Ops & Blogs | The Times of Israel » Grant Rumley http://blogs.timesofisrael.com The Marketplace of Ideas Fri, 24 May 2013 08:33:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Much ado about something http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/much-ado-about-something/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/much-ado-about-something/#comments Fri, 30 Nov 2012 15:17:49 +0000 Grant Rumley http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=83372 As the celebrations commenced in Manara Square in Ramallah, and the votes were tallied in New York, the Palestinian delegation had done something almost entirely unique to the post-Arafat era: it had unilaterally altered the status quo in the conflict. The upgrade to nonmember observer status for the Palestinian Liberation Organization puts it on the [...]

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]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/much-ado-about-something/feed/ 13 Cry Havoc http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/cry-havoc-a-ground-incursion-is-inevitable-how-long-will-it-last/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/cry-havoc-a-ground-incursion-is-inevitable-how-long-will-it-last/#comments Wed, 21 Nov 2012 17:23:03 +0000 Grant Rumley http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=81006 On Monday, halfway through a lecture on Iranian policy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the popping of distant gunshots pierced the night air, interrupting the professor’s lecture. Right on cue, he paused, smiled, then quipped: “Well that’s either a celebration, or the rockets are coming and we’re getting out early. We’ll know soon enough.” [...]

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