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Thursday, March 3rd 2011 / Tuesday, November 8th 2011

      ‘ISRAEL HAS SHOWN GENUINE DESIRE TO RENEW NEGOTIATIONS’ Herb Keinon Jerusalem Post, February 22, 2011   [Israeli] Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman went on the offensive at the annual EU-Israel Association Council meeting in Brussels… During the meeting, held annually between the Israeli foreign minister and his EU counterparts, Lieberman said that since […]

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Wednesday, March 2nd 2011 / Tuesday, November 8th 2011

      BREAKING NEWS:   According to senior Israeli government officials, the current instability in the Middle East, coupled with the Palestinians’ ongoing refusal to negotiate, will likely lead to a new Israeli initiative to move the “peace process” forward. The officials said that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu was contemplating a phased approach “that […]

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Tuesday, March 1st 2011 / Tuesday, November 8th 2011

      UN OFFERS A TYRANT’S LAST REFUGE Rex Murphy National Post, February 26, 2011   It would take the dark menacing imagination of Flann O’Brien, the fabulator of the absurd terrible world of his greatest novel, The Third Policeman, to be capable of equal encounter with some of the collateral absurdities that touch […]

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Wednesday, February 23rd 2011 / Wednesday, November 9th 2011

      Weekly Quotes “Our opposition to the resolution before this Council today should…not be misunderstood to mean we support settlement activity. On the contrary, we reject in the strongest terms the legitimacy of continued Israeli settlement activity. For more than four decades, Israeli settlement activity in territories occupied in 1967 has undermined Israel’s […]

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Thursday, February 17th 2011 / Friday, November 11th 2011

    RUMSFELD’S ‘SLICE OF HISTORY’ Kimberly Strassel Wall Street Journal, February 8, 2011   “I’d read other folks’ books about things I’d been involved in…and I’d think, My goodness, that’s not my perspective,” chuckles former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld in [our] interview.… “I remember talking to [former Secretary of State] George Shultz and […]

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PROCLAMER UN ÉTAT PALESTINIEN, UNE FOIS DE PLUS Daniel Pipes fr.danielpipes.org, 3 août 2011 Version originale anglaise: Declaring a Palestinian State, Yet Again Adaptation française: Anne-Marie Delcambre de Champvert La campagne de l'Autorité palestinienne visant à proclamer un état palestinien n'est guère une idée nouvelle. Selon mes calculs, cela est la quatrième répétition. J'ai décrit […]

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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 […]