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Saturday, November 14, 2020

Rest in Peace, Brewster Chamberlin

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My favorite story about Brewster Chamberlin tells how we came to be friends, and how it wasn't obvious we would. In 1993 I was appointed...
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Tuesday, May 7, 2019

Nitai Stern's Playground

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When I was a schoolboy, fallen soldiers were a special kind of grownup. Usual grownups went to work and had meetings, whatever those w...
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Thursday, November 15, 2018

Netanyahu's Quandry (Mid-November 2018 version)

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Spare a moment to reflect on the hardship of being Binyamin Netanyahu this week. Actually, don’t. He’s a very powerful man and deserves no...
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Monday, May 21, 2018

Things one needs to know about IDF snipers

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A number of weeks ago a video about an Israeli sniper went viral. The film appeared to show the sniper celebrating a shot that injured a ...
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Wednesday, April 18, 2018

Koolulam: Startup Nation meets Secular Prayer

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One place to start this story would be the dark years of the 2 nd Intifada, when Israelis tried to leave their homes as little as possible ...
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Monday, April 16, 2018

How to prove you don't have a sister, or The insidious assumptions of Israel-critical journalists

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The first half of that caption is a common hebrew saying, noting how it can be impossible to disprove baseless allegations. After all, perha...
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Saturday, March 10, 2018

Some reflections after AIPAC's 2018 Pollicy Conference

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Last week I had the honor of presenting a small collection of State Archives documents at AIPAC's Policy Conference 2018, in Washington ...
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Monday, December 11, 2017

British military maps for conquering Palestine

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British General Edmund Allenby entered Jerusalem exactly a century ago today, on December 11th 1917, after his forces conquered the town two...