Isranet Daily Briefing

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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 […]

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Wednesday, January 4th 2012

Media-ocrity of the Week   “Should any application of these provisions conflict with my constitutional authorities, I will treat the provisions as non-binding.”—Excerpt from US President Barack Obama’s signing statement on the 2012 Defense Authorization Act, which includes an amendment placing economic sanctions on financial institutions that do business with the Iran Central Bank, claiming […]

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Wednesday, December 28th 2011

Media-ocrity of the Week   “Look, the Taliban per se is not our enemy. That’s critical. There is not a single statement that the president has ever made in any of our policy assertions that the Taliban is our enemy because it threatens US interests.”—US Vice President Joe Biden, stating that the Taliban, an al-Qaeda-aligned […]

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Wednesday, December 21st 2011

Media-ocrities of the Week   “In retrospect, I probably should have used a more precise term like ‘engineered’ by the Israel lobby—a term that does not suggest grand conspiracy theories.…”—New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, responding to intense criticism over an inflammatory article he penned last week in which he invoked age-old ant-Semitic stereotypes by […]

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Wednesday, December 14th 2011 / Wednesday, December 14th 2011

Weekly Quotes   “Thomas L. Friedman’s ‘Israel Can’t Afford To Do Nothing’ (National Post, Dec.5, 2011) is a tissue of half-truths and misrepresentations. Despite agreeing that Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu was right, in disagreeing with President Obama last spring that the Cairo events were ushering in ‘a new era of liberalism and progress’, Friedman nevertheless […]