What is the worst insult a religious Jew may use?* What is the most violent act permitted to a religious Jew? Is rabbinical Judaism related to the Biblical one? The answer to these three questions…
Tag: Israel
The Eyal terminal at the city of Qalqiliya is one of forty fixed checkpoints located along the boundary between the occupied West Bank and Israel. The terminals are part of an elaborate system of physical and administrative…
Observers of Middle East politics have often said allegiances in the region shift as fast as the desert sands. And nothing substantiates that metaphor as much as the relationship between Israel and Turkey that went from warm…
Nuclear News A few days ago, on June 25, 2013, the National Security Archive published an article entitled The Israel-Argentina Yellowcake Connection, describing “Previously Secret Documents Show That Canadian Intelligence Discovered That Israel Purchased Yellowcake…
The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) has just completed its annual gala in Washington. A reported thirteen thousand AIPAC supporters reportedly cheered the latest efforts to make Israel America’s most favored nation….
Three years ago this month, I wrote a piece entitled “Who’s to Blame for the Iraq War?” to mark the seventh anniversary of the US invasion. My sole purpose in compiling a by-no-means-exhaustive list of 20…
FAILING to agree on ways to reduce the deficit, the US president was forced earlier this month to enact the Budget Control Act (BCA) into law. The debt ceiling compromise was originally agreed to between…
What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother’s blood crieth unto me from the ground.—Genesis 4:10 Some may object to my starting such an article with Tony Blair. Yet, he provided us with unforgettable,…
NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen received Israel’s president Shimon Peres at NATO headquarters in Brussels on March 7. The order of the day: to enhance military cooperation between Israel and the Atlantic Alliance focusing…
for unto this people shalt thou divide for an inheritance the land—Joshua 1:6 Imagine Imagine that you are rich. Imagine that you form part of an international corporation which is not listed in any country…