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HOLOCAUST, ISRAEL, JERUSALEM: JEWISH MEMORY, JEWISH HEROISM

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MEMORIES OF PARENTS SUSTAINED HIM Elaine Kalman Naves Montreal Gazette, March 24, 2012 The following is a review of Chief Rabbi (Tel Aviv) Israel Meir Lau’s Out of the Depths: The Story of a Child of Buchenwald Who Returned Home at Last. (Schmidt Sterling, 380 pages, $29.95.) ‘Out of the depths have I called Thee, […]

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SPECIAL “NEWS IN REVIEW” ROUND-UP— AND THE GLOBAL “MARCH OF FOLLY” TO JERUSALEM, ISRAEL

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Media-ocrities of the Week   “On all these issues, but particularly missile defense, this, this can be solved but it’s important for [incoming Russian President Vladimir Putin] to give me space.… This is my last election. After my election I have more flexibility.”—US President Barack Obama, caught on an open mic assuring outgoing Russian President […]

Analysis

THE HOLOCAUST WAS NOT AN INTERFAITH EXPERIENCE

The Dachau concentration camp display entitled Names Instead of Numbers [currently in Winnipeg] is not a Holocaust exhibit. The victims of the Hitler regime were indeed diverse but the victims of the Holocaust were Jewish.   This is a fundamental distinction and one that requires further elaboration given recent press coverage (see links below). It […]

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ISRAEL POLITICS: THE CHALLENGES– ELECTORAL, MILITARY, LEGAL & DIPLOMATIC

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PREVENTING THE POLITICAL SYSTEM’S STAGNATION, COLLAPSE Danny Ayalon Jerusalem Post, February 26, 2012 …Israel’s electoral and governmental system is failing and moving us toward political paralysis. The writing has been on the wall for some time, and soon it may be too late to make the necessary change.… In Israel, there is no sufficient separation […]

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UN/UNESCO/UNRWA/UNHRC/UNBELIEVABLE: POST-1945 DREAM IS 21ST CENTURY NIGHTMARE

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UNESCO GOES TO WASHINGTON Claudia Rosett National Review, March 14, 2012 When the member states of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization voted last October to confer membership on the Palestinian Authority, they knew their decision would trigger the withdrawal of U.S. funding, which in dues alone accounted for more than $78 million […]

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ON IRAN’S BOMB, IGNORE [U.S.] “INTELLIGENCE” AND PUNDITS—TEHRAN’S NEITHER RATIONAL NOR INVULNERABLE

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THE BOGUS IRAN INTELLIGENCE DEBATE Bret Stephens Wall Street Journal, March 19, 2012 To better understand the debate over the state of Iran’s nuclear bomb building capabilities, it helps to talk to someone who has built a nuclear bomb. Tom Reed served as Secretary of the Air Force and head of the National Reconnaissance Office […]

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RUMOURS OF AMERICAN DEMISE ARE PREMATURE, AND DESPITE COMING MARCH, DITTO FOR ISRAEL

RUMOURS OF AMERICA’S DEMISE ARE AN EXAGGERATION Robert Kagan National Post, March 10, 2012 In The World America Made, excerpted below, foreign-policy expert Robert Kagan challenges the conventional wisdom that U.S. global power and influence are waning: Much of the commentary on American decline these days rests on rather loose analysis, on impressions that the […]

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DE GAZA À TOULOUSE: ANTISÉMITISME ET PROPAGANDE

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    MAIS QUI EST MOHAMED MERAH? SUR LA PISTE DU MEURTRIER DE TOULOUSE-MONTAUBAN Dépêche Guysen International News, 21 mars 2012 Les antécédents de l'auteur présumé des tueries qui ont causé la mort de sept personnes en France, retranché mercredi dans un immeuble de Toulouse cerné par la police, ont éveillé les soupçons des enquêteurs […]

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OPPOSE THE ENABLERS, DEFENDERS OF ANTISEMITIC MURDERERS, AT THE UN, IN EUROPE, EVERYWHERE!

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Mohamed Merah, the suspected murderer of seven people in France, including four at a Jewish school in Toulouse on Monday, is dead.   “In the end, he jumped from the window with his gun in his hand, continuing to fire. He was found dead on the ground,” French Interior Minister Claude Guean told reporters at […]

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WEDNESDAY’S “NEWS IN REVIEW” ROUND-UP

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Media-ocrities of the Week   “When we think about what happened today in Toulouse, we remember what happened in Norway last year, we know what is happening in Syria, and we see what is happening in Gaza.…”—European Union foreign policy chief, Catherine Ashton, to Palestinian youth in Brussels, drawing a parallel between Monday’s premeditated murder […]

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THE ANSWER TO ANTISEMITISM, IN FRANCE AND EUROPE: JEWS, COME HOME!

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The following is excerpted from an email written and circulated by a French Jew. It was published as an article, “One Day in the Life of a Jew in France,” in FrontPage Magazine on November 9, 2011. “I am a Jew—therefore I am forwarding this to everyone on all my e-mail lists. I will not […]

Analysis

THE FAILED ‘ARAB SPRING’ AND ISRAEL’S SECURITY

The “Arab Spring” began with a popular uprising in Tunisia a year ago, then spread to Egypt, where Hosni Mubarak, quickly abandoned by America, fell after a few weeks of demonstrations in Cairo. From Egypt it moved to oil-rich Libya, where—with the aid of NATO intervention, with Barack Obama “leading from behind”—Ghaddafi was finally overthrown […]

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