February 27, 2009
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...
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February 24, 2009
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...
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February 11, 2009
Jerusalem - Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni and hard-line rival Benjamin Netanyahu both claimed victory Tuesday in Israel's parliamentary election, but official results showed a race so close it could be decided by a third candidate - a rising power among the hawks. ...
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February 09, 2009
Imagine if you will George Wallace in the 1968 presidential campaign telling the white world he knew how to deal with Negroes. To convey this, he coins the slogan: “He speaks Negro.” Or imagine Strom Thurmond running as a Dixecrat for president in 1948 on a States Right platform. His slo...
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