Uri Zaki
By Uri Zaki
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News McCarthy Comes to the Knesset
The danger of the Knesset?s decision to set up a McCarthy-style committee for investigating Israeli human rights organizations was aptly summed up by Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin. He warned that the inquiry would be a ?show trial? and stressed in a newspaper interview: ?We must stop this murky wave.? Regrettably, only two of Rivlin?s colleagues…
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Opinion On Gaza, an About-Face That Was Overdue
“In the wake of this decision, the world’s focus will be on the Qassam rockets Hamas is firing out of Gaza and not the coriander that Israel isn’t allowing in.” That’s how an unidentified senior aide to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, quoted by the Israeli daily Haaretz, explained the Israeli government’s decision to significantly ease…
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