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Monday, August 13th 2012 / Tuesday, August 14th 2012

Contents Livni’s Haredi Chutzpa The chutzpa of former Kadima leader Tzipi Livni knows no bounds. In an interview with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour this week, she slammed the Likud and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for “selling the state to the ultra-Orthodox.” Haredi draft bill: A historic missed opportunity The breakdown between Likud and Kadima over drafting […]

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Friday, August 10th 2012 / Friday, August 10th 2012

WHY I'VE ALWAYS WRITTEN SO MUCH WITH SUCH INTENSITY AND WHY I WON'T STOP NOW. Barry Rubin Rubin Reports, August 4, 2012   Nothing is stranger than having a normal life and then within a few hours knowing that it might end at almost any moment. That’s what happened to me when I was just […]

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Thursday, August 9th 2012 / Thursday, August 9th 2012

    LE MONDE ARABE EST EN PHASE D’EFFONDREMENT TOTAL Guy Millière dreuz.info, 2 août 2012 Le discours de Mitt Romney à Jérusalem, et les déclarations à la presse qui l’ont accompagné n’en finissent décidément pas de faire des vagues. Mitt Romney a parlé du fait que le développement économique et la liberté qui règnent […]

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Thursday, August 9th 2012

THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD'S PATIENT JIHAD Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik Jewish Ideas Daily, July 25, 2012   Mohamed Morsi’s recent election as president of Egypt has proved a matter of concern.  A candidate from the radical Islamist Muslim Brotherhood, many fear that Morsi’s victory, along with the Brotherhood’s parliamentary successes, will threaten Egyptian-Israeli peace. […]

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Wednesday, August 8th 2012 / Wednesday, August 8th 2012

Media-ocrity of the Week     ISRAEL’S FADING DEMOCRACY  Avraham Burg   “Mr. Netanyahu’s great political “achievement” has been to make Israel a partisan issue and push American Jews into a corner. He has forced them to make political decisions based on calculations that go against what they perceive to be American interests. The emotional […]

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Tuesday, August 7th 2012 / Tuesday, August 7th 2012

TIME IS SHORT FOR IRAN DIPLOMACY Michael Oren Wall Street Journal, Aug. 6, 2012   Nearly two decades ago, Israel started alerting the world about Iran’s nuclear program. But the world ignored our warnings, wasting 10 years until the secret nuclear enrichment plant at Natanz was exposed in 2002. Then eight more invaluable years were […]

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Monday, August 6th 2012

  BREAKING NEWS   SYRIA PM DEFECTS, JOINS OPPOSITION   Syrian Prime Minister Riyad Hijab defected on Monday to Jordan and is now said to be heading to Qatar: “I announce today my defection from the killing and terrorist regime and I announce that I have joined the ranks of the freedom and dignity revolution. […]

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Friday, August 3rd 2012 / Friday, August 3rd 2012

  Being a confident Zionist isn’t merely an expression of a political worldview or Jewish values. It’s an approach to life that can permeate and improve all aspects of our lives, especially our relationships: with our bosses, our family members—and especially our romantic partners.   In honor of Tu B’Av on August 3, sometimes called […]

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Friday, August 3rd 2012 / Friday, August 3rd 2012

    LE REMARQUABLE DISCOURS DE MITT ROMNEY À JÉRUSALEM Daniel Pipes danielpipes.org, 29 juillet 2012 Adaptation française: Anne-Marie Delcambre de Champvert Mitt Romney, le candidat officiel républicain à la présidentielle, a prononcé un discours passionné à la Fondation de Jérusalem aujourd'hui, enveloppant d'un soutien affectif les déclarations de franche politique. Le contraste avec le […]

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Thursday, August 2nd 2012 / Thursday, August 2nd 2012

HOW THE ARAB SPRING KEEPS ISRAEL SAFE Michael Koplow National Interest, July 31, 2012   As a parade of U.S. officials heads to Jerusalem to confer with Israeli leaders, much of the focus has been on Iran. After all, it is widely assumed that the Obama administration is doing everything it can to head off […]

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Wednesday, August 1st 2012

Media-ocrities of the Week   THEN: GURI WEINBERG, SON OF MURDERED ISRAELI OLYMPIAN, SPEAKS OUT   In 1996, I, along with other Munich orphans and three of the widows… met with Alex Gilady. Gilady [an Israeli who] has been a member of the IOC’s Radio and Television Commission since 1984.  I have known Mr. Gilady […]

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Tuesday, July 31st 2012 / Wednesday, August 1st 2012

NO ILLUSIONS ABOUT EGYPT Isi Leibler Jerusalem Post, July 26, 2012   The government of Israel is making all the right noises and appropriate statements expressing hope that the new government of Egypt will maintain the cold peace.   But we should be under no illusions. Even the greatest optimists cannot gloss over the reality […]