Back to the Future: If you liked 1991, you’re in luck [9]
Remember the 1985 film “Back to the Future”? Of course you do. One of the charming elements of that movie was the recreation of an imaginary American town in the year 1955. It cost Hollywood…
Simple Mathematics (Or: How to Bring Down the Netanyahu Government) [8]
A friend of mine on the Israeli Right recently asked me what seemed to him to be a tough question to answer: two months after winning the election, what terrible things has Netanyahu actually done?…
Netanyahu’s Secret Weapon, the Paralysis of the Opposition — and the Way Out [7]
If I believed what I read in the newspapers, I’d be devoting this issue of BibiWATCH to the question of how the CIA kidnapped Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu sometime during his visit to Washington,…
Netanyahu to Congress: The Peace Process is Finished [6]
Prime Minister Netanyahu’s most important statement of government policy regarding the peace process came, as expected, during his appearance before a joint session of the U.S. Congress last week. To the assembled elected representatives of…
The 7 Questions Larry King Should Have Asked [5]
Israel has a tradition that state visitors are taken to the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial before they go anywhere else in the country. Before they speak to the assembled Knesset, before they visit the President’s…
Bibi’s Iranian Strategy [4]
Back in the 1970s and 1980s, Israeli strategists came up with a great way to “sell Israel” to the American government. The Soviet Union, they argued, was turning the Middle East into a battleground of…
The First 100 Hours: It Begins . . . [3]
Bibi’s government has been with us now for 100 hours. If allowed to complete its term in office, we have another 35,000 hours to go. Here’s my list of disasters for the first hours; multiply…
Surprise! [2]
There’s a recurring theme in letters I get from friends who, like me, hoped that Bibi Netanyahu would never be Israel’s Prime Minister. Maybe he’ll surprise us, they tell me. Maybe he’ll “pull a Begin”…
Bibi’s New Government [1]
By June 17th, we are promised, Israel is going to have a new government. That’s the day the Knesset meets for the first time since the elections. Bibi doesn’t have to put together a new…
Israel: Where the Paranormal Is Normal
This article appeared in Skeptical Briefs. I should begin by saying that this has always been a land in which the paranormal is normal. According to all the religions which have blossomed here, throughout history…