Monthly Archives: October 2015

Weekly Commentary: Missing White House Statement: Stone Throwing Is Violence

“Stone throwing is not a nonviolent activity. Stone throwing is not peaceful protest. Stone throwing is an act of violence. Period.” President Obama should be issuing such a statement. The Quartet should too. For that matter, Meretz, Hadash...

“For Internal Use Only”?

Our agency asked a senior official of the Israel Ministry of Strategic Affairs for information from open sources as to how the PA media and PA officials responded to last week’s murders. His response: information...

Observation: USA to face Diplomatic Crisis if Israel Accepts Settlement Freeze Demand

Israel Television Channel Two News reported this evening that Israel may effectively impose a permanent settlement freeze in response to explicit threats from the Obama Administration that it will not veto U.N. Security Council...

Video: Josh Hasten reports on road terror

https://youtu.be/9yrwC-M6ZTo Josh Hasten: My story from this morning. Apparently I was lucky as the Arabs tried to pull an Israeli woman from her car and murder her. Source: FACEBOOK Note: The Arab violence described in the video...

Argentine murder mystery

(Before reading this piece, peruse David Bedein's coverage of Syria-Israel- US negotiations; http://israelbehindthenews.com/an-insiders-report-from-the-shepherdstown-talks/3196/ ) When heads of state gather, as they did for the United Nations General Assembly last week, you have a choice: Tune...

What If Israel Had Given Up the Golan Heights? A Lesson for Syria’s Crisis

As Syria continues to be ravaged with no signs that the end of its crisis will produce a unified and stable (let alone pro-Western) Arab state, I wonder from time to time what would...

KENNEY IN THE VANCOUVER JEWISH INDEPENDENT: CANADA SHOULD PRIORITIZE BRINGING IN CHRISTIAN AND OTHER...

In a recent article in the Vancouver Jewish Independent,Jason Kenney, Canada’s minister of national defence and minister for multiculturalism, says Canada should prioritize  letting in Christian refugees and other minorities who are "victims of  the doctrine...

EDITOR’S REPORT: MY MEETING WITH STEPHEN HARPER

The Winnipeg Jewish Review was given the opportunity to meet Prime Minister Stephen Harper while he was in Winnipeg recently. I was given the opportunity to ask one question. I was able to submit...

TRUDEAU TELLS WJR HE’S “CAUTIOUSLY OPTIMISTIC” ABOUT IRAN DEAL WHILE KENNEY SAYS HARPER GOVT’S...

The difference between Harper's govt and Trudeau on the Iran issue. When Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau was in Winnipeg in August to meet with the ethnic press, the Winnipeg Jewish Review asked Trudeau about...

Obama’s Subtle Undercutting of Israeli Self-Defense

Last week, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke at the opening of the United Nations General Assembly in New York. As he has done before, Mr. Netanyahu vowed that Israel would “do whatever it...