Understanding Real Israeli Politics
http://www.gloria-center.org/2012/07/understanding-real-israeli-politics/?utm_source=activetrail&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=gloria-campaign
“Can’t anybody here play this game?” -Casey Stengel, great baseball coach
Stengel’s complaint is the precise description of Israeli politics nowadays. To a remarkable extent-and this has nothing to do with his views or policies-Bibi...
The Levy Report: Reinvigorating the Discussion of Israel’s Rights in the West Bank
http://www.biu.ac.il/SOC/besa/docs/perspectives176.pdf
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The Commission to Examine the Status of Building in Judea and Samaria (the "Levy report") has drawn a flurry of overwrought criticism due to its inclusion of a section concerning the lawfulness...
WJC ANALYSIS – Is the war in Syria undermining the Palestinian claim to the...
http://www.worldjewishcongress.org/en/news/12161/wjc_analysis_is_the_war_in_syria_undermining_the_palestinian_claim_to_the_right_of_return _
The fate of the Assad regime in Syria has been the main focus of media attention in recent months. Yet, another crisis has quietly developed on the sidelines of the Syrian calamity which...
UNRWA & the Right of Return
http://www.romirowsky.com/12055/unrwa-the-right-of-return
Chair: Good evening everyone. I am Louise Ellman MP, and on behalf of the Henry Jackson Society, I would like to welcome you to this meeting here in the House of Commons. I would...
Bypassing the Suez Canal: Israel to Have China Construct The Eilat Railway
http://www.winnipegjewishreview.com/article_detail.cfm?id=2692&sec=1&title=Bypassing_the_Suez_Canal:_Israel_to_Have_China_Construct_The_Eilat_Railway
The biggest piece of news that emerged from Israel this past week (July 3) is one you may have heard nothing about--but it is a game changer in terms of elevating Israel's economic/strategic position...
Mordechai Kedar: The Arab World on the Precipice
http://www.jewishpress.com/indepth/analysis/dr-mordechai-kedar/mordechai-kedar-the-arab-world-on-the-precipice/2012/07/30/0/
Although I do not generally do so, I will open with an Arabic joke, because in the Arab world (and perhaps in other places as well) people often use humor to speak the truth...
Thank Heaven (and Israel) that Syria’s Assad Doesn’t Have Nukes
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alan-elsner/thank-heaven-and-israel_b_1719452.html
As the death toll mounts in Syria and the country slides deeper into civil war, the world should be thankful that the Assad regime never succeeded in developing nuclear weapons -- which almost happened...
US Authorizes Financial Support For the Free Syrian Army
http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2012/al-monitor/us-authorizes-financial-support.html
The waiver was received from the Treasury Department Office of Foreign Asset Control (OFAC) last week, Brian Sayers, of the Syrian Support Group, told Al- Monitor in an interview Friday.
“The OFAC decision is huge,”...
Have the skeletons of the Temple Mount massacre been found?
http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=5216
Jews, Christians or Muslims? An image from the film of the skeletons.
Photo credit: Yoav Ari Dudkevitch
Remains of thousands of Jews massacred by the Romans on the Temple Mount at the time of the destruction...
Challenging an obituary to PM Shamir: Letterto the Editor, Translated from Dutch to English
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Letters Editor
Amsterdam, 03.07.2012
Dear Sir,
The obituary of your Israel correspondent, Leonie van Nierop, re Yitzchak Shamir is quite biased.
It was mentioned in this obituary as though the reliability of Israel’s Arabs adversaries is rather...