Leonard Fein
By Leonard Fein
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Opinion George W. Bush’s Reign of Error
A new poll reports that 71% of Iraqis want the United States out of Iraq within a year; half of them think that we should be out within six months. They want us, as President Bush might put it, to “cut and run.” But our president is nothing if not resolute. He means to stay…
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Opinion He Who Is Fit To Judge
Israel’s most significant Barak is not Ehud, the former prime minister, but, by a furlong, Aharon, until last week president of Israel’s Supreme Court. Widely respected in Israel and abroad, Aharon Barak’s imprint on the Israeli court, and thereby on Israeli society, is second to no other living Israeli. Essentially, Barak’s expansive vision of the…
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Opinion Consequences of Our Coarsening
In September 1982, in an article in Moment Magazine that was written and mailed before the events in Sabra and Shatila, I wrote the following words: “There are two kinds of Jews in the world… “There is the kind of Jew who detests war and violence, who believes that fighting is not ‘the Jewish way,’…
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Opinion Spread The Good News
‘Summertime,” Gershwin used to say, “and the livin’ is easy.” Not the summer of 2006, though. The summer now fading was just about as uneasy as it gets. Still, through the fog of war, the contrails of the jets, the smoke and fire of the bombs, other and very different stories were unfolding. Here, two…
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Opinion The Courage To Be Humble
Now that the shooting’s over (one hopes), the postmortems, quite literally, begin. And they are already ugly, very ugly. By and large, the growing conviction in Israel is that the entire affair was a costly fiasco. A people accustomed to lightning victory — think the Six Day War of 1967, think the Entebbe rescue in…
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Opinion A Word Liberals Dare Not Speak
What is it about the left that causes such instinctive antipathy toward Israel? It wasn’t always that way. Years back, Israel was in fact a favorite of the left, the more so of what I will call here left-liberals. What happened? Has the left changed? Or has Israel? Or have both? Of course Israel has…
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Opinion Was There Really No Other Way?
According to all reports, synagogues in America were unusually well-attended this Tisha B’Av, which fell this year on August 3. It’s the day on which Jews — some, anyway — remember to mourn the destruction of the First Temple, and then, according to the tradition, a number of other calamities that befell our people through…
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Opinion In Praise of The Double Standard
There are real terrorists in our world, people who sow fear and death and exult in what they do. And Hezbollah is prominent, perhaps even preeminent, among them. It has killed Jews in Buenos Aires and U.S. Marines in Beirut and on and on and now, of course, it has launched rockets all over Israel’s…
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