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Parshas Vaeschanan
Double Sin, Double Comfort They sinned doubly, as it says, “Yerushalayim has sinned a sin.” And they were stricken doubly, as it says, “She has received double for her sins.” And she will be comforted doubly, as it says, “Be comforted, be comforted, my people” (Yalkut Eichah 1118). This Midrash can be understood in light of the comments of Ibn Ezra and Sforno on the concluding verses of our sedrah: “When your son will ask you in the future — What are the testimonies and statues and judgments, which Hashem our G-d has commanded you? — and you shall tell your son we were slaves unto Pharaoh in Egypt, and Hashem took us out of Egypt with a strong hand...and Hashem commanded us to do all these statutes for our good all the days, to give us life as this day” (Devarim 6:20-24). Ibn Ezra explains that the son’s question is not what the mitzvos are, but why we were given a yoke different than all other peoples. The Torah’s answer is that we must have trust that the mitzvos are for our own good because G-d saved us from slavery by taking us out of Egypt. Sforno elaborates that while the benefit of the mitzvos is predominantly in the World to Come, they also bring us life in this world. Hashem introduces Himself at the beginning of the Ten Commandments as the G-d Who took us out of Egypt, and not as the G-d Who created heaven and earth. This reminds us that just as the redemption from Egypt was for our benefit, so too, the mitzvos are for our good, and not for G-d’s sake. Though, as Chazal say, mitzvos were not given to us to enjoy, but rather as a yoke around our necks, the purpose of that yoke is, in the final analysis, our good. The Haggadah attributes the Torah’s question here to the wise son. The answer given to him in the Haggadah is that we do not eat after the Korban Pesach is all that is in our mouths at the moment of redemption. In the end, it is the benefit from mitzvos, such as eating the Korban Pesach, that remains with us. The Torah begins with Hashem’s loving kindness — His clothing Adam and Chavah — and ends with His loving kindness — burying Moshe. The entire foundation of Torah is chesed — G-d’s total giving to those who serve Him. The Torah is, in its entirety, an expression of G-d’s desire to do good for us. It is not an imposition on our life but rather a framework within to earn eternal reward for our own good. Delving deeper, Torah begins with the kindness of covering man’s humiliation, his physical body. It gives us the means to utilize that body in G-d’s service and thereby purify and elevate it. Moshe was the culmination of this process of elevation to being G-d-like. He transformed his physical body into something so holy that only Hashem could bury it and put it away until the resurrection of the dead. That is the very essence of Torah — to remove the shame of pure physicality by elevating the physical to G-dliness. When one sins, he actually commits a double crime: the first is rebellion against G-d’ the second against himself in his disregard of the benefit from the mitzvah. Hence the punishment is also double. Not only does Hashem punish him for his rebellion, just as a parent punishes a child to discipline him and guide him back to the right path. He also robs himself of the great benefit Hashem so much desired to bestow upon him. Consequently the comfort will also be double. The ultimate benefit will finally be realized, and, in addition, we will understand that the punishment itself was for our own good to prevent us from losing our eternal reward. DER SPIEGEL INTERNATIONAL NEWSLETTER - Friday July 31, 2009
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JWR TODAY: Sage: The concept of consolation seems somewhat shallow; GLICK RETURNS!; Charen: Gilder Throws Down a Gauntlet; Pruden, Lowry, Jonah, Krauthammer + much more --- Weekend of July 31-August 2, 2009JWR TODAY: Sage: The concept of consolation seems somewhat shallow; GLICK RETURNS!; Charen: Gilder Throws Down a Gauntlet; Pruden, Lowry, Jonah, Krauthammer + much more --- Weekend of July 31-August 2, 2009
