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Hisham Matar seems to derive the menacing mood, if not actual events, in his first novel from his own childhood, which was spent in the shad...

UNKIND TO ARENDT By Walter Laqueur, Reply by Jeremy Waldron In response to What Would Hannah Say? (March 15, 2007) To the Editors: Jeremy Wa...

At the dedication of the 'Kadima House' in Tel Aviv :- "To sustain the state of Israel as a Jewish nation we will have to give ...

Nada. Journalists in Gaza have held a rally to call for the release of BBC reporter Alan Johnston and an end to the kidnap and intimidation...

The NYTimes is reporting :- Mr. Abu Ghneim, like most Arabs, says there can be no peace with Israel until he and 700,000 other Palestinians ...

Civil rights groups have demanded that the attorney general lay down rules to restrict the activities of the Shin Bet security services aga...

Saudi Arabia has barred entry to a Washington-based Israeli journalist traveling with Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on his current Middle E...

David Bedein at Behind the News is claiming that Shimon Peres Falsifies his Military Record on the Knesset (here, too The Philadelphia Bull...

Conceptualizing The Weblog: Understanding What It Is In Order To Imagine What It Can Be By Andrew Ó Baoill, University of Illinois at Urbana...

FailedMessiah complains about a lack of response to an incident in NY when one of two auxilliary policemen shot dead in Greenwich Village t...

Relating to the WJC contretemps, I have a question about the identity of one Pinchas Shapiro. Here's one Pinchas Shapiro :- The source q...

Mel Goes Ballistic -- "Lady, F**k Off!" TMZ has learned Mel Gibson exploded in anger last night on a college campus after an exper...

Carefully read this :- American officials have largely given up their hope that the Arabs might actually change the initiative to include t...

Dear Mr/Mrs/Ms/Comrade Progressive of the World, You who are very uncomfortable with Israel's policies or who oppose on principle the ex...

A new English-language interpretation of the Muslim Holy book the Koran challenges the use of words that feminists say have been used to jus...

Media-twisted is my term for when a media outlet slightly twists a story and spins it off in a less-than-likely logical direction, or, one t...

Seems a new track is being taken in the legal battle to live in Yesha. Yesterday, the Hebron community launched a libel charge against Peace...

Geoffrey Wheatcroft thinks there's an influential coterie of Tory MPs bent on a foreign policy driven not by Britain's interests, bu...

Variety reports : Iranian prexy Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has joined the uproar over Warner Bros' "300.(*)" In a televised speech ma...

Jackie Hoffman, Cory Kahaney, Jessica Kirson and Cathy Ladman will star in “The J.A.P. Show, Jewish American Princesses of Comedy,” a tribut...