Isranet Daily Briefing
Thursday, March 15th 2012 / Thursday, March 15th 2012
A FRAGILE TRUCE Editorial Jerusalem Post, March 13, 2012 After four days of conflict, the present round of clashes with terrorist organizations in Gaza appears to have come to an end. Most parties had a vested interest in avoiding an escalation. Israel’s objectives were limited to containment of the fallout resulting from the targeted killing […]
Wednesday, March 14th 2012 / Wednesday, March 14th 2012
Media-ocrity of the Week “Be strong, oh Gaza. Stay steadfast, oh Gaza.”—Israeli-Arab MK, Ahmed Tibi (UAL-Ta’al), after more than 250 rockets were fired from Gaza into Israel last weekend, expressing solidarity with the Hamas-ruled Strip. Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu denounced Tibi’s comments as “very grave.” (Jerusalem Post, March 12.) Weekly Quotes […]
Tuesday, March 13th 2012 / Tuesday, March 13th 2012
“Army snipers and Shabbiha gunmen posted at strategic points terrorized the population, targeting and killing small children, women and other unarmed civilians.…” (p. 10) “After the withdrawal of League of Arab States observers in late January, the army intensified its bombardment with heavy weapons. It gave no warning to the population and unarmed civilians were […]
Analysis
Monday, March 12th 2012 / Monday, March 12th 2012
Homogenous units based along tribal lines may be the prescription for Middle East stability, says Mordechai Kedar, whose experience in IDF Intelligence, fluent Arabic, and outspoken views have made him an official Israeli spokesperson to the Arabic media. “We know this because the most stable Arab countries are the Gulf Emirates and every Emirate is […]
Monday, March 12th 2012
Imagine for a moment that Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khameini, at a Martyrs’ Day rally in Tehran, repeated his longstanding call for both the UK and France to be wiped off the map. Imagine then, that after failing for nearly a decade to persuade Iran to abort its nuclear program through diplomatic overtures and intensifying […]
The current round of fighting between the IDF and Gaza terrorists is unprecedented in terms of the number of rockets and mortar bombs being directed at Israel. Since last Friday, the IDF has registered some 200 launches from Gaza and is characterizing the ongoing barrage as a “dramatic development in terms of the quantity and […]
Friday, March 9th 2012
OBAMA TIES ISRAEL DOWN WITH HIS POLICY ON IRAN Charles Krauthammer National Post, March 9, 2012 It’s Lucy and the football, Iran-style. After ostensibly tough talk about preventing Iran from going nuclear, the Obama administration acquiesced to yet another round of talks with the mullahs. This, 14 months after the last group-of-six negotiations collapsed in […]
Communiqués Isranet Daily Briefing
Friday, March 9th 2012 / Friday, March 9th 2012
CRISE HUMANITAIRE DE GAZA: UN CHOIX POLITIQUE Jacques Benillouche Guysen International News, 5 mars 2012 Avec la saison du froid et les pluies inhabituelles dans la région, de nombreuses photos circulent pour dénoncer que Gaza est au bord de la crise humanitaire. Il est certes difficile de rester insensible à la misère humaine […]
Thursday, March 8th 2012 / Thursday, March 8th 2012
PEERING BEHIND OBAMA’S PURIM COSTUME Michael Freund Jerusalem Post, March 7, 2012 Today is Purim, one of the most joyful festivals on the Jewish calendar, when we celebrate the deliverance of our ancestors from a Persian plot to annihilate them. It is a day rife with ritual, from the reading of the Book of Esther […]
Wednesday, March 7th 2012 / Wednesday, March 7th 2012
THE BOOK OF ESTHER THE JOYFUL FESTIVAL OF PURIM 2012 (5772) Baruch Cohen In beloved memory of Malca z’l “Should all Jewish festivals be abolished, Purim will remain.” “Tefilot Mikol Hashana” (D.W. Libshitz, p. 419, 1878) Purim will be celebrated forever. Purim will live on so long as prejudice, hatred, and enemies like Hamas, […]
Tuesday, March 6th 2012 / Tuesday, March 6th 2012
Today’s Briefing: THE MIDDLE EAST’S REAL APARTHEID Efraim Karsh, Jerusalem Post, March 5, 2012 PM NETANYAHU’S SPEECH AT THE 2012 AIPAC POLICY CONFERENCE Israeli Prime Minister’s Office, March 6, 2012 THE ‘JEWISH’ PRESIDENT Bret Stephens, Wall Street Journal, March 6, 2012 OBAMA SETS OUT THE CASE FOR AN ISRAELI STRIKE Caroline […]
CIJR PURIM FUND APPEAL Today, as Israel and the Jewish People Face a New, Nuclear-Armed Haman, & The “Israeli Apartheid Week” Cult Spreads Its Hatred on Campuses PLEASE SUPPORT CIJR’S PRO-ISRAEL WORK & HELP US DEFEND STUDENTS ON AND OFF CAMPUS As an independent pro-Israel think tank, we must raise our own funds […]
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