Isranet Daily Briefing
Wednesday, July 25th 2012
Media-ocrities of the Week “[There is] no consensus among the EU member states for putting Hezbollah on the terrorist list.… Should there be tangible evidence of Hezbollah engaging in acts of terrorism, the EU would consider listing the organization.”—Erato Kozakou-Marcoullis, the foreign minister of Cyprus, which currently holds the EU’s rotating presidency, in a […]
Tuesday, July 24th 2012 / Tuesday, July 24th 2012
HOLDING IRAN ACCOUNTABLE FOR TERRORIST ATTACKS Editorial Washington Post, July 20, 2012 The bombing of a bus in Bulgaria filled with Israeli tourists [last] Wednesday underlines the grim fact that Iran is waging a war of terrorism. Using the territory of countries across the world, working sometimes through proxies like Lebanon’s Hezbollah and sometimes with […]
Monday, July 23rd 2012 / Monday, July 23rd 2012
Following last week’s bombing in Damascus, in which multiple leading Syrian regime figures were killed by opposition forces, the NY Times reported that Israel and the U.S. are engaged in talks over whether to launch a pre-emptive mission to secure Syria’s chemical and biological weapons. As the security situation throughout Syria continues to deteriorate, […]
Friday, July 20th 2012 / Friday, July 20th 2012
NEVER DID I ASK… Baruch Cohen To Mother: Never did I ask why dawns are red Never did I ask why flags are like hawthorns Never did I ask why flowers look tearful in those mornings Never did I ask why dusks don’t lose their splendour I always saw Mother’s tears How she wiped them […]
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Thursday, July 19th 2012 / Thursday, July 19th 2012
LE VÉRITABLE MAÎTRE DE L'EGYPTE: MOHAMED TANTAWI Daniel Pipes et Cynthia Farahat The Washington Times, 11 juillet 2012 Adaptation française: Anne-Marie Delcambre de Champvert Que signifie le fait que Mohamed Morsi soit président de l'Egypte? Parlant au nom de l'opinion américaine largement répandue, Bret Stephens a récemment argumenté dans le Wall Street […]
Thursday, July 19th 2012
Yesterday, at least six civilians, including 5 Israelis, were killed by a terrorist at the airport of the Bulgarian city of Burgas. The attack targeted one of four Israeli tour buses carrying passengers who arrived on a charter plane from Ben-Gurion Airport. An investigation carried out by Bulgarian and Israeli authorities, in conjunction with the […]
Wednesday, July 18th 2012 / Wednesday, July 18th 2012
BREAKING NEWS: AT LEAST 7 DEAD IN SUICIDE BOMBING ON ISRAELI BUS IN BULGARIA—(Jerusalem) At least 7 people have been killed and 32 others injured in a suicide-bombing on an Israeli tour bus at the airport of the Bulgarian city of Burgas. The bus was carrying Israelis who landed in Bulgaria at 4:45 pm for […]
Tuesday, July 17th 2012 / Tuesday, July 17th 2012
LIBYA’S BIG STEP FORWARD…THEN WHAT? Amb. Marc Ginsberg Huffington Post, July 8, 2012 Under a cloud of sporadic militia-inspired violence and divisive regional rivalries which have rocked the nation since its liberation, Libyans triumphantly flocked to the polls [last week] in their first free vote in 40 years to elect representatives to a new national […]
Monday, July 16th 2012 / Monday, July 16th 2012
AMERICA WRITES ITSELF OUT OF THE SCRIPT Michael Young Daily Star, July 12, 2012 Lately, the U.S. administration has been so preoccupied with domestic issues vital to President Barack Obama’s re-election, that you wonder where the Middle East stands in Washington’s future. That’s not to say that American officials are ignoring the region. Secretary of […]
Friday, July 13th 2012 / Friday, July 13th 2012
THIS WEEK IN HISTORY: THE JEDWABNE POGROM Tamara Zieve Jerusalem Post, July 8, 2012 On July 10, 1941, hundreds of Jewish residents of the Polish town of Jedwabne were rounded up, corralled into a barn and burned to death.… Initial accounts pointed to German Nazis—occupying Poland at the time—as the perpetrators of the massacre. Fifty-nine […]
RÉDUIRE LES DÉGÂTS CAUSÉS PAR L’UNRWA Steven J. Rosen et Daniel Pipes The Jerusalem Post, 8 juillet 2012 Adaptation française: Anne-Marie Delcambre de Champvert Les détracteurs de l’Office de secours et de travaux des Nations Unies (UNRWA), l’organisation chargée de veiller sur les réfugiés palestiniens, ont eu tendance à se concentrer sur ses […]
Thursday, July 12th 2012 / Thursday, July 12th 2012
In January, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu commissioned the Levy Committee to investigate the legal status of Judea and Samaria (West Bank). The three-member team, headed by former Israeli Supreme Court Justice Edmund Levy and comprising retired Tel Aviv District Court Judge Tehiya Shapira along with international law expert Dr. Alan Baker, this week […]
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