Daily Archives: November 15, 2012

With Resolve, Good Judgment, and Deliberate Speed INSS

http://www.inss.org.il/publications.php?cat=21&incat=&read=10574 The Israeli public and its decision makers understand that slogans such as “eliminating Hamas” or “talking to Hamas” will not win a war or resolve the Palestinian problem. Indeed, the objectives of Operation Pillar...

November 15, 2012: Necessary Battle

http://www.arlenefromisrael.info/current-postings/ Current Postings November 15, 2012: Necessary Battle Yesterday, on its FaceBook page, the IDF put up the following message: “We recommend that no Hamas operatives, whether low level or senior leaders, show their faces above ground in...

NGO Statements on Gaza Again Reflect Political Bias, Lack of Expertise

http://www.ngo-monitor.org/article/ngo_statements_on_gaza_again_reflect_political_bias_lack_of_expertise _ European governments enable exploitation of human rights, int’l law with their funding Jerusalem - The biased responses of human rights organizations to the recent events in Gaza stand in sharp contrast to their prolonged...

A Point to Make at IAW: Number of Golan Heights Druze seeking Israeli citizenship...

http://www.winnipegjewishreview.com/article_detail.cfm?id=2938&sec=2&title=A_Point_to_Make_at_IAW:_Number_of__Golan_Heights_Druze_seeking_Israeli_citizenship_is_on_the_Rise Something interesting has been happening in the Golan Heights in the last few months which pro-Israel advocates on campus ought to point ought when detracters launch Israel Apartheid Week on campuses throughout North America,...

What people of Sderot needs is emergency mental health assistance.

By David Bedein, writing from the perspective of an MSW. The Sderot Mental Health Center for the Western Negev now handles 3,000 cases of mental breakdown with three and a half professional staffers. All requests of...

Fuel for Thought: Is Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood Purposely Trying to destabilize King Abdullah of...

http://www.winnipegjewishreview.com/article_detail.cfm?id=3029&sec=2&title=Fuel_for_Thought:_Is_Egypt's_Muslim_Brotherhood_Purposely_Trying_to_destabilize_King_Abdullah_of_Jordan_by_withholding_gas_supplies _ In September I wrote an article about Canada trying to help Jordan with it's energy needs, which I considered to be an effort to help stabilize the Hashemite Kingdom, which is something that...

Changing the rules of the game

In the years 2002-2003 the GSS, the IDF Intelligence Branch (mainly the 8200 unit) and the Air Force conducted Operation Anemone, which targeted Hamas’s leaders. Yesterday’s attack on Ahmed Jaabari and the attempts to...

Hamas Fires Long-Range Rockets: Backgrounder

Israel has determined that Hamas and its allies were firing long-range rockets into Israel. Israeli military sources said Hamas and Islamic Jihad have begun launching the Iranian-origin Fajr-5 rocket toward Tel Aviv. They said Fajr-5s...

REESA COHEN STONE: MY SON’S APARTMENT WAS DEMOLISHED BY ROCKET FIRE -REPORT FROM INSIDE...

http://www.winnipegjewishreview.com/article_detail.cfm?id=3059&sec=2&title=_REESA_COHEN_STONE:_MY_SON%27S_APARTMENT_WAS_DEMOLISHED_BY_ROCKET_FIRE_-REPORT_FROM_INSIDE_THE_SOUTH_OF_ISRAEL Editor's note: If you want to understand why Israel has responded in Gaza, have a read of this article by former Winnipegger Reesa Cohen Stone. No country in the world would not respond as...