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TISHA B’AV—AND THE FUTURE OF ISRAEL Baruch Cohen In loving memory of beloved Malca z’l   Tisha B’Av—the ninth day of Av—a day of mourning, a symbol for all the disasters which occurred again and again to the Jewish people. Tisha B’Av, which commemorates the loss of Jewish independence, the first Temple destroyed in 586 […]

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ISRAEL SHIFTS ON BORDERS AS U.N. VOTE LOOMS Joshua Mitnick Wall Street Journal, August 3, 2011   Israel signaled it was willing to negotiate with the Palestinians based on the 1967 border of the West Bank, injecting a potentially significant territorial concession into discussions aimed at restarting peace talks. Such a position would mark a […]

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IRAN’S NUCLEAR THREAT IS ESCALATING William Hague Guardian, July 11, 2011   On 8 June, the head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organisation, Fereydoun Abbasi Davani, announced plans to triple Iran’s capacity to produce 20% enriched uranium, transferring enrichment from Natanz to the Fordo plant. Inside Iran this announcement by a discredited regime drew little comment […]

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A DUMB AND DUMBER WAR IN LIBYA Victor Davis Hanson Real Clear Politics, July 14, 2011   Almost daily over the last four months we were told that Muammar Gadhafi was about ready to throw in the towel and give up. Libya, after all, is not a distant Afghanistan or Iraq with a population of […]

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ARAB SPRING DRIFTS INTO SUMMER STALEMATES Brian Murphy & Barbara Surk Huffington Post, July 14, 2011   Among the protest banners in Cairo’s Tahrir Square was a hand-drawn map of the Arab Spring with black target symbols covering each country hit by anti-government uprisings since the leaders of Tunisia and Egypt were ousted earlier this […]

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IRAN’S ATOMIC COUNTDOWN Peter Brookes NY Post, September 14, 2011 Can anyone give me some good news on how the Obama administration’s doing (after 2 1/2 years) on preventing the Islamic Republic of Iran from developing nuclear weapons and the ballistic missiles that’ll carry them? Didn’t think so. The latest news suggests that, despite all […]

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THE COLLAPSE OF ZIONIST LEADERSHIP Isi Leibler Jerusalem Post, June 23, 2011   The Jewish Agency and World Zionist Organization will be meeting in Jerusalem next week. Of late, the media have been conveying the message that many Diaspora Jews, especially youngsters, are becoming alienated from the Jewish state. It is sometimes even implied that […]

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FIVE MONTHS OF WAITING Sharif Abdel Kouddous Foreign Policy, July 15, 2011   Five months after the fall of Hosni Mubarak, Tahrir Square has, once again, been transformed into a mass protest encampment and the epicenter of the struggle for change in Egypt. Thousands of protesters are entering the second week of a sit-in reminiscent […]

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OCTOBER, 1973: LEST WE FORGET Frederick Krantz   Today, the thirty-eighth anniversary of the Yom Kippur War, has gone largely unremarked. Yet it is imperative, especially today, in the context of the Palestinians’ “UDI” move at the UN and the general, if not unexpected, disappointment with the “Arab Spring” movements, that this anniversary not be […]

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          Un Etat palestinien à l’ONU? Emmanuelle Main un-echo-israel.net, 5 Octobre 2011 Texte écrit le 9 Septembre 2011   Mahmoud Abbas a réaffirmé sa détermination à demander à l’ONU la reconnaissance d’un État palestinien et son admission à l’assemblée de l’organisation, le 20 septembre prochain.   La plupart des commentateurs s’en […]

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TECHNION’S SHECHTMAN BECOMES NATION’S 10TH NOBEL LAUREATE Judy Siegel-Itzkovich Jerusalem Post, October 6, 2011 Israel’s 10th Nobel Prize—and fourth in chemistry—was awarded [last] Wednesday by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to Prof. Dan Shechtman, a materials science scientist at Haifa’s Technion—Israel Institute of Technology. His discovery in 1982 that atoms in rigid crystals can […]

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“It is nearly two days since Norway was hit by the worst atrocity it has seen since the Second World War. On Utoeya, and in Oslo. It seems like an eternity. These have been hours, days and nights filled with shock, despair, anger and weeping. Today is a day for mourning. Today, we will allow […]