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Wednesday, May 2nd 2012 / Wednesday, May 2nd 2012

Media-ocrities of the Week   “The Forward thought there was no better artist [than Neshama Carlebach] to launch a musical conversation about whether and, if so, how the words of ‘Hatikvah’ could be altered to include all Israel’s citizens.… [We] propose…a careful adjustment of a few problematic words and phrases. In the opening stanza, ‘nefesh […]

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Tuesday, May 1st 2012 / Tuesday, May 1st 2012

THE PATH TO BIN LADEN’S DEATH DIDN’T START WITH OBAMA Jose A. Rodriguez Jr. Washington Post, April 30, 2012 As we mark the [one-year] anniversary of Osama bin Laden’s death, President Obama deserves credit for making the right choice on taking out Public Enemy No. 1. But his administration never would have had the opportunity […]

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Monday, April 30th 2012 / Monday, April 30th 2012

“About a month ago the European Union, showing it will not be trifled with, barred Bashar al-Assad’s wife, Asma, and other women in his immediate family from shopping for luxury goods in Europe. For some reason, going cold turkey on Dior, Armani and Prada failed to bring down the Assad regime or to end its […]

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Friday, April 27th 2012

ISRAEL’S MIRACULOUS JOURNEY Joel Lion Gazette, April 26, 2012 Think “Israel” and what comes to mind? It’s a good question to ask on Israel’s Independence Day.… The first thing most readers will think of is my country’s decades-long conflict with the Palestinians. To others, the mere mention of Israel conjures up images of a mystic […]

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Friday, April 27th 2012

    LE QUOTIDIEN LA PRESSE FLIRTE AVEC L’ISLAMISME Dépêche  Postedeveille.ca, 23 avril 2012 L'équipe de Poste de Veille répond à l'article d'Anabelle Nicoud Le Québec flirte avec Marine Le Pen paru dans La Presse du 21 avril dans lequel elle associe Poste de Veille à la «toile brune» qui inciterait à la violence.   […]

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Thursday, April 26th 2012 / Thursday, April 26th 2012

YOM HA’ATZMAUT, 5772 Baruch Cohen In loving memory of Malca z’l “And what glory awaits the selfless fighters for the cause! That is why I believe that a wonderful breed of Jews will spring up from the earth. The Macabees will rise again.”—Theodor Herzl, The Jewish State, Herzl Press, (N.Y., 1970), p. 110. Theodor Herzl […]

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Wednesday, April 25th 2012 / Wednesday, April 25th 2012

“For bereaved families, time stops when you get the terrible news.… It cuts your life in two: what was before, and what will never be again. When you hear the siren today, we will turn into one family, and the citizens of Israel will be united in our remembrance.”—Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, at a […]

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Tuesday, April 24th 2012 / Tuesday, April 24th 2012

The following is an excerpt of a letter delivered last week to Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu by a Palestinian delegation: …Mr. Prime Minister, Twenty years ago, we concluded with Israel an agreement under international auspices which was intended to take the Palestinian people…to independence. Now, as a result of actions taken by successive Israeli […]

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Monday, April 23rd 2012 / Monday, April 23rd 2012

TALIBAN, AL-QAEDA AWAITING U.S. AFGHANISTAN EXIT Jeffrey Goldberg Bloomberg, April 16, 2012 The multipronged attack carried out by a Taliban faction in Afghanistan [on April 15-16], including sustained raids in the capital’s diplomatic quarter and on Parliament, was meant, the New York Times reported, to “undermine confidence in NATO and Afghan military gains.” Well, mission […]

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Friday, April 20th 2012

    TARIQ RAMADAN ET SALAH BASALAMAH SUR LA CHARIA, LES ACCOMMODEMENTS RAISONNABLES ET LES AGORAS CITOYENNES Dépêche Pointdebasculecanada.ca, 20 avril 2012 En 2004, dans une interview accordée à un périodique égyptien, Tariq Ramadan critiqua les leaders musulmans opérant au Canada parce qu’ils avaient ouvertement promu la charia et les tribunaux islamiques. Ramadan leur reprocha […]

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Friday, April 20th 2012 / Friday, April 20th 2012

PETER BEINART’S PEACE-MAKING Daniel Gordis Jerusalem Post, March 22, 2012 ‘To save Israel, boycott the settlements,’ Peter Beinart pleaded [in March] in [the] New York Times. Israel, he says, is dangerously creating one political entity between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea, in which “millions of West Bank Palestinians are barred from citizenship and […]

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Thursday, April 19th 2012 / Thursday, April 19th 2012

Yom Hashoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, was ushered in at 8 PM Wednesday night at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem. The central theme of this year’s (April 19) commemoration is “My Brother’s Keeper—Jewish Solidarity During the Holocaust.” At the ceremony, attended by Israeli President Shimon Peres and Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, six survivors lit […]