Monthly Archives: April 2011

http://www.philly.com/philly/entertainment/literature/119055559.html Devising a successful U.S. strategy in Afghanistan The Wrong WarGrit, Strategy and the Way Out of AfghanistanBy Bing West Random House. 307 pp. $28 Reviewed by David Bedein More than 20 years ago, a veteran Moscow reporter...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ opinions/reconsidering-the- goldstone-report-on-israel- and-war-crimes/2011/04/01/ AFg111JC_story.html We know a lot more today about what happened in the Gaza war of 2008-09 than we did when I chaired the fact-finding mission appointed by the U.N. Human Rights...

http://www.nysun.com/ editorials/justice-goldstones- regrets/87285/ It will be a while before we see an op-ed piece as newsworthy - and as galling - as that in today’s Washington Post by Justice Richard Goldstone. He is the former...

Much of this piece is sourced at: http://israelbehindthenews.com/bin/search.cgi?match=AND&keywords=j+street+pundak+spivak&submit=Search ========================= President of Israel. Shimon Peres flies to meet with US President Obama after the recent Peres embrace of J Street, the organization which tried to get the US...

Link to this week’s radio feature: Israel Stands Up to Incitement March 31, 2011 http://tinyurl.com/5sspqgs Link to previous shows: http://tinyurl.com/3ykaz7o

This article was authored by reporter Samuel Sokol: In 2007 the Israeli government under Prime Minister Ehud Olmert announced that it was willing to grant amnesty to members of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades,...

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/153133-46-key-lawmakers-sign-anti-palestinian-incitement-letter- A bipartisan congressional letter condemning Palestinian incitement of violence against Israel gained 46 signatures from key members of Congress, according to a list of signers obtained by The Hill. The letter, circulated by Reps. Steve...

(Communicated by the Public Diplomacy and Diaspora Affairs Spokesman) March 31, 2011 Attached is a letter from Facebook Director of Policy Richard Allan to Public Diplomacy and Diaspora Affairs Minister Yuli Edelstein regarding the latter's 23.2.11 letter http://israelbehindthenews.com/bin/content.cgi?ID=4330&q=1 to Facebook...

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/the_un_hatefest_coming_to_new_york_aw4H2No7x0ixxOjjb942jO Will this September's UN anti-racism conference in New York be yet another anti-Semitic, anti-Israel hatefest -- or will it actually work to forward human rights? Known as Durban III, the confab comes 10 years after...

This article was written by reporter Samuel Sokol: Jerusalem- The foreign ministry of Norway has sponsored an endorsement of Hamas' "hudna" The unofficial endorsement came in the form of a research paper published by the Norwegian...