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    SLAPPING PAKISTAN Michael A. Walsh NY Post, July 11, 2011   …[A] war of wills is being waged halfway around the world in Pakistan. In response to Pakistani intransigence and duplicity—especially by the country’s army and intelligence agency, the ISI—America is withholding some $800 million in aid, including $300 million earmarked for counterinsurgency […]

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GILAD SHALIT RELEASED IN PRISONER SWAP Joshua Mitnick Wall Street Journal, October 18, 2011 Israel and Hamas carried out an unprecedented prisoner swap on Tuesday, freeing Israeli Sgt. Gilad Shalit after five years in captivity in return for some 477 Palestinian prisoners that were released to the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and to Egypt.… […]

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        LEARNING LEBANON II’S LESSONS Liat Collins Jerusalem Post, July 9, 2011   Time flies not only when you’re having fun. Proof: On July 12, it will be five years since the Second Lebanon War broke out, and the intervening years seem to have gone quickly. Perhaps it was because they were […]

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          UN RULES THAT ISRAELI BLOCKADE IS LEGAL IN BLOW TO FAILING FLOTILLA   More bad news for the dwindling number of flotilla activists hanging around the ports of Greece. The now completed UN Inquiry on last year’s Gaza flotilla incident aboard the Mavi Marmara found that Israel’s blockade of Hamas-ruled […]

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        REMEMBERING THE ‘ALTALENA’ Jerold S. Auerbach Jerusalem Post, June 20, 2011   Israel is confronting increasingly virulent worldwide challenges to its legitimacy. An expanding chorus of politicians, journalists and academics relentlessly denounces the Jewish state as a racist, apartheid abomination. The resemblance between their shrill diatribes and the rhetoric of anti-Semitism […]

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      JEWISH DEMS LOSING FAITH IN OBAMA Ben Smith Politico, June 29, 2011   David Ainsman really began to get worried about President Barack Obama’s standing with his fellow Jewish Democrats when a recent dinner with his wife and two other couples—all Obama voters in 2008—nearly turned into a screaming match. Ainsman, a […]

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      FOUR LEBANESE INDICTED IN PREMIER’S KILLING Farnaz Fassihi Wall Street Journal, July 1, 2011   The United Nations-backed Special Tribunal for Lebanon [has] issued indictments and arrest warrants for four Lebanese nationals affiliated with Hezbollah for involvement in the 2005 assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. The indictments, handed to Lebanon’s […]

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      THE FUTURE STILL BELONGS TO AMERICA Walter Russell MeadWall Street Journal, July 2, 2011 It is, the pundits keep telling us, a time of American decline, of a post-American world. The 21st century will belong to someone else. Crippled by debt at home, hammered by the aftermath of a financial crisis, bloodied […]

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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 […]