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      HISTORY WILL NOT BE DECEIVED Max Boot Contentions, June 22, 2011   “L’audace, l’audace, toujours l’audace!” To Napoleon and other great generals the willingness to be bold and audacious was the key to victory. Barack Obama is no Napoleon. He seems to believe that timidity is the key to success—that flip-flopping and […]

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      BREAKING NEWS: Hamas Rejects German Mediator’s Offer on Shalit   JERUSALEM—Hamas [has] rejected an offer to free captive Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit made by [a] German mediator, a deal which the Israeli government had accepted. Hamas political bureau deputy chief Mousa Mohammed Abu Marzouk called the offer “unjust” and said the German […]

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      BREAKING NEWS: Five Hezbollah Members To Be Indicted In Hariri Assassination   Five high ranking Hezbollah officials are expected to be indicted in the next few days by the United Nations special tribunal investigating the assassination of Rafik Hariri, London-based Asharq Alawsat reported on Monday. Once the indictments are released, the identities […]

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      YALE TO SHUT DOWN INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDY OF ANTI-SEMITISM Alan M. Dershowitz Jerusalem Magazine, June 15, 2011   At a time of increasing—and increasingly complex—anti-Semitism throughout the world, Yale University has decided to shut down the Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Anti-Semitism, YIISA. Founded in 2006, YIISA is headed by a […]

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      FREE JONATHAN POLLARD—NOW! ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! Baruch Cohen   In memory of the beloved Malca, z’’l We must not forget Jonathan Pollard, nor must we keep silent! Pollard’s genuine and only concern was the security of Israel, the most faithful and closest ally of the U.S. U.S. security was not altered by […]

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      IRAN NUCLEAR PROGRESS REPORT Editorial Wall Street Journal, June 11, 2011   For six months, global attention has fixed on the historic upheavals roiling the Arab world from Tunisia to Bahrain. But the biggest Middle Eastern story continues to be the steady progress Tehran has made toward acquiring the components of a […]

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      SPEAKER TRACES CULTURAL HISTORY OF LIBYAN JEWS Diana Ming Dartmouth, May 25, 2011   Libyan Jews comprise one of the smallest ethnic Jewish populations in the world today and possess a deeply rooted and unique cultural identity, Harvey Goldberg, an anthropologist from Hebrew University in Israel, said in a lecture in Kemeny […]

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      THE REAL EGYPTIAN REVOLUTION Caroline B. Glick Jerusalem Post, June 3, 2011   The coverage of recent events in Egypt is further proof that Western elites cannot see the forest for the trees. Over the past week, leading newspapers have devoted relatively in-depth coverage to the Egyptian military authorities’ repressive actions in […]

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      The Canadian Institute for Jewish Research cordially invites you to its 23rd Anniversary Gala Wednesday, June 15, 2011 Congregation Shaar Hashomayim 450 Avenue Kensington, Westmount, Quebec, Canada DISTINGUISHED KEYNOTE SPEAKER MOSHE ARENS Former Israeli Defense Minister and Ambassador to the U.S.   Also Featuring Prof. Barry Rubin Outstanding internationally-renowned Middle East analyst […]

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    The Canadian Institute for Jewish Research cordially invites you to its 23rd Anniversary Gala   Wednesday, June 15, 2011 Congregation Shaar Hashomayim 450 Avenue Kensington, Westmount, Quebec, Canada DISTINGUISHED KEYNOTE SPEAKER MOSHE ARENS Former Israeli Defense Minister and Ambassador to the U.S.   Also Featuring Prof. Barry Rubin Outstanding internationally-renowned Middle East analyst […]

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Last Thursday, deposed Libyan dictator Muammar Qaddafi was killed in his home town of Sirte, as the last stronghold of his ancien regime fell to rebel forces. Libya’s interim leader, chairman of the National Transitional Council Mustafa Abdul-Jalil, wasted little time in declaring “liberation” (and sharia law), setting off widespread celebrations throughout the country, and […]

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      Readers’ Responsa   Dear CIJR, Thank you, thank you, for your Yom Yerushalayim, 5771 Isranet Daily Briefing, which carries articles that are a gift as valuable as fresh air to one choking on some of the malaise-producing and misleading but well-parsed assertions that have come out of the office of the current […]