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What is expert advice worth on the stock market?

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Haaretz - By Eli Malki - Nov. 12 (Special Report) - How seriously should you take their forecasts? Does an understanding of economics and the capital market give you tools to peer into the future? A paper by psychology professors Gustaf Torngren and Henry Montgomery of Stockholm University - "Worse Than Chance? Performance and Confidence among Professionals and Laypeople in the Stock Market" - demonstrates that Lao Tzu nailed it on the head.

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Netanyahu: Israel won't put settlement life on hold

Mon, 01 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Haaretz - By Yuval Azoulay, Nadav Shragai - Jun. 01 (News Report) - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday declared that Israel would not put life in West Bank settlements on hold, despite a United States demand that Israel completely halt settlement construction.

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Israel rebuffs U.S. call for total settlement freeze

Thu, 28 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Haaretz - By Barak Ravid - May. 28 (News Report) - Israel will press ahead with housing construction in its West Bank settlements despite a surprisingly blunt demand from U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton that all such building stop, an Israeli official said Thursday.

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Zero tolerance now

Wed, 04 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Haaretz - By Lara Friedman, Hagit Ofran - Mar. 04 (Opinion) - If President Barack Obama is serious about making progress toward Israeli-Palestinian peace and about setting America's relationship with the Arab and Muslim worlds on a new and better course, he cannot allow settlements to hijack the agenda.

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For first time, U.S. professors call for academic and cultural boycott of Israel

Fri, 30 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Haaretz - By Raphael Ahren - Jan. 30 (News Report) - the formation of the United States movement marks the first time that a national academic boycott movement has come out of America. Israeli professors are not sure yet how big of an impact the one-week-old movement will have, but started discussing the significance of and possible counteractions against the campaign.

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Go your own way

Fri, 16 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Haaretz - By Yossi Sarid - Jan. 16 (Opinion) - You, Barack Hussein Obama, are our last chance, and if that too fades - and evil is determined against us, all hope is lost. We are the prisoner who is stuck in a cell; without the help of others, we will never succeed in extricating ourselves from the bonds of our natural fear and the historical accounting. And there are no "others" except for America, for which no substitute has been found, even in its time of weakness.

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Price of stubborness over Gaza exit is dead soldiers

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Haaretz - By Amos Harel, Avi Issacharoff, - Jan. 06 (News Analysis) - When an Israeli force gets into an entanglement, as in Sajaiyeh last night, massive fire into built-up areas is initiated to cover the extraction. In other cases, a chain of explosions is initiated from a distance to set off Hamas booby-traps. It is a method that leaves a swath of destruction taking in entire streets, and does not distinguish military targets from the homes of civilians.

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ADL: Financial crisis sparking anti-Semitic upsurge on Internet

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Haaretz - By Shlomo Shamir - Oct. 03 (News Report) - "We know from modern history that whenever there is a downturn in the global economy, there will be an upturn in the level of anti-Semitism and bigotry, and that is what we are seeing now."

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What really scares us about Barack Obama

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Haaretz - By Bradley Burston - Aug. 27 (Editorial) - But what the foreign visitor finds the most frightening, the most dangerous, is the voter who, after eight years of abject catastrophe, continues to pray "Please, please, give me a reason to vote for the person who says that things are all right, after all."

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John McCain: U.S. committed to preventing a second Holocaust

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Haaretz - By Shmuel Rosner - Jun. 03 (Opinion) - Here is an interesting question for the Jewish American voter: Would you prefer a candidate that said Jewish author Philip Roth "affected the formation of my sensibility" or the candidate that is "not a big fan" of Roth, and prefers other Jewish writers, such as Victor Frankl, whose book "Man's Search for Meaning" is "one of the most substantial things I've read in my life."

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A good day for hope

Wed, 14 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Haaretz - By Yair Sheleg - May. 14 (Opinion) - On the human level, a Jew, as a member of a nation that mourned its destruction for 2,000 years, should have no trouble understanding why Israeli Arabs are mourning.

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Our hope is not yet lost

Tue, 13 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Haaretz - By Zvi Bar'el - May. 13 (Opinion) - This time, precisely because of his severe lameness, an opportunity might be presenting itself that could serve Olmert, and especially Israel. Instead of an all-encompassing aspiration to sign a comprehensive peace treaty with Syria, or to conclude negotiations with the Palestinians by the end of 2008, the prime minister could make do with a "deposit," of the type Rabin made in 1995.

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Israel begins cutting deliveries of vital fuel supplies to Gaza

Sun, 28 Oct 2007 12:17:22 -0700

Haaretz - By Barak Ravid, Aluf Benn, Reuters - Oct. 28 (News Report) - Ahmed Ali, the deputy director of Gaza's Petroleum Authority, said shipments of diesel fuel and gasoline were 30 percent smaller than regular deliveries. He warned the cuts would cause widespread hardship in impoverished Gaza. Dor Alon, the Israeli energy company that provides fuel to Gaza, confirmed it had begun the cutoff under orders from Defense Ministry.

