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Israel has the right to inspect what goes into Gaza, Middle East mediator Tony Blair told an Israeli television station.

On Monday, I saw ISRAEL on a television screen at my hostel in Istanbul. The hostel clerk turned up the volume and watched intently. I went to online to learn that Israeli commandos had killed some activists from a Turkish NGO who were trying to run Israel's blockade on Gaza. My first thought was: where can I find some action?

(photo credit: Office of the Prime Minister, Government of Japan)

Japan Prime Minister and Democratic Party of Japan leader Yukio Hatoyama, whose amazing electoral victory last year unseating the long dominant Liberal Democratic Party, has announced that he is stepping down from his position for failing to deliver on a key campaign promise to the Japanese people about moving the US Marine Futenma Air Station off of Okinawa.

I will be arriving in Tokyo tomorrow (on Thursday) and will be in Naha, Okinawa this next Monday.

A reporter for Israel’s newest radio station, Galei Yisrael, was not permitted to enter a TAU conference on the War of Independence.

If you ask Dr. Izzeldin Abuelaish about last January, he will talk about his daughters.

He will tell you Mayar always helped with dinner. That Aya hated doing the dishes.

Bessan once attended a peace camp in New Mexico. There she met a number of teenage Israeli and Palestinian girls like herself.

"I remember her coming back and saying, 'Those girls are just like me,'" he says.

Sitting across the table in a pressed suit, the large Palestinian man looks up at the ceiling.

Chuck Schumer is a Democrat who, it is reported, would love to become Senate Majority Leader someday.

If you ask Dr. Izzeldin Abuelaish about last January, he will talk about his daughters.

He will tell you Mayar always helped with dinner. That Aya hated doing the dishes.

Bessan once attended a peace camp in New Mexico. There she met a number of teenage Israeli and Palestinian girls like herself.

"I remember her coming back and saying, 'Those girls are just like me,'" he says.

Sitting across the table in a pressed suit, the large Palestinian man looks up at the ceiling.

Chuck Schumer is a Democrat who, it is reported, would love to become Senate Majority Leader someday.

This week may be looked back on as the pivotal moment when war with Iran entered the mainstream of political thought in the Obama era. At a time when Iranians are standing up to an Iranian government that has been deprived of the Bush-era shadow of war, that shadow is again emerging.

"Bomb Bomb Iran" may be finally crossing over to the pop charts.

When passengers walk by the booths at the Tel Aviv train station, their attention is caught by the bearded Jew some call the Train Station Rebbe.