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Archive for January 2nd, 2009

Claiborne Pell dies

January 2, 2009

By John E. Mulligan
Journal Washington Bureau

Claiborne Pell listens to the Dalai Lama in 2005 at Salve Regina University in Newport when he received the Claiborne Pell Center Award for making a difference and promoting dialogue and action for a more peaceful world.
The Providence Journal / Bob Thayer

Claiborne deBorda Pell, the quirky Newport blueblood who [...]

IDF sending Hamas a message: Now it’s personal

January 2, 2009

ANALYSIS /by Amos Harel and Avi Issacharoff, Haaretz Correspondent

Tags: Israel, Israel News, Gaza

The killing of senior Hamas official Nizar Ghayan Thursday in an Israel Air Force strike in Jabalya is a significant development at this stage of the war in the Gaza Strip, due not only to his high position in the Gaza [...]

Obama’s Silence on Gaza is Deafening

January 2, 2009

By Ben Cohen

Barack Obama must be given a lot of credit for his remarkable ascent to power, particularly in terms of the dignified way in which he did it. But there is a dark side to his rise to the Presidency, one progressives and liberals do not like to acknowledge.
Barack Obama had to do two [...]

The View From Tel Aviv By Hillel Schenker

January 2, 2009

Reuters Photos

Israel’s Defence Minister Barak surveys a damaged classroom after a rocket landed in a school in Beersheba.
On Thursday morning, New Year’s Day, author Nir Baram got into an argument with an anchorman for the public station Channel l during the morning news. “We Israelis have to change our automatic mindset, which always says that [...]