Today's Situation

By Robert Rosenberg

2004 daily archives

December
• Pulling the strings for God, Thursday, December 23, 2004
• Blair goes from Jerusalem to Ramallah , Wednesday, December 22, 2004
• Police chief worries, Tuesday, December 21, 2004
• Settler leader calls for civil disobedience, Monday, December 20, 2004

• The rhetoric changes, not the behavior, Friday, December 17, 2004
• Trouble with Washington, Thursday, December 16, 2004
• Stalled coalition talks, Wednesday, December 15, 2004
• Disagreement in Jerusalem, an agreement in Egypt, Tuesday, December 14, 2004
• Attack at Rafah, Monday, December 13, 2004

• 100 years of political experience, Friday, December 10, 2004
• The Likud votes, Thursday, December 09, 2004
• A surprising report from Egypt, Wednesday, December 08, 2004
• The warring goes on, Tuesday, December 07, 2004
• A step in the right direction, Monday, December 06, 2004

• Small signs to a larger picture, Friday, December 03, 2004
• Sharon's new start, Thursday, December 02, 2004
• Don't bury Sharon just yet, Wednesday, December 01, 2004

  November 2004

• The fractured political arena, Tuesday, November 30, 2004
• The smell of elections?, Monday, November 29, 2004

• A moral crisis in the IDF, Friday, November 26, 2004
• Assad's offer, Thursday, November 25, 2004
• Raful's funeral, Wednesday, November 24, 2004
• The strange death of Rafael Eitan, Tuesday, November 23, 2004
• A scapegoat for the Likud central committee, Monday, November 22, 2004

• Sharon makes a move, Friday, November 19, 2004
• Accidents happen, Thursday, November 18, 2004
• Politicking, Wednesday, November 17, 2004
• Powell's departure, Tuesday, November 16, 2004
• A shooting in Gaza, Monday, November 15, 2004

• The day of two funerals, Friday, November 12, 2004
• Arafat's legacy: 'the two Abus', Thursday, November 11, 2004
• Wishful thinking, Wednesday, November 10, 2004
• A case of Extasy, Tuesday, November 09, 2004
• Suha Arafat stirs the pot, Monday, November 08, 2004

• What next? Friday, November 05, 2004
• As he lay dying, Friday, November 05, 2004
• Changing of the guards, Thursday, November 04, 2004
• Waiting for definitive results from the U.S. - and from France, Wednesday, November 03, 2004
• Arafat's white cell count, Sharon's Knesset count, Tuesday, November 02, 2004
• Elections coming?, Monday, November 01, 2004

  October 2004

• Optimists, pessimists, realists, fantasists, Friday, October 29, 2004
• Conflicting reports from Ramallah and Jerusalem, Thursday, October 28, 2004
• Captain at the helm, Wednesday, October 27, 2004
• The man alone, Tuesday, October 26, 2004
• The next vote, Monday, October 25, 2004

• Where no prime minister has gone before, Friday, October 22, 2004
• The national split , Thursday, October 21, 2004
• Rabbis and refuseniks, Wednesday, October 20, 2004
• The browbeaters, Tuesday, October 19, 2004
• Referendum talk, Monday, October 18, 2004

• The options narrow, Friday, October 15, 2004
• Conundrums, political and military, Thursday, October 14, 2004
• Whirlpool, Big Bang, Chaos, Wednesday, October 13, 2004
• Sharon's hot winter has begun, Tuesday, October 12, 2004
• After the terror, before the storm, Monday, October 11, 2004

• The terror in Sinai, Friday, October 08, 2004
• The Jewish holidays are over, a long hot winter approaches, Thursday, October 07, 2004
• The last holiday, Wednesday, October 06, 2004
• The sound of a ladder to climb down, Tuesday, October 05, 2004
• Trying everything but talking, Monday, October 04, 2004

• Deadly holidays, Friday, October 01, 2004

  September 2004

• A lethal holiday, Thursday, September 30, 2004
• Those frustrating Qassams, Wednesday, September 29, 2004
• A CNN reporter is kidnapped in Gaza, Tuesday, September 28, 2004
• A twilight war battle in sunny Damascus, Monday, September 27, 2004

