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…became closer, Dan Meridor, were members of the Knesset’s defense committee. But from the day I returned to the Israeli government in June 2007, there was growing tension between us over dealing with the Syrian nuclear threat. It was not about whether we should take military acti...

…ined an elite unit of the U.S military but failed to get an honorable discharge, became hostile to policies of the U.S. government and defected to Russia. See Edward Jay Epstein, Legend: The Secret World of Lee Harvey Oswald, McGraw-Hill Book Company, (New York, 1978) pp.64-104...

Hannah Dreier of ProPublica won a Hillman Prize for reporting that showed how the government’s bungled crackdown on MS-13 has torn apart the lives of Latino immigrants. The Atlantic’s Adam Serwer, who has emerged as a defining voice of the Trump era, won for his essays on racism...

…e, the same could not be said of the country I’d served for my whole adult life, or of the political party I'd led into government. The continuing construction of the security fence along the West Bank finally did begin to reduce the sheer number of Palestinian attacks: from near...

…of victims who came forward with testimony. This is best understood in the context of children being used as a means to government-sponsored sexual blackmail and other forms of leverage. See here Erik Prince in greater context: (the similarities between him and once (secretly) f...

…always needed to make deals with some of the smaller ones to get the required 60-vote parliamentary majority and form a government. The Likud looked vulnerable. Domestic concerns, alone, were eroding its support. Under Begin’s turbo-charged version of Milton Freedman economics,...

…d to ensure that Sakharov's core goals disappear from the debate: a Russia committed to humane and democratic values, a government that 30 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019264

…ded by declining oil prices, is heightening the ferment. The Arab World’s best hope is the rise of a new generation in government. In the UAE, Qatar and Saudi Arabia, brilliant young leaders are crafting forward-looking policies to effectively forge a new Middle East. American f...

…acterized her as “unsupervisable.” Contrary to the express agreement of United States Attorney Acosta that the federal government would not interfere in the administration of any state sentence, FAUSA Sloman continued to try to deny the right of the State to issue work release a...

…e uprising. “I think now we’ve passed the most dangerous moment. I hope so, I think so,” she said. Shaaban repeated the government line that Syria faced an armed rebellion, and disclosed that she had been tasked with initiating a dialogue with dissidents. “We see [the Syrian even...

…ut is that being delivered efficiently? The answer is no, all of us know that, and that’s why we keep going back to the government; public-private—partnerships is going to be the key to move forward, you have the resources we have the management expertise let’s join hands. And it...

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…s lacked the “animal spirits” to take such a risk ina slump. We saw the same story after 2008. Keynes’ proposal was for government to do the borrowing and investing instead. That’s part of the “fiscal policy” I described in Chapter 1. Here we tend to agree. That would explain his...

… 49" birthday. Yet pleasing thought that was, it became clear there was a disconnect between the tension among Israeli government ministers, and ordinary Israelis, back home and the relaxed, self-assured, at times even jovial mood of the President and his inner circle. Their pri...

…crucial to the conservative Republican base — like opposition to abortion, gay rights, liberalized immigration and much government spending — most American Jews are on the other side, and strongly SO. “If Republicans can mischaracterize this president as anti-Israel, they can di...