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November 21, 2012
4:55 pm

In hitting Tel Aviv, Hamas seeks all-out war

Wednesday’s bus bombing has been planned for a long time

By Lynette Nusbacher

November 7, 2012
6:21 pm

Israel needed Obama to lose? Now there’s a swing State!

Even if he’s bad for Israel (which he’s not)…

By Lynette Nusbacher

November 6, 2012
2:49 pm

Obama’s second inaugural speech will be his most important address, ever

After Romney calls up to concede, the president will have to begin to heal a house divided against itself

By Lynette Nusbacher

October 11, 2012
11:23 am

To ban or not to ban?

Times of Israel bloggers Zahava Englard and Lynette Nusbacher weigh in on the great Twitter swastika hashtag debate

By Zahava Englard and Lynette Nusbacher

September 3, 2012
4:36 pm

War with Iran won’t be a walk in the OR

Why the term ‘surgical strike’ can be highly misleading

By Lynette Nusbacher

August 13, 2012
5:44 pm

You’re losing, Syrian rebels! Take to the hills!

The opposition may have right on its side. But it’s taking a pasting

By Lynette Nusbacher

July 25, 2012
5:10 pm

Was Assad behind the blast in Damascus?

How much damage was done to the Syrian regime by culling some dead wood from the top? Arguably, not much

By Lynette Nusbacher

April 11, 2012
4:51 pm

Assad’s West Wing

Killing kids is easy, but you still need to have some fun to break the tension

By Lynette Nusbacher

April 9, 2012
1:37 pm

Günter Grass (photo credit: AP Photo/Jens Meyer)

No country for silly old men

Günter Grass’s poem was all kinds of silly, but so was Eli Yishai’s decision to declare the elderly Waffen-SS veteran and writer persona non grata

By Lynette Nusbacher

March 21, 2012
11:56 am

Look beyond victimhood after Toulouse, says Ashton

The shrill Israeli denunciations of the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs had all the grace of a relative of the deceased starting a fight at a funeral

By Lynette Nusbacher

March 13, 2012
2:21 pm

A thousand words: pictures and narratives in Gaza

The photo of Raja Abu Shaban, a girl who died in an accident in 2006, illustrates the Gaza narrative. The fact that does not constitute literal truth is irrelevant

By Lynette Nusbacher

March 9, 2012
10:57 am

Teach the Syrian rebels to be more like the Taliban

We owe it to the Syrian people to train them and help them overthrow their dictator using the kind of protracted methods that the Taliban uses against us to such good effect in Afghanistan

By Lynette Nusbacher

March 1, 2012
10:46 am

Surrender to Assad

The embattled rebels of Homs have shown that they are ready to die for Syria’s freedom. Perhaps the time has come for them to do so

By Lynette Nusbacher

The Times of Israel

The one-stop news site
covering Israel, the region and
the Jewish people worldwide

Founding editor:
David Horovitz

Fair, fresh and fast

The Jewish world's
fastest-growing
news site

Writer: Lynette Nusbacher

In hitting Tel Aviv, Hamas seeks all-out war

Wednesday’s bus bombing has been planned for a long time

Israel needed Obama to lose? Now there’s a swing State!

Even if he’s bad for Israel (which he’s not)…

Obama’s second inaugural speech will be his most important address, ever

After Romney calls up to concede, the president will have to begin to heal a house divided against itself

To ban or not to ban?

Times of Israel bloggers Zahava Englard and Lynette Nusbacher weigh in on the great Twitter swastika hashtag debate

War with Iran won’t be a walk in the OR

Why the term ‘surgical strike’ can be highly misleading

You’re losing, Syrian rebels! Take to the hills!

The opposition may have right on its side. But it’s taking a pasting

Was Assad behind the blast in Damascus?

How much damage was done to the Syrian regime by culling some dead wood from the top? Arguably, not much

Assad’s West Wing

Killing kids is easy, but you still need to have some fun to break the tension

No country for silly old men

Günter Grass’s poem was all kinds of silly, but so was Eli Yishai’s decision to declare the elderly Waffen-SS veteran and writer persona non grata

Look beyond victimhood after Toulouse, says Ashton

The shrill Israeli denunciations of the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs had all the grace of a relative of the deceased starting a fight at a funeral

A thousand words: pictures and narratives in Gaza

The photo of Raja Abu Shaban, a girl who died in an accident in 2006, illustrates the Gaza narrative. The fact that does not constitute literal truth is irrelevant

Teach the Syrian rebels to be more like the Taliban

We owe it to the Syrian people to train them and help them overthrow their dictator using the kind of protracted methods that the Taliban uses against us to such good effect in Afghanistan

Surrender to Assad

The embattled rebels of Homs have shown that they are ready to die for Syria’s freedom. Perhaps the time has come for them to do so

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