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May 15, 2013
6:00 pm

Triumph of the Will

The Arab-Israeli conflict, struggle, crisis, confrontation, impasse, call it what you will, has been with us now for not far short of seven decades, the nominal starting date being......

May 14, 2013
9:37 am

Additional

Well, there it is again. President Obama has said it once more. The window of opportunity is closing, the time left for serious debate and negotiation is running low and......

May 13, 2013
7:10 am

Stephen Hawking has other plans. Does anyone else?

Quite frankly. I just can't see how it matters all that much if Professor Hawking attends some Israeli get-together or not. If he has decided not to turn up at......

May 10, 2013
11:27 pm

Nearly an Eternity

It may be commonly perceived in many faiths, especially those of a monotheistic belief, that divisions and differences of interpretation often give rise to crimes of the most objectionable......

May 9, 2013
12:31 pm

‘Dagger of the Mind’

News item: In what would have seemed an extremely bizarre move only twenty or so years ago, the US is reported to be mulling over the prospect of supplying specifications......

May 7, 2013
10:40 am

To the Journey

The Arab Peace Initiative (revised edition 2013) may (or may not) be a candidate for the next big push where peace negotiations between Israel and her Arab neighbours are......

May 4, 2013
1:04 am

Cold Equations

Are we about to see the latest in a long line of peace negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians? A few straws in the wind would seem to indicate this......

May 2, 2013
12:18 am

The Offer

As far as the latest Arab-Israeli peace initiative is concerned, the jury would still appear to be very much out on the chances for its further development. Final ratification......

April 30, 2013
4:44 pm

Vanishing Act

'IAF kills senior Salafist terrorist in Gaza strike' 'Palestinian stabs Israeli to death in West Bank' These are two headlines taken from news stories on this very day. They could easily......

April 28, 2013
1:40 pm

Always a choice

Is it really true that the rest of the world holds Jews to a much higher standard than everyone else? If so, then, as the one and only people chosen......

April 26, 2013
9:04 pm

A twist in the tail

Israel's emergence in and about the mid 20th century is a remarkable story, a testament to the survival and tenacity of a people faced with almost constant adversity across......

April 24, 2013
11:51 am

Mechanism

In the matter of the Israeli-Palestinian dispute, there is only one lesson to be learned. And every year that passes only confirms our understanding of it. And this is that we......

April 20, 2013
4:25 pm

Something from within

One comment that has already been made on the manhunt for the second Boston bomber is this. With the combined resources of every branch of law enforcement agency in the......

April 19, 2013
1:17 am

Ghetto Mentality

It could be said that the ghetto mentality is still deeply embedded in the Israeli consciousness and, in the seventy years after the Warsaw Uprising of '43, very little......

April 17, 2013
7:15 am

Minority Report

What we are witnessing now in Boston is the aftermath of a terrorist attack and the painstaking search for clues and evidence pointing to whoever was responsible for such......

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