Recent columns in New Zealand newspapers comparing Israeli soldiers to Nazis and Israel to an apartheid state are upsetting Israeli officials and Jewish leaders down under.
While harsh, the Winograd Commission’s report on Ehud Olmert’s performance in the 2006 Lebanon war gave Olmert’s main coalition critic, Ehud Barak, enough wiggle room to back out of a pledge to topple the government.
The debate over Barack Obama has spilled beyond the borders of American Jewry, drawing several Israeli diplomats into a public spat over the candidate’s attitude toward the Jewish state.
