Isranet Daily Briefing

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Monday, March 12th 2012 / Monday, March 12th 2012

The current round of fighting between the IDF and Gaza terrorists is unprecedented in terms of the number of rockets and mortar bombs being directed at Israel. Since last Friday, the IDF has registered some 200 launches from Gaza and is characterizing the ongoing barrage as a “dramatic development in terms of the quantity and […]

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Friday, March 9th 2012

OBAMA TIES ISRAEL DOWN WITH HIS POLICY ON IRAN Charles Krauthammer National Post, March 9, 2012 It’s Lucy and the football, Iran-style. After ostensibly tough talk about preventing Iran from going nuclear, the Obama administration acquiesced to yet another round of talks with the mullahs. This, 14 months after the last group-of-six negotiations collapsed in […]

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Friday, March 9th 2012 / Friday, March 9th 2012

    CRISE HUMANITAIRE DE GAZA: UN CHOIX POLITIQUE Jacques Benillouche Guysen International News, 5 mars 2012 Avec la saison du froid et les pluies inhabituelles dans la région, de nombreuses photos circulent pour dénoncer que Gaza est au bord de la crise humanitaire. Il est certes difficile de rester insensible à la misère humaine […]

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Thursday, March 8th 2012 / Thursday, March 8th 2012

PEERING BEHIND OBAMA’S PURIM COSTUME Michael Freund Jerusalem Post, March 7, 2012 Today is Purim, one of the most joyful festivals on the Jewish calendar, when we celebrate the deliverance of our ancestors from a Persian plot to annihilate them. It is a day rife with ritual, from the reading of the Book of Esther […]

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Wednesday, March 7th 2012 / Wednesday, March 7th 2012

THE BOOK OF ESTHER THE JOYFUL FESTIVAL OF PURIM 2012 (5772) Baruch Cohen In beloved memory of Malca z’l “Should all Jewish festivals be abolished, Purim will remain.” “Tefilot Mikol Hashana” (D.W. Libshitz, p. 419, 1878)   Purim will be celebrated forever. Purim will live on so long as prejudice, hatred, and enemies like Hamas, […]

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Tuesday, March 6th 2012 / Tuesday, March 6th 2012

Today’s Briefing:   THE MIDDLE EAST’S REAL APARTHEID Efraim Karsh, Jerusalem Post, March 5, 2012   PM NETANYAHU’S SPEECH AT THE 2012 AIPAC POLICY CONFERENCE Israeli Prime Minister’s Office, March 6, 2012   THE ‘JEWISH’ PRESIDENT Bret Stephens, Wall Street Journal, March 6, 2012   OBAMA SETS OUT THE CASE FOR AN ISRAELI STRIKE Caroline […]

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Monday, March 5th 2012 / Monday, March 5th 2012

The following is excerpted from US President Barack Obama’s speech at the AIPAC Policy Conference on March 4, 2012. “…Let’s begin with a basic truth that you all understand: No Israeli government can tolerate a nuclear weapon in the hands of a regime that denies the Holocaust, threatens to wipe Israel off the map, and […]

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Friday, March 2nd 2012 / Friday, March 2nd 2012

APRÈS LES REQUINS DU MOSSAD, LES POULES ÉGYPTIENNES EMPOISONNÉES Laure Onno Guysen International News, 27 février 2012 On croyait en avoir fini avec les vieux stéréotypes antisémites, mais visiblement ils vont toujours bon train. En Égypte on soupçonne encore Israël de semer du poison. On se souvient des Accusations datant du Moyen-âge, selon lesquelles les […]

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Friday, March 2nd 2012

HARPER MUST STAND BY ISRAEL IN WARTIME Editorial National Post, March 2, 2012 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will be in Ottawa today. No doubt, he and Prime Minister Stephen Harper will discuss a wide range of topics. But the most important, by far, will be Iran. Mr. Netanyahu is seeking to build support for […]

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Thursday, March 1st 2012 / Thursday, March 1st 2012

HATRED: COMING SOON TO A CAMPUS NEAR YOU Dore Gold Jerusalem Post, February 22, 2012 Anti-Israel hatred on campus crests each year during an event called Israel Apartheid Week. With this ominous name and programs that thrive on ignorance and blind disregard for the facts, tens of thousands of college students are urged to rise […]

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Wednesday, February 29th 2012

Media-ocrity of the Week   The following is a letter written by CIJR’s Publications Chairman to the Jerusalem Post’s editor.   Re: Of Hate and Hope (Jerusalem Post, February 23.)   The publication of Daniel Eisenbud’s denigration of a “nefarious breed of Jewish immigrant [that] comes [to Israel] filled with rage” crosses the line. That […]

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Tuesday, February 28th 2012

A LOOK AHEAD: THE RETURN OF THE ISRAEL APARTHEID WEEK CULT Jonathan Kay National Post, February 25, 2012 In Syria, the Assad regime continues to rain artillery on rebel positions in the city of Homs, killing journalists and innocent civilians alike. Iran’s mullahs are set to execute a Canadian citizen for the crime of operating […]