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Jun 8, 2015, 4:52 PM

Buy Dis’ Stuff

Memo to Sheldon Adelson: I hear you and Haim Saban want to fund ways to counter the BDS movement. Way to go! I’ve got one. It’s a bit of a gamble, but then again, how many millions did you lose...

Mar 21, 2015, 9:29 AM

You would think that before New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman accused Benjamin Netanyahu of playing the race card on election day, he would do at least do his homework. Apparently not. Friedman, whose anti-Netanyahu bias mirrors that at...

Feb 12, 2015, 4:44 AM

Bibi in Congress as Obama is Glued to the Tube

I hope Obama to be watching from the Oval Office. His staffers, especially the ones who were quoted in the Jeffrey Goldberg article as saying that Bibi is “chickensh*t”, will surely be paying attention. I want them to see Barbra and Spielberg...

Feb 3, 2015, 8:13 AM

Captain Kangaroo Covers His Behind

William Schabas, chairman of the UN Human Rights Commission investigation of Israel’s actions during last summer’s war against Hamas, has quit. He has removed himself, in his own words, so as not to permit the findings of the commission,...

Jan 11, 2015, 7:38 AM

Of Rabbits and Hats

Did you know that the Hamas TV station broadcasting in Gaza has a children’s show that features a rabbit named Assud? Cute, right? Did you also know that the Hamas TV rabbit, which regularly incites Palestinian children, in the vilest...

Jan 8, 2015, 1:44 AM

Top Ten Predictions after Charlie Hebdo

1. In a few years someone will write an opera romanticizing the terrorists, featuring a chorus that airs their grievances. 2. Absolutely no one will relate this to the attack on the Munich Olympics or credit the Palestinians for inventing...

Nov 4, 2014, 9:41 PM

DATELINE: Washington, D. C. After weeks of signaling that it would not be seeking Congressional approval for a nuclear deal that would leave Iran within six months of building a bomb, new developments indicate the Obama Administration might now do...

Oct 24, 2014, 6:50 AM

My New York Times Rant of the Day

This past summer, during the Gaza war, I cancelled my subscription to the New York Times home edition, banishing the arrogantly self-styled "newspaper of record" from my bathroom floor after 40 years. I had enough of the anti-Israel bias...

Oct 21, 2014, 3:20 PM

Another view of “Klinghoffer”

Arriving at my daughter’s home after attending the protest rally across the street from Lincoln Center, and announcing where I had been, my daughter, who was ten years old in 1985 when the Achille Lauro was hijacked but has...

Aug 29, 2014, 4:27 PM

The war of the children

Golda Meir’s famous observation about the relationship between those who seek peace and love their own children is obviously not on the radar at the New York Times. Although the recent Times report mentioned in passing that "fears about...

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Bennett M. Epstein is a criminal lawyer in New York