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A Friend In Deed
Imagine, for a moment, what might have happened if the President had not taken the Prime Minister’s phone call. It was the night of September 9. The lives of six Israelis locked in their embassy in Cairo hung in the balance, as a surge of angry Egyptians scaled the concrete wall surrounding the building, tore…
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Opinion Mideast Politics Tilt Queens to GOP. Next: Queens Tilts the Mideast
The Republican upset victory in the Brooklyn-Queens special election to replace ex-Rep. Anthony Weiner is obviously bad news for Democrats. But it has more far-reaching ramifications, most of them bad, according to this take by Haaretz’s new New York bureau chief, former CNN commentator and onetime Forward Jerusalem correspondent Chemi Shalev. Shalev thinks there are…
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Opinion So Now It’s September…And We Still Have Questions
A few weeks ago in our opinion pages, we ran a symposium asking a group of knowledgeable folks what they thought might happen in September when the Palestinians go to the United Nations seeking recognition of statehood. The answers ran the gamut from total gloom to measured optimism, but in the end there seemed to…
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Opinion Tea Party’s All-Or-Nothing Tactics Are Path to Nowhere
The Tea Party now dominates the political conversation on the most important domestic matter we entrust to our leaders: how to spend our money. The notion that the national budget should be cut with little regard for the effects on people’s lives while at the same time insisting that the rich cannot be taxed one…
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Opinion A Respectful Disagreement With Jill Abramson
First, I’ll note the obvious: For women like myself, who have been in journalism long enough to remember it as a defiantly male profession, the ascension of a smart, qualified, tough and interesting woman to the helm of The New York Times is just awesome. And that Jill Abramson is Jewish makes it all a…
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Opinion The Palace Intrigue Behind the Assault on Israel’s Cairo Embassy
The Christian Science Monitor’s Dan Murphy in Cairo has an interesting take on the storming of the Israeli embassy last Friday. It’s not exactly optimistic — he thinks that the Egyptian military was slow to restore order at least partly because it wants to be more attentive to public opinion than the Mubarak regime was,…
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Opinion Why We Don’t Miss Rummy
It was (literally) a blast from the past, a tableau of familiar faces from the last Bush administration, but the men on stage had less hair — except for Michael Medved’s wonderfully bold, black moustache. The author and talk-show host was the moderator of a discussion sponsored by the Jewish Policy Center, a think tank…
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Opinion The Sword of September
September is here. Hanging over the head of world diplomacy like the Sword of Damocles, the month has taken on a new and foreboding meaning this year: It’s the time when the Palestinians plan to ask the United Nations to, in one form or another, elevate their national aspirations. Even many Palestinians think this is…
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Opinion The Israeli People, With a Capital ‘P,’ Demand Social Justice
Thanks to the wonders of modern technology, I was able to watch, in the comfort of my air-conditioned living room in Boston, the entire September 3 protest rally in Tel Aviv via a live stream provided by the Israeli news website, YNet. (By way of contrast, my Israeli friends, who were there in the flesh,…
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Opinion Shock and Irony: Poll Shows GOP Leading Dems for Weiner’s Seat
Shock now, irony later: The latest Siena poll shows Republican businessman Robert Turner leading Democratic state assemblyman David Weprin in the race to succeed Anthony Weiner in New York’s 9th Congressional District by a healthy 50%-44% margin. The poll’s religious breakdown shows the Republican winning on the strength of a hefty Catholic showing, despite Jewish…
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Opinion Crossing the Line
Rabbi Mendy Goldberg of the Chabad House of Coram, on Long Island, N.Y., was one of scores of people interviewed by Forward reporters examining the scope and impact of a federal program providing grants to nonprofits at risk for terrorism. “There were a few incidents of anti-Semitic slurs and vandalism,” he said. “Then we found…
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