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2007

2007-11-04
Olmert's optimism on the eve of the Annapolis conference mystifies 'realists'
2007-11-03
Breakthrough in Annapolis? Don't hold your breath that anything will happen
2007-10-30
Swift Swiftian response to Gaza rockets
2007-10-24
Myths and the making of policy
2007-10-23
Jewish American success stories
2007-10-22
Abbas' response to plot on Olmert's life raises questions about Palestinian intentions
2007-10-20
He thinks he'll never see a peace conference as lovely as a tree
2007-10-06
Are Abbas-Olmert negotiations diplomatic window-dressing?
2007-09-19
The nexus between peace and security in the Palestinian areas
2007-09-15
Staying power of religious fanaticism
2007-09-10
It is time for the Palestinians, not Israel, to make some concessions
2007-09-05
Options for dealing with Gaza rockets
2007-09-01
Connie Rice's 'Hail Mary' pass
2007-08-2
9
Rabbi Ovadia again embarrasses Israel
2007-08-23
Mideast rhetoric has little or no sense of proportion
2007-08-17
Will world leadership pass from the U.S. to another power?
2007-08-13
Videos refute Arab version of Jerusalem gunfight
2007-08-10
U.S. may need to accept Iraqi, Afghan refugees
2007-08-07
Israeli media frenzied over negotiations about
Palestinian state, Holocaust pensioners

2007-08-04
The Middle East is not the American Midwest
2007-07-31
Pensioners, Palestinians and politics
2007-07-30—
Christian Zionists are welcome visitors in Israel
2007-07-28
Now, with Abbas talking peace, comes the hard part
2007-07-20Knesset votes to restrict JNF lands to Jews only
2007-07-15
Once again, Israel takes symbolic steps for peace
2007-07-11
At least sexual escapades of politicians provide Israelis a break from forecasts of possible war
2007-07-07
Dissecting Jimmy Carter's Palestinian propaganda
2007-07-01Katzav's troubles may continue beyond resignation
2007-06-24Amid talk of Gaza war, 'do nothing' is a better option
2007-06-17
Is Israel waiting for a causus belli to deal with Gaza?
2007-06-04
'Boycott?  What boycott?' ask British lay persons
2007-05-11Israeli sports fans, students and anarchists raise questions about biases in the media.
2007-05-04
Calculations of Israel's Political Crisis
2007-05-01
When Israel's news depresses, Talmud enlightens
2007-04-28
—The Palestinian media campaign
2007-04-22
—'Holding fingers' for young woman who embodies the Zionist dream
2007-04-18
When should children be taught the Shoah?
2007-04-15
—The Shoah and Israel are eternally linked
2007-04-11
Azmi Beshara, where are you?
2007-04-07
Israel's policy-makers sort through ambiguity of imperfect alternatives
2007-03-30
Africa deserves world's attention, but the Middle East is where the oil is.
2007-01-09
—Political fortunes of Peretz, Prime Minister Olmert waning
2007-01-03
Iran's crazy views of world, Jewish history 

2006
2006-12-08
—Baker, Carter and Gates and the scapegoating of Israel
2006-11-20
Defining Israeli reality while enjoying luxury in Eilat
2006-11-09
Dangers to Jerusalemites come from many different directions
2006-10-30
—Attack and counter-attack in corruption case against Olmert
2006-10-25
—Katzav et al: parade of Israeli politicians may face charges
2006-10-06
On walking counter-clockwise to Isaweea—is clockwise too dangerous?
2006-10-04
Palestinian civil strife: good or bad for Israel?
2006-09-26
Iraq war provides Israel a lesson: 'Don't make things even worse'
2006-09-22
Israeli news makes few ripples
for vacationers in Leiden
2006-09-09
—Is Israel now losing the Lebanon peace?
2006-09-04
—Disturbing developments in the Middle East: Here is the litany—and a response
2006-08-29
—Israelis argue over who should head inquiry commission after Lebanon II 
2006-08-24
Israel's president, ex-minister embroiled in allegations of sexual misconduct 
2006-08-21
The 'blame game' consumes Israeli politics in wake of Lebanon
2006-08-15
Was Lebanon the war Israel refused to win?
2006-08-14
A father pays the ultimate price
2006-08-11
Sleepless in Jerusalem
2006-08-09
U.S., others should check rhetoric on Israel's war against their own records
2006-08-05
Emerging lessons from  the war in Lebanon
2006-07-31
Will investigation prove Hezbollah arms at fault in Qana building collapse?
2006-07-2
9
'Disproportionate'—A new word in anti-Semite's lexicon?
2006-07-26
Israelis back the war in  Lebanon by 9-1 margin
2006-07-21
Can Israel's lessons to neighbors ever be taught?
2006-07-20
Historians may ask: 'Was this a new war or the same old one?

