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Tag Archives: Bill Clinton

Liking the Kid or Is Obama good for Israel?

16-Oct-08

Are Israelis really for Obama? I am not sure. I came across this ad for Obama. It’s a campaign piece but it made me think a little.
Today the front pages of the newspapers were showing the pearls of wisdom provided for us by the good Rev. Jessy Jackson. I clearly remember the famous Haimi speech [...]

Olmert Under Investigation - Again

05-May-08

****UPDATE****
This is from the NYPost
A Long Island mogul is at the center of a sensational bribery scandal that could bring down embattled Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, The Post has learned.
Millionaire financier Morris Talansky - who runs an investment firm out of his tony home in Woodmere - allegedly passed money to Olmert while [...]

T.A. Stocks in Freefall

22-Jan-08

There’s an old saying that says “whatever goes up must come down”. And in reference to world stock bourses, including the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange, “coming down” is looking like nothing less than a catastrophic free fall. After dropping an average of nearly 3 percent yesterday, today’s opening looks like it could end even worse [...]

Olmert’s Last Stand

14-Nov-07

Many of you may recall that infamous episode in American history when U.S. Brigadier General George Armstrong Custer and his 7th Calvary regiment were defeated and massacred by Sioux Indians led by Chief Sitting Bull in the Battle of the Little Bighorn. That historical episode, which took place in the summer of 1876, reminds [...]

Gore’s Vindication

14-Oct-07

Albert Arnold Gore Jr., is a man who has had his share of career “ups and downs”. Following his barely losing the Presidency of the United States in the year 2,000 to George W. Bush, many thought that the former U.S. Senator and two term Vice President was destined to be relegated to the backwater [...]

Winograd Commission Website Goes Live

25-Mar-07

As some of you may know the commission to investigate the events of “The Second Lebanon War” (the name of the war is now official) has now launched a website.
The Winograd Committee is going to announce its conclusions and the vultures are worried. There are plenty of speculations as to the effect these conclusions will [...]

Newt Gingrich’s not-so-new Revelations

20-Mar-07

The American presidential race is off with a bang, and this fact is none the less dramatized within the Republican Party. One of this party’s presidential hopefuls, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, has made his presidential bid even more ‘interesting’ by his recent disclosures that he had an extra-marital affair during the period prior to [...]

Q&A With A Beirut Resident - Part 1

13-Aug-06

The following is part of a series of discussions by one of OJ’s writers and a Lebanese person living in Beirut (going by the name of VJ) who is very concerned with what is now happening to his country. His full comments concerning the Israeli-Lebanese problem will be included in next posts. These were [...]

Sexual Harassment at the Top

12-Jul-06

Allegations by several women that Israel President Moshe Katsav made advances of sexual and provocative nature towards them, is another episode in what appears this time to have reached to very top of the country’s government and moral structure.
Katsav, appointed to the largely ceremonial position three years ago, following a long career in public [...]

Razia Gershon Israeli Sculptress debuts online gallery

16-Nov-05

Bill Clinton, Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres are only some of the bronze portraits found in Razia Gershon’s private collection now available on her recently launched website. The veteran Israeli sculptress showcases some of her historic pieces as well as the figurative and animal bronze sculptures that have made her creations so unique and have [...]