Daily Archives: 11/09/2007

Breathing space

It’s now a week since my bat mitzvah crunch, and I’m blowing off synagogue tonight and relaxing. I worked all week, so the relaxing has to come about now. Especially since I had company until Monday morning. The other big … Continue reading

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Giving Hamas advance warning on Gaza

Ehud Barak is giving Hamas and the Palestinians advance warning that the IDF is about to retake the Philadelphi Corridor. Israel has informed PA authorities in Ramallah of its intention to send the IDF into the Gaza Strip in order … Continue reading

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The path to peace is the road to ruin

Hamas isn’t even trying to hide its intentions any more. Mahmoud al-Zahar, the former Prime Minister, said straight out that Hamas will take over the West Bank as soon as Israeli forces leave. Imagine then how many rockets will rain … Continue reading

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Moral equivalence from the Economist

I know, it’s a shock. But the Economist is talking about religion, and I’ve seen several moral-equivalence raps at Israel. This is the most egregious so far: Many of the most ardent fanatics live far away from the Holy Land. … Continue reading

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Striking Iran?

James Besser reports that a new Zogby poll shows increasing support for a military strike on Iran. Last week’s poll by Zogby International came as the Bush administration ratchets up both its warlike rhetoric and its sanctions against Teheran and … Continue reading

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Britain and the Jews

Melanie Phillips’ disturbing Britian’s Anti-Semitic turn notes that: And now, in Britain and elsewhere, anti-Semitism has mutated again, its target shifting from culture to creed to race to nation. What anti-Semitism once did to Jews as people, it now does … Continue reading

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Rafsanjani the “moderate” – not wanted by Interpol

The mills of international law grind slowly, if they grind at all. Thirteen years after the bombing of the Jewish center in Buenos Aires in which 85 people were killed, Interpol makes its first move. Despite heavy diplomatic pressure from … Continue reading

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