Ops & Blogs | The Times of Israel » Steven Moskowitz http://blogs.timesofisrael.com The Marketplace of Ideas Fri, 24 May 2013 20:29:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Visit Hebron, Mr. President http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/visit-hebron-mr-president/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/visit-hebron-mr-president/#comments Tue, 19 Mar 2013 03:40:07 +0000 Steven Moskowitz http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=111236 As President Obama begins his two-day trip to Israel, I have been reflecting on his scheduled visits. He is planning on visiting Yad VaShem, but not the Knesset, the Israel Museum but not the Western Wall. When he first lands at Ben Gurion airport he will visit an Iron Dome missile battery, meet with President [...]

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