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Glick Obama's goal of openly distancing the US from Israel is a source of anxiety and frustration for Israeli leftists who believe that US pressure should be a means to the end of compelling Israel to give away land to the Palestinians, it is a positive development for American Jewish Leftists http://jewishworldreview.com/0709/glick073109.php3 ---> people of the book Gilder Throws Down a Gauntlet By Mona Charen After the probably trillions of words that have been devoted to the Israel/Arab conflict, it is no small achievement to approach the matter from a unique vantage point http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/charen073109.php3 *:-.,_,.-:*'``'*:-.,_,.-:*'``'*:-.,_,.-:**:-.,_,.-:*'``'*:-.,_,.-:* [ D A I L Y I N S P I R A T I O N ] NEW SERIES! "Building Your Self-Image and the self-image of others" This series can change your life. And the life of your spouse, your children, your friends and your employees. Every success story begins with a positive attitude. 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Kennedy International Airport) at Idlewild Field * 1957, the Distant Early Warning Line, a system of radar stations designed to detect Soviet bombers approaching North America, went into operation * 1964, the American space probe Ranger VII transmitted pictures of the moon's surface * 1972, Democratic vice-presidential candidate Thomas Eagleton withdrew from the ticket with George McGovern following disclosures Eagleton had once undergone psychiatric treatment * 1976, NASA releases the famous Face on Mars photo * 1981, the 42-day strike of Major League Baseball ends * 1987, Iranian pilgrims and riot police clashed in the Muslim holy city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia, resulting in some 400 deaths, according to the Saudi government, which blamed the Iranians for the violence * 1991, President George Bush and Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev signed the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty in Moscow * 1997, in Brooklyn, N.Y., police seized five bombs believed bound for terrorist attacks on New York City subways by practitioners of that "religion of peace" * 2002, a bomb exploded by practitioners of that "religion of peace" inside a cafeteria at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, kills nine people, including five Americans * 2006, Fidel Castro hands over power temporarily to brother Raul Castro. This leads to a celebration in Little Havana (La Pequeña Habana in Spanish), Miami, Florida, where many Cuban Americans participated <^><^><^><^><^><^><^><^><^> [ L I F E S T Y L E S ] * Tech Maven by Mark Kellner: Finding bargains for school, etc. http://jewishworldreview.com/0709/kellner073109.php3 * Obama's 'beer summit' yields symbolic image, but little else3 http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0709/beer_summit.php3 * Dr. Peter H. 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The intersection of faith, culture and politics *** JOIN the JWR Facebook fan page: http://tinyurl.com/bjbtt9 Have a "conversation" about our articles: http://tinyurl.com/c4k99x Thursday, July 30, 2009 *:-.,_,.-:*'``'*:-.,_,.-:*'``'*:-.,_,.-:**:-.,_,.-:*'``'*:-.,_,.-:* PRAYER REQUEST A friend asked that JWR readers storm the Heavens for his father, Machool ben (Hebrew for "son of") Gitel, who is currently on a respirator. Thanks much, Binyamin L. Jolkovsky Editor in Chief ~~~ QUOTE OF THE DAY "People were given two ears and one tongue so that they may listen more than speak." --- Jewish saying **<>**<>**<>**<>****<>**<>**<>**<>** [ J E W I S H L I V I N G ] ---> outlook The Puzzle Master By Rabbi Yonason Goldson Reframing tragedy by rethinking life's greatest mystery http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0709/goldson_puzzle_master.php3 ---> fan-tastech! iPhone iconoclast By Martha Woodall Meet Ari Weinstein, the teen whiz aiming to foil Apple Inc.'s brightest engineers and annoy chief executive Steve Jobs http://jewishworldreview.com/0709/iPhone_iconoclast.php3 *:-.,_,.-:*'``'*:-.,_,.-:*'``'*:-.,_,.-:**:-.,_,.-:*'``'*:-.,_,.-:* [ D A I L Y I N S P I R A T I O N ] NEW SERIES! "Building Your Self-Image and the self-image of others" This series can change your life. And the life of your spouse, your children, your friends and your employees. Every success story begins with a positive attitude. This series will show you how you can maintain a winning state of mind --- and how you can instill a sense of confidence in those around you. And that is sure to improve your life; physically, emotionally and spiritually. For decades, Rabbi Zelig Pliskin has been motivating people to believe in themselves and to realize their potential. As a counselor, he has transformed the lives of hundreds; through his books and lectures, he has motivated and inspired many thousands. Rabbi Pliskin explains the emotional dynamics of success. He shares insights and stories. Most importantly, he gives us practical tips on how to believe in ourselves --- and how we can get others to believe in themselves. From recognizing our abilities and appreciating our talents to coping with setbacks and and dealing with failures, this series has it all. 