Isranet Daily Briefing
Wednesday, March 2nd 2011 / Tuesday, November 8th 2011
BREAKING NEWS: According to senior Israeli government officials, the current instability in the Middle East, coupled with the Palestinians’ ongoing refusal to negotiate, will likely lead to a new Israeli initiative to move the “peace process” forward. The officials said that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu was contemplating a phased approach “that […]
Tuesday, March 1st 2011 / Tuesday, November 8th 2011
UN OFFERS A TYRANT’S LAST REFUGE Rex Murphy National Post, February 26, 2011 It would take the dark menacing imagination of Flann O’Brien, the fabulator of the absurd terrible world of his greatest novel, The Third Policeman, to be capable of equal encounter with some of the collateral absurdities that touch […]
Wednesday, February 23rd 2011 / Wednesday, November 9th 2011
Weekly Quotes “Our opposition to the resolution before this Council today should…not be misunderstood to mean we support settlement activity. On the contrary, we reject in the strongest terms the legitimacy of continued Israeli settlement activity. For more than four decades, Israeli settlement activity in territories occupied in 1967 has undermined Israel’s […]
Thursday, February 17th 2011 / Friday, November 11th 2011
RUMSFELD’S ‘SLICE OF HISTORY’ Kimberly Strassel Wall Street Journal, February 8, 2011 “I’d read other folks’ books about things I’d been involved in…and I’d think, My goodness, that’s not my perspective,” chuckles former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld in [our] interview.… “I remember talking to [former Secretary of State] George Shultz and […]
WARM SUPPORT FROM THE CHILLY NORTH Herb Keinon Jerusalem Post, February 3, 2012 The Hill Times, a Canadian weekly newspaper that covers that country’s politics, recently came out with its annual edition of the country’s 100 most influential people in government and politics. John Baird, Canada’s Conservative 42-year-old foreign minister, was listed as number three. […]
“…Here is the voice of Sheikh Yousuf al-Qaradhawi, [spiritual leader of the Muslim Brotherhood and] one of the learned men of Egyptian Islam: ‘I think [the shari’a] should be implemented gradually. This is a law of the shari’a and a law of nature.… We should do things gradually. We should prepare the people, teach them. […]
Mordechai Nisan discusses "In Defense of the Idea of a Jewish State" [VIDEO]
Richard Landes discusses "Dismantling Memes: Fighting the Cognitive War." [VIDEO]
Canadian Institute for Jewish Research / The Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs INVITE YOU TO A SPECIAL PRESENTATION : Ruben Salvadori, Photo journalist "PHOTOJOURNALISM BEHIND THE SCENES: Drama and Stereotypes in Picturing the Israel-Palestinian conflict MONDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2012 @ 12 NOON Concordia University – EV Bldg / (Fine Arts) […]
Sally Zerker discusses "Jewish Contributors to Delegitimation." [VIDEO]
Daniel Pipes delivers the Conference Keynote Address, "Jihadis and Leftists: Strategies for a Pro-Israel Response." [VIDEO]
Analysis
BOOK REVIEW: Ada Rapoport-Albert, Women and the Messianic Heresy of Sabbatai Zevi, 1666-1816. Oxford, Portland, OR: The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2011. xvi + 386 pp. ISBN: 978-1-904113-84-3 Any observer of trends in the field of Jewish studies will have noted that two areas in particular have seen much new research and publication […]
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