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Readers of my commentaries know that I usually send one a week. Last week, however, I sent two because the Helen Thomas incident occurred after I had finished my regular weekly article, and I thought the Thomas affair required a response from me. I called for her to step down, which she did.

Reported by Ziva Galili

Istanbul, Turkey -- The special welcome begins at Attaturk airport. The line to purchase visas snakes down the corridor and halfway to Iran. I stand dejectedly in it for a moment and then notice that while Americans and Europeans, along with almost every national I can make out, need the visas -- Israelis inexplicably sweep right through. I am thrilled, march up to the clerk on the shorter line and smile brightly.

"We don't need to buy visas?" I ask. "How wonderful!"

I first met Ibrahim Abdil-Mu'id Ramey after he delivered the plenary speech about Dr. Martin Luther King and the linkage between Dr. King's movement and the present work for nuclear abolition at Riverside Church in April. Ibrahim reminded us that Dr. King had focused on the three evils of racism, economic injustice, and war. I was raised by a mother who was devoted to King's message. One month later I caught up with Ibrahim in the lobby of the Millennium Hotel, across from the United Nations, where we had a chance to chat.

When Felice Friedson brought Palestinian journalists to Israel's parliament for the first time, the powerful chairman of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee called it "unprecedented" and "courageous." When Felice chartered buses to bring Palestinian journalists to Tel Aviv and Jerusalem; and buses to bring Israeli journalists from Tel Aviv and Jerusalem to Ramallah as the Second Intifada was winding down, her colleagues said she was "jumpstarting professional cooperation" that lay dormant for half a decade.

JERUSALEM — The Jerusalem municipality has approved 20 new apartments for Jews in east Jerusalem, the city said Wednesday, in a move that could stir a new diplomatic crisis with the United States.

This week, New York City's Jewish community is riven by protests, counterprotests, and now, threats of Jew-on-Jew violence over the question of Israel and the Palestinians.

Two new points on the map of Jerusalem for those who seek luxurious accommodation: the Mamilla Hotel and the David Citadel Hotel Spa

Long before Barack Obama was in the White House, Bill Cosby wore tennis whites. A black man outside the usual context, and undercover yet. Cosby and Robert Culp portrayed a pair of CIA operatives disguised as globe-trotting tennis players in the popular television series "I Spy." The series was big at a time when popular culture was enamored with espionage. It may even have provided inspiration to another institution and to the next generation of tennis lovers, some of which were filmed leaving an elevator in a certain Dubai hotel.
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Consider it a meeting of minds, water minds. Water consultants, ambassadors who've built water treaties, and government specialists and negotiators from around the Middle East and Europe gathered in Montreux, Switzerland for a two-day workshop on Water Security in the Middle East last week. Green Prophet, the environment news blog I run, was invited to attend. The object was to explore sustainable and cooperative solutions to water security, and to use the problem of water and turn it into an instrument of peace.