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Ariel Sharon’s twilight zone
Too healthy to die, too injured to rule, Israel’s legendary warrior and former prime minister lives in a comatose limbo—just like the Middle East peace process, writes Lynn Sherr in The Daily Beast: Read more »
Human Rights Watch responds
Human Rights Watch responds to HRW founder Robert Bernstein’s critique in The New York Times of the group’s treatment of Israel: Read more »
Bolton: U.S. should quit U.N. Human Rights Council
Last Friday’s endorsement by the U.N. Human Rights Council of the Goldstone report on the Gaza war shows that it was a mistake for the United States to join the flawed council, writes John Bolton, a former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, in The Wall Street Journal. Read more »
Goldstone’s motivation
Richard Goldstone explains the motivation behind his U.N. inquiry into the Gaza war. Read more »
In do-over on Goldstone, Human Rights Council ignores Hamas
The U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva took aim at Israel in a resolution endorsing the Goldstone report on the Gaza war. But the move was rebuked by the report's author, Richard Goldstone, over the lack of condemnation of Hamas. Read more »
Follow up: ADL tracking Nazi comparisons in health-care debate
Yesterday, I cited New York magazine’s story, "The right calls Obama Hitler. Why aren’t Jewish groups making more noise?" Read more »
Abbas the collaborator
The Israeli government turned Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas from a partner into collaborator—and in the process they’re killing him, writes Yossi Sarid in Ha’aretz: Read more »
Cohen: Enough about the Holocaust already
Roger Cohen, again. This time, it’s a call for Israel to stop talking about the Holocaust already and dismantle its assumed nuclear arsenal. Read more »
Is the problem 1967, or 1948?
Carlo Strenger in the U.K. Guardian breaks down how critics of Israel do the cause of a two-state solution disfavor when they keep bringing up 1948: Read more »
Why the silence?
"The right calls Obama Hitler. Why aren’t Jewish groups making more noise?" asks New York magazine: Read more »
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Updated 11/20/09 @ 11:30AM EDT
- Canada's opposition Liberal Party is crying foul after the ruling Conservatives mailed out flyers extolling themselves as stronger supporters of Israel.
- Israel arrested five Palestinian Authority intelligence officers in the West Bank.
- Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said Israel is conducting secret negotiations with Hamas.
- Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas was welcomed Thursday in Brazil by a state governor who is Jewish.
- Prominent South African Jewish leader and philanthropist Mendel Kaplan has died at the age of 73.
- Canadian Liberals object after Conservatives say they’re stronger Israel backers
- Israel arrests five P.A. officers
- Abbas: Israel talking to Hamas
- Abbas welcomed by Jewish pol in Brazil
- South African Jewish leader Mendel Kaplan dies
- Israel will send ship to NATO anti-terror force
- Obama: New Iran sanctions coming within weeks
- What should we bring? Thanksgiving foods that travel well
- 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
- Sniffing underwear and other high jinks in satire on intermarriage
