Isranet Daily Briefing
SYRIA PROTEST LARGEST YET: HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS DEMONSTRATE, 17 KILLED Zeina Karam & Elizabeth A. Kennedy Huffington Post, July 15, 2011 Hundreds of thousands of Syrians mounted the largest protests Friday since the uprising began more than four months ago, pouring into areas where the government crackdown has been most intense in […]
OBAMA’S WEAKNESS INVITED IRAN’S PLOT Mona Charen National Review, October 14, 2011 If the Iranian government doesn’t frighten you, you haven’t been paying attention. The regime in Iran has been killing Americans in Iraq and Afghanistan for many years and has sworn countless times in the past 30 years to preside over the destruction of […]
“The nation of Greece would like to express its deep love and friendship for another ancient people in this region, the nation of Israel.… We are united with your nation historically and culturally, and in our joint desire to advance security and peace. I hope that the new chapter recently opened in the ties […]
THE HATE THAT DARES NOT SPEAK ITS NAME Walter Russell Mead American Interest, July 18, 2011 This time of year it is worth remembering Mein Kampf, the turgid and unreadable Bible of the Nazi movement that was published back in July of 1925. The last time I looked, you could still buy it […]
THE ANTI-ISRAEL AGENDA PREVAILS Anne Bayefsky Jerusalem Post, June 20, 2011 On Friday at 6 p.m. the Obama administration promise to fix the disreputable UN Human Rights Council by becoming a member died a predictable death at the UN General Assembly. Knowing they were headed for certain defeat, Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of […]
Analysis
On September 23rd., Mahmoud Abbas, after a vitriolic speech, officially submitted his application to the U.N. to unilaterally recognize a Palestinian state. Earlier that week, President Obama reiterated the U.S. position that a unilateral move is counterproductive to establishing a lasting peace. He therefore insisted that the U.S. would exercise its right to a veto […]
“It is nearly two days since Norway was hit by the worst atrocity it has seen since the Second World War. On Utoeya, and in Oslo. It seems like an eternity. These have been hours, days and nights filled with shock, despair, anger and weeping. Today is a day for mourning. Today, we will allow […]
TECHNION’S SHECHTMAN BECOMES NATION’S 10TH NOBEL LAUREATE Judy Siegel-Itzkovich Jerusalem Post, October 6, 2011 Israel’s 10th Nobel Prize—and fourth in chemistry—was awarded [last] Wednesday by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to Prof. Dan Shechtman, a materials science scientist at Haifa’s Technion—Israel Institute of Technology. His discovery in 1982 that atoms in rigid crystals can […]
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Un Etat palestinien à l’ONU? Emmanuelle Main un-echo-israel.net, 5 Octobre 2011 Texte écrit le 9 Septembre 2011 Mahmoud Abbas a réaffirmé sa détermination à demander à l’ONU la reconnaissance d’un État palestinien et son admission à l’assemblée de l’organisation, le 20 septembre prochain. La plupart des commentateurs s’en […]
President Ahmadinejad of Iran has been pretty forthright about his views of Israel: "Iran believes that whoever is for humanity should also be for eradicating the Zionist regime (Israel) as symbol of suppression and discrimination," Ahmadinejad said in an interview with a Lebanese television network, carried by ISNA. Ahmadinejad also recently said that Iranians […]
OCTOBER, 1973: LEST WE FORGET Frederick Krantz Today, the thirty-eighth anniversary of the Yom Kippur War, has gone largely unremarked. Yet it is imperative, especially today, in the context of the Palestinians’ “UDI” move at the UN and the general, if not unexpected, disappointment with the “Arab Spring” movements, that this anniversary not be […]
FIVE MONTHS OF WAITING Sharif Abdel Kouddous Foreign Policy, July 15, 2011 Five months after the fall of Hosni Mubarak, Tahrir Square has, once again, been transformed into a mass protest encampment and the epicenter of the struggle for change in Egypt. Thousands of protesters are entering the second week of a sit-in reminiscent […]
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