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ISRAEL IS RESILIENT BUT WATCHFUL Yossi Klein Halevi Wall Street Journal, March 30, 2011 The ambulance sirens began sounding and didn’t seem to end. The terrorist attack on March 23 that killed one person and wounded 30 was the first bus bombing in Jerusalem since 2005. And it happened just as […]
Media-ocrities of the Week “This is about peace, identity, culture, heritage and freedom of expression.”—EU foreign policy chief, Catherine Ashton, commending UNESCO’s admission of “Palestine” as its 195th member, and urging nations to maintain their support for the UN cultural organization. (Gazette, November 1.) “Avigdor Lieberman, who is the main coalition partner of […]
THE INMATES ARE RUNNING THE ASYLUM Daniel Ayalon Foreign Policy, March 2, 2011 The recent unrest in parts of the Arab world has not only exposed the appalling lack of development in these countries, but also a number of fundamental deficiencies in the international system. The United Nations, which began its […]
RECONSIDERING THE ‘GOLDSTONE REPORT’ ON ISRAEL AND WAR CRIMES Richard Goldstone Washington Post, April 1, 2011 We know a lot more today about what happened in the Gaza war of 2008-09 than we did when I chaired the fact-finding mission appointed by the U.N. Human Rights Council that produced what has […]
EGYPT—THE HANGOVER Bret Stephens Wall Street Journal, March 29, 2011 Talk to top U.S. officials here about how things are going in Egypt, and the gist of the answer reminds me of what Apollo XI astronaut Michael Collins told Mission Control while sailing over the Sea of Tranquility: “Listen, babe, everything […]
ISRAEL’S REQUIREMENTS FOR DEFENSIBLE BORDERS IN A RAPIDLY CHANGING MIDDLE EAST Dore Gold Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, April 5, 2011 Prepared Statement before the Foreign Affairs Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives Israel is entering an extremely dangerous period in the year ahead. It is not facing an […]
ISRAEL’S LEFT NEEDS TO WISE UP TO MIDDLE EAST REALITY Ari Shavit Haaretz, April 7, 2011 It is not hard to imagine what would have happened had Juliano Mer-Khamis [a well-known Arab-Israeli actor, and peace activist, who was recently shot dead in Jenin] been murdered by Jews. The murder would receive […]
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THE DANGER OF A TEHRAN WINTER Joel E. Starr The Diplomat, March 30, 2011 “Welcome to the earthquake!” boomed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to our congressional delegation last month in Jerusalem. “An Arab earthquake,” he told us, “that has been shaking the Middle East politically, affecting all countries in the region […]
CIJR PASSOVER APPEAL: Please help us support ISRAEL & our students! Tax-Deductible Donations Supports CIJR’s Key Work: * Internationally-read email ISRANET Daily Briefing;renowned ISRAFAXquarterly; weekly French-language Communiqué Isranet; and monthly ISRAZINEwebzine * Vital work with students, including the Student Israel-Advocacy Program(SIAP), the Baruch Cohen Research Internships, and Dateline: Middle East student magazine * […]
In anticipation of the Canadian Institute for Jewish Research’s upcoming Sunday, 6 November 2011 International Conference, “Combatting the Delegitimation of Israel,” this week’s Daily Briefings will focus on the global effort to demonize the lone democracy in the Middle East. The series will provide insight into the pervasive, “soft war” being waged against the Jewish […]
CIJR PASSOVER APPEAL: Please help us support ISRAEL & our students! CIJR is a non-profit foundation entirely dependent upon tax-receiptable public contributions Tax-Deductible Donations Support CIJR’s Key Work: * Internationally-read email ISRANET Daily Briefing;renowned ISRAFAXquarterly; weekly French-language Communiqué Isranet; and monthly ISRAZINEwebzine * Vital work with students, including the Student Israel-Advocacy Program(SIAP), […]
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