« November 1997 | Main | January 1998 » December 1997 ArchivesDecember 26, 1997The Schweitzenbasheringen ProblemIt is now time to remember a fundamental fact in the never-ending controversy over Swiss bank accounts and Nazi gold: It isn't all that important. This might be an inopportune moment to be saying this -- we (by "we" I mean we Jews and our King, H.R.H. Edgar of Seagram's) have got the Alpine skinflints right where we want them, which is...I don't know where, exactly. December 21, 1997Washington Discovers Christian PersecutionThe sour expression on his gray and lined face suggests that His Eminence Lufti Laham, the visiting patriarchal vicar for the Orthodox Melkite Church in Jerusalem, disapproves of Nina Shea--her message, her demeanor, even her presence on the same dais. Shea is a stone-serious conservative Catholic, the religion expert at the human rights group Freedom House and a leader in the fight against the persecution of Christians overseas. Archbishop Laham represents a group of West Bank Christians who are experiencing growing discrimination from their fundamentalist Muslim neighbors. And yet Laham appears physically pained each time Shea mentions the word "persecution." December 12, 1997Syrian Spy Story Finds Its HeroesWASHINGTON -- Major General Moshe Ya'alon, the chief of the military intelligence branch of the Israel Defense Forces, paid last week a hushed-up visit to the Virginia side of the Potomac River. There, he shared with his friends at the Pentagon and CIA the rather distressing news that much of the inside intelligence on Syria that Israel had supplied to the Americans over the past several years has been -- how to put this diplomatically? -- rendered inoperative by recent events. General Ya'alon was in America on a damage-control mission, but the damage was not of his own making. The damage was done by the Mossad, the Institute for Intelligence and Special Tasks, whose special task, it has recently seemed, is to endanger the State of Israel. |
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