Daily Archives: January 7, 2013

Abbas: ‘Mufti is My Hero’

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/163916#.UOrez-T2_84 Palestinian Authority chief Mahmoud Abbas spoke glowingly last Friday of the “legacy” of the infamous Hajj Amin al-Husseini, who was a collaborator with the Nazis, and was prepared to conduct the mass murder of...

REESA COHEN STONE ON ISRAELI ELECTIONS: WIN OR LOSE IT’S HOW THEY DON’T PLAY...

http://www.winnipegjewishreview.com/article_detail.cfm?id=3206&sec=1&title=REESA_COHEN_STONE_ON_ISRAELI_ELECTIONS:_WIN_OR_LOSE_IT%27S_HOW_THEY_DON%27T_PLAY_THE_GAME "Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates." Gore Vidal About 10 days ago, my daughter spent a day in Jerusalem with some cousins...

Hagel – a Litmus Test of Obama’s Attitude to Israel

http://www.winnipegjewishreview.com/article_detail.cfm?id=3210&sec=1&title=Hagel_-_a_Litmus_Test_of_Obama’s_Attitude_to_Israel The possible nomination of former Republican Senator Chuck Hagel as Secretary of Defense will represent a litmus test as to whether President Obama is poised to resume his anti-Israeli campaign, despite supporting Israel during...

LIONEL STEIMAN: THE PROBLEMS WITH VISITING ANNE FRANK’S SECRET ANNEX ON-LINE – CAN A...

http://www.winnipegjewishreview.com/article_detail.cfm?id=3048&sec=6&title=LIONEL_STEIMAN:__THE_PROBLEMS_WITH_VISITING_ANNE_FRANK%27S_SECRET_ANNEX__ON-LINE_-_CAN_A_VIRTUAL_EXPERIENCE__CAPTURE_REALITY Editor's note: This article is the second of of a two part series by Lionel Steiman a Senior Scholar of the Department of History at the University of Manitoba. This article arises out of...

RAMALLAH AND BERLIN: REFLECTIONS ON GERMANY’S VOTE AT THE UN RE: THE PA STATEHOOD...

http://www.winnipegjewishreview.com/article_detail.cfm?id=3171&sec=1&title=RAMALLAH_AND_BERLIN:__REFLECTIONS_ON_GERMANY%27S_VOTE_AT_THE_UN__RE:_THE_PA_STATEHOOD_BID There are a lot of reasons I can think of why Germany ought to have voted "no" in response to the Palestinian unilateral bid for statehood at the UN, one which Mahmoud Abbas declared...

Islamic Supremacy Alive and Well in Ankara

http://www.meforum.org/3419/turkey-islamic-supremacy Supersessionism refers to the belief that Christians have superseded Jews in a new covenant with God. Islam, too, sees itself as superseding all previous divine revelation but, unlike Christianity, which canonized the Old Testament...

Israel’s Arabs: Deprived or Radicalized?

http://www.meforum.org/3423/israel-arabs-deprived-radicalized October 1, 2000, was a watershed in Arab-Jewish relations in the state of Israel. On that day, as most Israelis were celebrating the Jewish new year, their Arab compatriots unleashed a tidal wave of...

Poll No. 78, Dec. 2012 – Gaza, Resistance and the UN Bid

http://www.jmcc.org/documentsandmaps.aspx?id=858 Summary: Two weeks after the end of the war, a public opinion poll conducted by the JMCC, with support of Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung East Jerusalem, aimed at studying the impact of the Gaza war and the...

Poll: Spike in Palestinian support for military operations against Israel

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2013/0104/Poll-Spike-in-Palestinian-support-for-military-operations-against-Israel Palestinian support for military operations against Israel has registered its most significant jump in 10 years, spurred by the recent Gaza conflict, ongoing Israeli settlement expansion, and frustration over a peace process that has...

The French Anti-Israeli organization EuroPalestine sent a delegation to the Gaza Strip hosted by...

http://www.terrorism-info.org.il/en/article/20457 Overview 1. EuroPalestine is an anti-Israeli French organization headed by Olivia Zemor, a far-left Jewish-French activist. The organization participates in the campaign to delegitimize Israel and in the anti-Israeli BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanction) campaign. 2....