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Netanyahu to Obama: ‘You are one-hundred percent right, Mr. President’

On May 20, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lectured President Barack Obama — accurately — on the war history of the pre-June 5, 1967 armistice lines...

The multiple levels of harm of Strauss-Kahn

Dominique Strauss-Kahn, head of the International Monetary Fund and — until last Sunday — a likely presidential contender against Nicolas Sarkozy in next year’s...

63 years after May 15, 1948, Israel’s right to exist still not affirmed

Remember: in 1948, the UN did not vote to create Israel. It voted to create Israel and a Palestinian state. In a word: share the land. Compromise. Live together. All...

When the dead deserve no dignity

If Presidents Bush and Obama stoutly maintained for 10 years that Osama bin Laden was not a true Muslim, then why did President Obama insist on giving bin Laden a...

We don’t disinvite

The City University of New York voted to award an honorary degree to Tony Kushner, the prize-winning playwright. He was sharply criticized by a CUNY board member for his...

Mother’s Day

In the grocery stores, not far from the carts loaded with marked-down Passover inventory, are displays of Mother’s Day cards. They make it very convenient to remember...

Hamas, Human Rights Watch denounce killing of bin Laden

The US could well take a look at who its friends are — and aren’t. A clear and appropriate litmus test is the killing of bin Laden. If you stood […]

US killed its terrorist enemy. Ditto, Israel

The US assassination of Osama bin Laden parallels Israel’s anti-terrorism tactics. If you think the killing of bin Laden — and the way it was done — was justified,...

Libya — attack; Syria — coddle

Libya is an easy target. It’s leader is a buffoon. It’s geopolitical location is not sensitive. It’s oppression is blatant. Take it on! It’s almost a...

Dangerous Jewish position on the national budget

The American Jewish community is notoriously hard to define, but when the federations, the JCRCs and the religious groupings all agree on something, it’s as close to...