Fourth of July Featured 4 July in the Land of the Free, the Mother of Parliaments and the Only Democracy in the ME, Part 3 "The only democracy in the Middle East" can only be called a democracy in the Middle East. Elsewhere, it might be called something else.
Jihad Featured The day after and its contexts* The Israeli government risks tensions and conflicts with its Western allies, but like Golda Meir of old, it believes that it is better to be alive and detested than dead and admired.