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The attack failed * 1866, New Orleans's Democratic government orders police to raid an integrated Republican Party meeting, killing 40 people and injuring 150 * 1908, the first round-the-world automobile race, which had begun in New York in February, ended in Paris with the drivers of the American car, a Thomas Flyer, declared the winners over teams from Germany and Italy * 1932, premiere of Walt Disney's Flowers and Trees, the first cartoon short to use Technicolor and the first Academy Award winning cartoon short * 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed a bill creating a women's auxiliary agency in the Navy known as "Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service" --- WAVES for short * 1945, during World War II, the battle cruiser USS Indianapolis, which had just delivered components for the atomic bomb that would be dropped on Hiroshima, was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine; only 316 out of some 1,200 men survived the sinking and shark-infested waters * 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed into law the Medicare bill, which went into effect the following year * 1974, during the Watergate Scandal: US President Richard M. Nixon releases subpoenaed White House recordings after being ordered to do so by the United States Supreme Court * 1975, former Teamsters union president Jimmy Hoffa disappeared in suburban Detroit --- although presumed dead, his remains have never been found * 1980, the Israeli Knesset passed a law reaffirming all of Jerusalem as the capital of the Jewish state * 1997, two practitioners of that "religion of peace" bombed Jerusalem's Machne Yehudah souk, the Holy City's most crowded outdoor market, killing 16 innocents and themselves * 1999, Republicans pushed their $792 billion tax cut through the Senate. ALSO: Linda Tripp, whose secretly recorded phone conversations with Monica Lewinsky led to the impeachment of President Bill Clinton, was charged in Maryland with illegal wiretapping. (Prosecutors later dropped the charges.) * 2002, President George W. Bush signed into law the most far-reaching government crackdown on business fraud since the Depression. ALSO: Expelled from Congress a week earlier, an unrepentant James A. Traficant Jr. was sentenced to eight years behind bars for corruption and made it clear he intended to run for re-election from his prison cell --- and expected to win. (He didn't.) * 2004, leaders of the September 11th commission urged senators to embrace their proposals for massive changes to the nation's intelligence structure * 2006, Israel agreed to a 48-hour suspension of aerial activity over southern Lebanon * 2008, amid corruption allegations and his own plummeting popularity, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert announced he would resign. ALSO: Ex-Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic was extradited to The Hague to face genocide charges after nearly 13 years on the run <^><^><^><^><^><^><^><^><^> [ L I F E S T Y L E S ] * How Stuff Works: How a manned mission to Mars works http://jewishworldreview.com/0709/HowStuffWorks.php3 * Are big insurance discounts for healthy behavior unfair? http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0709/health_discount.php3 * Dr. Peter H. Gott: Rash baffles, Borax cures http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/gott1.asp * Frugal Living by Sara Noel: Readers' wisdom http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/frugal_living.php3 <^><^><^><^><^><^><^><^><^> [ I N S I G H T ] * Victor Davis Hanson: Our angry aristocracy http://jewishworldreview.com/0709/hanson.php3 * Argus Hamilton skewers politics and contemporary "culture" http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0709/hamilton073009.php3 * Larry Elder: Palin's Poll Numbers Falling! But What About Obama's?! http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/elder073009.php3 * Roger Simon: Three Amigos Get Suds, She Gets Scorn (SPOT ON!) http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0709/simon073009.php3 * Debra J. Saunders: No thin line between murder and hate http://jewishworldreview.com/0709/saunders073009.php3 * David Broder: Peering through judicial camouflage http://jewishworldreview.com/david/broder073009.php3 * Jeff Jacoby: Health care: We don't need the Lex