There are real terrorists in our world, people who sow fear and death and exult in what they do. And Hezbollah is prominent, perhaps even preeminent, among them. It has killed Jews in Buenos Aires and U.S. Marines in Beirut and on and on and now, of course, it has launched rockets all over Israel’s…
The awful bloodshed and intense emotions of war are not conducive to careful moral reasoning. With Hezbollah rockets raining down on northern Israel, an honest reckoning of the conduct of Israeli forces in Lebanon is difficult. Facile arguments and serious misconceptions, like those listed below, are too easily accepted. But given the stakes, it is…
Investors throughout the world are worried about the possibility of the war between Israel and Hezbollah spreading across the entire Middle East. That the Israeli market has held up quite strongly in the face of this war, then, points to an impressive maturation of Israeli investors over the last five years. Let’s turn back the…
SAN MATEO, Calif. — Like many of his fellow Democrats, Rep. Tom Lantos was upset over Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s condemnation of Israel last week. But rather than join some Democrats in boycotting Maliki’s July 26 speech to Congress, Lantos logged his objection in person — during a breakfast that he co-sponsored for the…
SEATTLE — The suspect in last week’s deadly shooting at the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle is being described by friends and by law enforcement officials as a disturbed young man who acted alone. According to police reports, Naveed Haq, a 30-year-old American citizen of Pakistani origin, burst into the federation building, identified himself as…
Pamela Waechter was just settling into her new role as top fund-raiser at the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle. She had spent eight years working her way up through the ranks of her city’s central Jewish charity, starting as an outreach coordinator before serving both as a director of the women’s division and a special…
NAHARIYA, Israel — Some might call it luck that the worst rocket attack on Nahariya’s Western Galilee Hospital in 25 years caused no casualties. But Deputy Director Moshe Daniel insists it was foresight that saved lives in the July 28 attack. That’s because slightly more than two weeks earlier, 180 patients — expectant mothers, newborns,…
WASHINGTON — As Jerusalem defends itself against worldwide condemnation over a deadly air strike that killed dozens of Lebanese children, current and former Israeli officials acknowledge that the Israeli military has loosened the restrictions on targeting militants in populated areas. After an Israeli air force raid Sunday on the Lebanese village of Qana left dozens…
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