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Thursday, July 5th 2012 / Friday, July 6th 2012

      QUE SE PASSERAIT-IL APRÈS UNE ATTAQUE ISRAÉLIENNE CONTRE L'IRAN? Daniel Pipes The Washington Times, 26 juin 2012 Adaptation française: Anne-Marie Delcambre de Champvert Comment les Iraniens réagiraient-ils à une attaque israélienne contre leur infrastructure nucléaire? Les réponses à cette prévision sont de la plus grande importance, concernant non seulement Jérusalem et la […]

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Thursday, July 5th 2012 / Thursday, July 5th 2012

HERE COMES THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF EGYPT Michael Freund Jerusalem Post, June 27, 2012 The Middle East took a sharp turn for the worse [last] week with the ascension to power of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. In what was perhaps the worst possible outcome for Israel and the West, Mohamed Morsy, the Brotherhood’s presidential […]

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Wednesday, July 4th 2012 / Wednesday, July 4th 2012

Media-ocrity of the Week   “If the responsibility to protect is to attain legitimacy as an application of international law, it must be applicable everywhere, in particular the situation of prolonged occupation that prevails in the occupied Palestinian territory.”—UN special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in “Palestine”, Richard Falk, in a 16-page report […]

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Tuesday, July 3rd 2012 / Tuesday, July 3rd 2012

Former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir died on Saturday at a nursing home in Herzliya at the age of 96.   Born Yitzhak Jazernicki in Poland in 1915, he moved to mandatory Palestine in 1935 and joined Lehi, the most hard-line of three Jewish movements resisting British authorities.   After Israel’s independence in 1948, Shamir […]

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Friday, June 29th 2012

“DUMINICA ACEIA” REMEMBER: YASSI, JUNE 28-29, 1941 Baruch Cohen In memory of the victims of the Yassi Pogrom “Please leave me my son if you are taking my husband.… Son and husband were both taken and killed.”—Leah Haimovich, a Yassi Survivor. What happened in the city of Yassi (Iasi) in June 1941 epitomizes the millennia-old […]

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Thursday, June 28th 2012 / Thursday, June 28th 2012

BRINKMANSHIP, TABOOS: BEHIND THE SCENES OF FAILED IRAN NUCLEAR TALKS Barak Ravid Haaretz, June 21, 2012 Iranian stalling tactics, veiled threats from the six powers, an odd PowerPoint presentation about religious rulings by Iranian spiritual leader Ali Khamenei, and nary a word about Israel: That is some of what happened behind closed doors at Moscow’s […]

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Thursday, June 28th 2012 / Friday, June 29th 2012

  LES FRÈRES MUSULMANS ET LE DOUBLE JEU Dore Gold Le CAPE de Jérusalem, 26 juin 2012 Avant même la déclaration annonçant officiellement les résultats des élections présidentielles et la victoire de Mohamed Morsi, plusieurs observateurs ont tenté d’analyser les retombées d’un pouvoir islamiste en Égypte, dans le pays arabe le plus influent de la […]

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Wednesday, June 27th 2012

Media-ocrities of the Week   “Israel claims the [targeted Palestinians] were about to launch a rocket over the border from Gaza. Hamas of Gaza denies that, but retaliatory rocket attacks were launched from Gaza after the Israeli strike. They were the first rockets fired from Gaza in more than a year.…”—Canadian Broadcasting Corporation news anchor […]

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Tuesday, June 26th 2012 / Tuesday, June 26th 2012

On Sunday, Egypt’s electoral commission released the official results of the country’s first ever—and possibly last—democratic presidential election: the Muslim Brotherhood’s Islamist candidate, Mohamed Morsi, was declared winner, having garnered approximately 52% of the run-off vote against ex-military man Ahmed Shafiq.   THE WEST’S EMBRACE OF THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD Dore Gold Israel Hayom, June 22, […]

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Friday, June 22nd 2012 / Friday, June 22nd 2012

NEXT YEAR IN JERUSALEM: CIJR PLANS FOR 25TH ANNIVERSARY AT 2012 GALA Linda Zlatkin Jewish Tribune, June 19, 2012 Supporters renewed their commitment to Israel and the Jewish community recently at the Canadian Institute for Jewish Research’s (CIJR’s) 24th anniversary gala. The 200 people who gathered at the Shaar Hashomayim Synagogue in Westmount celebrated the […]

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Thursday, June 21st 2012 / Tuesday, June 26th 2012

  LA BARBARIE ISLAMIQUE Guy Millière dreuz.info, 19 juin 2012 Voici quelque temps, le gouvernement israélien a décidé de restituer les corps d’assassins à l’Autorité Palestinienne et au Hamas. Comme on pouvait s’y attendre, cette restitution a été prise comme un signe de victoire par les populations arabes sous le contrôle de l’Autorité Palestinienne comme […]

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Thursday, June 21st 2012 / Thursday, June 21st 2012

SYRIA’S CEASE-FIRE OF THE GRAVE Editorial Wall Street Journal, June 13, 2012 Syria continues to sink deeper into a civil war that we were told would break out if the U.S. and its allies intervened to oust Bashar Assad. So the West has stayed out, but the killings have multiplied to include at least four […]