Monthly Archives: January 2013

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http://www.meforum.org/3419/turkey-islamic-supremacy Supersessionism refers to the belief that Christians have superseded Jews in a new covenant with God.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....

The Ultimate `Settlements are not the Problem’ Article

http://rubinreports.blogspot.co.il/2013/01/the-ultimate-settlements-are-not.html It must be a new year. The Washington Post has an editorial explaining that Israeli settlements are not the main problem in the Middle East. The Post editorial is amazing since such sanity is so...

Weekly Commentary: Please do not use the extremist label

http://imra.org.il/story.php3?id=59656 I was just watching Labor Party leader Shelley Yichimovitz on Channel Two Television News and I lost count how many times she used the word "extremist" to describe rival parties from the national camp. The...

Fatah, Hamas meet in Gaza ahead of party anniversary

http://imra.org.il/story.php3?id=59650 Fatah, Hamas meet in Gaza ahead of party anniversary Published today (updated) 02/01/2013 18:32 http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=552939 GAZA CITY (Ma’an) -- Gaza premier Ismail Haniyeh on Wednesday convened Hamas and Fatah delegations ahead of the first Fatah rally in...