John McCain has decided: let the smears begin. And so campaign silly season has arrived with a...
Mideast Peace
In taking over much of Beirut (including Sunni neighborhoods formerly controlled by pro-government forces), Hezbollah has engineered...
I don’t know if you could ever find a stranger conflict of interest in Israeli law and...
Morris Talansky, Olmert’s bag man (?), in Jerusalem Tuesday (Daniel Bar-On /Jini) The end of Ehud Olmert’s...
The N.Y. Times has a new Israel correspondent, Ethan Bronner. He replaced Steven Erlanger, who I thought...
It’s starting to feel a little like kicking a man when he’s down in making fun of...
For those who don’t know, gazlan in Hebrew means ‘robber.’ So did he or didn’t he? Did...
Bernard Avishai has written a compelling blog post in which he practically beseeches the heavens to deny...
In the Barack Obama-Jeremiah Wright affair, a tragedy of sorts is playing itself out before our eyes....
I opened the front page of yesterday’s N.Y. Times Magazine and was greeted by a two page...
Some of you may know that the English newspaper, The Guardian, is expanding its coverage of the...
Israeli UN ambassador Dan Gillerman has brewed a mini-tempest in a teacup by taking the highly undiplomatic...
