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'Omar' and 'Bethlehem' Tell the Same Story - But Only One Was Nominated for an Oscar

March 5, 2014  •  Tablet Magazine

Both the Israeli and Palestinian nominees for best foreign film this year focused on the highly complex relationship between Palestinian informers and their Israeli handlers, agents of Israel's Shin Bet (its General Security Services). Omar and Bethlehem are both infused with the frustration and pessimism endemic in so much of the Middle East since the Arab Spring's failure to meet its predominately young advocates' expectations; both open ominously with the sound of gunfire, and both end badly for their major characters. Both share the same U.S. distributor–Adopt Films, a two-and-a-half-year old, New York-based company that bought the U.S. rights after seeing both films at the Toronto International Film Festival. Filmed a year apart—Bethlehem came first—the films' directors used some of the same equipment, in short supply in Israel, and even some of the same actors.

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Collaborate and Adapt

March 4, 2014  •  City Journal

In his maiden speech as New York's 42nd police commissioner, William J. Bratton vowed today to continue driving down crime rates and protecting the city from terrorist attack while making the New York Police Department the most "collaborative" force in the nation. "There's too much at stake to fight," Bratton told some 200 supporters and guests at the Police Foundation's annual fundraising breakfast at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in midtown Manhattan—his first substantive address as head of the department he is leading for the second time in its history.

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Putin blinks on Ukraine -- at least for now

March 4, 2014  •  Fox News

In ordering Russian troops deployed near the Ukrainian border back to their bases and stating that using military force in Ukraine would be "absolutely the last resort," Russia's president has signaled a temporary retreat to consolidate his territorial gains in the vital Crimea and impede American efforts to impose stiff diplomatic and economic sanctions against his own economically fragile country.

Appearing relaxed and confident, Putin beat his unacknowledged retreat at a press conference Tuesday with a small group of reporters in Moscow.

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Remembering Ariel Sharon -- a great man who defied stereotypes

January 11, 2014  •  Fox News

Loved and despised – as great men so often are – Ariel Sharon was a polite bulldozer, a warrior-peacemaker, an avuncular tyrant, a bundle of contradictions. "The Lion of Israel." The "Butcher of Beirut." He defied stereotypes.

Whether Israelis admired or reviled him, Sharon, Israel's 11th prime minister and greatest military strategist, accomplished things that no other Israeli leader can claim and shaped his country's geographic and political boundaries as has no other Israeli leader since Ben Gurion.

As a military commander in the 1967 "Six Day" war, he helped save Israel by capturing the Sinai from Egyptian forces in a series of stunning maneuvers.

In the 1973 Yom Kippur war, he surrounded Egypt's Third Army.

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Court's ruling in favor of Fox News' Jana Winter a victory for all journalists

December 10, 2013  •  Fox News

One vote. That's how close Fox News reporter Jana Winter came to being sent to jail for doing her job by protecting her sources.

Thanks to Tuesday's 4-3 ruling by New York's highest court, Jana Winter, an investigative reporter, will not be forced to appear in a Colorado state court this January.

She will not be forced to divulge the sources of her reporting in the murder trial of James Holmes, the man charged with 166 felony charges in the movie theater massacre at a midnight showing of "Batman, The Dark Knight Rises." Twelve died and over 55 were injured in that attack in Aurora, Colorado on July 20, 2012.

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