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On December 4, news broke that an advanced American stealth drone, the RQ-170 Sentinel, had fallen into Iranian hands, a situation described by former Vice President Dick Cheney as “a significant intelligence loss.”   According to foreign minister Ali Akbar Salehi, Iran deliberately delayed the announcement of the drone’s capture to test US reaction. And […]

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THE FIFTH CANDLE Stewart Weiss Jerusalem Magazine, December 23, 2011 There is no life at Buchenwald. Its gray barracks contain only fear and dread; fear of what tomorrow will bring, the dread of what waits beyond the door. Barbed-wire fences and watchtowers surround the entire compound; the steady rat-atat of machine guns can be heard […]

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      «LA FÊTE DE NOËL EST ILLICITE» – JOYEUX NOËL MALGRÉ TOUT! Dépêche Pointdebasculecanada.ca, 22 décembre 2011 La Muslim Students’ Association (MSA – section Université Concordia) recommande plusieurs sites à ses supporteurs qui désirent approfondir leur compréhension de l’islam. Parmi ceux-ci le site islamweb.net en langue française rappelle les préceptes de l’islam en […]

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According to the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, approximately 70,000 Syrians demonstrated in a large square in the restive city of Homs on Tuesday, as Arab League observers began a visit to the country to monitor a peace deal aimed at ending President Bashar Assad’s deadly nine-month crackdown.   The observer mission is part […]

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Last Thursday, France’s National Assembly passed a law making it a crime to deny that the atrocities against Armenians committed by Ottoman Turks from 1915-1918 constituted a genocide.   In response, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan chastised French President Nicholas Sarkozy, accused France of committing its own genocide in Algeria, and cited the bill’s […]

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REACHING FOR THE PRIZE Eliezer Yaari Jerusalem Report, December 20, 2011 I feel as if a helicopter has just dropped me off on the summit of Mount Everest, and now I am standing there, applauding those who climbed up on their own, those who for decades have fought their own intellectual and physical limitations to […]

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    VIOLENCES DE BEIT SHEMESH: QUI SONT CES ULTRA-ORTHODOXES? Julien Bahloul Guysen.com, 28 décembre 2011 Qui sont les ces ultra-orthodoxes responsables des violences de ces derniers jours? Les orthodoxes israéliens refusent d’être tous mis dans le même sac. Et pour cause. Le groupe à l’origine des récents évènements est affilié à la petite secte […]

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THE YEAR WE LOST AFGHANISTAN, IRAQ, EGYPT, TURKEY, TUNISIA AND MOST OF THE MIDDLE EAST Daniel Greenfield FrontPage, January 3, 2012 About the only people having a Happy New Year in the Muslim world aren’t the Christians who are huddling and waiting out the storm, but the Islamists who use a different calendar, but are […]

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IRAN’S HORMUZ THREAT Editorial Wall Street Journal, December 29, 2011 So now we know the kind of sanctions that hit Iran’s regime where it really hurts. The U.S. and Europe are at last mustering the gumption to target Iran’s multibillion-dollar oil industry, and almost immediately Tehran is threatening to bring Persian Gulf tankers to a […]

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THE SUICIDAL PASSION Ruth R. Wisse Weekly Standard, November 21, 2011 It now seems that one Jew is worth more than 1,000 Arabs—the rate of exchange established not by Israel, but by Hamas, and celebrated on the Arab street. The “prisoner swap” of more than a thousand Arab prisoners for the single Israeli soldier Gilad […]

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L’ÉVANGILE PALESTINIEN SELON RADIO-CANADA David Ouellette davidouellette.net, 3 janvier 2012 Chaque année, de nombreux médias prêchent à l’occasion de Noël l’ «évangile palestinien». Si vous ne connaissez pas cet évangile, rassurez-vous, votre connaissance du canon biblique n’est pas lacunaire. Il s’agit d’une offensive propagandiste menée bon an mal an par l’Autorité palestinienne. Cette année, Radio-Canada […]

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The focus of today’s Briefing returns to Egypt, following the Islamists’ latest victory in the third and final round of the country’s elections. With a projected 2/3 of the cumulative vote, the Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party together with the Salafist Al-Nour Party are poised to achieve an absolute parliamentary majority. The ramifications bode […]