Friday, February 24th 2012 / Friday, February 24th 2012
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Isranet Daily Briefing
Thursday, February 23rd 2012
OBAMA URGED TO ACT ON SYRIA Weekly Standard, February 17, 2012 The following is a letter written by a group of foreign policy professionals to U.S. President Barack Obama regarding the situation in Syria. Dear Mr. President: For eleven months now, the Syrian people have been dying on a daily basis at the hands of […]
Wednesday, February 22nd 2012
Media-ocrity of the Week “I don’t have an assessment yet. I’m not sure I’ll ever answer that question in the way you’ve just framed it.”—Jodi Rudoren, the incoming New York Times Jerusalem Bureau Chief, responding to whether she thinks Israel is an apartheid state. When asked if she is a Zionist, Rudoren answered, “I’m […]
Analysis
Tuesday, February 21st 2012
As we enthusiastically follow the “Arab Spring” overthrow of Arab tyrants and dictators, we think, and hope, that “the Arab street” is calling out for democracy and human rights, and that Arab societies are becoming more humane civil societies. But our enthusiasm and expectations are based less on an understanding of the Middle East and […]
Yesterday, the White House announced that Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu will meet with US President Barack Obama in Washington on March 5. The encounter between the two leaders will take place against the backdrop of a flurry of reports about the possibility of an Israeli military strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities. To […]
Monday, February 20th 2012
THE DIASPORA IDF Israel Kasnett Jerusalem Post, February 17, 2012 This week is the eighth annual Israeli Apartheid Week—the start of an annual campaign that seeks to delegitimize Israel and, according to the official website, “educate people about the nature of Israel as an apartheid system and to build Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaigns […]
Friday, February 17th 2012
On December 20, 2011, Salva Kiir, president of South Sudan, embarked on his first foreign voyage as leader of the infant country. His destination? The Jewish state of Israel. President Shimon Peres hailed the visit as a “moving and historic moment,” saying “Israel has supported and will continue to support [South Sudan] in all […]
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Friday, February 17th 2012 / Friday, February 17th 2012
MES RÉFLEXIONS, UN AN APRÈS LA DÉMISSION DE HOSNI MOUBARAK Daniel Pipes Fr.danielpipes.org, 11 février 2012 Version originale anglaise: Reflections a Year after Hosni Mubarak's Resignation Adaptation française: Anne-Marie Delcambre de Champvert 1. Les prédictions de démocratie, bien trop naïves, émises au cours de l'année se sont avérées être aussi stupides qu'elles […]
Thursday, February 16th 2012
TALIBAN SEE CONTROL OF AFGHANISTAN AS ‘INEVITABLE’ Peter Goodspeed National Post, Feb 1, 2012 …Leaked U.S. and NATO reports suggest officials fear they are locked in a stalemate [in Afghanistan] that could become outright defeat the moment foreign troops leave. A secret NATO report, based on interrogation of 4,000 Taliban and al-Qaeda prisoners, says Afghan […]
Greenspahn, Frederick, ed. Jewish Mysticism and Kabbalah: New Insights and Scholarship. New York: New York University Press, 2011. xviii + 250 pp. ISBN: 978-0-8147-3286-1 If there is any area within the field of Jewish studies that has captured the imagination of people beyond the academy, it is kabbala. A person walking into a bookstore […]
Wednesday, February 15th 2012 / Wednesday, February 15th 2012
Weekly Quotes “Iran, which is behind these attacks, is the greatest exporter of terrorism in the world.… The countries of the world must condemn these acts and draw a red line against Iranian aggression…[and] on the Iranian nuclear program.… This aggression, if not stopped, will eventually spread.”—Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, blaming Iran for […]
Tuesday, February 14th 2012 / Tuesday, February 14th 2012
BARAK BLAMES IRAN FOR BOMB BLASTS IN BANGKOK Herb Keinon, Jpost.Com Staff & Reuters Jerusalem Post, February 14, 2012 [Israeli] Defense Minister Ehud Barak said that a series of bomb blasts that struck Thailand on Tuesday was part of an attempted terrorist attack perpetrated by Iran. An Iranian man was seriously wounded in Bangkok on […]
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