Posted by: Jayme Johnson on: August 12, 2011
Some ultra-Orthodox worry that the protests will shine a light on the vast amounts of money they receive from the state. Cultural differences are also keeping the ultra-Orthodox at bay, said Jonathan Rosenblum, an ultra-Orthodox commentator. The protesters’ main tent camps in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem are predominantly secular, with scantily clad young men and [...]
Posted by: Jayme Johnson on: August 12, 2011
Daniel Doron, who directs the Israel Center for Social and Economic Progress, a pro-market research organization, said he was convinced that the way in which failing state assets were privatized in the 1980s and ’90s led to dangerous consolidation, just as it did in the former Soviet Union and some Arab countries, like Egypt and [...]
Posted by: Jayme Johnson on: September 29, 2009
Hamas fired rockets into Israel for eight years according to Benjamin Netanyahu. That was his justification for the Gaza War. But notice the timing of the war. It was during the lame duck presidency of George Bush, in the middle of the worst recession in decades, Christmas and the holidays for many Americans, and it [...]
