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- Turkey has given Israeli defense contractors 50 days to deliver 10 promised drone aircraft.
- Iran began an air defense drill designed to protect its nuclear program, Iranian state television reported.
- The Gaza war has spurred more Israeli recruits to request service in combat units, the country's army said.
- Fervently Orthodox demonstrators protested again at the Intel factory in Jerusalem for operating on Shabbat.
- Israel will stop building settlements once the Palestinians start negotiating, President Shimon Peres said.
- Turkey demands delivery of Israeli drones
- Iran begins air defense drill
- More Israeli recruits seeking to join combat units
- Haredim return to protest Jerusalem Intel factory
- Peres: Settlement building stops if Palestinians talk
- Gaza groups agree to stop rocket fire
- Pakistani Mumbai terrorists arrested in Italy
- Riot police break up Hungarian neo-Nazi group meeting
- Female Orthodox scholars helping women talk about sex
- Obama half-brother has Jewish roots
- Lieberman: Fort Hood could be terror attack
- J Street confab shows generational divide on Israel
- What really happened at the Reform biennial in Toronto
- Rubashkin convicted on 86 charges
- Obama shifts to Israel’s corner, but tries not to show it
- Pro-Israel fliers confiscated at campus speech
Posted in: Race ends with GOP slamming Obama on Israel
11/04/08 06:40 PM
There is an old American expression which, in its entirety, is too vulgar to post here. Paraphrasing: “He decided to throw everything at the wall to see if any of it stuck.” In this election, Senator McCain not only ran against Senator Obama but against McCain 2000, the decent, centrist, coalition-building politician we then thought him to be. McCain 2008’s ad hominem attacks on Senator Obama are unparalleled in my very long memory of presidential elections. You can no more trust his statements on Obama vis a vis Israel than you can his other erratic, inchoate, self-contradictory pronouncements on a wide variety of topics. The Mishnah teaches us that one should honor a great scholar who, in old age has forgotten his learning, for the man he was. I honor Senator McCain for the man he was but, sadly, not for the man he has become.