Category: Israel

To break the Palestinians

A Pillar Built on Sand By John Mearsheimer, 16 November 2012   In response to a recent upsurge in tit for tat strikes between Israel and the Palestinians in Gaza, Israel decided to ratchet up the violence even further by assassinating Hamas’s military chief, Ahmad Jabari. Hamas, which had been playing a minor role in …

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Our chances of survival

Life goes on in Gaza, where no place is safe By Samah Sabawi, November 17, 2012 12:00AM   A bomb falls close to our neighbourhood in Gaza; I check Facebook to see if everyone has survived. A young cousin, Nihal, writes in her status: “Shoot, I should have had my nap earlier today, didn’t know it …

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Kook

We Are Seeing Moshiach in Action! By Tzvi Fishman, November 15th, 2012   The Pillar of Cloud, otherwise known as the Clouds of Glory, or Amud HaAnan, protected the Jewish People in the Wilderness, and the “Amud HaAnan” Operation which Tzahal has now undertaken is intended to protect our beleaguered citizens in the south. But …

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They returned a new son to us

Before the 1967 lines retire, too By Akiva Eldar, Nov.13, 2012 4:33 AM   On Saturday afternoon light rain greeted the long column of cars crawling through the narrow lanes of the Palestinian village of Jayus in the heart of the northern West Bank. At the head of the column was a battered truck dragging …

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But when will that be?

The Israeli documentary putting military rule in Palestine on trial By Rachel Shabi, Monday 12 November 2012 07.05 EST   The Law In These Parts, an Israeli documentary awarded this year’s Sundance World Cinema Grand Jury prize, examines how the country created a military-legal system to control the Palestinians in the lands Israel occupied in …

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You should be so lucky

My President Is Busy By Thomas L. Friedman, November 10, 2012   Israeli friends have been asking me whether a re-elected President Obama will take revenge on Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu for the way he and Sheldon Adelson, his foolhardy financier, openly backed Mitt Romney. My answer to Israelis is this: You should be so …

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Oh ga-lory!

  Well, we finally did it. My wife and I decided to go see the most wholly reverend Dwain Miller of Eldorado, Arkansas, in the flesh. We have just returned and I have three words of prophecy for you: OH-MY-GAWD! First of all, let me say that the Glory Barn regulars are the salt of …

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