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Thus are reports about the Mideast generated

Wed, 20 Jun 2007 07:30:05 -0700

Haaretz - By Emmanuel Sivan - Jun. 20 (Opinion) - Hersh wrote that the U.S. administration, embracing realpolitik, was siding with the Sunnis in their conflict with the Shi'ites. This led the administration to cooperate even with those who are hostile toward the United States, including groups linked to Al-Qaida. To back up his claim, Hersh wrote that the United States was transferring funds to the government of Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora, even though it knew some of the money was going to the Palestinian group Fatah al-Islam in the Nahr el-Bared refugee camp in northern Lebanon. (The article was published about two months before fighting broke out between Fatah al-Islam and the Lebanese army.) Sharp-eyed reporters in Beirut read the article in astonishment. Siniora, of the Lebanese Sunni establishment, was assisting allies of Al-Qaida who had split off from a pro-Syrian organization? And the United States was aware of this and might even be planning it, in order to strike at Hezbollah? And all this was in the context of aid to the Sunni forces in the Middle East in their conflict with Shi'ites backed, according to Hersh, by Iran? A world turned on its head. How could it be?

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Gates: U.S. to sell smart bombs to Saudi Arabia

Fri, 20 Apr 2007 18:30:33 -0700

Haaretz - By Ze'ev Schiff - Apr. 20 (News Report) - U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said during his visit to Israel that Washington has decided to sell Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) bombs to Saudi Arabia, Haaretz has learned. A recent discussion in Washington raised the possibility that Jerusalem would ask the U.S. not to sell the satellite-guided smart bombs to the Saudis, but it was decided to reject this request.

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Republican presidential hopeful Thompson: Money-making part of Jewish tradition

Tue, 17 Apr 2007 00:42:21 -0700

Haaretz - By Shmuel Rosner - Apr. 17 (News Report) - Former Wisconsin governor and Republican presidential hopeful Tommy Thompson told Jewish activists Monday that making money is "part of the Jewish tradition," and something that he applauded. Speaking to an audience at the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism in Washington D.C., Thompson said that, "I'm in the private sector and for the first time in my life I'm earning money. You know that's sort of part of the Jewish tradition and I do not find anything wrong with that."

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Olmert seeks talks with Saudis, willing to join regional summit

Fri, 30 Mar 2007 06:26:06 -0700

Haaretz - By Aluf Benn - Mar. 30 (News Report) - Prime Minister Ehud Olmert wants to start a dialogue with Saudi Arabia and other moderate Arab countries after the Riyadh summit again ratified the Saudi peace initiative. In an interview appearing in the Haaretz supplement Week's End, Olmert said he would be happy to take part in a regional conference that would support direct negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians. "A bloc of states is emerging that understands that they may have been wrong to think that Israel is the world's greatest problem. That is a revolutionary change in outlook," Olmert said.

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U.S. hardens line on talks between Jerusalem, Damascus

Fri, 23 Feb 2007 10:18:11 -0800

Haaretz - By Ze'ev Schiff, Amos Harel, Yoav Stern - Feb. 23 (News Report) - The United States demanded that Israel desist from even exploratory contacts with Syria, of the sort that would test whether Damascus is serious in its declared intentions to hold peace talks with Israel. In meetings with Israeli officials recently, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was forceful in expressing Washington's view on the matter. The American argument is that even "exploratory talks" would be considered a prize in Damascus, whose policy and actions continue to undermine Lebanon's sovereignty and the functioning of its government, while it also continues to stir unrest in Iraq, to the detriment of the U.S. presence there.

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NY Times publisher: Our goal is to manage the transition from print to internet

Thu, 08 Feb 2007 07:32:56 -0800

Haaretz - By Eytan Avriel - Feb. 08 (News Report) - what began as a casual chat ended in a fascinating glimpse into Sulzberger's world, and how he sees the future of the news business. Given the constant erosion of the printed press, do you see the New York Times still being printed in five years? "I really don't know whether we'll be printing the Times in five years, and you know what? I don't care either," he says.

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A no-brainer for American Jews

Wed, 24 Jan 2007 01:57:49 -0800

Haaretz - By Akiva Eldar - Jan. 24 (News Analysis) - Dr. Saeb Erekat relates that when Bill Clinton visited Israel in 2004, he asked him why he blamed Arafat for the failure of the Camp David talks. Clinton, Erekat says, said Ehud Barak told him that if he blamed the Palestinians, it would help him (Barak) win the elections. The smell of elections hovered over the 2000 Camp David talks. The only journalist invited to interview Clinton during the talks was from Newsday. Clinton didn't invite him to talk about Middle East peace, but to tell the Jewish readers why they couldn't manage without his wife in the Senate.

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The 10 most useful lies about terrorism

Tue, 26 Sep 2006 03:12:36 -0700

Haaretz - By Bradley Burston - Sep. 26 (Opinion) - 1. 'Not all Muslims are terrorists, but all terrorists are Muslims.' Perhaps the most often quoted of all chestnuts about terrorism, is the idea that it is solely a product of fundamentalist Islam. 2. 'One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter.' More of a half-truth than an out and out lie, given the propensity of supporters of one side to explain and forgive atrocities committed by that side, while condemning and often exaggerating atrocities committed by the other.

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