Guardian Editorial -- Israel becoming a liability for Obama.
A Guardian Editorial suggests that Israel's new right-wing government could become a liability for the US:The United States may thus be approaching the point where it begins to see Israel as a...
View ArticleAP: Egypt Mediating Long Term Truce Between Israel & Hamas
The Associated Press reports Israel and Hamas are discussing a long-term truce.Egypt is mediating between Palestinian and Israeli parties.Egyptian intelligence chief Gen. Omar Suleiman has been trying...
View ArticleNine arrested in UK delivering humanitarian supplies to Gaza
Haaretz reports:The vehicles were seized in the same area, but police declined to say if the three men were traveling in them. Police also declined to say what the men - aged 26, 29, and 36 - were...
View ArticleAmericans and Israelis share few values today
The Israeli elections may yet be unsettled, but the recent vote tells us one thing for certain: Israelis today hold few shared values with Americans and no value at all toward official US Mideast...
View ArticleLiebermann All the Way
Avigdor Liebermann, the presumptive king-maker of the new Israeli cabinet, shocked liberals and progressives when he suggested that Israeli Arabs be required to take an oath of allegiance to the...
View ArticleIsrael Must Form a Secular Coalition — With or Without Lieberman
NOTE: When I wrote this, it was not yet clear that Bibi had 65 MKs behind him. I'm posting it anyway.On Thursday, the heads of two political parties met with Israeli President Shimon Peres to give...
View Article(Next stop, Valley of Death!) About Avigdor Lieberman...
God knows that one of the worst things in the world one could possibly do is to start an I/P diary on a Saturday night when people either would like to be doing better things or have enough time to...
View ArticleWhen Lieberman met Lieberman
After searching long and hard, Joe has finally found a Lieberman to make him look good.http://www.jpost.com/...Just two words: Oy vey.
View ArticleIsrael: Judaism for Sale?
Today's Yediot Ahronot Web site reports that the Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi of Israel, Yona Metzger, will convene a meeting tomorrow to discuss the issue of civil marriage. This is intended to pave the way...
View Article[IP101] Putting Lipstick on Israel's Lieberman Pig
I've been offering the article below to MSM newspapers. Hasn't been published anywhere yet. My favorite venue the Seattle P-I is going under within days, so that one's gone.Also, I think I'm a bit...
View ArticleWashington and Jerusalem: A Tale of Two Cities
An article by Gershom Gorenberg in Haaretz last week speculated about what Netanyahu might face on his first visit to Washington after he becomes Israeli Prime Minister. He compares this to...
View ArticleLieberman under criminal investigation, will be forced to quit?
For some reason, I think that news of a criminal investigation of Joe Lieberman would make many Kossacks happy. This is not what I'm talking about here (although there is a Joe Lieberman connection -...
View ArticleIsrael: Ministry of Stupidity
As I have predicted elsewhere, Israeli Prime Minister–delegate Binyamin "Bibi" Netanyahu is having some problems forming a coalition by the deadline of April 3 required by Israeli law. For someone so...
View ArticleHow Can I Continue to Support the Israeli Gov't?
Before and during Operation Cast Lead, I spoke out often in support of Israel.(1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7) It may not be the last time that I speak out in favor of Israel, and that doesn't necessarily mean I...
View ArticleBREAKING: Israel's New Government: The Neocon, the Fascist, The Fundies......
Fresh from Israel: now it's official, and it wasn't even close. By a 680-507 majority Israel's Labor party central committee voted in favor of chairman Barak's coalition deal with Likud's Netanyahu,...
View ArticleIsrael: Here We Go...
On his first day on the job, new Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman has decided to declare that his nation's government is not bound by agreements made by the previous government, specifically...
View ArticleIsraeli Police Question Avigdor Lieberman for Bribery
Just announced, Israeli police have questioned the head of Yisrael Beitenu, and the newly-installed Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, for 7 hours in an ongoing bribery probe! Money laundering and...
View ArticleYou have NO Right to criticize the Israeli government! - Cong. Engel
From the First Amendment challenged. Rep. Eliot Engel (Dimwit-NY): The people of Israel have the right to elect any government they like, and no other country, including the U.S., has the right to...
View ArticleIsrael: Could It Be the Beginning of the End Already?
Probably not, but it's fun to imagine. Here's why.
View ArticleHamas used hospital as command post during Cast Lead
Not that this surprises me one bit, considering terrorists generally have no problem with civilian deaths, but this is still an important development in Israel's battle against the Hamas terrorist...
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