Isranet Daily Briefing

Wednesday, June 6th 2012 / Wednesday, June 6th 2012

LEST WE FORGET: D-DAY, JUNE 6, 1944, THE ALLIED INVASION OF W. EUROPE BEGINS   Preparations: Forty-seven divisions, two million men were massed in Britain; fifty-seven million square feet of British storage area were filled with supplies for the invasion, including ca. half a million tons of ammunition. Two huge floating “Mulberry Harbours,” sunk in […]

Isranet Daily Briefing

Tuesday, June 5th 2012 / Tuesday, June 5th 2012

TURKISH TIES Editorial Jerusalem Post, May 29, 2012 The decision this week by Istanbul’s Seventh Criminal Court to seek prison terms totaling over 18,000 years for four former IDF commanders may or may not have been timed to coincide with the second anniversary of the May 31 Mavi Marmara debacle. But many have used the […]

Analysis

Monday, June 4th 2012 / Friday, June 8th 2012

  There is no question that international sanctions against Iran are hurting. Andrew Torchia in “Analysis:  Iran Economy Could Limp Along under Sanctions” notes that sanctions are shrinking Iran’s economy and pushing up inflation. Will that be enough to dissuade Iran from pursuing its nuclear ambitions?  Torchia doubts that it will.  Even though they are, […]

Isranet Daily Briefing

Monday, June 4th 2012 / Monday, June 4th 2012

GLORIFYING TERROR Editorial Jerusalem Post, May 31, 2012 In another surreal development on our scene, Israel delivered 91 corpses of Arab terrorists to the Palestinian Authority [last] Thursday. This was part of a “confidence- building” measure by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to PA President Mahmoud Abbas, geared to encourage Abbas to return to negotiations. In […]

Communiqués Isranet Daily Briefing

Friday, June 1st 2012 / Tuesday, June 26th 2012

Compter les réfugiés de Palestine? Daniel Pipes National Review Online, 29 mai 2012 Adaptation française: Anne-Marie Delcambre de Champvert Le cœur fétide et sombre de la guerre des Arabes contre Israël, ai-je longuement argumenté, ne réside pas dans les litiges sur Jérusalem, les points de contrôle, ou les "colonies". Il concerne plutôt les soi-disant réfugiés […]

Isranet Daily Briefing

Friday, June 1st 2012 / Friday, June 1st 2012

THE EICHMANN EFFECT Allan Gould National Post, June 1, 2012 Today, the first of June, marks exactly 50 years since one of the most infamous men of the past century, Adolf Eichmann, was hung by the State of Israel—the first and only time that the death penalty was civilly imposed in that country.… As a […]

Isranet Daily Briefing

Thursday, May 31st 2012

SYRIA IS WALKING ALL OVER THE UN Peter Goodspeed National Post, May 28, 2012 The massacre of the children of Houla and their families has deepened the sense of crisis in Syria, but the United Nations is unlikely to do anything about it. Former UN secretary-general Kofi Annan arrived in Damascus Monday for yet another […]

Isranet Daily Briefing

Wednesday, May 30th 2012 / Wednesday, May 30th 2012

Media-ocrities of the Week   “We won’t agree to recognize something called the Jewish state.”—Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, in an interview with Lebanon’s An-Nahhar, reiterating his refusal ever to recognize Israel as the homeland of the Jewish people, and threatening that unless “new ideas” are presented to revive the peace process, the Palestinians again […]

Isranet Daily Briefing

Tuesday, May 29th 2012 / Tuesday, May 29th 2012

“Egypt’s first free presidential elections have flung up a shock as a military representative of the former regime will fight it out with a leader of the Muslim Brotherhood. This direct clash between diametrically opposed authoritarian and religious visions of Egypt’s future firmly marginalizes the liberal and secular option. This kind of choice is absolutely […]

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Monday, May 28th 2012

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Analysis

Friday, May 25th 2012

Kress, Jeffrey S. Development, Learning, and Community: Educating for Identity in Pluralistic Jewish High Schools. (Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2012).  xi+202 pages.  ISBN: 978-1-936235-30-8.   All Jews are agreed that the Jewish future, whatever it will look like, will be keyed to the education Jews receive. What should that education be like?  Nearly all committed […]

Communiqués Isranet Daily Briefing

Friday, May 25th 2012 / Tuesday, June 26th 2012

NAQBA : LA CATASTROPHE « PALESTINIENNE » Guy Millière dreuz.info, 24 mai 2012 Le 15 mai dernier, les « Palestiniens » célébraient le jour de la naqba, la catastrophe qu’est censée avoir été la création de l’État d’Israël. Nombre d’Arabes israéliens l’ont eux-mêmes célébré, montrant ainsi qu’ils sont infectés par le même venin que les […]