Yaacov Lozowick's Ruminations

This evening, November 17th 2012, the top story on the BBC's news website is about the conflict between Israel and Hamas. The story its...

Here's a powerful AP picture from Gaza, yesterday afternoon: Now the question is, which 1,000 words does it replace? When we look at ...

Chances are, if you read this blog you're something of a news junkie, with a focus on Israel. In which case you'll most likely have ...

Wherever I went in Germany, people assumed I joined them in welcoming the new democracy and freedom in the Arab world. In each case, I had t...

Benny Zipper is a veteran member of Haaretz' stable of light-weight lefties. I don't think I've ever linked to him, because ther...

David Ignatius is an important journalist who's been around a long time and is regarded as reliable. He's been talking to prominent ...

If you read this correspondence between Isable Kershner (NYT) and Lenny Ben David, the answer seems to be: No, the NYT isn't good at co...

The New York Times seems to think it does , and that the possibility of a UN recognition of an independent Palestine in September this year ...

Reuters reporting on last week's terrorist attack on civilians in Jerusalem : Police said it was a "terrorist attack" -- Isra...

The story of the Egyptian revolution is still being written, but this doesn't sound good . Not what the breathless media promised us, so...

A primary task of a high-level newspaper is to clarify complicated ongoing issues. Or at least, that's what you'd think. With newspa...

Apropos uninformed outsiders interfering in serious matters they know nothing about (see my previous post ) the New Yorker's David Remni...

The other day a group of readers got into a heated debate about Israeli control of the West Bank and settlements. I actually thought of resp...

Omri Ceren, writing yesterday at the Commentary blog , told how Human Rights Watch Middle East and North Africa Director Sarah Leah Whitson ...

Mondoweiss has a story no-one else seems to be telling: the masses in Cairo have been yelling their willingness to die so as to liberate Jer...

Yusuf al-Qaradawi has returned to Egypt from exile, and given the main speech at the large rally in a-Tahrir Square in Cairo today. If you...

Nir Rosen, a far left writer whom I'd never heard of until yesterday, has lost his job at NYU because he made some ugly comments about L...

Dr. Ayman Nur, a secular, liberal Egyptian who apparently sees himself as a potential leader of the country if it becomes a democracy, says ...

Elder of Ziyon has been reading the Palestine Papers,and notices a discussion from November 2007 where the two teams discussed agreeing that...

From the New York Times : The administration appeared as taken aback by Mr. Mubarak’s speech as the crowds in Tahrir Square. The director ...