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SIX YEARS! HOW MUCH LONGER? Noam Bedein Jerusalem Post, August 24, 2011 It took me 20 minutes to drive to Ashdod from Tel Aviv [last] Sunday morning, two days after the former was hit by seven Grad missiles fired from Hamas-controlled Gaza. According to the IDF Spokesperson’s Office, over 100 rockets and mortars were fired […]

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J’ACCUSE ON POLLARD Giulio Meotti Jerusalem Post, August 22, 2011 He is a convicted spy. He has an Israeli passport. He is serving a life sentence. He is the only American to receive a life sentence for spying for an ally. It’s one of the most painful wounds in the Jewish world. All Israeli attempts […]

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  LA «COMPRÉHENSION DE L’ISLAM» DE TARIQ RAMADAN Dépêche Point de Bascule, 23 août 2011   Voici des extraits d’une analyse formidable sur l’euphémisme démagogique de Tariq Ramadan. L’ICRJ vous invite à lire l’article en sa totalité sur pointdebasculecanada.ca.   Le 7 septembre 2011, le Dalaï Lama, Tariq Ramadan et d’autres personnalités prendront la parole […]

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A BLAST FROM THE PAST: THE UPCOMING DURBAN III CONFERENCE (SEPTEMBER 2011)  Alan Baker Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, August 15, 2011 Introduction There is no doubt that the necessity to fight racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and intolerance is one of the major challenges of the organized international community. In fact, this has been a […]

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  IF THE ARAB SPRING TURNS UGLY Vali Nasr NY Times, August 27, 2011 The Arab Spring is a hopeful chapter in Middle Eastern politics, but the region’s history points to darker outcomes. There are no recent examples of extended power-sharing or peaceful transitions to democracy in the Arab world. When dictatorships crack, budding democracies […]

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  L’interculturalisme: une imposture anti-laïque Louise Mailloux louisemailloux.wordpress.com, 28 août 2011   En mars dernier, dans une entrevue au journal le Devoir, Gérard Bouchard affirmait que le débat sur la laïcité piétine, qu’un consensus semble impossible et qu’il conviendrait d’élargir ce débat en parlant d’interculturalisme. Deux mois plus tard, lors du Symposium international sur l’interculturalisme […]

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A UNITED NATIONS MIRACLE Editorial Wall Street Journal, September 6, 2011 Here’s a story for the man-bites-dog folder: The United Nations has conducted another inquiry into an Israeli military operation–and produced a report that mainly vindicates the Jewish state. And here, alas, is a story for the dog-bites-man folder: The Turkish government has responded to […]

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FOR YASSER ARAFAT, CRIME CERTAINLY PAID Amir Oren Haaretz, August 26, 2011 Crime doesn’t pay” is a nice saying. When it comes to diplomacy, however, it nearly always does pay. Without murderous terrorism, Yasser Arafat would not have led the Palestinian national movement to many of its achievements, including his successor Mahmoud Abbas’ plan to […]

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“VICTORY” IN LIBYA: NO MODEL FOR U.S. FOREIGN POLICY Doug Bandow Huffington Post, August 31, 2011 It took the greatest military alliance in history five months to push the Libyan rebels across the finish line. Nevertheless, Western politicians are claiming victory. Yet the ultimate consequences of allied intervention remain uncertain. While few mourn the demise […]

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JUSTIFYING MURDER—AN ABOMINATION Isi Leibler Jerusalem Post, August 28, 2011 Even before the Middle Ages, we encountered marginal Jews who turned against their own people. Among apostates to Christianity, there were those who wrote inflammatory libels against the Jews, paving the way for pogroms; socialists like Karl Marx whose vile anti-Semitic tirades speak for themselves; […]

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FROM 9/11 TO THE ARAB SPRING Fouad Ajami Wall Street Journal, September 8, 2011 The Arabic word shamata has its own power. The closest approximation to it is the Germanschadenfreude—glee at another’s misfortune. And when the Twin Towers fell 10 years ago this week, there was plenty of glee in Arab lands—a sense of wonder, […]

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Complot européen sur scène dans le monde arabe: Le Protocole des sages de Sion dans les médias arabes Menahem Milson MEMRI.org, 6 septembre 2011   Ci-dessous un article du cofondateur et conseiller académique du MEMRI, le professeur Menahem Milson, traitant de la large diffusion du Protocole des sages de Siondans le monde arabe, et de […]