Monthly Archives: November 2012

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...

Their first taste of a shelter

*Harvey Tannenbaum. A native Californian who moved to Efrat, Israel in 1998 and works as an events planner. Last Friday night at time of the the "Lecha Dodi" prayer for Shabbat, the 1st siren went...

Israel Expects Bigger Missile War

Israel's military has been quietly bracing for another missile war with the Gaza Strip. Military sources said this time the Hamas regime in the Gaza Strip could be joined by the Iranian-sponsored Hizbullah. They said...