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A Clear Blue Sky Over Israel
What one survivor of Hamas's October 7 atrocities saw at the Nova music festival
February 21, 2024 • City Journal
The contrasts are what haunt Millet Ben Haim when she thinks about Hamas's October 7 attack. As she lay on the ground, hidden in brush, with the sound of bullets and rockets growing ever closer, she looked up at the sky. It was clear blue—and then she saw a butterfly. "It was so beautiful," she said. "I thought I was going to die, but that the world would go on. There was beauty around me, along with the butchery." She was panicked but occasionally calm. She wanted to live but prayed that a rocket would hit her. "I had been in the army," she said. "So I knew what would happen to us if we were caught—rape, torture, a slow death."
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January 9, 2024 • Wall Street Journal
As Israel seeks to "decapitate" Hamas by killing or capturing its leaders, a former Israeli prime minister told me he had to pass up an opportunity to do so in 2007. On June 25 of that year, Ehud Olmert recalled in a phone interview, he took a call from his top security official who said Israel had located a house in Gaza where Mohammed Deif, Hamas's military commander, and 10 other top Hamas leaders were meeting. "An Israeli F-16 fighter jet was in the air with 1,000 kilos of explosives and missiles," Mr. Olmert said. "All I had to do was OK the hit."
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Olmert's Minority View
An interview with former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert
January 3, 2024 • City Journal
During an hour-long telephone interview, former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert warned that time is running out to free the Israeli hostages in Gaza and urged President Joe Biden to tell Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that, to save them, Israel must start political talks with the Palestinians, "the sooner the better." Olmert called negotiations leading toward a two-state solution—a state for both Israel and the Palestinians—"the only possible avenue for a different Middle East."
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December 20, 2023 • Fox News
Revenge is best served cold, as James Bennet's blistering takedown of our former newspaper, The New York Times, shows in riveting detail. Bennet, the Times' former editorial page editor now at the Economist, waited three years after being forced out of the paper in 2020 before describing how the Times has abandoned its commitment to objective reporting, blurred the boundary between news and opinion, suppressed conservative views and shifted from being overtly "liberal" to an "illiberal" paper all too willing to "shut debate down" and embrace a "culture of intolerance and conformity."
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The Schnoz
Bradley Cooper and his cast shine in 'Maestro,' a film about the life of Leonard Bernstein
December 18, 2023 • Tablet
Passion: that is what unites actor-director Bradley Cooper and composer-conductor Leonard Bernstein, the subject of Maestro, Cooper's latest remarkable film. Both shared all-consuming passions—for music and conducting, for family, love, and life. Cooper, as far as we know, is thoroughly heterosexual; "Lenny," as his friends and fans called him, was famously not. But the many men in Bernstein's extraordinary life are not the focus of this film; indeed, almost none is well developed as a character.
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Books by Judith Miller
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