Analysis
Monday, January 6th 2014
We are now witnessing one of the most dramatic developments in the historic configuration of relations among Jews, Christians and Muslims. Christians in Israel’s Galilee are courageously promoting their pre-Islamic non-Arab identity as an old-new collective Aramean/Aramaic-speaking Oriental narrative. This is a cultural and political game-changer with revolutionary significance, for Israel, the Middle East and […]
Friday, January 3rd 2014 / Friday, January 3rd 2014
In the Fall of 2002, as the Bush administration was focused overwhelmingly on pursuing al-Qaeda in Afghanistan in response to the September 11th attacks, no less senior an official than then-Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage suggested that the attention of the United States might actually be misplaced. "Hezbollah may be the 'A team' of […]
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 10th, 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 […]
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 […]
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