http://www.jewishworldreview.com/jeff/jacoby073009.php3 * Dick Polman: Why Obama can't pull an LBJ http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0709/polman.php3 * Glenn Garvin: Pay-or-play means more lost jobs http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0709/garvin.php3 * Michael Barone: Obama has aura but doesn't know how to legislate (ASTUTE!) http://www.jewishworldreview.com/michael/barone073009.php3 * Ann Coulter: How about a national conversation on race hoaxes? http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/coulter073009.php3 * Cal Thomas: The Arrogant and the ignorant http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/thomas073009.php3 ~~ Our Front Page: http://www.JewishWorldReview.com/ PLEASE JOIN the JWR Facebook fan site: http://tinyurl.com/bjbtt9 Want to drop us a note? 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NEWS ALERT: ISRAEL 8th of Av 5769 - Wed, Jul/29/09NEWS ALERT: ISRAEL 8th of Av 5769
Wednesday 29 July 2009
JWR TODAY: Emerson: CAIR's Congressional Stooges; The K. Gourmet; Stossel, Greenberg, Malkin, Sowell + much more --- Wednesday, July 29, 2009http://www.JewishWorldReview.com/
The intersection of faith, culture and politics *** JOIN the JWR Facebook fan page: http://tinyurl.com/bjbtt9 Have a "conversation" about our articles: http://tinyurl.com/c4k99x Wednesday, July 29, 2009 *:-.,_,.-:*'``'*:-.,_,.-:*'``'*:-.,_,.-:**:-.,_,.-:*'``'*:-.,_,.-:* QUOTE OF THE DAY "To work on oneself, to make clear that which confuses and depresses us, even if it entails the greatest pain --- that is what is meant by being good." --- Rochel Levin **<>**<>**<>**<>****<>**<>**<>**<>** [ J E W I S H L I V I N G ] ---> war on jihad CAIR's Congressional Stooges By Steven Emerson House Dems Carry Islamists' Water http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0709/emerson072909.php3 ---> ess. ess/ eat, eat! The Kosher Gourmet By Linda Gassenheimer Tuscan variation turns tuna into a classic summer supper in minutes http://jewishworldreview.com/ess/ess_classic_summer_supper.php3 *:-.,_,.-:*'``'*:-.,_,.-:*'``'*:-.,_,.-:**:-.,_,.-:*'``'*:-.,_,.-:* [ D A I L Y I N S P I R A T I O N ] NEW SERIES! "Building Your Self-Image and the self-image of others" This series can change your life. And the life of your spouse, your children, your friends and your employees. Every success story begins with a positive attitude. This series will show you how you can maintain a winning state of mind --- and how you can instill a sense of confidence in those around you. And that is sure to improve your life; physically, emotionally and spiritually. For decades, Rabbi Zelig Pliskin has been motivating people to believe in themselves and to realize their potential. As a counselor, he has transformed the lives of hundreds; through his books and lectures, he has motivated and inspired many thousands. Rabbi Pliskin explains the emotional dynamics of success. He shares insights and stories. Most importantly, he gives us practical tips on how to believe in ourselves --- and how we can get others to believe in themselves. From recognizing our abilities and appreciating our talents to coping with setbacks and and dealing with failures, this series has it all. TODAY: Emotional States Go Up and Down; Self-Image Can Be More Stable http://jewishworldreview.com/inspiration/self_image.php3 <^><^><^><^><^><^><^><^><^> [ W O R T H 1 0 0 0 W O R D S ] * Ripleys Believe It Or Not! http://www.jewishworldreview.com/strips/ripley/ripley.asp * Andy Capp http://www.jewishworldreview.com/strips/a_capp/a_capp.asp * 9 to 5 http://www.jewishworldreview.com/strips/9_to_5/9_to_5.asp * Bliss http://www.jewishworldreview.com/strips/bliss/bliss.asp * Bottom Liners http://www.jewishworldreview.com/strips/bottomliners/bottomliners.asp * The Born Loser http://www.jewishworldreview.com/strips/born_loser/born_loser.asp * Bound and Gagged http://www.jewishworldreview.com/strips/bound_and_gagged/b_and_g.asp * Flo & Friends http://www.jewishworldreview.com/strips/flo/flo.asp * Frank & Ernest http://www.jewishworldreview.com/strips/frank_and_ernest/frank_and_ernest.asp * The Grizzwells http://www.jewishworldreview.com/strips/grizzwells/grizzwells.asp * Herman http://www.jewishworldreview.com/strips/herman/herman.asp * Mallard Filmore http://www.jewishworldreview.com/strips/mallard/2000/mallard1.asp * Moderately Confused http://www.jewishworldreview.com/strips/moderately_confused/mc.asp * Momma http://www.jewishworldreview.com/strips/momma/momma.asp * One Big Happy http://www.jewishworldreview.com/strips/obh/obh1.asp * Prickly City