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Opinion The NSA, Just a Phone Call Away
There’s a small detail in the latest New York Times/CBS poll that President Bush apparently missed: “If George W. Bush,” the 1,241 respondents were asked, “supported a candidate for political office, would that make you more likely to vote for that candidate, less likely to vote for that candidate, or wouldn’t it affect how you…
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Opinion Olmert’s Options
Ehud Olmert, Israel’s rookie prime minister, will find himself greeted by an unnerving torpor, an almost robotic unresponsiveness, when he arrives in Washington next week for his first official visit. He’ll be wined and dined, glad-handed and pumped for information about his plans, hopes and fears. But the smiles will have a blankness behind them….
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Opinion The Right Move on Immigration
The gloom in Washington was lifted briefly this week when the Senate, acting with rare bipartisanship — and a rarer show of enlightened leadership from President Bush — beat back a series of anti-immigrant amendments and voted to move forward on a comprehensive immigration reform package. The Senate’s package is a sensible compromise that combines…
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Opinion At Long Last, Have You No Shame?
Seven years after the signing of the historic Swiss bank settlement, in which the Swiss banking industry agreed to give back money looted from Holocaust victims’ bank accounts, a handful of Florida-based Holocaust survivors and their hangers-on have filed an appeal to the United States Supreme Court that could undermine the settlement and threaten the…
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Opinion Memory, Mercy, Bureaucracy
Of all the human and inhuman dramas to emerge from the Darfur crisis, none is more cruelly ironic than the fate of the 160 Sudanese refugees incarcerated in Israel as, of all things, security prisoners. They should be hosted as refugees, not locked up as enemies, but Israel’s famous bureaucracy can’t seem to tell the…
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Opinion EDITOR’S NOTE
Due to an inexplicable editor’s lapse, an editorial in last week’s print edition, “Mad Logic,” mistakenly stated that the April 11 suicide bombing in Tel Aviv had been carried out by the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades and not by Islamic Jihad. In fact, it was Islamic Jihad, considered an Iranian client group, that claimed the deed….
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Opinion Deeper Than We Know
Mainstream America was exposed to a telling bit of Israel-Diaspora psychodrama the other night when our favorite American Jewish Everyman, television jokester Jon Stewart, hosted former Israeli spymaster Efraim Halevy for a chat about Halevy’s new memoir. Stewart, who makes his Jewishness and his liberalism regular parts of his ongoing shtick, showed an almost puppylike…
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Opinion Rise Up and Remember
On Passover eve, April 19, 1943, a group of young Polish Jews, members of socialist and Zionist youth groups, launched an armed uprising against the German troops that were massing to liquidate the surviving residents of the Warsaw Ghetto. It was a mad, hopeless act of desperation and defiance: fewer than 600 teenagers, armed with…
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