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Media-o-crity of the Week   “There are Jews who are trending toward the Republican Party, some of it because of their misunderstanding of Obama’s policies in the Middle East, and some of it, quite frankly, for economic reasons. They feel they want to protect their wealth.”—Democratic congressman Henry Waxman, following Republican Bob Turner’s landslide victory […]

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OBAMA AT THE UN, GIVING CONTEXT TO THE CONFLICT Herb Keinon Jerusalem Post, September 21, 2011 It took some 34 months, but on Wednesday at the UN Israel finally heard the speech it wanted to hear from US President Barack Obama. Gone were so many elements of previous Obama speeches on the Middle East that […]

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ABBAS: TIME FOR PALESTINIAN INDEPENDENCE Editorial Jerusalem Post, September 23, 2011 Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Friday said that “the time has come for Palestinian independence,” in a speech to the UN General Assembly, shortly after he officially submitted a request to the world body for recognition of Palestine as a full member state. […]

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        Les Nations Unies ne devraient pas reconnaître une Palestine d’Apartheid, Judenrein et islamique. Alan M. Dershowitz Israel-flash.com, 22 septembre 2011 Adaptation française: Marc Brzustowski   On demande aux Nations-Unies d’offrir aux Palestiniens le statut «d’État», dont on connaît, au moins, quelques objectifs. La question qui surgit, c’est de quel genre d’État […]

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Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu last Friday addressed the United Nations General Assembly in New York, conveying Israel’s “hope for peace,” while reiterating that peace with the Palestinians can only be forged through direct negotiations between the parties. Netanyahu’s appeal followed Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas’ remarks, deemed by Israeli Foreign Minster Avigdor Lieberman a […]

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On September 13, 2011, the Haqqani network perpetrated a terrorist attack on the U.S. Embassy and NATO headquarters in Kabul, Afghanistan, a coordinated assault involving suicide bombers and rocket fire that killed 25. During congressional testimony the following week, US Admiral Michael Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, accused the Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence […]

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QADDAFI FALLS Ryan Mauro FrontPage, August 22, 2011 The reign of Muammar Qaddafi has come to an end. That he was a cruel despot deserving of an unforgiving end is a given, but now a new chapter in Libya, rife with uncharted, ominous struggles has begun. Foremost among theses struggles will be preventing the ensuing […]

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EGYPT’S VENOM TOWARD ISRAEL Rick Moran FrontPage, August 22, 2011 The fallout from the terrorist attack near the border town of Eliat this past Thursday that killed eight Israelis, and the subsequent pursuit of the murderers by Israeli security forces into Egypt that resulted in a confrontation with Egyptian police, killing as many as five, […]

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CIJR TEACHES STUDENTS HOW TO DEFEND ISRAEL Janice Arnold Canadian Jewish News, September 28, 2011 When Marian Pinsky, a Bialik High School graduate, entered McGill University, she felt the shock of being in an environment where Israel was frequently the target of criticism and attack. Most disturbing for her was that it generally went unanswered. […]

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“How can you be strong when the person you love is gone? My dear father, I do not believe that I am writing to you.… How do I even start? I will try to be strong now because I think that is what you would want me to do, but I am not sure that […]

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CRITIQUING ISRAELI CONSTRUCTION IN JERUSALEM: ANOTHER U.S. MISCUE WITH THE QUARTET Robert Satloff Washington Institute for Near East Policy, August 17, 2011 At the eleventh hour, the Obama administration is gamely trying to avert President Mahmoud Abbas’s promise to apply for full Palestinian membership in the United Nations—which he is due to hand deliver to […]

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IRAQ’S ‘BLOODY MONDAY’ Rick Moran FrontPage, August 16, 2011   At least 80 people were killed and more than 350 injured when a coordinated series of bombs were set off across the length and breadth of Iraq on Monday. Believed to be the work of Al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQIR), the bombings have shaken the people’s […]