Mystical Politics

I had not checked on the Israel news for a few days, what with the avalanche of Jewish holidays that just ended today, so I was quite surpri...

For my return to blogging, my first feature is a notice of resurging hate graffiti in one of the dorms at my place of employment. On Sept. 4...

One of the things that I find fascinating about the internet is, of course, how international it is. I've recently linked to Sitemeter ,...

Last night I dreamt about the attacks on September 11 - actually, I dreamt about how to talk about them in my classes (which is something I ...

The fifth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks is coming up on Monday, as everyone knows, and I've been thinking about how to write about the...

The State Department has issued a new Travel Warning today for Israel, the West Bank and Gaza , among other things warning of the possibilit...

I have always very steadfastly defended the New York Times against charges that it is biased against Israel, but the current New York Times ...

A good posting by Michael Totten on Andrew Sullivan's blog about Israeli and Lebanese backlash against the foolish deadliness of Hizbol...

I don't know if Israel or Hizbollah won this particular round of war between them. What would "winning" consist of, in any cas...

Richard Holbrooke's cautionary words - The Guns Of August . Two full-blown crises, in Lebanon and Iraq, are merging into a single emerge...

This is what Hizbollah represents , Harold Evans shows in an opinion piece arguing against the boneheaded leftists of the British Stop the ...

In case any of my readers don't know about it, Israelity is a wonderful blog that is aggregating reports from other Israeli blogs about...

The Israel cabinet today approved a ground offensive further into Lebanon, to get rid of the Katyusha launchers south of the Litani River. ...

In today's Wall Street Journal, Bernard Lewis writes: In Islam, as in Judaism and Christianity, there are certain beliefs concerning th...

This is something I've never heard of before - I wasn't even aware that women had direct combat duties in the IDF. Ynet reports on ...

Charles Krauthammer publically asserts that the reason Israel is fighting Hizbollah is for the sake of the United States' grand strateg...

A poem from a Jordanian blogger living in Sweden, Blame it on God . Hezbollah is the 'party of God', Jews are God's chosen peopl...

For first time, Hizbullah targets Hadera area . This is the furthest south missiles have fallen in Israel or Palestine (previous missiles ha...

Iran admits what everyone has known - they have supplied long-range Zelzal-2 missiles to Hizbollah (not to speak of other types of missiles...