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  The Gaza Fence

  Gaza’s convulsions have kept much of the world community riveted in horrified fascination for the past month, wondering what it all means and what could possibly happen next. Scenes of Palestinians leveling the barrier wall along the Gaza-Egypt border, flooding across by the tens of thousands and overwhelming Egyptian security forces, have provided some of…

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  The Danger of the Deficit

  Entering his last year in office, President Bush might have been expected to acknowledge the bleak political landscape and to tread modestly. He has lost both houses of Congress, the confidence of most Americans and much of the world’s good will. His agenda has been repudiated, at home and abroad, and there’s no time left…

  Feb 8, 2008 | 3 min read
• Letters

  February 8, 2008

  Note Jewish Scientists I could not agree more with Arts & Culture writer David Kaufmann’s review of the PBS series “The Jewish Americans” (“A History of Us: ‘The Jewish Americans’ Hits the High Notes,” January 25). What PBS did, they did well; what they left out was even more incredible. Kaufmann properly laments the omission…

  Feb 8, 2008 | 4 min read

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• Nora Berman Is Netflix’s new show the most Jewish cartoon ever?

  

• Dan Perry Israel is not deliberately killing journalists in Gaza. But it does bear responsibility for their deaths

  

• Emily Tamkin Trump’s attack on George Soros is ludicrous. It also endangers Jews (and everyone else)

  

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  The Lesson of Super Tuesday’s Split Ticket

  The conventional wisdom this past December said that by now we would have anointed presidential candidates from both political parties. Super Tuesday was supposed to be a victory lap. Instead, it was a mosh pit. Both parties’ voters delivered the equivalent of split tickets. Delegate counts suddenly matter, and a brokered convention or two is…

  By Noam Neusner Feb 6, 2008 | 4 min read
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  Let the Spirit of Bill Gates Be Brought to the Pews

  As one of about two dozen religious leaders invited to attend the World Economic Forum last month in Davos, Switzerland, I spent four of the most fascinating days of my life engaged in high-level interfaith dialogue with representatives of the Muslim and Christian world. Where else could I sit with a member of the Saudi…

  By Eric Yoffie Feb 6, 2008 | 3 min read
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  Accept That the Regime in Iran Is Here To Stay

  Many respectable experts on Iran, prominent among them Americans, Israelis and Iranians-in-exile, believe they know how to replace the theocratic regime in Tehran with something far more benign and friendly. “Another $100 million for broadcasting to Iran’s disaffected youth and women will do the trick,” says a veteran Israeli security official who served in pre-revolutionary…

  By Yossi Alpher Feb 6, 2008 | 4 min read
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  We Have Already Been Defeated in Iraq

  Daniel Levy is one of the new stars in Washington, as also in cyberspace. Levy comes to Washington from Israel, where his distinguished record included serving as senior policy advisor to then-justice minister Yossi Beilin and as the lead Israeli drafter of the Geneva Initiative. Now, under the auspices of The Century Foundation and the…

  By Leonard Fein Feb 6, 2008 | 4 min read
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  The Truth About Barack Obama

  I was saddened to see the shameful whisper campaign about Barack Obama’s faith be granted credence, however partial, in these pages. In a February 1 editorial, assertions are repeated that contradict the facts about Obama’s life, and the spirit of unity that surrounds his candidacy (“Fear Factor”). Barack Obama is a Christian. He has been…

  By Dick Durbin Feb 4, 2008 | 3 min read
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  The Smearing of Obama

  This week’s Forward carries an editorial responding to an Internet whisper campaign that claims Barack Obama is somehow hiding a secret Muslim identity behind his devout Christianity, and that he might represent some covert threat. In particular, we examine the anxious mindset that leads all too many Americans, including Jewish Americans, to give credence to…

  Feb 3, 2008 | < 1 min read
• Letters

  February 1, 2008

  Barack Obama Is A Friend of Israel Despite the ringing endorsement of Senator Barack Obama by Jewish colleagues in the Congress and ardent Jewish supporters in his home state of Illinois, the rumor mill does not stop churning out the spurious accusation that the presidential candidate is no friend of Israel (“Internal Memo Takes On…

  Feb 1, 2008 | 3 min read
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  Opinion

  Israel’s War With Hezbollah Was Not a Failure

  According to the final report released this week by the government-appointed Winograd Commission, Israel’s 2006 war against Hezbollah consisted of little but failures. For this Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was to blame, Defense Minister Amir Peretz was to blame, the Israeli military was to blame, everybody was to blame — and since the commission’s members…

  By Martin van Creveld Jan 30, 2008 | 4 min read