Isranet Daily Briefing
Thursday, August 2nd 2012 / Thursday, August 2nd 2012
HOW THE ARAB SPRING KEEPS ISRAEL SAFE Michael Koplow National Interest, July 31, 2012 As a parade of U.S. officials heads to Jerusalem to confer with Israeli leaders, much of the focus has been on Iran. After all, it is widely assumed that the Obama administration is doing everything it can to head off […]
Wednesday, August 1st 2012
Media-ocrities of the Week THEN: GURI WEINBERG, SON OF MURDERED ISRAELI OLYMPIAN, SPEAKS OUT In 1996, I, along with other Munich orphans and three of the widows… met with Alex Gilady. Gilady [an Israeli who] has been a member of the IOC’s Radio and Television Commission since 1984. I have known Mr. Gilady […]
Tuesday, July 31st 2012 / Wednesday, August 1st 2012
NO ILLUSIONS ABOUT EGYPT Isi Leibler Jerusalem Post, July 26, 2012 The government of Israel is making all the right noises and appropriate statements expressing hope that the new government of Egypt will maintain the cold peace. But we should be under no illusions. Even the greatest optimists cannot gloss over the reality […]
Monday, July 30th 2012
Dear Readers: Today marks a major moment in the life of the Canadian Institute for Jewish Research. Our talented current Publications Editor, Charles Bybelezer, is leaving for Israel. He has been responsible for the unerringly on-topic, wide-ranging, and clearly focused Daily Isranet Briefings you have received in recent years (as well as for […]
Monday, July 30th 2012 / Tuesday, July 31st 2012
July 13, 2012 The Honorable Benjamin Netanyahu Prime Minister of the State of Israel Dear Mr. Prime Minister: As strong advocates for Israel’s security and well-being as a Jewish and democratic state, we are deeply concerned about the recent findings of the government commission led by Supreme Court Jurist (Ret.) Edmund Levy. We fear that […]
Mr. Peter. A. Joseph, Chairman, Israel Policy Forum Mr. David A. Halperin, Executive Director, Israel Policy Forum July 18, 2012 Dear Mr. Joseph and Mr. Halperin, Permit me to introduce myself. I am Ambassador Alan Baker, a Member of the Edmond Levy Commission established to examine the status of building in Judea and Samaria […]
Translation of the Levy Report legal arguments found in Elder of Ziyon Blog Having considered the approaches presented before us [from the Left and from the Right], we think a reasonable interpretation of the standard term of "occupation", with all the obligations arising from it, in the provisions of international law is intended to apply for short periods of […]
Having considered the approaches presented before us [from the Left and from the Right], we think a reasonable interpretation of the standard term of "occupation", with all the obligations arising from it, in the provisions of international law is intended to apply for short periods of occupation of a territory of a sovereign state until the end of the conflict […]
Friday, July 27th 2012
CANADIAN INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH RESEARCH TISHA B’AV: THE NINTH OF AV Baruch Cohen Tisha B’av (The Ninth of Av) is the traditional day of mourning for the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem. Today, our enemies are calling again for the destruction of our Temple, Israel’s Capital, the Capital of the Jewish People: […]
Analysis
Thursday, July 26th 2012 / Tuesday, July 31st 2012
Tisha B'Av, the mournful commemoration of Jewish national destruction and self-destruction which falls this weekend, hasn’t quite reached the status of Yom Kippur as a day of reflection and repentance. But it should. Especially here in modern Israel. We are repeating so many of the mistakes made by our ancestors in the First and Second […]
Communiqués Isranet Daily Briefing
Thursday, July 26th 2012
LES MASSACRES EN SYRIE NE FONT QUE COMMENCER Guy Millière dreuz.info, 25 juillet 2012 Il se peut que le régime de Bachar Al Assad en Syrie s’effondre bientôt. Pour ce qui me concerne, j’ai des doutes quant à ce point. Je pense que le régime va tomber, mais que sa chute ne […]
Thursday, July 26th 2012 / Thursday, July 26th 2012
IRAQI DISTRESS SIGNALS Editorial Wall Street Journal, July 25, 2012 Meanwhile, back in Iraq. As Syria’s civil war worsens and the U.S. watches mostly from the sidelines, violence is escalating again in another Middle East country from which President Obama has disengaged. At least 115 Iraqis died on Monday in terrorist strikes on military and […]
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