Isranet Daily Briefing
THE FUTURE STILL BELONGS TO AMERICA Walter Russell MeadWall Street Journal, July 2, 2011 It is, the pundits keep telling us, a time of American decline, of a post-American world. The 21st century will belong to someone else. Crippled by debt at home, hammered by the aftermath of a financial crisis, bloodied […]
Mahmoud Abbas' Speech at the UN
FOUR LEBANESE INDICTED IN PREMIER’S KILLING Farnaz Fassihi Wall Street Journal, July 1, 2011 The United Nations-backed Special Tribunal for Lebanon [has] issued indictments and arrest warrants for four Lebanese nationals affiliated with Hezbollah for involvement in the 2005 assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. The indictments, handed to Lebanon’s […]
JEWISH DEMS LOSING FAITH IN OBAMA Ben Smith Politico, June 29, 2011 David Ainsman really began to get worried about President Barack Obama’s standing with his fellow Jewish Democrats when a recent dinner with his wife and two other couples—all Obama voters in 2008—nearly turned into a screaming match. Ainsman, a […]
REMEMBERING THE ‘ALTALENA’ Jerold S. Auerbach Jerusalem Post, June 20, 2011 Israel is confronting increasingly virulent worldwide challenges to its legitimacy. An expanding chorus of politicians, journalists and academics relentlessly denounces the Jewish state as a racist, apartheid abomination. The resemblance between their shrill diatribes and the rhetoric of anti-Semitism […]
From shadowy terrorist cells to lone wolves on the prowl, counterterrorist expert Fred Burton has seen them all. In this wide-ranging , exclusive interview, Burton separates fact from fantasy and shares his astute knowledge of the strengths and weaknesses of America's approach to fighting terror. To read more, click here
UN RULES THAT ISRAELI BLOCKADE IS LEGAL IN BLOW TO FAILING FLOTILLA More bad news for the dwindling number of flotilla activists hanging around the ports of Greece. The now completed UN Inquiry on last year’s Gaza flotilla incident aboard the Mavi Marmara found that Israel’s blockade of Hamas-ruled […]
LEARNING LEBANON II’S LESSONS Liat Collins Jerusalem Post, July 9, 2011 Time flies not only when you’re having fun. Proof: On July 12, it will be five years since the Second Lebanon War broke out, and the intervening years seem to have gone quickly. Perhaps it was because they were […]
GILAD SHALIT RELEASED IN PRISONER SWAP Joshua Mitnick Wall Street Journal, October 18, 2011 Israel and Hamas carried out an unprecedented prisoner swap on Tuesday, freeing Israeli Sgt. Gilad Shalit after five years in captivity in return for some 477 Palestinian prisoners that were released to the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and to Egypt.… […]
SLAPPING PAKISTAN Michael A. Walsh NY Post, July 11, 2011 …[A] war of wills is being waged halfway around the world in Pakistan. In response to Pakistani intransigence and duplicity—especially by the country’s army and intelligence agency, the ISI—America is withholding some $800 million in aid, including $300 million earmarked for counterinsurgency […]
THEY TRIED TO KILL US, WE WON, NOW WE’RE CHANGING THE WORLD David Horovitz Jerusalem Post, April 1, 2011 To our considerable sorrow here at The Jerusalem Post, our super-smart, relentlessly questioning, insightful editorial writer, Saul Singer, left the paper three years ago to write a book. To the great and still […]
THE OBAMA DOCTRINE: LEADING FROM BEHIND Charles Krauthammer Washington Post, April 28, 2011 Obama may be moving toward something resembling a doctrine. One of his advisers described the president’s actions in Libya as “leading from behind.”—Ryan Lizza, the New Yorker, May 2 issue To be precise, leading from behind is a style, not […]
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