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God bless Haaretz, it has broached an amazingly important issue: reverse aliyah. All the Israelis who have left Israel for the U.S. Maybe close to 10 percent of the population! Dontcha think American journalism should be writing about this, and…

Last night Keith Olbermann said “Grand slam” as soon as Hillary’s speech was over. It’s pure politics on his part, Fox News is his role model. I didn’t think it was that great a speech, nothing like her absolutely fabulous…

More evidence of Michelle Obama’s sophistication: her high style. Tonight she was wearing a gorgeous off-white dress with a plunging back, cap sleeves and a gathered waist, looked like. This chick is hip and refined. The dinner table conversations in…

More on those Gaza blockade-running boats. Jeff Halper, the great Israeli activist on the occupation, was on one of them and was arrested when he reentered Israel, taken to the police station in Sderot. JPost said he was violating the…

Leila Abu-Saba knows Max Rodenbeck and describes him as an Arabist. Rodenbeck is the writer for the Economist whom the Times assigned on Sunday to machicolate Ken Pollack (the sage to whom the Times had formerly turned to, in 2002-2003,…