2006-07-16
As war continues, constant question remains, 'What's next?'
2006-07-12
Lebanon battling refocuses Israel's attention from the Katzav scandal

2006-07-11
—Possible Katzav sex scandal diverts media attention from Gaza operation

2006-07-07
Israel seeks 'quiet,' knowing absolute victory is elusive
2006-07-02
Hamas 'government' unable to speak with one voice in Gaza crisis
2006-06-27
What price will Israel exact—or pay—for the life of a soldier?
2006-06-21
Israelis debate military, political consequences of retaliation against Gaza rocketing of Sderot
2006-06-14
Israeli, Palestinian columnists debate death of family on Gaza beach
2006-06-13
Palestinians make propaganda over deaths that they, not Israeli rockets, caused
 
2006-06-09
The Gaza-Sderot rockets anger Israel's defense minister
2006-06-08
Israel has higher per capita income, yet Portugal has a real rail system
2006-05-22
Kind words for Livni, Peretz and Olmert
2006-05-20
Israeli barrier fence has parallels to U.S. urban road building, with higher stakes
2006-05-12
Olmert's inexperienced coalition shows strain after just one week

2006-05-04
—No stars in Ehud Olmert's government; No military knowledge in Defense minister
2006-04-29
Two Israeli preoccupations:  the Palestinians and the Iranians 
2006-04-20
Response to Tel Aviv bombing is a model of 'coping' strategy
2006-04-15
Arab boycotts of Jerusalem vote  results in less political influence 
2006-04-10
'Gospel of Judas' not likely to change many attitudes

2006-04-07Is Hamas beginning to reassess the realities?
2006-03-29
Pensioners big winner in election, question mark in next government
2006-03-23
—Parties make wide diversity of promises in Israeli election campaign
2006-03-22
—Two Harvard academics' report yet another version of old canard
2006-03-15
Jericho jailhouse raid was boon for Olmert
2006-03-14
2 Jerusalems, the writers' and the residents'
2006-03-04
Hamas victory a public relations boon for Israel
2006-02-20
Political 'prophecy'
from Jerusalem 
2006-02-19
Hamas and its covenant
2006-02-19
The sun also rises over French Hill
2006-02-16
Bush Administration should rethink its idea of aiding dissidents in Iran
2006-02-10
Battles over land use, religion delay Jerusalem tolerance museum
2006-02-07
Religious nationalist at Amona may have had one eye on the elections
2006-02-06
Muslim riots and the matter of cartoons
2006-02-04
Is it the two-, one-state or no solution for Israel?
2006-01-29
No one knows what to do in wake of Hamas victory—not even Hamas
2006-01-26
Good and band news of Hamas winning Palestinian elections
2006-01-22
Americans, beware those 'luxury' condo projects near Jerusalem
2006-01-17
Both Labor and Likud are conceding the center to Kadima
2006-01-12
Sharon story fading from Israeli news
2006-01-06
Sharon's stroke won't affect peace process, which was illusory
2006-01-05
Will Kadima's unity survive Ariel Sharon's stroke?

-2005-

2005-12-26 On Palestinian rockets and East Jerusalem ballots
2005-12-20
With Moshe Feiglin piling up Likud votes, how far right?
2005-12-13
Israeli elections: knaves versus fools?
2005-12-05
Netanyahu campaign urges Israel to bomb Iran's nuclear facilities, but this is not Iraq of 1981
2005-11-13
America's road-mappers just will have to be patient with Israel's vigorous democracy.
2005-11-10
On U.S. politics and Iraq
and  Israel's Labor politics
2005-11-02
Israeli civil rights group petitions for end to sonic booms over Gaza
2005-10-28
Iranian president and Islamic Jihad: Have they helped Israel by going too far?
2005-10-24
Of nail clippers and censors: Trivia in the battle for security 
2005-10-20
Meeting between Bush and politically-weak Abbas produces nothing meaningful
2005-10-13
Stability—for now—seems likely in Middle East
2005-10-08
After the retaliation, what now in Gaza?
2005-09-24
The rockets of Hamas; the retaliation of Israel
2005-09-22
Redeveloping a former settlement for olim overlooking Jerusalem
2005-09-16
Creationism vs. evolution debated by Israeli citizens 
2005-09-13
Messy Gaza disengagement adds new uncertainty to Israeli politics
2005-09-08
On creationism, Shas and ultra-religious politics
2005-09-03
Groveling before Pakistan
2005-08-18
Correspondence with a religious friend in Gaza
2005-08-10
Cynicism greets Netanyahu's resignation and timing
2005-07-28
Religious and secular divide over Gaza withdrawal
2005-07-21
Is the intifada over?
2005-07-16
The calculus of retaliation
2005-07-11
Israel-Palestinian peace has dividends
2005-07-02
Tensions mount as Gaza withdrawal nears
2005-06-24
Opponents may criticize, but Sharon is on top of the polls
2005-06-21
Neighborhood soccer game tests coexistence in Israel

2005-06-14
Has the intifada ended?
2005-06-09
Missiles miss Israeli Jews, but shred Israeli opinion on Gaza pullout 
2005-05-28
Bush-Abbas meeting panics Israelis; 'Clarification' panics Palestinians
2005-05-13
Two chief rabbis and two scandals
2005-05-02
Academic observer reflects on those who became activists (by Ira Sharkansky)
2005-04-29
Why are Americans preoccupied with religion while other nations pay it far less deference? Reaction
2005-04-23
British professors march with left feet in joining Israel boycott
2005-03-18
A cease fire—Middle Eastern style
2005-03-15
Anticipating the problems of the West Bank pullout and traffic jams for Yad Vashem's expansion
2005-03-06
Syria's Asad responds with rhetoric to international demands on Lebanon
2005-03-05
Political war rages in Israel on car bodies and windows
2005-02-27
In wake of Tel Aviv suicide bombing, Palestinians must prove they want a state
2005-02-22
The conundrum of Israel's Palestinian prisoners
2005-02-18
Middle East axiom: If all else fails, blame Israel; commentary by Ira Sharkansky