30
May
The U.S. ambassador in Israel (I wish I could have said, in Jerusalem) fell into a trap last weekâone that he could easily have avoided with a modicum of foresight. It was not the type of ambush laid with roadside devices and a hail of bullets, but it did carry explosive implications, and produced a [...]
17
Apr
As the evening shadows fall upon Jerusalem, and Yom HaShoah (the memorial day for the Holocaust, according to the Hebrew date of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising in 1943/5703) is ushered in, the official ceremony at Yad Vashem is never free of an internal built-in tension. It is an official, orchestrated act of the State of [...]