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...left at Columbia protesting when the University provost defended an anti-Israel professor who was caught by a camera throwing a rock at an Israeli guardhouse. Nor do I remember (because it didn’t happen) Professor Matory complaining when Israel’s former Prime Minister Ehud Barak was prevented from speaking at Concordia University by a hard-left anti-Israel crowd of violent censors. For that matter, where was Columbia’s Eric Foner when the leader of the Minutemen was chased off the stage at Columbia by another group of freedom-suppressing hooligans...
...meantime, Olmert's adversaries, Labor leader Ehud Barak and Benyamin Netanyahu of the conservative Likud party, are not prepared to topple him. Netanyahu is still consolidating his hold on Likud after recent party elections, while Barak is using his post as acting defense minister to convince Israelis that he is no longer the one-time peacemaker who, when he was Prime Minister from 1999 to 2001, was prepared to cut generous deals with Palestinian militants. The newly minted Barak is now wary of any negotiations with Palestinians and wants to impose harsher sanctions on the 1.5 million Palestinians who live...
...Plan Three, said to be favored by Olmert and Defense Minister Ehud Barak, calls for occasional ground strikes into Gaza and an increase in assassinations of Hamas's political and military leadership. "It wouldn't be Ismael Haniyeh [the Hamas leader and ex-Prime Minister], but it would be those right under him," one source told TIME. Until now, Israel has refrained from targeting Hamas's political leadership since they are not involved in the rocket attacks on Israel - the rocketeers usually belong to Islamic Jihad and other smaller Palestinian militant groups. "We want Hamas on the run so that...
This manpower shortage led Defense Minister Ehud Barak to complain recently that the IDF was no longer "the army of the people but of half the people." That leaves new Russian and Ethiopian immigrants, along with religious Zionists, to fill the ranks. Meanwhile, to ensure that the IDF remains a melting pot, some generals say that special units, comprised of religious Zionists who spend two-thirds of their time in religious studies, should be more integrated into the regular army...
...responsibility is aggravated by the fact that he knew well that both the Prime Minister and the Minister of Defense lacked adequate knowledge and experience in these matters.” Neither Olmert nor Peretz have high-level leadership experience in the military, in contrast to predecessors like Ehud Barak and Yitzhak Rabin, who had both served in Halutz’s position before entering elected politics. According to a report in Monday’s Jerusalem Post, Halutz had Harvard University Police Department officers block Israeli reporters who were seeking to interview him. HUPD did not respond to requests...