Haim Watzman Today’s rollout of a draft model Israeli-Palestinian water accord by EcoPeace/Friends of the Earth Middle East (FOEME) demonstrated several of the salient but frustrating truths about this most urgent area of conflict. First, it’s solvable. With proper planning, conservation, reuse, and production, there is enough water available for all 11 million Israelis and [...]

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Haim Watzman Downtown is closed off, and it looks like half the country is there. So’s my wife, Ilana, who as a soldier’s mother identifies completely with Shalit’s mother. Give Hamas whatever they want, just get the boy home. As much empathy as I feel for the Shalit family, I can’t agree with that call. [...]

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Haim Watzman Mike Huckabee recently made a virulently anti-Zionist remark — and the Jews who accompanied him on his tour of East Jerusalem cheered. “It concerns me when there are some in the United States who would want to tell Israel that it cannot allow people to live in their own country, wherever they want,” [...]

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Haim Watzman Ilana’s got that look on her face. “It’s August,” she says, “and all our friends are going to Corfu, Barcelona, and Antalya. But us?” “If you wanted fancy European vacations, you shouldn’t have married a freelance writer,” I reply. “J.K. Rowling is a freelance writer,” Ilana observes, “and I bet she’s not vacationing [...]

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Journalistic colleagues – in the Jewish and general American media – have emailed me to thank me for my recent column on CAMERA’s apparent efforts to slant Wikipedia articles. The notes came with comments like “batten down the hatches” or “hope they don’t throw eggs at your house.” I felt like the kid who took [...]

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