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OBAMA’S DEFENSE DRAWDOWN Editorial Wall Street Journal, January 9, 2012 President Obama [on January 8] put in a rare appearance at the Pentagon, flanked by the four service chiefs and his Secretary of Defense. Saying that now is the time to cash in a peace dividend, he unveiled plans for a significantly slimmed-down military. This […]

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SOUTH SUDAN, ISRAEL’S NEW ALLY Daniel Pipes National Review, January 4, 2012 It’s not every day that the leader of a brand-new country makes his maiden foreign voyage to Jerusalem, capital of the most besieged country in the world—but Salva Kiir, president of South Sudan, accompanied by his foreign and defense ministers, did just that […]

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    UN MILITANT DES DROITS DE L’HOMME GAZAOUI SAUVAGEMENT AGRESSÉ PAR LE HAMAS POUR AVOIR DÉCRIT LA TERREUR INTERNE PALESTINIENNE ET DEMANDÉ LE RESPECT DE LA LÉGALITÉ Hélène Keller-Lind desinfos.com, 18 janvier 2012 Depuis Gaza Mahmoud Abou Ramah protestait ouvertement fin décembre et début janvier contre les innombrables violations des Droits de l’Homme perpétrées […]

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REMEMBERING WANNSEE Danny Ben-Moshe Jerusalem Post, January 18, 2012 On January 20, 1942, the Nazi leadership gathered in a villa on the outskirts of Berlin and adopted the “Final Solution to the Jewish Question.” The Wannsee Conference, as this became known, from the suburb where the meeting was held, formalized the process that exterminated so […]

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THE BUCHAREST KRISTALLNACHT ATTROCITIES 21-23 JANUARY, 1941 Baruch Cohen In memory of beloved Malca z’l   “The persecution and the fascist terror directed against the Jewish population within the borders of Romania were just as violent and destructive as those in other countries under Nazi domination or influence.… Romanian fascism has its own original methods […]

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On Saturday, Egypt’s electoral commission released the final results of the country’s first “free” elections in decades, with Islamist parties winning nearly three-quarters of the House seats. Leading the way, the fundamentalist Muslim Brotherhood captured 47 percent, or 235 seats in the 498-seat parliament, followed by the Salafist Al-Nour Party with 25 percent, or 125 […]

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THE ARAB LEAGUE’S FAILED SYRIA MISSION Kate Seelye National Interest, January 24, 2012 The Arab League observer mission to Syria—sent under an agreement with the Syrian government to withdraw forces from the cities, release all political prisoners and allow monitors and journalists free movement throughout the country—has utterly failed.… After the initial one-month mandate for […]

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STOP BLURRING HOLOCAUST MEMORY Michael Freund Jerusalem Post, January 25, 2012 [Friday, January 27th] marks the 67th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp by the 322nd Rifle Division of the Red Army in the waning days of World War II. That epic event provided the world with a glimpse into the potential […]

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    ISRAËL ENQUÊTE SUR L’INCITATION AU MEURTRE DES JUIFS DE LA PART DU GRAND MUFTI DE JÉRUSALEM Antoine Chatrier JSSNews.com, 24 Janvier 2012 Pendant la seconde guerre mondiale, le Grand Mufti de Jérusalem était le plus fidèle allié d’Adolf Hitler. Des documents historiques montrent les deux hommes partageant leurs conseils et expériences sur la […]

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THE ‘ARAB SPRING’ AS WINTER DESCENDS Mitchell A. Belfer National Review, January 18, 2012 Honest reflection on the past twelve months of discontent, as manifested in various forms of revolutionary zeal, rhetoric, and violence, exposes a solitary thread weaving through all the demonstrations and “rebel” and “opposition” movements that cycloned through the Middle East and […]

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DELEGITIMIZATION OF ISRAEL IS NEW ANTI-SEMITISM Herb Keinon Jerusalem Post, January 31, 2012 Israel has no greater friend in the world than Canada, Canadian Foreign Minister John Baird said during a warm address at the opening of the 12th-annual Herzliya Conference on Monday night. Ottawa stood with Israel because it was a Canadian tradition “to […]

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“…Here is the voice of Sheikh Yousuf al-Qaradhawi, [spiritual leader of the Muslim Brotherhood and] one of the learned men of Egyptian Islam: ‘I think [the shari’a] should be implemented gradually. This is a law of the shari’a and a law of nature.… We should do things gradually. We should prepare the people, teach them. […]