Isranet Daily Briefing
IRAN: PRECONDITIONS AND PROVOCATIONS Lt. Col. (ret.) Michael Segall Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, February 10, 2011 The January 21-22 meeting in Istanbul between Iran and the five permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany (the P5+1), aimed at reaching at least some understandings regarding Iran’s nuclear program, concluded in […]
Weekly Quotes “Canada does not stand behind Israel; Canada stands shoulder to shoulder with Israel.”—Canadian Foreign Minister, John Baird, at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial museum in Jerusalem, emphasizing Canada’s staunch support of the Jewish state, and reiterating that “Israel has no greater friend in the world than Canada.” (JTA, January 31.) “The […]
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 […]
THE REALITY OF REVOLUTION David Rieff New Republic, February 14, 2011 In both the euphoria and the apprehension that have accompanied the popular uprisings in the Arab Middle East…there has been an avalanche of the usual cyber-utopian techno-babble about the emancipatory potential of the Bluetooth devices and Twitter feeds for which authoritarian […]
Yesterday, the UN’s nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency, released it most damning account to date of Iran’s continued pursuit of nuclear weapons. According to the report, “The Agency has serious concerns regarding possible military dimensions to Iran’s nuclear programme” and that credible information “indicates that Iran has carried out activities relevant to the […]
AVOIDING EUPHORIA OVER OBAMA Isi Leibler Jerusalem Post, February 21, 2011 A strange euphoria seems to have blinded some Israelis and American Jews concerning the context of President Barack Obama’s veto of a UN resolution. In the past, blatantly one-sided anti- Israeli resolutions were vetoed as a matter of course. On […]
DICTATOR LOSES GRIP IN DESERT Charles Levinson, Margaret Coker, & Tahani Karrar-Lewsley Wall Street Journal, February 23, 2011 On the ground in the eastern chunk of this oil-rich desert nation, the signs of rebellion are plain to see in the armories of a military base near Baida: Weapons crates lie busted […]
BOOK REVIEW: THE DEATH MARCHES: THE FINAL PHASE OF NAZIGENOCIDE Timothy Snyder Wall Street Journal, January 8, 2011 In spring 1945, as battle-hardened American and British soldiers entered Germany, they came upon shocking evidence of mass murder. The sight of the living skeletons and mounds of bodies at Buchenwald and Bergen-Belsen fills […]
Yesterday, CIJR published UN Watch Executive Director Hillel Neuer’s National Post article, “Letting An Anti-Semitic Truther Speak Is A Disgrace To McGill,” describing Montreal-based McGill University’s decision to offer a platform to Richard Falk, thereby legitimating his explicit anti-Semitism. Of the many emotions stirred by this gross violation of ethical conduct, justified under the banner […]
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 […]
‘ISRAEL HAS SHOWN GENUINE DESIRE TO RENEW NEGOTIATIONS’ Herb Keinon Jerusalem Post, February 22, 2011 [Israeli] Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman went on the offensive at the annual EU-Israel Association Council meeting in Brussels… During the meeting, held annually between the Israeli foreign minister and his EU counterparts, Lieberman said that since […]
HOW THE ARABS TURNED SHAME INTO LIBERTY Fouad Ajami NY Times, February 26, 2011 Perhaps this Arab Revolution of 2011 had a scent for the geography of grief and cruelty. It erupted in Tunisia, made its way eastward to Egypt, Yemen and Bahrain, then doubled back to Libya. In Tunisia and […]
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