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Opinion Investigate This
With the 2008 presidential season heating up and the Bush presidency slipping into its twilight, President Bush appears determined to draw bright lines to remind America where he stands. His eye on history, he means to leave his mark for posterity. Oddly, the place he’s chosen to make his stand is in the nation’s emergency…
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Opinion One People
Reports from Jerusalem, where the Jewish Agency for Israel was holding its quarterly board meeting this past week, indicate a spike in tensions within the institution designated under Israeli law as the formal link between Israelis and their Diaspora Jewish cousins. A group of wealthy American philanthropists is reportedly threatening to cut off support to…
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Opinion Trial and Error
A mistrial is not the same as an acquittal. Five men escaped conviction in Texas this week on federal charges of financing terrorism through a Muslim charity, but they were not found innocent. The jury failed to agree on a verdict, and the judge declared a mistrial. The government charged that the men’s charity, the…
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Opinion Holier Than Thou
Leaders of Israeli society are always welcome visitors on these shores. As representatives of the Jewish state, they speak for an elemental, transformative reality in the emotional and spiritual life of modern Jewry. That said, last week’s visit by the Sephardic chief rabbi of Israel, Rabbi Shlomo Amar, must be seen as the latest and…
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Opinion How Israel Thinks
Israel’s foreign intelligence service, the Mossad, recently concluded that Syria is sincere in its offers to make peace with Israel in exchange for Israeli withdrawal from the Golan Heights. The assessment was reported last week in the mass-circulation Israeli daily Yediot Aharonot, based on sources within the Mossad. The Yediot report hasn’t received much attention,…
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Opinion Coulter’s Indecency
Ann Coulter, the clown princess of right-wing chatter, has always been a reassuring figure to liberals. The rubbish she spews forth — 9/11 widows “enjoy their husbands’ deaths,” liberals are “traitors,” John Edwards is a “faggot” — seems like a comforting reminder of America’s native tolerance and good sense. Like Archie Bunker, she airs our…
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Opinion The Tutu Heave-Ho
Not much lasting harm will come from the recent nastiness surrounding Archbishop Desmond Tutu and a Minnesota university that canceled his invitation to a human rights conference, for fear of offending the Jewish community. Tutu, the Nobel laureate South African human rights activist, does not lack for platforms from which to speak. The University of…
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Opinion Bush and the Children
Now that President Bush is down to his final months in office, one might expect him to be worrying about what he leaves behind — how history will judge him and, no less important, what sort of record he will leave for his fellow Republicans to run on next year. How odd of him, then,…
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