Tuesday, January 31st 2012 / Tuesday, June 19th 2012
Barbara Kay discusses "Israel and Delegitimation." [VIDEO]
Isranet Daily Briefing
Wednesday, January 25th 2012
Media-ocrity of the Week “The martyr is the ultimate source of pride.… It is the symbol of our homeland.”—Israeli Knesset member Ahmed Tibi (UAL-Ta’al), at an official Palestinian Authority event, paying homage to Palestinian martyrs—as “there is nothing more praiseworthy than those who die for the homeland”—and referring to Israelis as “those who occupy […]
Wednesday, January 18th 2012 / Wednesday, January 18th 2012
Media-ocrities of the Week “As a traveler, I am not a particularly choosy person. I will go pretty much anywhere, anytime. Wander on horseback into the mountains of Kyrgyzstan? Why not? Spend the night in a sketchy Burmese border town? Sure!… In fact, of all the world’s roughly 200 nations, there was only one…that […]
Communiqués Isranet Daily Briefing
Wednesday, January 18th 2012 / Sunday, January 20th 2013
Combattre la ‘palestinisation’ des universités israéliennes, un enjeu crucial Pierre Itshak Lurçat upjf.org, 7 janvier 2013 « Des milliers d’étudiants israéliens sont dégoûtés par la ‘palestinisation’ des sciences sociales et refusent la réécriture de l’histoire du sionisme et la dissimulation des découvertes archéologiques considérables… » écrit Dror Eidar […]
Wednesday, January 11th 2012
Media-ocrities of the Week “To assume that the Islamists will not be impacted, or moderated, by the responsibilities of power…is to miss the dynamism of Egyptian politics today. Come with me to Cairo’s dirt-poor Shubra el-Khema neighborhood…where I watched the last round of voting at a women-only voting center.… Here is what was so […]
Wednesday, January 4th 2012
Media-ocrity of the Week “Should any application of these provisions conflict with my constitutional authorities, I will treat the provisions as non-binding.”—Excerpt from US President Barack Obama’s signing statement on the 2012 Defense Authorization Act, which includes an amendment placing economic sanctions on financial institutions that do business with the Iran Central Bank, claiming […]
Wednesday, December 28th 2011
Media-ocrity of the Week “Look, the Taliban per se is not our enemy. That’s critical. There is not a single statement that the president has ever made in any of our policy assertions that the Taliban is our enemy because it threatens US interests.”—US Vice President Joe Biden, stating that the Taliban, an al-Qaeda-aligned […]
Wednesday, December 21st 2011
Media-ocrities of the Week “In retrospect, I probably should have used a more precise term like ‘engineered’ by the Israel lobby—a term that does not suggest grand conspiracy theories.…”—New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, responding to intense criticism over an inflammatory article he penned last week in which he invoked age-old ant-Semitic stereotypes by […]
Analysis
Wednesday, December 21st 2011 / Wednesday, February 15th 2012
Israel, the Jewish people’s miraculously reborn state, faces many serious and concerning current issues. Nevertheless, it is good from time to time to stand back from the periodic crises in order to appreciate the modern democratic polity’s resilient, ongoing strength and truly remarkable achievements. That Israel confronts many cascading and reinforcing threats is self-evident. […]
Wednesday, December 14th 2011 / Wednesday, December 14th 2011
Weekly Quotes “Thomas L. Friedman’s ‘Israel Can’t Afford To Do Nothing’ (National Post, Dec.5, 2011) is a tissue of half-truths and misrepresentations. Despite agreeing that Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu was right, in disagreeing with President Obama last spring that the Cairo events were ushering in ‘a new era of liberalism and progress’, Friedman nevertheless […]
Wednesday, December 7th 2011
Media-ocrities of the Week “A distinction should be made between traditional anti-Semitism, which should be condemned, and Muslim hatred for Jews, which stems from the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinians.”—US Ambassador to Belgium, Howard Gutman, at a conference on anti-Semitism organized by the European Jewish Union, justifying Islamic Jew-hatred as a reasonable […]
Wednesday, November 23rd 2011
Media-ocrities of the Week “All three of us entirely agree on the objective, which is making sure that Iran does not weaponize nuclear power and that we don’t trigger a nuclear arms race in region.”—U.S. President Barack Obama, speaking in Hawaii at the conclusion of the Asia-Pacific leaders summit, proclaiming that the United States, […]
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