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Netanyahu’s speech: Of bombs and comics

  • My first reaction to Benjamin Netanyahu’s exhibition of comics at the UN General Assembly was shame.Shame that the supreme elected representative of my country would stoop to such a primitive rhetorical device, bordering on the childish.(One Israeli commentator suggested putting him on a rug with...
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Netanyahu’s speech: Of bombs and comics

  • My first reaction to Benjamin Netanyahu’s exhibition of comics at the UN General Assembly was shame....
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The turkey under the table

  • When you have a conflict between two parties, the way to solve it is clear: You put them in the same room, let them thrash out their differences and emerge with a reasonable solution acceptable to both.For example, a conflict between a wolf and a lamb. Put them in the same room, let them thrash...
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Back to square one

  • If I could choose between the two rhetorical gladiators, I would rather have Mahmoud Abbas representing Israel and Netanyahu representing the other side. Abbas stood almost motionless and read his speech (in Arabic) with quiet dignity. No gimmicks. Netanyahu used all the tricks taught in a...
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Anti-Arab steps key to popularity in Israel

  • The president of Israel was aghast. Ruvi Rivlin, who was recently elected to the high but largely ceremonial post, is far from being a leftist. On the contrary, this scion of a family that has been living in Jerusalem for seven generations, believes in a Jewish state in all the country from the...
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Netanyahu’s gamble

  • In Japan in the good old days, Benjamin Netanyahu would by now have committed hara-kiri. In England at that time, the monarch would have appointed him governor of the most remote little island in the Pacific Ocean.In Israel, his popularity rating is bound to go up.Because in our country, the old...
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