IF GOD wills, even a broomstick will shoot. That is an old Yiddish adage. One could add now: If God wills, even…
NOT ONLY the Palestinians must be breathing a deep sigh of relief after the swearing in of the Palestinian National Unity Government.…
During the first Lebanon war, I visited Jounieh, a town some 20 km north of Beirut. At the time, it served as…
“THANK GOD for the American elections,” our ministers and generals sighed with relief. Ā They were not rejoicing at the kick that…
THE NAME of Franz von Papen is familiar to everyone who knows the history of the German republic that was born after…
IN ITS original German form – Liebermann – the name means “lovable man”. It is hard to imagine a name less appropriate…
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ONCE, WHILE traveling in a taxi, I had an argument with the driver – a profession associated in Israel with extreme right-wing…
Since the days when Roman Emperors threw Christians to the lions, the relations between the emperors and the heads of the church…
GUESS WHOSE words these are: “Starting this war was a scandalĆ¢€Ā¦It was possible to solve the problem of the missiles in South…
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