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December 26, 2012
9:44 pm

Was a 19th Century American Preacher Really Watchmaker Mendel Deniss, Jerusalem’s 1st Photographer?

Mendenhall John Dennis in the center surrounded by his family in 1885. After 1860he lived......

August 29, 2012
6:06 pm

Who killed Rachel Corrie?

The parents of Rachel Corrie deserve Israel’s condolences and sympathy for the loss of their daughter on March 16, 2003. But, like their daughter, they misdirected their anger and crusade......

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July 4, 2012
8:20 am

For the Palestinians’ sake, it’s time to kill off Arafat

There's a big difference between mostly dead and all dead. Mostly dead is slightly alive. With all dead, well, with all dead there's usually only one thing you can......

May 30, 2012
12:36 pm

Ulpan in Gaza

Media reports last week tell of Hamas’s leadership in Gaza opening up Hebrew lessons for high school students. No doubt, some will look at the reports with deep suspicion. The New York......

May 10, 2012
3:07 pm

With Iran, watch the play away from the ball

Basketball mavens do take their eyes off the ball. A lot. In fact, 90 percent of a basketball game is played “away from the ball” on both defense and offense. Players’......

May 5, 2012
8:58 pm

Could Syria be harvesting human organs?

I thought I’d seen it all: random shooting and shelling of civilians, children executed by Assad’s thugs, bodies thrown off of roofs, teenagers’ tortured corpses. Then this week I......

April 17, 2012
2:24 pm

Catherine Ashton and the Iran ‘freebies’

A detailed account of the last week's nuclear talks with Iran appears in "How Iran Talks Came Back From Verge of Collapse" by reporter Laura Rozen in yesterday's al-Monitor. After......

March 22, 2012
7:27 am

Establish a field hospital on the Israeli-Syrian border. Now.

The field hospitals exist in storage. The experienced medical personnel are available. Demands for Red Cross access to Syrian wounded are being made. The Arab League, Turkey and two-thirds of......

March 15, 2012
10:57 am

Is the Sinai the new battlefield against the West?

Middle East observers usually don't read Uruguay's press to follow events in the Middle East. But in the last two days, Uruguayan reports suggest a troubling development in the Sinai......

March 13, 2012
12:34 pm

What Bibi didn’t say at AIPAC: Scuds falling in 1991

Not everyone was impressed last week when Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu displayed to his AIPAC audience a 1944 letter urging the United States to bomb the railways to......

March 6, 2012
11:17 pm

Iran: It’s Time to Negotiate the Terms of Your Surrender

Iran announced Tuesday that it will grant UN inspectors access to its Parchin military compound, previously off-limits to international inspection. Parchin is believed to be the location for advanced......

March 5, 2012
8:25 am

Obama’s Seder at AIPAC — dayenu?

In a few weeks' time Jewish families will be sitting around the Passover Seder table, reciting the popular song "Dayenu": If You had taken us out of Egypt, dayenu --......

February 26, 2012
3:03 pm

Syria’s arsenal of unconventional weapons must be destroyed

When I was in the Israeli army’s basic training and medics courses we had to endure a simulated chemical weapons attack. We entered a room that suddenly came under......