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Palestinians Seek To Detach From Hezbollah
WASHINGTON — Despite expressing admiration for Hezbollah’s ability to strike Israel, Palestinians are working to distance themselves from the Lebanese militia in an effort to end the six-week Israeli onslaught against Gaza. Israeli forces have pounded Gaza with more than 200 air strikes and 12,000 artillery shells since June 25, when Palestinian militants with ties…
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A Virtual Verbal Volley
Viewers of Thailand’s Channel 9 were treated to an unlikely spectacle Monday night: a debate between Israeli ambassador Yael Rubinstein and her Iranian counterpart, Mohsen Pakein. Even though their countries continue to have no formal relations and appear headed toward a direct military confrontation, Rubinstein and Pakein argued over the raging conflict between Israeli forces…
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Moshe Ya’alon, left, the former chief of staff of the Israeli military, will be the keynote speaker at an August 15 memorial ceremony for the revisionist Zionist leader Vladimir “Ze’ev” Jabotinsky, who championed the creation of a Jewish state in what are now Israel, the West Bank and Jordan. Introductory remarks will be delivered by…
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Beauty Queen of the Hill
Shmooze readers likely know Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz as one of the Forward 50 — this newspaper’s annual record of the most influential Jews in America. But the 39-year-old Florida Democrat just won a new title, becoming the first individual in history to make both our list and The Hill newspaper’s roster of the 50…
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Preaching Peace and Love, Armed With Just a Guitar
‘I’m here as a soldier of love,” reggae star Ziggy Marley proclaimed last Thursday, as he performed at Ra’anna’s municipal park in a suburban-style city in the center of the country, far from the katushyas that are hitting in Israel’s north and from the Qassam rockets falling in the south. It was the same message…
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Bomb Shelter Saves Patients in Israeli Hospital
NAHARIYA, Israel — Some might call it luck that the worst rocket attack on Nahariya’s Western Galilee Hospital in 25 years caused no casualties. But Deputy Director Moshe Daniel insists it was foresight that saved lives in the July 28 attack. That’s because slightly more than two weeks earlier, 180 patients — expectant mothers, newborns,…
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Israeli Military Policy Under Fire After Qana Attack
WASHINGTON — As Jerusalem defends itself against worldwide condemnation over a deadly air strike that killed dozens of Lebanese children, current and former Israeli officials acknowledge that the Israeli military has loosened the restrictions on targeting militants in populated areas. After an Israeli air force raid Sunday on the Lebanese village of Qana left dozens…
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U.S. Ripped For Inaction On Israeli, Syrian Front
WASHINGTON — As Jerusalem mobilizes reserves and Damascus puts its troops on the highest state of alert, the Bush administration is not taking overt steps to prevent Israel’s war with Hezbollah from spilling over into Syria. Even as Israeli officials repeatedly accuse Damascus of supporting Hezbollah and Hamas, Jerusalem insists it has no intentions of…
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Does Jerusalem Have a Plan For What Comes Afterward?
Two weeks into the war, the looming question for Israel is how to end it successfully. Because there are no simple answers, another question lurks in the background: Did the government’s decision to go into battle against Hezbollah in Lebanon include a plan for what would come after? In the welter of bulletins about ground…
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Putting the ‘Force’ in IDF
Wikipedia, the interactive online encyclopedia, continues to astound. Not only did the site recently log its one millionth entry — the Encyclopedia Brittanica, by contrast, has about an eighth that number — but it has also proved remarkably responsive to current events. According to an article in this week’s New Yorker magazine, the Wikipedia entry…
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Israeli-Palestinian ‘Odd Couple’ Tackles the Conflict — and the Dishes
Though Israeli Edward (Edy) Kaufman and Palestinian Manuel Hassassian teach a summer course together at the University of Maryland on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, their discussions rarely end when the class bell rings. Often they will continue on through the dinner hour at the house the two share near campus — as part of a long-running…
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