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  Hamas sends greeting to Bush: Grad rocket in Ashkelon mall injures scores
   
  Paramedics rush with the stretcher of an injured victim of the rocket attack (Flash90)   Updated 05/14/08 19:08 Israel time
67 people were injured, 3 seriously, when a Grad rocket slammed into the second floor of the Hutzot shopping mall in Ashkelon, partially collapsing the structure. Some of the injured were for a time trapped under the debris. The attack occurred just before 6 o'clock, after a meeting between US President George Bush and PM Ehud Olmert. The Palestinian Popular Resistance Commitees terror group claimed credit [more]
   
     

Obama: Israel is a "constant sore" that "infects all of our foreign policy"
  Updated 05/14/08 00:14 Israel time
Interviewing Barack Obama in The Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg asked him: "Do you think that Israel is a drag on America's reputation overseas?" His answer: "No, no, no. But what I think is that this constant wound, that this constant sore, does infect all of our foreign policy." Obama partisans claim he was referring to the Mideast conflict. But critics say the loaded language belies his claims of being a genuine friend of Israel.

 
 
     
 
 
 
 
Haaretz: Tycoon Adelson interviewed by police in Olmert corruption case
Sheldon Adelson (file)   Fraud squad detectives on Tuesday questioned American real estate mogul Sheldon Adelson in connection with the latest Olmert corruption probe.
 
Qassam rocket kills woman, 75, as she visits western Negev town
Tears at funeral of Jimmy Kedoshim, killed by mortar fire from Gaza on Friday   A 75-year-old woman visiting a small community in the Western Negev was killed by a Palestinian rocket. Islamic Jihad took credit.
 
Olmert hems and haws about whether resigning would be good for Israel
  PM Olmert: "I don't really see that this will bring any better outcome for the country ... I think it will not do good that I step down at this point.
 
 
  "Even though the law does not require me to do this, I will resign from my job if the attorney general decides to issue an indictment against me."  
 
  Ehud Olmert, responding to allegations of accepting illegal campaign funds    
 
 
 

 

 
     
On Condi and anti-Zionist condoms
Lenny Ben-David
How does the Quartet plan to stop natural growth of Jewish communities? With procreation police? "Sorry," Jews will respond, "we gave at the ovens."
 
Democracy demands transparency
Isi Leibler
I predicted that to delay the drastic military action which will eventually have to be undertaken in Gaza, Olmert would seek a face-saving formula.
 
Lebanon to the West -- and Obama: Wake Up!
Barry Rubin
These are the questions Obama isn't even pretending to try to answer: Are you willing to fight on this issue? To intimidate and defeat the radicals?
 
Happy birthday Israel from an Iranian dissident
Amil Imani
We, the children of Cyrus the Great, offer our heartfelt best wishes to you on your rebirth. Your birth, after all, occurred some 4,000 years ago.
 
Life in Israel
Barry Rubin
This tiny state of seven million people is a world leader in science, medicine, and tech, with some of the globe's best-tasting fruit and vegetables.
 
Olmert puts onus on AG - danger of rush to concessions?
Dr. Aaron Lerner
One thing is certain: the faster the investigation is concluded and a decision made regarding indictment the better.
 
I am a Zionist
Reuven Koret
I am an Israeli, a citizen of the one and only Jewish homeland - and I am proud of her sixty years, twenty-five of which I have been privileged to share.
 
A broom and a flag
Michael Freund
I'm no psychiatrist, but as Israel turns 60, we seem to have developed an acute case of schizophrenia.
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