No to Direct Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations (0)
7/08/10 •
As Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu winds up his trip to Washington DC, the American Administration, along with the Israelis, increase their pressure on the Palestinians to abandon the current indirect negotiations track, and to agree to an immediate transition to direct negotiation with Israel. Anybody who understands the first thing about Middle East negotiations [...]
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Delusion and Reality in the Land of the Bible (0)
1/05/10 •
The narrative and daily life of every country has a delusional part (usually called ‘myths’). This includes issues that have to do with the origins of the nation, the life and times of founding fathers (always, never mothers), and a set of rationalizations for the country’s less than glorious chapters (we all have them). This [...]
Israel’s Imaginationless Negotiators (0)
12/24/09 •
Israelis are supposed to be innovative, imaginative and proactive; in their dealings with Hamas, as they attempt to negotiate the release of Israel’s captive soldier, Gilad Shalit, Israel’s negotiating team shows none of these attributes: instead, they are rigid, conservative, reactive and in general smell like a bunch of yesterday’s alpha males.
What do the Hamas [...]
The Everlasting Humor of Hoodlum Politics (0)
6/16/09 •
The leading headline this morning, in Israel ’s daily Ha’arez says: “Lieberman Demanded Clarifications From Solana Regarding Solana’s Meeting With a Hezbollah Representative”.
So far so good, Israel ’s Foreign Minister is a decisive and deeply perceptive man, and when a senior European envoy meets with a representative of what Israel considers a terror organization, decisive [...]
Employer-Based Health Care in America - A Lead Weight Over the Economy’s Neck (0)
6/06/09 •
A recent study, to be published in the upcoming August 2009 issue of the American Journal of Medicine – a known radical left wing organ – tells us that more than 60% of the people that declare bankruptcy in the US , do it because of medical bills. That means that close to a million [...]
