Is Israel About to Have the Most Conservative Government in its History?


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To understand what this means, imagine if the Tea Party ran as a third party and took 10 percent of Congress. That’s even bigger news in Israel where no single party has a dominant majority of seats.

Scrapping Oslo


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Peace accords are dead on the vine — but what are the alternatives?

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On Israeli Independence Day, Pondering the Legacy of Ze’ev Jabotinsky


The killing of Osama bin Laden and the subsequent debates by pundits on whether the Bush/Cheney administration was getting too much or too little credit for crafting the initial response to 9/11 and then creating the infrastructure necessary to remove the al-Qaeda leader is worth discussing as it relates to Israel.

Thompson and Pataki Won’t Run but GOP Can Still Take Senate


In disappointing news for Republicans, Tommy Thompson and George Pataki have decided against running for Senate in Wisconsin and New York respectively. The latter appears to have turned down the challenge so he can lay the groundwork for a 2012 presidential bid—which shows that Pataki is so out-of-touch with reality that he did his party [...]

ObamaCare Goes Off Track – by Jacob Laksin


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Can the Senate’s defectors derail the government takeover of health care?