Posted February 2, 2007
It’s still technically winter here and we have days, yet, of winter weather. But already the earliest trees, the almonds, are in bloom. Tomorrow, Shabbat,...
Posted February 1, 2007
Professor Bernard Lewis, paramount Islamic historian and scholar, gave an interview to The Jerusalem Post that ran today. I draw here from his analysis and...
Posted January 31, 2007
Yesterday I reported the good news that Likud is way up in a recent poll and Kadima has pretty much fallen on its face. Today...
Posted January 30, 2007
Two weeks ago, at a rally for Fatah, PA president Mahmoud Abbas said, "Let a thousand flowers bloom, and let our rifles, all our rifles,...
Posted January 29, 2007
Israel suffered a terrorist attack this morning when a young Arab blew himself up in a bakery in Eilat. Three Israelis were killed and two...
Posted January 28, 2007
Ephraim Inbar, Director of the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, made an important point in a column, "End the Delusion," he wrote on Friday in...
Posted January 24, 2007
The hope that Kadima will implode has become just a tad more solid now. For the situation has begun to move beyond the stage of...
Posted January 23, 2007
The air is static with the rumors that are flying. Rumors with regard to secret negotiations that are reportedly taking place between the Israeli gov’t...
Posted January 22, 2007
After on-again, off-again scheduled meetings, PA president Mahmoud Abbas and Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal finally met in Damascus last night, with the Syrians playing peacemaker...
Posted January 17, 2007
MK Yuri Shtern succumbed to his battle with cancer yesterday at the age of 58. His passing represents a loss to the nation that is...