Daily Archives: 09/22/2008

The Heroes season premiere

No spoilers in this post. Let me just say: Wow. What a setup for the season. What a bunch of power-packed revelations. And yet, what utterly predictable dialogue. You would think that I would have annoyed my hosts by uttering … Continue reading

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Fair Diehl

I’m not a big fan of Jackson Diehl. Earlier in his career he was the Israel correspondent for the Washington Post. More recently, he’s been a foreign affairs columnist for the paper. As columnist he has consistently favored Arab “reformers,” … Continue reading

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Bad faiths

In his J-Street primer for American audiences (an op-ed in the Washington Post), J-Street’s founder, Jeremy Ben Ami wrote: Grateful as I am for decades of U.S. friendship with Israel, I have to wonder, as the state my father helped … Continue reading

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Ehud Barak – what is he up to?

“On the eve of Israel’s 60th Independence Day, the country’s population stands at 7,282,000”, says this site. Without arguing about this number – 7,281,999 of the citizens do not have a slightest idea what their minister of defense is doing … Continue reading

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