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Nathan wrote this entry on Saturday, 19th of January 2008 at 08:17:40 AM
Our old pal Nasrallah up in Lebanon appeared in public for the first time in a long time according to recent news posts. Not to rehash all the old news about how Israel messed up in not being able to lay proper waste to this man in the LW2 and also to avoid thinking [...]

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Nathan wrote this entry on Wednesday, 13th of June 2007 at 09:03:25 AM
From YNet this morning, an uplifting and thoughtful decision on gender roles:
…prominent Zionist-religious leader explained that women are allowed to study specific verses from the Gemara, which deal with “subjects related to them,” but they “shouldn’t study Gemara like men.”
What is there to say about this? I do indeed believe in family [...]

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Nathan wrote this entry on Wednesday, 30th of May 2007 at 05:35:44 PM
My opinion is pretty clear on this. Stop acting up and you will have a nation lickity-split. I have written about ‘The Arc‘ and other rumination about the Palestinian issue. It has come up recently in the guise of 40th anniversary celebrations of the 6 Day War from The Economist to a read of [...]

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Nathan wrote this entry on Wednesday, 6th of December 2006 at 03:25:08 PM
But it kind of sucks too. I just did a quick lunchtime read of the The Iraq Study Report and the situation is not looking too good for Iraq. I wish I could say I was amused, even sarcastically bemused, at the smug sense I get while reading. Everything those of us on my [...]

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Nathan wrote this entry on Monday, 27th of November 2006 at 02:32:08 PM
This on the wire:
UN criticizes Israel for Golan Heights annexation Human Rights Council passes two resolutions criticizing Israel, but keeps its record intact of singling out no other country for human rights abuses
Hmmm, what do you think? 6 months in existence and the first thing this tribunal takes on is Israel? Not [...]

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Nathan wrote this entry on Tuesday, 7th of November 2006 at 02:25:31 PM
Read this, the Israeli Declaration of Independence. Why was I reading this today? I forget, but I was curious about this moment in history. Notice this:
The catastrophe which recently befell the Jewish people – the massacre of millions of Jews in Europe – was another clear demonstration of the urgency of solving the [...]