http://www.jewishworldreview.com/strips/pc/prickly_city.asp * The Other Coast http://www.jewishworldreview.com/strips/toc/toc.asp * Shoe http://www.jewishworldreview.com/strips/shoe/shoe.asp * State of the Union http://www.jewishworldreview.com/strips/sou/sou.asp * The Wizard of Id http://www.jewishworldreview.com/strips/wiz/wiz.asp * Baloo http://www.jewishworldreview.com/strips/baloo/baloo.asp * Robert Arial http://jewishworldreview.com/toons/arial/arial.php3 * Lisa Benson http://www.jewishworldreview.com/toons/benson/benson.php3 * Chip Bok http://www.jewishworldreview.com/toons/bok/bok.php3 * John Deering http://www.jewishworldreview.com/toons/deering/deering.php3 * Bob Gorrell http://www.jewishworldreview.com/toons/gorrel/gorrell.php3 * Jerry Holbert http://www.jewishworldreview.com/toons/holbert/holbert.php3 * Steve Kelley http://www.jewishworldreview.com/toons/kelley/kelley.php3 * Jimmy Margulies http://www.jewishworldreview.com/toons/margulies/margulies.php3 * Chan Lowe http://jewishworldreview.com/toons/lowe/lowe.php3 * Jeff Stahler http://www.jewishworldreview.com/toons/stahler/stahler.php3 * Wayne Stayskal http://www.jewishworldreview.com/toons/stayskal/stayskal.php3 * Scott Stantis http://www.jewishworldreview.com/toons/stantis/stantis.php3 * Dana Summers http://www.jewishworldreview.com/toons/summers/summers.php3 * John Trever http://jewishworldreview.com/toons/trever/trever.php3 * Gary Varvel http://www.jewishworldreview.com/toons/varvel/varvel.php3 * Michael Ramirez http://www.jewishworldreview.com/toons/ramirez/ramirez.php3 * " "¤" "¤" "¤" "¤" "¤" "¤" "¤" "¤" "¤" [ PoliticalMavens.com H I G H L I G H T S ] * Mark Davis: Yes, the health care fight is about Obama http://politicalmavens.com/index.php/2009/07/26/fight-is-about-obama/ * Rachel Raskin-Zrihen: Hook, line and sinker http://politicalmavens.com/index.php/2009/07/26/hook-line-and-sinker/ * Amitai Etzioni: Do We Have Inalienable Responsibilities to One Another http://politicalmavens.com/index.php/2009/07/27/do-we-have-inalienable-responsibilities-to-one-another/ <^><^><^><^><^><^><^><^><^> [ T O D A Y I N H I S T O R Y ] On this day in … * 1847, Cumberland School of Law founded in Lebanon, Tennessee, United States. At the end of 1847 only 15 law schools exist in the United States * 1848, during the Irish Potato Famine: Tipperary Revolt, in Tipperary, an unsuccessful nationalist revolt against British rule is put down by police * 1858, United States and Japan sign the Harris Treaty, the treaty followed the 1854 Convention of Kanagawa, which granted coaling right for U.S. ships and allowed for a U.S. Consul in Shimoda. Although Commodore Matthew Perry secured fuel for U.S. ships and protection, he left the important matter of trading rights to Townsend Harris, another U.S. envoy who negotiated with the Tokugawa Shogunate; the treaty is therefore often referred to as the Harris Treaty. It took two years to break down Japanese resistance, but with the threat of looming British demands for similar privileges, the Tokugawa government eventually capitulate * 1864, during the Civil War: Confederate spy Belle Boyd is arrested by Union troops and detained at the Old Capitol Prison in Washington, DC. * 1899, the First Hague Convention is signed * 1914, transcontinental telephone service began with the first phone conversation between New York and San Francisco * 1921, Adolf Hitler, ym"sh, becomes leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party. * 1957, the International Atomic Energy Agency was established * 1958, President Eisenhower signed the National Aeronautics and Space Act, which created NASA * 1967, an accidental rocket launch aboard the supercarrier USS Forrestal in the Gulf of Tonkin resulted in a fire and explosions that killed 134 servicemen * 1975, President Ford became the first U.S. president to visit the site of the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz in Poland as he paid tribute to the victims * 1976, in New York City, the "Son of Sam" kills one person and seriously wounds another in the first of a series of attacks * 1981, Britain's Prince Charles married Lady Diana Spencer at St. Paul's Cathedral in London. (The couple divorced in 1996.) * 1985, the space shuttle Challenger began an eight-day mission that got off to a shaky start --- the spacecraft achieved a safe orbit even though one of its main engines shut down prematurely after lift-off * 1995, President Clinton and Republicans marked the 30th anniversary of Medicare by accusing one another of putting the program's future at risk * 1998, President Clinton reached an agreement with Kenneth