Daily Archives: November 26, 2012
The Status of “Palestine” at the United Nations
http://www.inss.org.il/upload/%28FILE%291353822496.pdf
Two Palestinian documents recently made public deserve attention: the Palestinian request for non-member state status at the United Nations General Assembly,1 and the speech made by President Abu Mazen on November 11, 2012 at...
GERSHON BASKIN, who “takes credit” for pushing the PA into the UN Statehood idea:
IPCRI’S GERSHON BASKIN SAYS HE INITIATED IDEA OF U.N. RECOGNIZING STATE OF PALESTINE, WITHOUT ISRAEL’S AGREEMENT
by Rhonda Spivak, August 15, 2009, first published in www.israelbehindthenews.com
Gershon Baskin, Co-CEO of the Israel-Palestine Centre For Research and...
Israel Renews Cash To Gaza
Israel, less than a week after its missile war, plans to renew massive cash transfers to the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip.
The Israel Law Center said the government has approved the imminent transfer of $13.5 million...
Twenty Conclusions of “Operation Pillar of Defense”:
Last week, while visiting communities struck by Gaza missiles throughout southern Israel, it was easy to discern the all pervasive anger that Israeli citizens - from all walks of life - vented against the...
“For the Truth, for Israel” Speaking marathon
MP Fiamma Nirenstein
Vice-president of the Committee on Foreign Affairs
Chair of the Committee for the Inquiry into Antisemitism
Italian Chamber of Deputies
Chairperson, International Council of Jewish Parliamentarians
www.fiammanirenstein.com
Thursday, November 22nd, at 6pm
In front of the Italian Parliament
Piazza...
DISPATCH FROM WJR WARTIME CORRESPONDENT ORLI AVIOR: HOW I JUST MISSED THE BIGGEST STORY...
http://www.winnipegjewishreview.com/article_detail.cfm?id=3089&sec=2&title=DISPATCH_FROM_WJR_WARTIME_CORRESPONDENT_ORLI_AVIOR:_HOW_I_JUST_MISSED_THE_BIGGEST_STORY_IN_EILAT-TWO_EXPLOSIONS_SUNDAY_NIGHT
Usually, when war breaks out in Israel, I am right in the thick of things--missiles fly by my kitchen windows, my life is made chaotic and I can't hear myself think it's so noisy...
EDITORIAL: I AGREE WITH WEINBERG: BUBBLES HAVE BEEN BURST
http://www.winnipegjewishreview.com/article_detail.cfm?id=3083&sec=2&title=I_AGREE_WITH_WEINBERG:_BUBBLES_HAVE_BEEN_BURST
David. Weinberg, who moved to Israel from Toronto and directs the Israel office of the Center for Israel and Jewish Affairs has written a good article in Yisrael Hayom, the daily paper sponsored by...
Israel Did Everything it Could to Avoid Civilian Casualties
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arsen-ostrovsky/israel-did-everything-it-_b_2175491.html
Col. Richard Kemp CBE, is a former Commander of British Forces in Afghanistan and one of the most highly decorated and respected officers in the British Army. He has spent 30 years of his...
My week in Jerusalem when rockets fell on the Holy City
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/11/20/my-week-in-jerusalem-when-rockets-fell-on-holy-city/
Jerusalemites have an age-old custom of ushering in the holy Sabbath a full 36 minutes before sunset -- earlier than anywhere else in the world. So last Friday eve, I rushed through the Old...