We are fast approaching the fourth anniversary of the capture of Gilad Shalit, who is being held by the terrorist group Hamas somewhere in the Gaza Strip. The young Israel Defense Force corporal was taken on June 25, 2006, in a cross-border raid when he was a mere 19 years old. The fact that this day comes in the wake...
You could be forgiven for feeling that we are passing through the theater of the absurd in a front-row seat that keeps spinning out of control. But there is not a speck of amusement to be gleaned from this show -- only pain and fear. That the Israeli raid on the Gaza-bound flotilla has unleashed such an international uproar speaks...
Amid all the massive media attention that followed Israel's raid on a flotilla bound for Gaza on Monday, the juxtaposition of two stories in many of the country's newspapers the next day was more than ironic. The headlines in The Philadelphia Inquirer provided as good an example as any: "Outcry, crisis after deadly raid by Israel" was followed by this,...
Arlen Specter's stunning loss in last week's Senate primary is quickly becoming old news. Pundits are moving beyond the analysis of why Pennsylvania's longest-serving senator lost in the final weeks to U.S. Rep. Joe Sestak, the political upstart who bucked the Democratic Party machine and capitalized on the anti-incumbent wave flooding the country. But before we turn to the tough...
Israel's acceptance into the prestigious Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development is a welcome development at a time of increasing international isolation of the Jewish state. That the 31-member OECD -- an association of mostly wealthy democracies that promotes international trade -- put aside politics to recognize the extraordinary economic contributions of the "start-up nation" distinguishes the body from other...
Sivan 16, 5773