Starr to provide grand jury testimony via closed-circuit television in the Monica Lewinsky case * 1999, a day trader, apparently upset over stock losses, opened fire in two Atlanta brokerage offices, killing nine people and wounding 13 before shooting himself to death; authorities say Mark O. Barton also killed his wife and two children * 2003, Boston's Bill Mueller became the first player in major league history to hit grand slams from both sides of the plate in a game and connected for three homers in a 14-7 win at Texas * 2004, Sen. John Kerry accepted the Democratic presidential nomination at the party's convention in Boston with a military salute and the declaration: "I'm John Kerry and I'm reporting for duty." <^><^><^><^><^><^><^><^><^> [ L I F E S T Y L E S ] * Test your nutrition IQ: What do you know about hot dogs? http://jewishworldreview.com/0709/schoen.php3 * United, Delta frequent-flier perks to come with fewer strings http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0709/frequent-flier_perks.php3 * Dr. Peter H. Gott: After doctor's visit, patient wants a lawyer http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/gott1.asp * Frugal Living by Sara Noel: Taking it to the extreme http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/frugal_living.php3 * Bruce Williams on JWR: Facts, not feelings, end identity-theft tax snafu; withholding Social Security and income tax on bonus; more http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/bruce1.asp <^><^><^><^><^><^><^><^><^> [ I N S I G H T ] * John Stossel: A minimum wage = minimum jobs http://jewishworldreview.com/0709/stossel072909.php3 * Argus Hamilton skewers politics and contemporary "culture" http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0709/hamilton072909.php3 * Lloyd Garver: Virtual Rejection http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0709/garver072909.php3 * Roger Simon: 21 Things You Can't Say to Obama http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0709/simon072909.php3 * Nat Hentoff: The Founding Fathers would have hated hate-crimes laws http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/hentoff072909.php3 * Jonah Goldberg: Planet bull's-eye http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/jonah072909.php3 * Paul Greenberg: St. Sonia the Obscure, or: The Triumph of the Opaque (THOUGHT PROVOKING!) http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/greenberg072909.php3 * Anne Applebaum: No Burqa For Clinton http://jewishworldreview.com/0709/applebaum.php3 * Kathleen Parker: Redemption on Tap: Why Cambridge Could Use a Cold One http://www.jewishworldreview.com/kathleen/parker072909.php3 * Michelle Malkin: Bully Boys: A Brief History of White House Thuggery (OUTRAGEOUS!) http://www.jewishworldreview.com/michelle/malkin072909.php3 * Dick Morris: Elderly Lead Opposition on Obama Health Care http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0709/morris072909.php3 * Walter Williams: Exploiting public ignorance http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/williams072909.php3 * Thomas Sowell: Disaster in the making http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/sowell072909.php3 ~~ Our Front Page: http://www.JewishWorldReview.com/ PLEASE JOIN the JWR Facebook fan site: http://tinyurl.com/bjbtt9 Want to drop us a note? 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Tuesday 28 July 2009
GLORIA Center, Barry Rubin, "Israel's Peace Plan Marks a New Era in the Country's History"
Israel's Peace Plan Marks a New Era in the Country's History By Barry Rubin* July 20, 2009 http://www.gloria-center.org/Gloria/2009/06/new-era.html This could be the most important article I write this year. Israel has entered a new era of thinking and policy in which old categories of left or right, hawk or dove are irrelevant under a national unity government bringing together the two main ruling parties.
How did this new paradigm arise? *Barry Rubin is director of the Global Research in International Affairs (GLORIA) Center and editor of the Middle East Review of International Affairs (MERIA) Journal. His latest books are The Israel-Arab Reader (seventh edition), with Walter Laqueur (Viking-Penguin); the paperback edition of The Truth About Syria (Palgrave-Macmillan); A Chronological History of Terrorism, with Judy Colp Rubin, (Sharpe); and The Long War for Freedom: The Arab Struggle for Democracy in the Middle East (Wiley). To read and subscribe to MERIA, GLORIA articles, or to order books, go to http://www.gloria-center.org
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