THIS YEAR MARKS the 25th anniversary of the Watergate break-in, and while Richard Nixon may be dead and buried, his ghost is very much with us. The suffix "--gate" has become a universal journalistic marker of public scandal, and has burgeoned of late as a result of the Clinton administration's serial coverups and corruptions. With headlines shouting of Travel-, File-, China-, and other unappetizing "--gates," even in Israel, Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu's attempt to name a pliant attorney general who would dismiss bribery charges against the head of the ultra-Orthodox Shas party (without whose support the government would fall) has been... More >>>