the PA that Barak was eager to make before the arrival of Secretary of State Rice next week. Today...
March 24, 2008: Fatah and Hamas
Well, here we are in the midst of an ever-changing scenario that has yet to play itself out. Officially, neither the US nor Israel has...
March 23, 2008: Gratitude
Gratitude first on a national level. We seem to have gotten through Purim without a major terror attack, which is no small thing. (Purim is...