Nov 17 2012
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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Nov 16 2012
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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Nov 16 2012
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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Nov 14 2012
Reputation, Reputation, Reputation By Maureen Dowd, November 13, 2012 As Lyndon Johnson said, the two things that make leaders stupid are envy and sex. Macbeth kills a king out of envy. Egged on by an envious Iago, Othello smothers his wife out of a crazed fear of her having sex with his lieutenant. Now …
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Nov 13 2012
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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Nov 12 2012
Veterans Day and a caution against the cult of the military By Bob Garfield, Sunday 11 November 2012 19.44 EST The video is lovely, affecting and – considering the subject matter – reasonably understated. A 60-ish guy sits at a lunch counter when a younger man, in army fatigues, walks in and orders a …
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Nov 12 2012
The Sins Of General David Petraeus By Michael Hastings, Nov 11, 2012 5:43pm EST The fraud that General David Petraeus perpetrated on America started many years before the general seduced Paula Broadwell, a lower-ranking officer 20 years his junior, after meeting her on a campus visit to Harvard. More so than any other leading …
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