Editorials
A whitewash? Turkel Report on flotilla
IJN Editorial StaffJan 27, 2011
The Turkel commission was appointed by Israel to investigate the killings on the Turkish flotilla bound for Gaza last May. The Turkel Report, just issued, exonerated...
Scott Gessler should resign as Colorado’s Secretary of State
IJN Editorial StaffJan 27, 2011
Scott Gessler, an attorney, ran for Secretary of State of Colorado last November, and won. Now he says he wants to moonlight with his old law firm because his state...
Palestinian concessions on Jerusalem
IJN Editorial StaffJan 27, 2011
In the spirit of WikiLeaks, al-Jazeera has been fed documents on Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations in 2008 by an unknown source. The documents are revealing,...
Tunisia and Palestinians, apples and oranges
IJN Editorial StaffJan 20, 2011
Riots have driven the dictators of Tunisia from power. Unemployed young men took to the streets to get rid of the elite, monied rulers. Anarchy and chaos threaten the...
Hardly a shining moment for Sarah Palin
IJN Editorial StaffJan 20, 2011
It is true. A blood libel refers to a specific, heinous, false accusation leveled at Jews, for which Jews were murdered. It is also true that blood libel, as used...
Nuclear sense of humor
IJN Editorial StaffJan 20, 2011
Maybe we are insufficiently embedded in the cyber world. Certainly we have no competence in nuclear weaponry. But in the of-course-denied, computer-virus Israeli and...
JFK’s inauguration
IJN Editorial StaffJan 20, 2011
Fifty years ago, in what would be John F. Kennedys only inaugural address, the vigorous new president defined sacrifice in terms that appealed to young and old alike....
Honorary landsman John Hickenlooper
IJN Editorial StaffJan 13, 2011
Gov. John Hickenlooper is, to the best of our knowledge, not from Ratno, Poland, Brest Litovsk, Lithuania, or Furth, Germany. Still, he sees himself as a landsman. Or,...
Debbie Friedman, 1951-2011
IJN Editorial StaffJan 13, 2011
Mi shebeirach avoteinu Avraham, Yitzhak, ve-Yaakov . . . He Who blessed our forefathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob . . . may He bless and heal the sick person (name),...
Discrimination goes two ways
IJN Editorial StaffJan 13, 2011
Alarmed at the recent massive influx of non-Arab minorities into Israel, rabbis in Israel recently banned Jews from renting to non-Jews. The ban is a terrible idea that...
