As the new Prime Minister, Bibi Netanyahu has proposed judicial changes that would give the Knesset more control over the judiciary. It's a complicated package, and one explanation is here. These changes have provoked strong popular opposition, with continuing protests involving hundreds of thousands of...
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Well, this does make a certain kind of sense, I suppose. The Israeli strike on what now appears to have been a nuclear reactor at a very low state of.
I've been reluctant to comment further on the Israeli strike on Syria, because I still don't really understand what happened. As Kevin Drum notes, this appears to be a common.
I really don't know what to think about the airstrike on Syria at this point. The allegations regarding Syria's nuclear program seem to be getting increasingly detailed. Peter at Duck has some links, including a summary of the latest Times of London article on an...
In honor of Yom Kippur, and the 34th anniversary of the beginning of the Yom Kippur War, I think it's appropriate to review Abraham Rabinovich's The Yom Kippur War. Rabinovich.
Via Jeffrey Lewis at ArmsControlWonk, Chris Nelson is reporting that the Israeli airstrike on Syria targeted Scud missiles and missile parts. As Jeffrey notes, this makes a lot more sense.
Much of the blogosphere is astir with discussion of the Israeli strike into Syria. Initial speculation suggested that the attack targeted a Syrian weapons shipment to Hezbollah. According to this Times article, the strike was directed at a cache of nuclear materials that had recently...
Matt calls this development good, but I'm not so sure...In light of the heated controversy that has surrounded the Turkish-Armenian issue in recent weeks, and because of our concern for.
Via Matt, Mike Crowley:The Anti Defamation League has fired its New England regional direction for insisting that the group recognize as genocide the circa-1915 slaughter of perhaps a million Armenians.
Via Matt see Max Blumenthal's video of a rally for Christians United for Israel.Several months ago on Colbert, Zev Chafets made a funny comment about evangelical Christian support for Israel. When Colbert asked how long Christian support for Israel would last, Chafets said "until the...
Everybody has something to say about the commission report that excoriated Ehud Olmert and his government for badly botching the war against Hezbollah last summer. Olmert and his advisors obviously.
Dan Nexon has a good response to my article on Iranian nuclear diplomacy:First, if Iran does achieve an effective nuclear deterrent that might, in fact, make it easier for Iran.