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Winograd: Olmert tried his best

What does the Winograd Commission's final report on Israel's 2006 war in Lebanon mean for Ehud Olmert's future? JTA Jerusalem correspondent Leslie Susser speaks with JTA Associate Editor Uriel Heilman about the war, the report and Olmert's political prognosis.

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Full moon over the West Bank

This post should not be interpreted as an endorsement of the International Solidarity Movement nor the cameraman's take on the land dispute in question. But rather a hope that if the day of turning swords into plows and spears into pruning hooks is not around the corner, then at least the Israelis and Palestinians could make progress by dropping their drawers instead of picking up their guns.

In other words, what many of you may see as boorish, I call progress.

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