Isranet Daily Briefing

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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 […]

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Wednesday, June 20th 2012 / Wednesday, June 20th 2012

Media-ocrities of the Week   “[The] Israeli and American spreading of poisoned terms continues, with its penetration through the media into broad spheres of world public opinion. Even more dangerous, however, is the penetration of these poisoned terms into Arab and Palestinian public opinion, which is drawn into the trap of using them, without careful […]

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Monday, June 18th 2012 / Tuesday, June 19th 2012

THE RHETORIC OF NONSENSE Alexander H. Joffe Middle East Quarterly, Summer 2012, pp. 15-22 For nearly two decades the Palestinian Authority (PA) has been denying Israel’s right to exist, and a recent “Nakba Day” was no exception. In a Gaza speech on behalf of Mahmoud Abbas, his personal representative made the following statement: “National reconciliation […]

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Monday, June 18th 2012 / Monday, June 18th 2012

Over the weekend, Egypt held the final round of its presidential election, a run-off pitting Muslim Brotherhood candidate Mohamed Morsi against ex-army man Ahmed Shafiq.   Despite claims of victory by both candidates, preliminary results show Morsi winning approximately 51.6 percent of the vote compared to 48.4 percent for Shafiq, with nearly all ballots counted. […]

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Friday, June 15th 2012 / Tuesday, June 26th 2012

  RESTONS EN DEHORS DU BOURBIER SYRIEN Daniel Pipes The Washington Times, 13 juin 2012 Adaptation française: Anne-Marie Delcambre de Champvert Alors que le gouvernement syrien fait des efforts de plus en plus désespérés et brutaux pour garder le pouvoir, les plaidoyers pour une intervention militaire, plus ou moins sur le modèle libyen, se font […]