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  When War’s Not That Far Away

  Abba Houshi was the mayor of Haifa from 1951 until his death in 1969. No Israeli mayor has governed with as much authority and none save Teddy Kollek, who was mayor of Jerusalem for 29 years, governed with greater imagination. I spent some time with Houshi while he was mayor, not long after the opening…

  By Leonard Fein

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  Stems of Life

  Congress showed courage and independence in passing legislation that would have significantly eased conditions for federal funding of stem-cell research. Sadly, President Bush yielded to his own worst instincts, both political and moralistic, in choosing to veto the bill. It was the first veto of his presidency, allowing him to please his rightwing base and…

  By Guest Author Jul 21, 2006 | < 1 min read
• Opinion

  Of Al Gore, Global Warming and God

  If you’ve seen Al Gore’s global-warming scare movie, “An Inconvenient Truth,” you may have come away as I did, wondering about the highly partisan nature of the climate-change debate. Why is it partisan at all? If carbon-dioxide emissions are perilously raising global temperatures, surely that’s a problem which can be left to scientists and other…

  By David Klinghoffer Jul 21, 2006 | 4 min read

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  War in the Middle East, Through Israeli, American and Iranian Eyes

  Last Saturday night, 40 years after we graduated the Israel Air Force Flight Academy, the class of 1966 gathered for a reunion. We met near Herzliya, on the lawn of the spacious house belonging to one of our number, Kobi Richter. After graduation, this former kibbutznik had gone on to become one of the air…

  By Uri Dromi Jul 21, 2006 | 3 min read
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  War in the Middle East, Through Israeli, American and Iranian Eyes

  The perfect storm that has broken over the Middle East since the back-to-back kidnappings by Hamas and Hezbollah was fed by converging developments, developments that might have been manageable individually but which proved disastrous in combination. A look at the conditions that merged to fuel the typhoon offers a sense of just what it will…

  By Steven Simon Jul 21, 2006 | 5 min read
• Letters

  July 21, 2006

  Hospitality Watchdog Is A Labor Union Spin-off In a July 7 opinion article, Jerome Epstein, Carl Sheingold and David Saperstein write that the Informed Meetings Exchange, or Inmex, is an “independent organization that provides objective information on working conditions within the hospitality industry” (“Check Out Working Conditions Before Checking In for Business”). Inmex is actually…

  By Guest Author Jul 21, 2006 | 5 min read
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  Diverging From Convergence

  Edwin Seligman, a founder of the American Economic Association, once wrote that there was nothing wrong with the property tax except that it was mistaken in theory and impossible in practice. So also, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s signature proposal, called in Hebrew “hitkansut,” rendered best in translation as “consolidation” or “convergence.” What Olmert has in…

  By Leonard Fein Jul 14, 2006 | 4 min read
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  The Second Front

  The sudden escalation on Israel’s northern front this week added a disturbing complication to the three-week-old crisis in Gaza, but it also served, in the curious way of the Middle East, as a clarifying development. It was a reminder that there is, in the final analysis, no such thing as unilateral action. One may act…

  By Guest Author Jul 14, 2006 | 3 min read
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  Pushing Israel’s Right To Exist Is The Wrong Strategy

  Neither Israel nor the United States needs an “Israel’s right to exist” certificate from Hamas in order to have dealings with that movement. To insist on this precondition for contact not only places an unnecessary obstacle on the road to dealing with the Hamas-led government in the Palestinian Authority. It also sends a subtle and…

  By Yossi Alpher Jul 14, 2006 | 4 min read
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  Nonpartisan Nonprofits a Sine Qua Non

  Next week Senator Rick Santorum, a Pennsylvania Republican in the midst of a most difficult re-election campaign, is scheduled to host a “Jewish Leadership Forum.” The event is to feature a number of prominent Jewish Republican leaders, as well as representatives of two Jewish nonprofits, the Orthodox Union and the Jewish Institute for National Security…

  By Ira Forman Jul 14, 2006 | 3 min read
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  A Nation Denied a Homeland, Right Here in America

  In 1795, the homeland of the Oneida Indian Nation, located in upstate New York, was obtained by the State of New York in clear violation of federal law. Today, more than two centuries later, representatives of the state are trying to prevent the federal government from restoring a small part of that homeland to the…

  By Carole Goldberg and Joseph Singer Jul 14, 2006 | 4 min read