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Article 13
Last Monday, I stood amid olive trees overlooking the Arab-Israeli town of Sakhnin, where architect Riyad Dwairy urged me and 20 other Ben-Gurion University students to squint at a little white dot on...
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Article 12
Did you hear there was some controversy over what President Obama said about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in a speech yesterday? It’s true! Here are some people having thoughts about it. And I...
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Netanyahu Preps for Protests, and More
• In talking to a retired colonel and professional in such matters, Prime Minister Netanyahu for the first time formally planned for the possible borders of a future Palestinian state. [Haaretz] • In...
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Assad Continues Homs Crackdown, and More
• Even as Syrian President Bashar Assad turned back an Arab League delegation, his forces killed at least 20 in the city of Homs. So, just another day in Syria. [LAT] • As the tents fold on Rothschild...
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Article 9
I don’t know if it was intentional, but the more than one hundred people, both supporters and press, attending Gov. Rick Perry’s press conference this morning on Israel and the United Nations were...
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Netanyahu and Obama Admin. Make Nice
Over the weekend, as President Abbas returned triumphant to the West Bank, Prime Minister Netanyahu, by contrast, stuck around for a few more days. Already, you’d be hard-pressed to find a better...
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Anti-African Migrant Protest in Tel Aviv Turns Violent
In southern Tel Aviv, 1,000 “protesters”—they began as protesters, ended as rioters, assailants, worse—demanded the detention and/or deportation of the recent influx of Africans who have come to Israel...
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Israeli Symphony Orchestra To Play Richard Wagner Music for the First Time
• Richard Wagner’s music will be performed by a full symphony orchestra in Israel for the first time since there has been an Israel. David P. Goldman wrote in support of the informal boycott last year....
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Netanyahu Opposes Right-Wing Settlement Bill But Approves More Settlements
Is this what the unity government was for? Little-noticed when Shaul Mofaz brought Kadima into the governing coalition—less noticed than the electoral strategy, the Iran dimension, and even perhaps the...
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Sundown
• Unsurprisingly, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad hadn’t been in New York for a day before he asserting that Jews have “no roots” in the Middle East. [Financial Times] • A Jerusalem court...
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Members of Likud and Islamic Jihad Both Decry U.S. Election
YNet is reporting that following comments made by members of Likud about the American election, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has stepped in ordered his fellow Likud ministers to refrain...
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Bibi Accidentally Endorses Settlement Freeze
While former Israeli Foreign Minister (and perpetual utterer of undiplomatic statements) Avigdor Lieberman awaits the end of his corruption trial so that he may…return to the crucial post of foreign...
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Fighting in Israel Continues After Short-Lived Israeli Ceasefire
An Egypt-mediated cease fire seemed a possibility this morning, with Israel agreeing to the proposal and halting fire for six hours—while Hamas continued to launch nearly 50 rockets from Gaza....
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Danny Danon Becomes First Israeli Elected to Head of Permanent UN Committee
For the first time in the history of the United Nations, an Israeli was appointed to head a permanent committee within its halls. Danny Danon, Israel’s envoy to the UN since last summer, received 109...
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