Ops & Blogs | The Times of Israel » Michael Dickson http://blogs.timesofisrael.com The Marketplace of Ideas Sun, 26 May 2013 07:50:16 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Israel: Democracy in Action http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/respect-our-vote/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/respect-our-vote/#comments Sun, 20 Jan 2013 19:03:15 +0000 Michael Dickson http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=96166 Dear World,   This week an amazing thing will happen in the Middle East. Keep that in mind, because your local media may not represent it that way. Millions of citizens, men and women, regardless of gender, ethnicity, race or religion, will head to the polls. Totally free, democratic elections, will take place in a [...]

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]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/respect-our-vote/feed/ 6 The Hamas leader who was killed by a Tweet http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-hamas-leader-who-was-killed-by-a-tweet/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-hamas-leader-who-was-killed-by-a-tweet/#comments Thu, 22 Nov 2012 13:25:38 +0000 Michael Dickson http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=81342 For such an evil man, Hamas leader Ahmad Jabari, it was the ultimate – and deserved – indignity. He became the first terrorist mastermind to be killed by a Tweet. Of course, the actual cause of death was an IAF missile targeting his car but online, his death notice, instantly tweeted out and posted on [...]

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]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-hamas-leader-who-was-killed-by-a-tweet/feed/ 46 UK-Israel relations: Invest in grassroots education http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/uk-israel-relations-invest-in-grassroots-education/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/uk-israel-relations-invest-in-grassroots-education/#comments Wed, 23 May 2012 12:17:39 +0000 Michael Dickson http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=27834 Editor’s note: This piece was adapted from a speech delivered by the author on Monday at a special session of the Knesset Committee on Immigration, Absorption and Diaspora Affairs, convened by MK Einat Wilf to discuss UK-Israel relations. Present were communal representatives and activists including UK-Jewish community heads as well as representatives of the British Embassy, the Prime Minister’s Office, [...]

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