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...journalist Horowitz mentions, American Jewish support of Israel has been on a downward spiral as of late due to the rise of the religious right through the coalition government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. It is unfortunate both that the Israeli Orthodox choose to act as fundamentalists in their control over religion and education, and that American liberals would base their support of the state on the political priorities of democratically elected government. It is unfortunate because American Jews and Israelis share a common fate as Jews. This is why the New York headline ("Is Israel Still Good...
...Benjamin Netanyahu is a high roller, and when you're upping the ante, it helps to look the part -- which might be why the Israeli prime minister's office has been spending $3,100 a month on cigars. After a media outcry, Netanyahu today promised to curb his habit of puffing on $30 stogies at work and offering them to guests. (Add up the figures and it's hard not to suspect that the help had their hands in the humidor too.) Not that Bibi hadn't sacrificed enough already: During his opposition days, he smoked 'em Cuban; once elected...
Lebanon and Syria today treated Israel?s offer to withdraw from southern Lebanon as something akin to an April Fool?s joke, indicating they weren?t interested in even discussing the matter with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. After all, tacked on to the headline-grabbing announcement that Israel accepted a 20-year-old U.N. resolution ordering its withdrawal from Lebanon, is the rider that Netanyahu would only redeploy his forces once Israel?s security had been guaranteed by Lebanon and Syria. Since the U.N. resolution calls for unconditional and unilateral Israeli withdrawal, today?s announcement looks like little more than...
...Israeli-Palestinian diplomacy, a handshake is never just the meeting of two palms. So when British Foreign Secretary ROBIN COOK breached an understanding that he would not meet Palestinians at a disputed Jewish settlement and even pressed the flesh of one of their legislators, Benjamin Netanyahu responded with a few choice gestures. He canceled dinner, a press conference and, touche, the usual handshake. Cook, under the misapprehension that diplomacy means saying what you think, shot back, "It's something of a mercy to be spared a further full meal...
...Cook was trying to relay the European Union?s belief that such Israeli settlements imperil the peace process,? says TIME London correspondent Helen Gibson. ?But he appears to have handled it really badly, and to have created major problems ahead of Blair?s visit next month.? Then again, with Netanyahu insisting that such settlement activity is non-negotiable, there may have been no diplomatic way for Cook to make his point...