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Isranet Daily Briefing
Thursday, March 29th 2012 / Thursday, March 29th 2012
Media-ocrities of the Week “On all these issues, but particularly missile defense, this, this can be solved but it’s important for [incoming Russian President Vladimir Putin] to give me space.… This is my last election. After my election I have more flexibility.”—US President Barack Obama, caught on an open mic assuring outgoing Russian President […]
Tuesday, March 27th 2012 / Wednesday, March 28th 2012
PREVENTING THE POLITICAL SYSTEM’S STAGNATION, COLLAPSE Danny Ayalon Jerusalem Post, February 26, 2012 …Israel’s electoral and governmental system is failing and moving us toward political paralysis. The writing has been on the wall for some time, and soon it may be too late to make the necessary change.… In Israel, there is no sufficient separation […]
Monday, March 26th 2012 / Tuesday, March 27th 2012
UNESCO GOES TO WASHINGTON Claudia Rosett National Review, March 14, 2012 When the member states of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization voted last October to confer membership on the Palestinian Authority, they knew their decision would trigger the withdrawal of U.S. funding, which in dues alone accounted for more than $78 million […]
Sunday, March 25th 2012 / Monday, March 26th 2012
THE BOGUS IRAN INTELLIGENCE DEBATE Bret Stephens Wall Street Journal, March 19, 2012 To better understand the debate over the state of Iran’s nuclear bomb building capabilities, it helps to talk to someone who has built a nuclear bomb. Tom Reed served as Secretary of the Air Force and head of the National Reconnaissance Office […]
Friday, March 23rd 2012
RUMOURS OF AMERICA’S DEMISE ARE AN EXAGGERATION Robert Kagan National Post, March 10, 2012 In The World America Made, excerpted below, foreign-policy expert Robert Kagan challenges the conventional wisdom that U.S. global power and influence are waning: Much of the commentary on American decline these days rests on rather loose analysis, on impressions that the […]
Communiqués Isranet Daily Briefing
Friday, March 23rd 2012 / Friday, March 23rd 2012
MAIS QUI EST MOHAMED MERAH? SUR LA PISTE DU MEURTRIER DE TOULOUSE-MONTAUBAN Dépêche Guysen International News, 21 mars 2012 Les antécédents de l'auteur présumé des tueries qui ont causé la mort de sept personnes en France, retranché mercredi dans un immeuble de Toulouse cerné par la police, ont éveillé les soupçons des enquêteurs […]
Thursday, March 22nd 2012 / Thursday, March 22nd 2012
Mohamed Merah, the suspected murderer of seven people in France, including four at a Jewish school in Toulouse on Monday, is dead. “In the end, he jumped from the window with his gun in his hand, continuing to fire. He was found dead on the ground,” French Interior Minister Claude Guean told reporters at […]
Wednesday, March 21st 2012 / Wednesday, March 21st 2012
Media-ocrities of the Week “When we think about what happened today in Toulouse, we remember what happened in Norway last year, we know what is happening in Syria, and we see what is happening in Gaza.…”—European Union foreign policy chief, Catherine Ashton, to Palestinian youth in Brussels, drawing a parallel between Monday’s premeditated murder […]
Tuesday, March 20th 2012 / Tuesday, March 20th 2012
The following is excerpted from an email written and circulated by a French Jew. It was published as an article, “One Day in the Life of a Jew in France,” in FrontPage Magazine on November 9, 2011. “I am a Jew—therefore I am forwarding this to everyone on all my e-mail lists. I will not […]
Monday, March 19th 2012
FRANCE: 4 DEAD IN SHOOTING OUTSIDE JEWISH SCHOOL Editorial Ynet News, March 19, 2012 An unknown assailant opened fire on a Jewish school in Toulouse Monday, killing at least four people and injuring five. According to initial details, a man riding on a motorcycle opened fire on the Ozar Hatorah School at around 8:10 am, […]
Friday, March 16th 2012 / Friday, March 16th 2012
RADIO-CANADA ET LE CONFLIT ISRAÉLO-PALESTINIEN Elias Levy cjnews.com, 24 février 2012 Au cours de l’année 2011, les critiques à l’endroit de Radio-Canada sur sa couverture du conflit israélo-palestinien n’ont cessé de croître. Le Centre Consultatif des Relations Juives et Israéliennes (C.I.J.A.), instance représentative officielle des Juifs du Canada pour toutes les questions concernant Israël, a […]
BUENOS AIRES’S LESSON Editorial Jerusalem Post, March 15, 2012 On March 17, 1992, at 2:42 p.m., a pickup truck loaded with explosives driven by “Abu Yasser,” an Argentinean man who had converted to Islam, smashed into the front of the Israeli Embassy on the corner of Arroyo and Suipacha streets in Buenos Aires. In the […]
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