  Yom Kippur

• After the holidays, Thursday, September 23, 2004
• The Peretz-Netanyahu show, Wednesday, September 22, 2004
• The mother of all strikes, Tuesday, September 21, 2004
• Bread and circus, Monday, September 20, 2004

• 5765 will be Sharon's year, Friday, September 17, 2004
• Shades of normalcy on the Jewish New Year, Thursday, September 16, 2004
• The deja vu of 'incitment,' on a New Year's eve, Wednesday, September 15, 2004
• On the eve of New Year's Eve, Tuesday, September 14, 2004
• Civil war, or a war between brothers, Monday, September 13, 2004

• The slouching rough beast, Friday, September 10, 2004
• Security alert for Sinai – and Sderot, Thursday, September 09, 2004
• Hanegbi becomes Ezra , Wednesday, September 08, 2004
• Bad management,, Tuesday, September 07, 2004
• Mofaz threatens Arafat, again, Monday, September 06, 2004

• The Palestinian hunger strike ends, Friday, September 03, 2004
• Beersheba to Hebron to Damascus to New York, Thursday, September 02, 2004
• From Hebron to Beersheba, Wednesday, September 01, 2004

  August 2004

• Sharon's new disengagement schedule, Tuesday, August 31, 2004
• Shoot an Arrow in the air, where it lands ..., Friday, August 27, 2004
• A little satisfaction, a lot of hutzpah, Thursday, August 26, 2004
• Midsummer political dreaming in Israel and Palestine, Wednesday, August 25, 2004
• Denials and reversals, Tuesday, August 24, 2004
• Labor's turn for a rebellion, Monday, August 23, 2004

• Sharon's six options, Friday, August 20, 2004
• Sharon's a leader without a party, the Likud's a party without a people, Thursday, August 19, 2004
• Spinning their way to the Likud convention, Wednesday, August 18, 2004
• Settlement housing tenders and Likud party tensions, Tuesday, August 17, 2004
• Committing suicide live on TV, Monday, August 16, 2004

• But can the center hold?, Friday, August 13, 2004
• A critical week for Sharon, Thursday, August 12, 2004
• Olmert, the stalking horse, strikes again, Wednesday, August 11, 2004
• Sharon's conundrums, Tuesday, August 10, 2004
• The budget takes center stage, Monday, August 09, 2004

• Promises, promises, Friday, August 06, 2004
• Flurries of American diplomacy and Israeli politics, Thursday, August 05, 2004
• Advancing the disengagement schedule, Wednesday, August 04, 2004
• Pressure, Tuesday, August 03, 2004
• Stymied coalition talks, Monday, August 02, 2004

  July 2004

• When a missile hits a missile, coming through the sky, Friday, July 30, 2004
• Shimon Peres gets angry with Silvan Shalom's foreign ministry, Thursday, July 29, 2004
• Stalled fence, stalled talks, Wednesday, July 28, 2004
• The Ninth of Av, Tuesday, July 27, 2004
• Human chain, political chains, Monday, July 26, 2004
• The nation was already torn asunder 30 years ago, / Opinion by Robert Rosenberg July 24, 2004

• The corruption on both sides, Friday, July 23, 2004
• Double standards, Thursday, July 22, 2004
• Israel's national security assessment: Iranian nukes are the biggest threat of all, Wednesday, July 21, 2004
• Private eyes, spies, and public ties, Tuesday, July 20, 2004
• Comparative politics, Monday, July 19, 2004

• Sharon can only blame himself, Friday, July 16, 2004
• Shalom and Netanyahu versus Sharon, Helen Clark versus Israel, Terje Larsen versus Arafat, Thursday, July 15, 2004
• A national disunity government or a Machiavellian plot, Wednesday, July 14, 2004 12:42 PM
• Sharon, the juggler, Tuesday, July 13, 2004
• Sharon and Peres want to dance, their parties are not so convinced, Monday, July 12, 2004

• The silver lining of a scandal, Friday, July 9, 2004
• Fed up with corruption, Thursday, July 08, 2004
• Assassins and other foes, Wednesday, July 07, 2004
• ElBaradei arrives tonight, Tuesday, July 06, 2004
• Rising rhetoric on the Israeli Right, Monday, July 05, 2004

• The law-abiding Sharon, Friday, July 02, 2004
• Back to the separation fence drawing board, Thursday, July 01, 2004

