July 25, 2007: Danger
Ehud Olmert continues to be inordinately eager to promote a Palestinian state. Yesterday I wrote about the refusal of the leaders of the international community...
July 24, 2007: Rejoicing
Last night I went with friends to participate in the reading of Eicha — Lamentations on the destruction of the Temple — on the Tayelet,...
July 23, 2007: Tisha B’Av
Tonight at sundown begins Tisha B’av — the ninth of Av — the most solemn day in the Jewish calendar. It was on this day...
July 22, 2007: Worser
One keeps hoping — indeed, praying — that the news will get better. But it doesn’t. Last week Iran President Ahmadinejad was in Damascus for...
July 20, 2007: Those Prisoners
Well, the High Court did not accept the petition of the Almagor Terror Victims Association that the slated release of 250+ Palestinian prisoners be blocked....
July 19, 2007: Confronting Hamas
An unnamed "senior IDF officer " has given a briefing with regard to the situation in Gaza that is being broadly cited. I am assuming...
July 18, 2007: Fallout
On Tuesday, the list of 256 prisoners slated for release on Friday was approved by a ministerial committee. The only ones to oppose it were...
July 16, 2007: Stymied
It is I who am stymied. Flummoxed. Not to mention grieved, and furious. It is 1:00 AM here in Israel as I write , and...
July 15, 2007: Our Strength
Israel ‘s strength and the source of immeasurable pride. I’ve said it before, and I say it again here: We may have lousy governments, but...
July 13, 2007: Lebanon
Madgi Halabi is an Israeli Druze journalist who has connections with friends in Lebanon. In today’s YNet he writes about the inevitability of war in...