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The Bush-Sharon bond is seen as Israel's ace card. But how strong is it really? Is it wise for the government to depend on it? And could it come undone?
ABRAHAM BEN-ZVI: The US & us
The controversies that dominate the scene of US-Israel relations - revolving around such issues as the specific demarcation lines of the security fence Israel has been constructing in the West Bank and the fate of Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat - should not be construed as conclusive evidence of a major rift between Washington and Jerusalem.
ZALMAN SHOVAL: Special relationship
Political alliances, unlike (some) marriages, are not made in heaven, they are usually founded on rock-solid national interests. Personal friendships between leaders do help, of course, but only up to a point.
AMNON LORD: Reasonable doubt
Reasonable doubt Amnon Lord If more than 10 of the terrorists who attacked the Twin Towers in Manhattan and the Pentagon had turned out to be Israelis, I doubt whether President George W. Bush would have invited the Israeli ambassador the very next day to sit with him and quietly smoke cigars on the White House balcony.
R. JAMES WOOLSEY: We are all Jews
I sometimes get asked these days if I'm Jewish - it's my neoconish views on defense and foreign affairs, I suppose. For a while I would just say, "No, Presbyterian," but I've started saying instead, "Well, I anchor the Presbyterian wing of JINSA (the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs)."
YOSSI KELIN HALEVY: The historic significance of American Aliya
I didn't know David Applebaum, the remarkable doctor who saved hundreds of Jerusalemites wounded in terrorist attacks and who was murdered in the Cafe Hillel atrocity with his daughter, Nava, on the eve of her wedding. But many years ago, I did know members of the family of his wife, Debbie - the Speros of Cleveland - one of those essential Jewish families that energizes an entire community.
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