  June 2004

• Deja vu, Wednesday, June 30, 2004
• The Sderot syndrome, Tuesday, June 29, 2004
• Gazan sophistication, Monday, June 28, 2004

• Embarrassing situations, Friday, June 25, 2004
• Optimistic Qurei', pessimistic, Sharon Thursday, June 24, 2004
• Sharon's cold water, Shinui's cold water, Labor's cold water, Wednesday, June 23, 2004
• A record stock market, Tuesday, June 22, 2004
• Jockeying for position, Monday, June 21, 2004

• A theoretical moat for Gaza, Friday, June 18, 2004
• Mazuz apologizes - but doesn't retract Thursday, June 17, 2004
• Mazuz closes one Pandora's Box, and opens another, Wednesday, June 16, 2004
• The Mazuz moment, Tuesday, June 15, 2004
• A test of the Likud rebels, Monday, June 14, 2004

• The G-8 and the D-9, Friday, June 11, 2004
• The disengagement begins, Thursday, June 10, 2004
• The start of a long hot summer, Wednesday, June 09, 2004
• The political reverberations continue, Tuesday, June 08, 2004
• We've only just begun, Monday, June 07, 2004

• One step at a time, Friday, June 04, 2004
• Either compromise or a cabinet reshuffle, Thursday, June 03, 2004
• Rumors, speculation and spin, Wednesday, June 02, 2004
• Sharon's troubles, Tuesday, June 01, 2004

  May 2004

• It ain't over until the fat man sings, Friday, May 28, 2004
• The media battlefield, Thursday, May 27, 2004
• A new Quartet in the works?, Wednesday, May 26, 2004
• Until Mazuz makes his move, Tuesday, May 25, 2004
• A hapless army, a hapless prime minister, Monday, May 24, 2004

• The IDF redeploys out of Rafah, Friday, May 21, 2004
• Rafah, Rafah, Thursday, May 20, 2004
• Celebrations in Sakhnin, despair in Rafah, Wednesday, May 19, 2004
• Shades of Jenin in Rafah, Tuesday, May 18, 2004
• Gaza when?, Monday, May 17, 2004

• The corridor without any brotherly love, Friday, May 14, 2004
• The debate heats up, Thursday, May 13, 2004
• The Lebanonization of Gaza, Wednesday, May 12, 2004
• Fighting in Gaza, Tuesday, May 11, 2004
• Rhetorical disintegration, Monday, May 10, 2004

• Nature abhors a vacuum – Rice will meet Qurei', Sharon will meet his rivals, Friday, May 07, 2004
• An injudicious dispute, Thursday, May 06, 2004
• A surprising choice for chief of police, Wednesday, May 05, 2004
• Back to the drawing board, Tuesday, May 04, 2004
• Arik's hubris, and the Likud's, Monday, May 03, 2004 April, 2004
• Polls and spins, scenarios and speculation Friday, April 30, 2004
• On the verge of political chaos, Thursday, April 29, 2004
• Referendum blues, Wednesday, April 28, 2004
• Independence Day, Tuesday, April 27, 2004
• Memorial Day, Monday, April 26, 2004

• Rising tension in the Likud, Friday, April 23, 2004
• Sharon hinted, Arafat expeled, Segev arrested, Vanunu slept late, Thursday, April 22, 2004
• Vanunu gets out, Benny Begin speaks out, and Gilad Sharon throws out evidence, Wednesday, April 21, 2004
• The Vanunu festival, Tuesday, April 20, 2004
• Holocaust Day, Monday, April 19, 2004

• Just in case, Sharon's son pulls out a doomsday weapon, Friday, April 16, 2004
• Mazuz overshadows the Bush-Sharon summit, Thursday, April 15, 2004
• Dizzying last minute, pre-summit spin, Wednesday, April 14, 2004
• You can't always get what you want, but you get what you need, Tuesday, April 13, 2004
• The uncertain future – for Sharon, Gaza, Hamas, the PA, Bush, Thursday, April 08, 2004

• Domestic politics behind diplomacy, Wednesday, April 07, 2004
• The holiday spirit, Tuesday, April 6, 2004
• The seder is tonight, Monday, April 05, 2004
• The referendum campaign begins, Friday, April 02, 2004
• The Americans talk to Qurei and Sharon, Thursday, April 01, 2004

