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Opinion What Bibi Could Teach Obama About Regulating Banks and Saving Democracy
There was a little business story in today’s Haaretz that you probably overlooked. It’s a real eye-opener. It’s about steps being taken by Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu to reform the regulation of the finance industry. But what it’s really about is how a determined political system can stop bankers from taking over, wrecking the economy…
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The Schmooze Bibi Gets Down With the Facebook Generation
He’s a leader, not a “follower.” His Twitter account says so. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has launched a coordinated charm offensive on the Internet, creating his own accounts recently on the major social networking and media sharing websites. Since August, the 60-year-old Netanyahu has started his own pages on Facebook, Flickr and Twitter, a…
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The Schmooze Bereaved Parents Urge Peace Action
As Israel and the Palestinians come together in Washington, talk is cheap. Everyone has something to say for or against the meeting. One of the more unusual groups putting forward a more carefully considered opinion than most is the Parents Circle-Families Forum, an organization that consists of families who have lost a loved one in…
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Opinion Will Israel Attack Iran? Should It? Does Goldberg (the Other One) Give Both Sides Their Due?
The Atlantic has posted a compelling article by Jeffrey Goldberg, who for the record is not me, on the prospects of an Israeli military strike against Iran. It’s based on extensive on- and off-the-record interviews with Israeli political and military leaders, Obama administration officials and Arab diplomats. He puts the likelihood of an Israeli strike…
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Opinion Bibi Bombshell: ‘Many Jewish Neighborhoods in J’lem Will Remain in Israel’
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu dropped a bombshell today in a speech at the Plaza Hotel to about 500 people gathered by the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations: Israel might accept a peace agreement in which parts of Jerusalem are handed over to a Palestinian state. He said it backwards, but the…
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Opinion Obama Should Keep Bush’s Word, But Bibi Needn’t Keep Olmert’s?
Bibi Netanyahu’s visit to the Obama White House this week gives us an opportunity to watch history unfold. Or unravel. It’s hard to tell. Maybe it’s like that old Palmach song said, Rabotai, ha-historia hozeret (“Folks, history repeats itself”). On the eve of the summit, the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs is beating up…
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Opinion Bibi’s Trifecta: Reach Out to Turkey, Boost Fuad, Diss Lieberman
The other day I was blogging about Binyamin “Fuad” Ben-Eliezer, Israeli trade minister, crusty old general and Labor Party senior statesman, who told Yediot Ahronot last weekend that the world is getting tired of Israel and its “explanations” for failing to conclude a peace agreement with the Palestinians, and that time is running out on…
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Opinion Labor Minister, Ex-Gen. ‘Fuad’ Ben-Eliezer: Time’s Up. World Is Tired of Us. Bibi Must Decide
Binyamin “Fuad” Ben-Eliezer, Israeli minister of trade, industry and labor, is the senior leader of the Labor Party’s hawkish wing, a tough-as-nails ex-general and currently the party’s grand old man. Born and raised in Iraq, he was a career soldier from 1954 until 1984, the first Israeli liaison to the South Lebanese Christian militias, military…
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