Isranet Daily Briefing

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Friday, June 15th 2012 / Friday, June 15th 2012

BREAKING NEWS:   “The Egyptian Supreme Constitutional Court has just invalidated the parliamentary election there. The parliament, 75 percent of whose members were Islamists, is being dissolved. The military junta has taken over total authority. The presidential election is still scheduled for a few dozen hours from now. In short, everything is confused and everything […]

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Thursday, June 14th 2012 / Thursday, June 14th 2012

CLINTON HIGHLIGHTS GAPS BETWEEN US AND ISRAEL ON IRAN Herb Keinon Jerusalem Post, June 8, 2012 Differences between Israel and the US over the world powers’ negotiating strategy with Iran came into the open [last] Thursday when US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton talked of the need for Iran to come to nuclear talks ready […]

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Wednesday, June 13th 2012 / Wednesday, June 13th 2012

“Dear Mr. President: We write to urge you to exercise your power of clemency and commute Jonathan Pollard’s prison sentence to time served.… Mr. Pollard has now served more than 25 years in prison, many of which in solitary confinement, for his actions. There is no doubt that he has paid a heavy price, and, […]

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Monday, June 11th 2012 / Tuesday, June 12th 2012

Today, the Canadian Institute for Jewish Research is holding its 24th Anniversary Gala. Keynoting the event is Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations, Ron Prosor, recently elected to serve as one of the vice presidents for September’s 67th General Assembly, only the third Israeli diplomat ever bestowed such an honor. Renowned British journalist Melanie Phillips, […]

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Monday, June 11th 2012 / Monday, June 11th 2012

CIJR’S 24TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATES A BANNER YEAR! Frederick Krantz   The Canadian Institute for Jewish Research’s twenty-fourth anniversary marks a banner year of solid achievements, enabling us to look forward to an even more significant quarter-century celebration in 2013. For openers, we have increased our Canada-wide reach by instituting an active Toronto Chapter, co-chaired by […]

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Friday, June 8th 2012 / Tuesday, June 26th 2012

  COMMENT LA BARBARIE S'INSTALLE EN FRANCE Ivan Rioufol upjf.org, 4 juin 2012 [Le 4 juin dernier], les mouvements antiracistes n’avaient toujours pas fait connaître leurs réactions à l’information, connue depuis hier : samedi soir, à Villeurbanne (Rhône), trois jeunes juifs portant la kippa ont été agressés par une dizaine d’individus qui les ont frappés […]

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Thursday, June 7th 2012 / Friday, June 8th 2012

CIJR GOES INTERNATIONAL ENTERING 25TH YEAR Janice Arnold Canadian Jewish News, June 1, 2012 In a cluttered, cramped downtown office, Alex Enescu, a Romanian-born, non-Jewish Concordia University student, and 92-year-old Baruch Cohen, a survivor of the Romanian Holocaust, are colleagues. They work at the Canadian Institute for Jewish Research (CIJR), both, in their own way, […]

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Thursday, June 7th 2012 / Thursday, June 7th 2012

JUNE 7, 1967: JERUSALEM REUNIFIED   On June 7, 1967, exactly 45 years ago today, Israel Defense Forces paratroopers advanced through the Old City towards the Western Wall, bringing Jerusalem’s holiest site under Jewish control for the first time in 2,000 years.   The leader of the brigade, Lt. General Mordechai (Motta) Gur, communicated the […]

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Wednesday, June 6th 2012 / Wednesday, June 6th 2012

LEST WE FORGET: D-DAY, JUNE 6, 1944, THE ALLIED INVASION OF W. EUROPE BEGINS   Preparations: Forty-seven divisions, two million men were massed in Britain; fifty-seven million square feet of British storage area were filled with supplies for the invasion, including ca. half a million tons of ammunition. Two huge floating “Mulberry Harbours,” sunk in […]

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Tuesday, June 5th 2012 / Tuesday, June 5th 2012

TURKISH TIES Editorial Jerusalem Post, May 29, 2012 The decision this week by Istanbul’s Seventh Criminal Court to seek prison terms totaling over 18,000 years for four former IDF commanders may or may not have been timed to coincide with the second anniversary of the May 31 Mavi Marmara debacle. But many have used the […]

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Monday, June 4th 2012 / Monday, June 4th 2012

GLORIFYING TERROR Editorial Jerusalem Post, May 31, 2012 In another surreal development on our scene, Israel delivered 91 corpses of Arab terrorists to the Palestinian Authority [last] Thursday. This was part of a “confidence- building” measure by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to PA President Mahmoud Abbas, geared to encourage Abbas to return to negotiations. In […]

Communiqués Isranet Daily Briefing

Friday, June 1st 2012 / Tuesday, June 26th 2012

Compter les réfugiés de Palestine? Daniel Pipes National Review Online, 29 mai 2012 Adaptation française: Anne-Marie Delcambre de Champvert Le cœur fétide et sombre de la guerre des Arabes contre Israël, ai-je longuement argumenté, ne réside pas dans les litiges sur Jérusalem, les points de contrôle, ou les "colonies". Il concerne plutôt les soi-disant réfugiés […]