CIJR | Canadian Institute for Jewish Research

L'institut Canadien de Recherches sur le Judaisme

Daily Briefing: US CONGRESS SANCTIONS THE ICC: A GAMECHANGER?

Daily Briefing: CANADA’S PM TRUDEAU ANNOUNCES RESIGNATION AFTER REPLACEMENT CHOSEN

TRUDEAU'S BETRAYAL OF JEWS

Daily Briefing: CAN ISRAEL DESTROY IRAN'S NUCLEAR PROGRAM?

Hillel Neuer addresses students at CIJR in Montreal

Executive director of UN Watch

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ISRAEL, LEBANON, AND THE U.S.— FIVE YEARS AFTER LEBANON WAR II

LEARNING LEBANON II’S LESSONS Liat Collins Jerusalem Post, July 9, 2011 Time flies not only when you’re having fun. Proof: On July 12, it will be five years since the Second Lebanon War broke out, and the intervening years seem to have gone quickly. Perhaps it was because they were […]

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PIKUACH NEFESH: ISRAEL’S TRIUMPH, AND AGONY— SHALIT’S RETURN MEANS BOTH JEWISH VINDICATION AND PALESTINIAN TERRORISTS’ REINFORCEMENT

GILAD SHALIT RELEASED IN PRISONER SWAP Joshua Mitnick Wall Street Journal, October 18, 2011 Israel and Hamas carried out an unprecedented prisoner swap on Tuesday, freeing Israeli Sgt. Gilad Shalit after five years in captivity in return for some 477 Palestinian prisoners that were released to the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and to Egypt.… […]

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AMERICA & PAKISTAN (AND CHINA, INDIA, RUSSIA AND AFGHANISTAN) AFTER BIN LADEN

SLAPPING PAKISTAN Michael A. Walsh NY Post, July 11, 2011 …[A] war of wills is being waged halfway around the world in Pakistan. In response to Pakistani intransigence and duplicity—especially by the country’s army and intelligence agency, the ISI—America is withholding some $800 million in aid, including $300 million earmarked for counterinsurgency […]

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START-UP NATION: 1.0 [BIBLICAL PERIOD], 2.0 [POST-EXILIC], 3.0 [THE MIRACLE OF MODERN ISRAEL]

THEY TRIED TO KILL US, WE WON, NOW WE’RE CHANGING THE WORLD David Horovitz Jerusalem Post, April 1, 2011 To our considerable sorrow here at The Jerusalem Post, our super-smart, relentlessly questioning, insightful editorial writer, Saul Singer, left the paper three years ago to write a book. To the great and still […]

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“LEADING FROM BEHIND” – U.S. FOREIGN POLICY, FROM LIBYA TO SYRIA, EGYPT TO IRAN

THE OBAMA DOCTRINE: LEADING FROM BEHIND Charles Krauthammer Washington Post, April 28, 2011 Obama may be moving toward something resembling a doctrine. One of his advisers described the president’s actions in Libya as “leading from behind.”—Ryan Lizza, the New Yorker, May 2 issue To be precise, leading from behind is a style, not […]

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SYRIAN DESCENT INTO DARKNESS CAN ENGULF HEZBULLAH, ISOLATE IRAN

SYRIA PROTEST LARGEST YET: HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS DEMONSTRATE, 17 KILLED Zeina Karam & Elizabeth A. Kennedy Huffington Post, July 15, 2011 Hundreds of thousands of Syrians mounted the largest protests Friday since the uprising began more than four months ago, pouring into areas where the government crackdown has been most intense in […]

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WHILE IRANIANS, EMBOLDENED, PLAN US STRIKE, EGYPTIAN “REVOLUTION” IMPERILS CHRISTIANS

OBAMA’S WEAKNESS INVITED IRAN’S PLOT Mona Charen National Review, October 14, 2011 If the Iranian government doesn’t frighten you, you haven’t been paying attention. The regime in Iran has been killing Americans in Iraq and Afghanistan for many years and has sworn countless times in the past 30 years to preside over the destruction of […]

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ATHENS & JERUSALEM [AND ISTANBUL-CONSTANTINOPLE] —POLITICS AS RETURN WESTERN CIVILIZATION?

“The nation of Greece would like to express its deep love and friendship for another ancient people in this region, the nation of Israel.… We are united with your nation historically and culturally, and in our joint desire to advance security and peace. I hope that the new chapter recently opened in the ties […]

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FASHIONABLE ANTI-ISRAELISM, JEWISH SELF-HATRED IN ISRAEL, & G-D, MAN, AND ANTISEMITISM AT YALE

THE HATE THAT DARES NOT SPEAK ITS NAME Walter Russell Mead American Interest, July 18, 2011 This time of year it is worth remembering Mein Kampf, the turgid and unreadable Bible of the Nazi movement that was published back in July of 1925. The last time I looked, you could still buy it […]

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THEATER OF THE ABSURD AT THE UN: HUMAN RIGHTS [SIC] COUNCIL & RICHARD FAULK [SICK]

THE ANTI-ISRAEL AGENDA PREVAILS Anne Bayefsky Jerusalem Post, June 20, 2011 On Friday at 6 p.m. the Obama administration promise to fix the disreputable UN Human Rights Council by becoming a member died a predictable death at the UN General Assembly. Knowing they were headed for certain defeat, Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of […]

Palestinian Unilateral Declaration of Independence (UDI)- Innocuous or Real Threat?

On September 23rd., Mahmoud Abbas, after a vitriolic speech, officially submitted his application to the U.N. to unilaterally recognize a Palestinian state. Earlier that week, President Obama reiterated the U.S. position that a unilateral move is counterproductive to establishing a lasting peace. He therefore insisted that the U.S. would exercise its right to a veto […]

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TRAGEDY IN NORWAY: THE DEBUNKING OF “GOLDEN ARCH” THEORY

“It is nearly two days since Norway was hit by the worst atrocity it has seen since the Second World War. On Utoeya, and in Oslo. It seems like an eternity. These have been hours, days and nights filled with shock, despair, anger and weeping. Today is a day for mourning. Today, we will allow […]