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The Gilo announcement—more than just an announcement
Lara Friedman at Americans for Peace Now writes in to correct me about the nature of Israel’s Gilo announcement. Read more »
Funny Republicans
A mole who attended the Saban Institute forum in Jerusalem this week singled out as cutups not Bill Clinton or Bibi Netanyahu, the event’s star speakers, but U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.)—and California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R.) Read more »
Where did “Settlements” go?
Spencer Ackerman has a nice catch (h/t to a Ben Smith tweet): Read more »
Ian Kelly (State) v. Matt Lee (AP) - the battle over equivalence
Matt Lee of the Associated Press takes on Ian Kelly at the U.S. State Department on equating Israel’s announcement of additional units in Gilo in eastern Jerusalem v. Palestinian plans to unilaterally declare an independent state. Read more »
White House statement on building in Gilo
Marcy just posted this brief on the latest evidence that all is not cookies and coffee between the Obama and Netanyahu administrations: Read more »
Soros, Soros everywhere
I think Daniel Luban at the Faster Times has the Washington Times story on the National Iranian American Council mostly wrong. Read more »
When no Hatikvah means hopeless
Israelity tracks the story of the Vienna fencing competition that "misplaced" its copy of Hatikvah when two Israeli teens placed gold and bronze, and has a suggestion I like: Read more »
More on those paintings
Laura Rozen digs deeper into the mysterious shifting painting in the Oval Office (Is it reversible? Are Grant’s eyes tracking Bibi? Shades of Scooby Doo!!) Read more »
More on “unprecedented”
At Politico, Laura Rozen notes the New Republic piece which counts Hillary Rodham Clinton’s description of Israel’s partial settlement freeze as "unprecedented" as among her "gaffes." Read more »
RSS Feed Breaking News
Updated 11/22/09 @ 11:45AM EDT
- 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
