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Monday, July 16th 2012 / Monday, July 16th 2012

AMERICA WRITES ITSELF OUT OF THE SCRIPT Michael Young Daily Star, July 12, 2012 Lately, the U.S. administration has been so preoccupied with domestic issues vital to President Barack Obama’s re-election, that you wonder where the Middle East stands in Washington’s future. That’s not to say that American officials are ignoring the region. Secretary of […]

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Friday, July 13th 2012 / Friday, July 13th 2012

THIS WEEK IN HISTORY: THE JEDWABNE POGROM Tamara Zieve Jerusalem Post, July 8, 2012 On July 10, 1941, hundreds of Jewish residents of the Polish town of Jedwabne were rounded up, corralled into a barn and burned to death.… Initial accounts pointed to German Nazis—occupying Poland at the time—as the perpetrators of the massacre. Fifty-nine […]

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Friday, July 13th 2012 / Friday, July 13th 2012

    RÉDUIRE LES DÉGÂTS CAUSÉS PAR L’UNRWA Steven J. Rosen et Daniel Pipes The Jerusalem Post, 8 juillet 2012 Adaptation française: Anne-Marie Delcambre de Champvert Les détracteurs de l’Office de secours et de travaux des Nations Unies (UNRWA), l’organisation chargée de veiller sur les réfugiés palestiniens, ont eu tendance à se concentrer sur ses […]

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Thursday, July 12th 2012 / Thursday, July 12th 2012

In January, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu commissioned the Levy Committee to investigate the legal status of Judea and Samaria (West Bank).   The three-member team, headed by former Israeli Supreme Court Justice Edmund Levy and comprising retired Tel Aviv District Court Judge Tehiya Shapira along with international law expert Dr. Alan Baker, this week […]

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Wednesday, July 11th 2012 / Wednesday, July 11th 2012

Media-ocrities of the Week   “[Last week], the [US] State Department announced that Secretary of State [Hillary] Clinton was leaving on a trip to ‘France, Japan, Mongolia, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Egypt and Israel.…’ In a State Department press conference, a reporter posed a ‘logistical’ question to Director Patrick Ventrell: ‘QUESTION: For every single country [Clinton […]

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Tuesday, July 10th 2012 / Tuesday, July 10th 2012

“…It appears that…advocates of a continued American military presence in Iraq were right to warn of the dangers of withdrawal. The Associated Press reports from Baghdad: ‘June was the second-deadliest month since U.S. troops withdrew from Iraq in mid-December as insurgents exploited the political struggles between the country’s ethnic and sectarian factions. More significant than […]

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Monday, July 9th 2012

UN-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan announced on Monday that a new framework has been reached with President Bashar Assad to end the violence in Syria. “We agreed on an approach which I will share with the armed opposition,” Annan said following a two-hour meeting with Assad which he described as “candid and constructive.”   Annan’s […]

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Friday, July 6th 2012 / Friday, July 6th 2012

REMEMBERING ENTEBBE Larry Domnitch FrontPage, July 4, 2012 It took Israeli commandos minutes to conduct one of the greatest and most daring rescue missions in modern history, in Entebbe, Uganda, on July 4, 1976. During those brief fateful moments, good triumphed over evil; the innocent were saved and the terrorists who threatened them were routed. […]

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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 […]