Gershom Gorenberg Obama stopped through for two nights and a day, as if he were writing one of the New York Times travel pieces about how to spend 36 hours in some locale. At first glance, the trip was purely about photo-ops, gathering footage for later campaign ads that will air in south Florida. But [...]
Obama in Israel: Political Implications
July 27th, 2008 · 7 Comments · Politics and Policy
Tags: Ehud Barak·Hamas·Netanyahu·Obama·Olmert·Sderot·terror·Tzipi Livni
The Kipah and the Gun
July 23rd, 2008 · 5 Comments · Politics and Policy
Haim Watzman “It’s no coincidence that men with knitted skullcaps—two of them soldiers—were involved in killing the terrorists who carried out the last three terror attacks,” Nadav Shragai writes in today’s Ha’aretz. Shragai, who himself hails from the mainstream of Isareli religious Zionism, is right to be proud, but he doesn’t tell the whole story. [...]
Tags: guns·Israel·religious Zionism·terror

