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THE WEEK THAT WAS: AMID INCREASING UN MORAL RELATIVISM, OLMERT TRAGEDY IS A “SHOCKING STAIN” ON ISRAEL

Open Letter to Ban Ki-moon on Terrorism & “Human Nature”: Hillel C. Neuer, UN Watch, Feb. 5, 2016 — Dear Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon… Getting Serious About the UN’s Anti-Israel Bias: Ben Cohen, Algemeiner, Feb. 18, 2016— Samantha Power, the United States ambassador to the United Nations, this week sounded an unusually strong — and therefore […]

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HAINE ANTISÉMITE ET DISCOURS DE RAISON

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    LITZMAN ANNONCE LE DÉPLACEMENT DES RÉSERVES D’AMMONIAC DE HAÏFA Times of Israel, 17 fev., 2016   Le ministre de la Santé, Yaakov Litzman, a déclaré qu’il allait déplacer un réservoir d’ammoniac de la région de la baie de Haïfa, un jour après que le chef du Hezbollah Hassan Nasrallah a menacé de tirer […]

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PROGRESSIVES, FEARING “ISLAMOPHOBIA”, IGNORE MUSLIM REFORMERS, ISLAMIST EXTREMISM & HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES

Most Muslims Aren’t Jihadists, of Course. But Some of Them Are: Barbara Kay, National Post, Jan. 27, 2016 — In the era when Communism was the big global threat, we used to be able to say, with impunity, that Marxism could exist without Communism but Communism would not exist without Marx… Obama's Not Listening to […]

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WEDNESDAY’S “NEWS IN REVIEW” ROUND-UP

 We welcome your comments to this and any other CIJR publication. Please address your response to:  Rob Coles, Publications Chairman, Canadian Institute for Jewish Research, PO Box 175, Station  H, Montreal QC H3G 2K7 – Tel: (514) 486-5544 – Fax:(514) 486-8284; E-mail: rob@isranet.wpsitie.com   Contents: | Weekly Quotes |  Short Takes   |  On Topic Links   MEDIA-OCRITY OF THE WEEK: “The […]

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NORTH AMERICAN UNIVERSITIES EARN “F” FOR TOLERATING ANTISEMITISM & CONDONING BDS

York University: It’s More Than Just a Mural: Danielle Shachar, Times of Israel, Feb. 10, 2016 — In North American universities, the right to a “safe space” free from dissenting or controversial ideas is, regrettably, becoming sacrosanct.  Anti-Semitism, Not Academic Content, Fuels University Boycotts: Winfield Myers, Miami Herald, Feb. 6, 2016— In the aftermath of […]

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OBAMA, EYES ON LEGACY, COMMITTED TO “ENDING THE WARS” — MEANWHILE, AS SYRIA BURNS, PUTIN TAKES DECISIVE ACTION

Putin’s Syria Victory: Wall Street Journal, Feb. 12, 2016 — President Obama has spent five years insisting that there is no military solution to the Syrian civil war. To judge by the “cessation of hostilities” announced Friday in Munich, Vladimir Putin is about to prove him wrong. Forget ‘Ending the Wars’ — Let’s Win Them […]

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2016 U.S. ELECTION: TRUMP & SANDERS TAP INTO “ANTI-ESTABLISHMENT REVOLT”, WHILE SCANDALS DAMAGE CLINTON’S POPULIST APPEAL

Sanders and Trump: Magic Sells: Charles Krauthammer, Washington Post, Feb. 11, 2016 — The New Hampshire results have solidified the reigning cliche that the 2016 campaign is an anti-establishment revolt of both the left and the right. The Many Contradictions of Hillary Clinton: Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, Jan. 21, 2016— Hillary Clinton recently said […]

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WHILE RUSSIA INTERVENES IN SYRIAN WAR & INVADES UKRAINE, PUTIN ENCOURAGES EUROPEAN JEWS TO “COME BACK”

Precarious Syria Talks Leave its Future Uncertain: Jonathan Spyer, Jerusalem Post, Feb. 5, 2016 — UN Special Envoy on Syria Staffan de Mistura this week announced the suspension of just-convened peace talks in Geneva intended to resolve the Syrian civil war. Missing the Cold War? You Can Get a Taste of it Again in Eastern […]

Analysis

THE SYRIAN AND SPANISH CIVIL WARS— BOTH PRELUDES TO WIDER CONFLICTS?

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          To the already-crowded military field in Syria, with its various Sunni Muslim and Alawite-Shiite militias, Iranian, Lebanese Hezbollah, and Russian actors, as well as the U.S., British, and French-led allied air coalition, we now learn that both Saudi Arabia and Turkey may also soon be directly involved. This fraught and […]

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TURKEY’S RUSSIAN & KURDISH CONFLICTS ESCALATE, MEANWHILE, AN UNEASY “HANDSHAKE” WITH ISRAEL

Will Turkey, Russia Fan Flames Into an Inferno?: Metin Gurcan, Al-Monitor, Feb. 4, 2016 — On Jan. 30, Turkey said its airspace was again violated by a Russian warplane. Undoing Years of Progress in Turkey: Abdullah Demirbas, New York Times, Jan. 26, 2016— Entire towns and districts are under siege. Tanks ram through narrow alleys […]

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WEDNESDAY’S “NEWS IN REVIEW” ROUND-UP

 We welcome your comments to this and any other CIJR publication. Please address your response to:  Rob Coles, Publications Chairman, Canadian Institute for Jewish Research, PO Box 175, Station  H, Montreal QC H3G 2K7 – Tel: (514) 486-5544 – Fax:(514) 486-8284; E-mail: rob@isranet.wpsitie.com   Contents: | Weekly Quotes |  Short Takes   |  On Topic Links   On Topic Links   A […]

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LABOR: TWO-STATE SOLUTION “NOT REALISTIC”, YET UN, FRANCE & WHITE HOUSE CONTINUE DEMAND FOR PALESTINIAN STATE

Plunging Into the Peace Gap: David M. Weinberg, Israel Hayom, Jan. 29, 2016 — Is it possible to oppose a two-state solution under the current circumstances but to be for it in principle? Those Nice Israel-Bashers’ Achilles’ Heel: Melanie Phillips, Jerusalem Post, Feb. 4, 2016— Why can’t Israel’s self-styled friends understand that the things they […]

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