Isranet Daily Briefing
Friday, May 4th 2012
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 […]
Thursday, May 3rd 2012 / Thursday, May 3rd 2012
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
Thursday, May 3rd 2012
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 […]
Wednesday, May 2nd 2012 / Wednesday, May 2nd 2012
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 […]
Tuesday, May 1st 2012 / Tuesday, May 1st 2012
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 […]
Monday, April 30th 2012 / Monday, April 30th 2012
“About a month ago the European Union, showing it will not be trifled with, barred Bashar al-Assad’s wife, Asma, and other women in his immediate family from shopping for luxury goods in Europe. For some reason, going cold turkey on Dior, Armani and Prada failed to bring down the Assad regime or to end its […]
Friday, April 27th 2012
ISRAEL’S MIRACULOUS JOURNEY Joel Lion Gazette, April 26, 2012 Think “Israel” and what comes to mind? It’s a good question to ask on Israel’s Independence Day.… The first thing most readers will think of is my country’s decades-long conflict with the Palestinians. To others, the mere mention of Israel conjures up images of a mystic […]
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LE QUOTIDIEN LA PRESSE FLIRTE AVEC L’ISLAMISME Dépêche Postedeveille.ca, 23 avril 2012 L'équipe de Poste de Veille répond à l'article d'Anabelle Nicoud Le Québec flirte avec Marine Le Pen paru dans La Presse du 21 avril dans lequel elle associe Poste de Veille à la «toile brune» qui inciterait à la violence. […]
Thursday, April 26th 2012 / Thursday, April 26th 2012
Professor Frederick Krantz, Director, CIJR (Left) and Charles Bybelezer, Publications Chairman, CIJR (Right) celebrate Israel's 64th birthday in Montreal, Canada
YOM HA’ATZMAUT, 5772 Baruch Cohen In loving memory of Malca z’l “And what glory awaits the selfless fighters for the cause! That is why I believe that a wonderful breed of Jews will spring up from the earth. The Macabees will rise again.”—Theodor Herzl, The Jewish State, Herzl Press, (N.Y., 1970), p. 110. Theodor Herzl […]
Wednesday, April 25th 2012 / Wednesday, April 25th 2012
“For bereaved families, time stops when you get the terrible news.… It cuts your life in two: what was before, and what will never be again. When you hear the siren today, we will turn into one family, and the citizens of Israel will be united in our remembrance.”—Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, at a […]
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