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Friday, February 10th 2012

  CETTE SEMAINE, UN PEU DE GEMATRIA POUR VOUS DIVERTIR…   EN HEBREU, CHAQUE LETTRE A UNE VALEUR NUMERIQUE, A=1, B=2, ETC. EN TENANT COMPTE DES LETTRES, CHAQUE MOT CORRESPOND A UN NOMBRE. CE NOMBRE PEUT, A SON TOUR, CORRESPONDRE A DES MOTS DIFFERENTS.   «KHAMENEI (KHAF/MEM/NOUN/YOD) CONNOTE L’EMBUSCADE EN HEBREU.  SA VALEUR NUMERIQUE 120 […]

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Friday, February 10th 2012 / Friday, February 10th 2012

FRAMED Adam Kirsch Tablet, January 18, 2012 When John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt’s The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy was published in 2007, it launched a thousand essays and op-eds, upset many Jewish readers, and sold a very respectable number of copies. What it did not do, to judge by the reviews, […]

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Thursday, February 9th 2012 / Thursday, February 9th 2012

A BLESSING IN DISGUISE? Charles Bybelezer On Monday, Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas revealed himself. In the presence of Qatar’s rabidly anti-Israel Sheikh Hamad Bin Khalifa, and alongside Hamas’ exiled Politburo chief Khaled Meshal, Abbas’ Fatah party signed a reconciliation agreement with Hamas, paving the way for the formation of a Palestinian unity government. With […]

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Wednesday, February 8th 2012

Media-ocrity of the Week   “Welcome to Jerusalem, capital of the future State of Palestine.”—Head of the French Consulate in Jerusalem, Frédéric Desagneaux, at a conference on French-Palestinian relations, proclaiming Jerusalem as the sole capital of a future Palestinian state. According to French-language online news outlet JSS, which broke the story, Consul-General Desagneaux also bears […]

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Tuesday, February 7th 2012

COTLER’S PLEA ON SYRIA Editorial Jerusalem Post, February 5, 2012 The international community has justifiably expressed outrage over Saturday’s veto by Russia and China of a UN Security Council resolution demanding that Syrian President Bashar Assad step down.… The internationally respected jurist, Prof. Irwin Cotler, visited The Jerusalem Post [last] Sunday…to make an impassioned appeal […]

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Monday, February 6th 2012 / Monday, February 6th 2012

“We will support and help any nations, any groups fighting against the Zionist regime [Israel] across the world, and we are not afraid of declaring this. The Zionist regime is a true cancer tumor on this region that should be cut off. And it definitely will be cut off.”—Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, during […]

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Friday, February 3rd 2012

    L’HISTORIEN ANDRÉ CHAMPAGNE COMMENTE SUR LE DANGER REPRÉSENTÉ PAR LES FRÈRES MUSULMANS Dépêche Pointdebasculecanada.ca, 27 Janvier 2012 Dans un échange avec l’animatrice Catherine Perrin, l’historien André Champagne discuta récemment du danger que représentent les Frères Musulmans dans l’Égypte contemporaine. La diffusion par Radio-Canada d’un commentaire critique à l’égard des Frères Musulmans est un […]

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Wednesday, February 1st 2012

Weekly Quotes   “Canada does not stand behind Israel; Canada stands shoulder to shoulder with Israel.”—Canadian Foreign Minister, John Baird, at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial museum in Jerusalem, emphasizing Canada’s staunch support of the Jewish state, and reiterating that “Israel has no greater friend in the world than Canada.” (JTA, January 31.)   “The […]

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Wednesday, January 25th 2012

Media-ocrity of the Week   “The martyr is the ultimate source of pride.… It is the symbol of our homeland.”—Israeli Knesset member Ahmed Tibi (UAL-Ta’al), at an official Palestinian Authority event, paying homage to Palestinian martyrs—as “there is nothing more praiseworthy than those who die for the homeland”—and referring to Israelis as “those who occupy […]

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Wednesday, January 18th 2012 / Wednesday, January 18th 2012

Media-ocrities of the Week   “As a traveler, I am not a particularly choosy person. I will go pretty much anywhere, anytime. Wander on horseback into the mountains of Kyrgyzstan? Why not? Spend the night in a sketchy Burmese border town? Sure!… In fact, of all the world’s roughly 200 nations, there was only one…that […]

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Wednesday, January 18th 2012 / Sunday, January 20th 2013

          Combattre la ‘palestinisation’ des universités israéliennes, un enjeu crucial Pierre Itshak Lurçat upjf.org, 7 janvier 2013     « Des milliers d’étudiants israéliens sont dégoûtés par la ‘palestinisation’ des sciences sociales et refusent la réécriture de l’histoire du sionisme et la dissimulation des découvertes archéologiques considérables… » écrit Dror Eidar […]

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Wednesday, January 11th 2012

Media-ocrities of the Week   “To assume that the Islamists will not be impacted, or moderated, by the responsibilities of power…is to miss the dynamism of Egyptian politics today. Come with me to Cairo’s dirt-poor Shubra el-Khema neighborhood…where I watched the last round of voting at a women-only voting center.… Here is what was so […]