While it is well known perhaps to Israelis, few outside know that Avigdor Lieberman, whom Israel’s new prime minister is poised to name as foreign minister, plead guilty in 2001 to beating a child.  I’d heard of this story but never read any news coverage about the event nor read a conf...

Avigdor Lieberman isn’t like you or me. Most of us go about our lives trying to follow the rules and when we break them by say, speeding or jaywalking we take our punishment and accept it. Perhaps reluctantly, but we accept it. Not so Lieberman. The laws don’t apply to him. And when he i...

From the interview with Avigdor Lieberman: A Conversation With Avigdor Lieberman Interview by Lally WeymouthSunday, March 1, 2009; B01 ...One of the reasons you are so popular is because you called for a loyalty oath for all citizens of Israel. What do you mean by a loyalty oath? The dividing line f...

Disraeli once said memorably: “there are lies, damn lies and statistics.”  But he didn’t know Avigdor Lieberman.  If so, he might’ve substituted the latter’s name for “statistics.” Avigdor Lieberman’s op-ed in Jewish Week is a tissue of lies.  There...

Many people voted for Avigdor Lieberman's Yisrael Beitenu, Israel is Our Home party, because they perceived it as Right Wing anti- Pseudistinian State. Lieberman was saying all the right things. They refused to believe anti-Lieberman hasbara, information like this youtube. Sorry, it's in Hebrew, but...

Regrettably, Ari Folman’s animated doco-fantasy film “Waltz with Bashirâ€� didn’t win the Best Foreign Film at the 2009 Academy Awards presentation in Hollywood. With just a month passing after winning the Golden Globes film award, the American film industry second biggest awards extra...

From Lieberman to Lieberman, there is no Lieberman like Lieberman (Ariel Jerozolimski) There is an old Jewish saying comparing the Biblical Moses and Rabbi Moses ben Maimon (Maimonides): From Moses to Moses there was none like Moses. In what is perhaps the ultimate example of bathos (from the sublim...

The voting was the easy part. In Israel's Election system, we vote for Knesset, parliament, Members but not Prime Minister, not the executive. The elected MK's then, post-election, wheel and deal to form a government. That's when the fun begins. It's fun for them I guess, since the big prizes go to ...

Isreali National News is reporting that Likud has offered Kadima a number of cabinet positions, in order to form of a government together: Senior aides in the Likud party said late Wednesday that chairman Binyamin Netanyahu has offered Kadima two senior Cabinet positions in exchange for its joining ...

I never believed that Abe Foxman had any particular moral principles to speak of. His devotion to fighting anti-Semitism seems, at best, an opportunistic strategem. His devotion to fighting racism seems laughable (what Armenian genocide?). In that context, I find Honest Abe’s response to Avigd...