  March, 2004

• Sharon's referendum still awaits a Mazuz decision, Wednesday, March 31, 2004
• But it's all in Mazuz's hands, Tuesday, March 30, 2004
• Under fire, Sharon keeps his cool, Monday, March 29, 2004

• Sharon's week, Friday, March 26, 2004
• The Yassin effect, Thursday, March 25, 2004
• The 25th anniversary of the peace with Egypt, Wednesday, March 24, 2004
• After Yassin, everyone's in the sights , Tuesday, March 23, 2004
• Ahmed Yassin's assassination, Monday, March 22, 2004

• Abdullah tries to get some answers from Sharon, Friday, March 19, 2004
• The plan behind the Sharon plan, Thursday, March 18, 2004
• Clashes in Gaza, Wednesday, March 17, 2004
• A 10-year-old shaheed, Tuesday, March 16, 2004
• The limits of the fence, Monday, March 15, 2004

• Horror in Madrid, improvisation in Jerusalem, confusion in Washington, Friday, March 12, 2004
• Shalom in Egypt, Thursday, March 11, 2004
• Two schools of thought about Sharon, Wednesday, March 10, 2004
• General discomfort, Tuesday, March 09, 2004
• Friction and its reduction, Monday, March 08, 2004

• Down a slippery slope to nowhere, Friday, March 05, 2004
• Mountains and molehills, Thursday, March 04, 2004
• Once again, the prime minister did not know, Wednesday, March 03, 2004
• Two different types of chaos, Tuesday, March 02, 2004
• Legal matters, Monday, March 01, 2004

  February, 2004

• Loose ends to a prisoner exchange, Friday, February 27, 2004
• Ariel Sharon's birthday, Arafat's revolutionary council, Thursday, February 26, 2004
• Tennenbaum and Vanunu, Wednesday, February 25, 2004
• Fences, coexistence, and Palestinian genetics, Tuesday, February 24, 2004
• Hague, Baka, Jerusalem, Monday, February 23, 2004

• Distrust and dissent, Friday, February 20, 2004
• Principles of disengagement, Thursday, February 19, 2004
• Three wise men arrive, Wednesday, February 18, 2004
• The settler lobby goes to work in Washington, Tuesday, February 17, 2004
• Not yet a new Middle East, Monday, February 16, 2004

• The fear of 'troubles', Friday, Febraury 13, 2004
• Netanyahu's tremor, Thursday, February 12, 2004
• A local earthquake, Wednesday, February 11, 2004
• Confusion at the top, Tuesday, February 10, 2004
• The prime minister's kidneys, Monday, February 09, 2004

• Saving Arik, Friday, February 06, 2004
• Headlines as weapons, Thursday, February 05, 2004
• Sharon's on his own, Wednesday, February 04, 2004
• Crossing the Rubicon out of Gaza, Tuesday, February 03, 2004
• On again, off again, Monday, February 02, 2004

  January 2004

• Tears and fears, Friday, January 30, 2004
• Atavistic necrophilia, Thursday, January 29, 2004
• Reminders of the facts, Wednesday, January 28, 2004
• Ya'alon, Dirani, Arbel, Tuesday, January 27, 2004
• The prisoner exchange, Monday, January 26, 2004

• Stormy times, Friday, January 23, 2004
• Political crimes, Thursday, January 22, 2004
• Appel's indictment implicates Sharon and Olmert, Wednesday, January 21, 2004
• Dismantling a Kahanist synagogue outpost, Tuesday, January 20, 2004
• The fence, the ambassador, and the prisoner, Monday, January 19, 2004

• Sharon's slipping in the polls, Friday, January 16, 2004
• Treading water, Thursday, January 15, 2004
• A new escalation?, Wednesday, January 14, 2004
• Spector's show, Tuesday, January 13, 2004
• Katsav's invitation, Monday, January 12, 2004

• Because of that war, Friday, January 09, 2004
• Israeli fixations, Thursday, January 08, 2004
• A somewhat changed Middle East, Wednesday, January 07, 2004
• Lots of talk, little action, Tuesday, January 06, 2004
• Domestic politics, Monday, January 05, 2004

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