The NY Times notes that some of the most despotic of the U.S.’ Middle Eastern allies have...
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Bibi Netanyahu is shreying about the Muslim Brotherhood in terms redolent of Al Qaeda. Mubarak uses the...
The accompanying photo reveals precisely what was wrong with Day 13 of the Egyptian Revolution. There you...
The Obama administration seemed determined Wednesday to put as much daylight as possible between Mr. Obama and...
Barack Obama has a lot of faults, but sometimes at critical junctures he gets things pitch perfect....
Deputy Israeli prime minister Silvan Shalom made a telling comment in an Israel Radio interview that was...
In all the coverage I’ve read of the Tunisian and impending Egyptian political revolutions I haven’t read...
The closing invocation of the traditional seder is l’shana ha-ba’ah b’Yerushalayim (“Next year in Jerusalem”). It’s sung...
I preface this post with the caveat that everything reported here is from Arab and Israeli media...
Haaretz runs two stories reporting on the shape of a potential ceasefire proposal, but with markedly different...
At a Knesset memorial service for assassinated right-wing MK Rehavam Ze’evi, Avigdor Lieberman reminded his fellow members...
The NY Times featured an interesting article about a new Israeli film, The Band’s Visit, which sounded...












