Author Archives: Soccerdad

AOL, which, in 1998, bought the Israeli company, Mirabilis (ICQ), is buying Israeli again. When US Internet giant America Online wants to go shopping for new Internet technologies, it heads to Israel. In less than a week, the Time Warner … Continue reading →

Glenn Kessler reports that the current state of the Annapolis conference seems to be very up in the air. “No one seems to know what is happening,” one senior Arab envoy said last week, speaking on condition of anonymity to … Continue reading →

Steven Erlanger catalogues the problems of life in Gaza in today’s Week in Review. Hopes were high in 2005, when Israel unilaterally withdrew its troops and 9,000 Jewish settlers, and the international community lined up to help the Palestinians make … Continue reading →

(h/t Media Backspin) In Palestinian Security Paradox, David Ignatius writes: Security is the magic word. No peace deal will work until the Palestinians are able to provide security that Israelis can trust. But right now, people are paying lip service … Continue reading →

There is precious little coverage of what ought to be considered Watergate for the international media, but yesterday brought some dramatic news. After telling the court that he had 27 minutes of video of the conflict near Netzarim junction the … Continue reading →

Before I started blogging. (OK before there were blogs.) I was a letter writer. When I didn’t like what I read in the newspaper I’d write a letter to the editor. Well 10 years (and 2 days) ago, I had … Continue reading →

Taint by Association by Clark Hoyt The bigger question is whether The Times should be publishing him at all. But why would the Times give a spokesman for a terrorist organization a platform to promote Hamas? If he wanted to … Continue reading →

via memeorandum This is not news, but there’s another academic concluding that terror is not a function of poverty. In this case it is Alan Krueger who explains What makes a terrorist. Claude Berrebi, now of the RAND Corporation’s Institute … Continue reading →

Earlier I critiqued Jackson Diehl’s column, “If this peace process fails.” Now, (via Daled Amos) I see that Noah Pollak has critiqued the column from a different perspective. The 2000-2005 terror war was not an outpouring of political or social … Continue reading →

Barry Rubin writes about what is being done and why it needs to be done regarding the Iranian nuclear threat. (or here) What’s being attempted. …it is the last moment for three other things: * If international terms, if diplomatic … Continue reading →

MK Yuval Steinitz is arguing that the United States should cut its foreign aid to Egypt by (a symbolic) $200 million. Egypt effectively condoned Hamas’s takeover of the Gaza Strip in June 2007, and has since stood by and allowed … Continue reading →

HonestReporting is trying to increase awareness of the Philippe Karsenty/ France 2 trial. Toward that end they’ve put up a video of Karsenty discussing the unseen footage. However as Fiery Spirited Zionist noted in the comments to my recent post … Continue reading →

From the Jerusalem Post Prof. Ada Yonath, a world-class molecular biologist at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, has been chosen to receive the $100,000 L’Oreal and UNESCO “For Women in Science” Life’s Work Prize – one of only … Continue reading →