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THE DUTY OF A NATION: CREATING “ONE JEWISH UNIVERSE, ONE JEWISH REALITY”

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ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! FREE POLLARD TODAY! Baruch Cohen In loving memory of Malca z’l As we celebrate 64 years of the State of Israel’s independence, our thoughts are with Jonathan Pollard, imprisoned since 1985. Twenty-seven years for an offense—passing classified information to an ally during peacetime—that has historically garnered an average sentence of 2-4 years: […]

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NETANYAHU’S “BIG BANG”: FORMATION OF UNITY GOV’T A “GENUINE OPPORTUNITY” FOR REFORM

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OUT OF SELF-INTEREST, GENUINE OPPORTUNITY David Horovitz Times of Israel, May 8, 2012 The cynicism that greeted Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition agreement with Kadima’s Shaul Mofaz Tuesday is easily understood. Mofaz has made a gold-medal-worthy sprint from bitter foe to warm ally of the prime minister. One minute he was calling Netanyahu a liar […]

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WEDNESDAY’S “NEWS IN REVIEW” ROUND-UP

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Media-ocrity of the Week   “The newest heroes of the Palestinian cause are not burly young men hurling stones or wielding automatic weapons. They are gaunt adults, wrists in chains, starving themselves inside Israeli prisons. Each day since April 17, scores of Palestinian prisoners have joined a hunger strike that officials say now counts more […]

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UP IN FLAMES: PIPELINE, PEACE TREATY CASUALTIES OF EGYPT’S “LEGITIMATE ISLAMISM”

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EGYPTIAN GAS Editorial Jerusalem Post, April 26, 2012 For all the attempts from all sides to belittle Egypt’s unilateral abrogation of its gas transaction with Israel, the move hardly augurs well. Regardless of all the whitewash prodigiously applied to it, this was the bad, hardly unexpected, outcome of a long sequence of inimical developments which […]

Video & Audio Recordings

CIJR Stands With Israel

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LESSONS FROM 1979: NEGOTIATING WITH IRAN—“CONSTRUCTIVE AND USEFUL”, OR DIPLOMATIC “TAQIYYA”

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NEGOTIATING WITH IRAN, 1979 AND 2012 Elliott Abrams Weekly Standard, April 20, 2012 As the United States and other members of the [international community negotiate] with Iran, it is worth recalling the classic analysis of Iran’s negotiating style sent in from the U.S. embassy in Tehran on August 13, 1979. The author of the cable, […]

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GLICK: «LA RÉBELLION ADOLESCENTE D’ISRAËL EST TERMINÉE», LE LEADER DU HAMAS EST ÉGYPTIEN, DIEUDONNÉ L’IMBÉCILE ET KARDASHIAN LA «BOMBE» IRANIENNE

Le post-sionisme des années 1990 Caroline B. Glick Jpost.com, 1 Mai 2012 Adaptation française: Sentinelle 5772 © La politique des portes ouvertes aux radicaux israéliens était défendable dans les années 1990 quand une fraction significative du public israélien les soutenait. Vous pouvez en apprendre beaucoup sur la santé d’une nation en observant comment il célèbre […]

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“SIX MILLION.… WE REMEMBER THIS NUMBER”: CREATING UNITY & STRENGTH THROUGH HOLOCAUST MEMORY

MOST ISRAELIS AND JEWS ARE UNDER NO ILLUSIONS Isi Leibler Jerusalem Post, May 2, 2012 If one reviews the events of the past year and monitors opinion polls, it becomes abundantly clear that despite the mantras chanted by the far Left insisting that most Israelis and Jews are opposed to the policies of the current […]

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ELECTIONEERING: “UNNECESSARY” AND “UNHELPFUL,” OR WILL NEW PLAYERS SHAKE UP ISRAEL’S POLITICAL ARENA?

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On Wednesday, Coalition chairman Ze’ev Elkin (Likud) submitted a bill to dissolve Israel’s parliament, raising the prospect of an early election to take place on September 4.   The bill is expected to be approved by Israel’s Ministerial Committee on Legislation on Sunday, which will accelerate the legislative process and put the bill to a […]

Analysis

BOOK REVIEW: On the Origins of Jewish Self-Hatred

Reitter, Paul. On the Origins of Jewish Self-Hatred. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012. 166 pp. ISBN 978-0-691-11922-9.   The issue of Jewish self-hatred is much in the news of late. The term “self-hating Jew” is frequently bandied about, especially in the context of the Israel-Palestine conflict, where Jews espousing a pro-Palestinian line are often called […]

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WEDNESDAY’S “NEWS IN REVIEW” ROUND-UP

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Media-ocrities of the Week   “The Forward thought there was no better artist [than Neshama Carlebach] to launch a musical conversation about whether and, if so, how the words of ‘Hatikvah’ could be altered to include all Israel’s citizens.… [We] propose…a careful adjustment of a few problematic words and phrases. In the opening stanza, ‘nefesh […]

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WHILE OBAMA POLITICIZES BIN LADEN’S DEATH, AL QAEDA SPREADS & PAKISTAN IS UNREPENTANT

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THE PATH TO BIN LADEN’S DEATH DIDN’T START WITH OBAMA Jose A. Rodriguez Jr. Washington Post, April 30, 2012 As we mark the [one-year] anniversary of Osama bin Laden’s death, President Obama deserves credit for making the right choice on taking out Public Enemy No. 1. But his administration never would have had the opportunity […]

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