Analysis
Wednesday, January 1st 2014 / Friday, May 30th 2014
Former Israeli Air Force Commander in Chief to speak at CIJR Gala Event held to honour Canadian WWII veterans who fought in Israeli War of Independence MONTREAL, June 11th, 2014— Former Israeli Air Force Commander in Chief General Eitan Ben-Eliahu will headline the Canadian Institute for Jewish Research’s 26th annual Gala, set to […]
Monday, December 30th 2013 / Monday, December 30th 2013
The American Studies Association’s embrace of “BDS” restrictions against democratic Jewish Israel has been condemned in many quarters. That it is based on ignorance, hypocrisy and implicit anti-Semitism goes almost without saying; that the motion was passed by a small voting minority of the 5,000- member association is less known. But what concerns me here […]
Friday, December 27th 2013 / Tuesday, January 7th 2014
INTRODUCTION Trita Parsi, founder and President of the National Iranian American Council (NIAC), a long- suspected lobby for the Iranian regime, makes the media rounds pretty regularly. Little, though, has been written about him or his organization. A prolific writer and author, Parsi’s op-eds appear in the Huffington Post, Foreign Policy and […]
Thursday, December 5th 2013 / Monday, December 30th 2013
One of the more fruitful ways of understanding the dilemma of dealing with Iran is a cognitive warfare analysis. Cognitive warfare is the main theater of war for “weak” insurgencies in an asymmetric conflict. Unable to win on the kinetic battlefield, insurgencies must pursue means to prevent the stronger side from using their strength to […]
Friday, November 29th 2013 / Wednesday, December 4th 2013
Tuesday, November 26th 2013 / Monday, December 30th 2013
The "Charter of Values" (Bill 60) is being presented to the public by the present Quebec Government as a “social project “, essentially like that of the Charter of the French Language (Bill 101) . Therefore we must consider it in this light. In the case of the predominance of the French language in Quebec, […]
Thursday, November 21st 2013 / Thursday, January 23rd 2014
As the US and the UN P5+1 foreign ministers resume negotiations in Geneva with Iran over its nuclear status, Israel’s fate hangs in the balance. The fix seems to be in–Obama clearly is ready to make a deal with Teheran “moderates”, one which Israel’s Netanyahu (seconded, mirabile dictu, by the Saudis) has already clearly denounced […]
Monday, October 28th 2013 / Thursday, January 23rd 2014
It is pretty much accepted that around 650,000 to 700,000 Palestinians became refugees during and after creation of the State of Israel. Whether they left on their own or were pushed out remains an issue that’s hotly contested. It turns out there’s also plenty of disagreement as to how many Palestinians should be considered […]
Monday, September 23rd 2013
This Letter to the Editor was rejected by three Canadian newspapers but was published by the Jerusalem Post and appears in the International Edition, August 1-22. RE: "Wanting it more than the parities themselves," Jerusalem Post International edition, July 26, 2013.) BY Paul Merkley Dr.Merkley is a retired Professor of History […]
Tuesday, September 10th 2013 / Tuesday, September 10th 2013
How Should We Be Thinking About the Red Line Crisis? Paul Merkley The Bayview Review, Sept. 6, 2013 http://www.thebayviewreview.com/politics-law/how-should-we-be-thinking-about-the-red-line-crisis/ The Armageddon Question It was bound to happen eventually. As the world contemplates the escalation of the civil war in Syrian and studies the implications of all those demonic elements that have raised their […]
Monday, September 9th 2013 / Monday, September 9th 2013
Manfred Gerstenfeld, Demonizing Israel and the Jews. New York: RVP Press, 2013. Forward by Rabbi Marvin Hier. 212 pp. ISBN:978-1-61861-334-9. Jews the world over are concerned about many things on the eve of the new Jewish year 5774. But one of the things most prominent in the mind of anyone accessing Jewish media is […]
Wednesday, September 4th 2013 / Wednesday, September 25th 2013
Israel today, after sixty years of struggle, faces only two overriding, and potentially destabilizing, issues—one the U.S.-imposed “peace process”, and the other the ever-closer Iranian nuclear capacity. That these issues are unfolding within the framework of the larger collapse of the Arab world (a process still known, euphemistically, as the Arab Spring—Arab Fall is better) […]
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