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ISRANET
DAILY BRIEFING ARCHIVE
January 2002 to Present
A Service of CIJR
Canadian Institute for Jewish Research
Prof. Frederick Krantz, Director
2006
December
1,515 December
29, 2006.
Hanson, Victor Davis.
“Why Radical Islam—And Why Now?” Townhall.com,
December 21, 2006.
Krauthammer, Charles.
“Past the Apogee: America Under Pressure.” Foreign
Policy Research
Institute, November 14, 2006. [Discusses
Islamic Fundamentalism and the U.S.]
1,514 December
28, 2006.
Editorial, “Olmert’s
Lifeline.” Jerusalem
Post, December 25, 2006. [Discusses
Ehud Olmert’s appeal to the PA to halt to terror in order to establish
a partnership with Israel.]
Fettmann, Eric. “Reporting
Legend.” New
York Post, December 26, 2006.
Hoffman, Gil. “Uri
Dan and the Scoop He Never Gave Me.” Jerusalem
Post, December 25, 2006. [Discusses
journalist and author Uri Dan, who died Dec. 24.]
1,513 December
27, 2006.
Wednesday’s “News
in Review” Round-Up. Compiled
by CIJR Staff.
1,512 December
22, 2006.
Ozick, Cynthia. “A
Youthful Intoxication.” New
York Times, December 10, 2006.
[On reading Romantic Religion by Leo Baeck.]
Riley, Naomi Schaefer.
“London Jews’ Hidden Jewel.” Wall
Street Journal, October 28, 2006.
[Discusses Bevis Marks, England ’s oldest and Europe’s longest
continuously open Jewish house of worship.]
Trupin, Reevan. “Barcelona
Restoring Jewish Quarter—But Local Jews Say They Feel Ignored.”
JTA, December 14, 2006.
1,511 December
21, 2006.
Editorial, “Who’s
Tough On Tehran?” Wall
Street Journal, December 21, 2006.
[Discusses results of Dec. 15 Iranian municipal elections and the possibility
of a UN Security Council decision this week to approve a sanctions resolution
regarding Iran’s uranium enrichment program.]
Ariel, Jonathan. “The
‘No-Military Option’ Fallacy.” Jerusalem
Post, November 27, 2006. [On
the possibility of U.S. and/or Israel military action against Iran.]
Cotler, Irwin.
“Iran: Guilty As Charged.” National
Post, November 27, 2006. [Discusses
findings in the 2004 bombing of the Jewish Cultural Centre in Argentina
and calls for Canada, along with the international community to bring
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to court for public incitement of
genocide.]
1,510 December
20, 2006.
Wednesday’s “News
in Review” Round-Up. Compiled
by CIJR Staff.
1,509 December
19, 2006.
Editorial, “Playing
Syria’s Game.” Jerusalem
Post, December 17, 2006. [Discusses
possibilities of Israel-Syria peace negotiations.]
Taheri, Amir. “How
Iran Became Syria’s Master.” New
York Post, November 6, 2006.
Editorial, “Road
to Damascus.” New
York Sun, December 14, 2006.
[On U.S.-Syria relations.]
1,508 December
18, 2006.
Toameh, Khaled Abu and Jpost Staff.
“Gunbattles Erupt
Following Fatah, Hamas Cease-fire
Deal.” Jerusalem
Post, December 17, 2006.
Issacharoff, Avi and Amos Harel.
“Abbas Dangerous
Gamble.” Ha’aretz,
December 17, 2006. [Discusses
Mahmoud Abbas’s intention to hold early elections.]
1,507 December
15, 2006.
Cohen, Baruch. “Hannukah
5767.” Canadian
Jewish News, December 14, 2006.
Hentschel, Johanna. “Letter
to Baruch Cohen, re: ‘Kristallnacht: The World Was Silent.’
”
[Reader response to an article by Baruch Cohen that appeared in the Montreal
Suburban Nov. 1, 2006.]
Leibler, Isi. “Weakness
Fosters Anti-Semitism.” Jerusalem
Post, October 31, 2006.
[Discusses global antisemitism.]
Zuroff, Efraim. “To
Be a Jew in Denmark .” Jerusalem
Post, November 6, 2006.
1,506 December
14, 2006.
Freund, Michael. “A
Plea to American Christians.” Jerusalem
Post, December 12, 2006. [Discusses
Iran’s nuclear proliferation and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s
call to wipe Israel of the map.]
Applebaum, Anne. “Reading
Mein Kampf in Tehran.” Washington
Post, December 13, 2006. [Discusses
the Iranian Foreign Ministry’s “Review of the Holocaust: Global
Vision” conference held in Teheran Dec. 11, 2006.]
Editorial, “Iran
Grows Strong, The World Yawns.” Ha’aretz,
December 12, 2006.
1,505 December
13, 2006.
Wednesday’s “News
in Review” Round-Up. Compiled
by CIJR Staff.
1,504 December
12, 2006.
Editorial, “Annan’s
Ugly Exit.” New
York Post, December 12, 2006. [Discusses
Outgoing UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s tenure at the UN.]
“The UN Human Rights
Council Self-Destructs: Geneva Updates.” EyeontheUN.org
Bulletin,
December 1, 2006.
[Discusses the UN Human Rights Council’s anti-Israel bias.]
Rozett, Robert. “When
Words are Futile.” Jerusalem
Post, December 1, 2006.
[On the two-day Iran Holocaust conference.]
1, 503 December
11, 2006.
Editorial, “Jeane
Kirkpatrick, 1926-2006.” New
York Post, December 9, 2006.
Toameh, Khaled Abu.
“Guns and Poses.” Jerusalem
Post, November 23, 2006. [Discusses
PA President Mahmoud Abbas and his Fatah party.]
Gordon, Evelyn.
“A Culture of Violence.” Jerusalem
Post, November 29, 2006. [Discusses
how resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is not the key to solving
all the problems of the Muslim world.]
1,502 December
8, 2006.
Cohen, Baruch.
“An Episode in the History of the Marranos of Portugal.”Jewish
Directory,
Fall/Winter 2006-07.
Ozick, Cynthia. “Martyr.”
The New Republic, December
11, 2006. [Review
and discussion of the play “My Name is Rachel Corrie.”]
1,501 December
7, 2006.
Peters, Ralph. “Frankly
Incensed: Unwise Men Bear Gifts for Butchers.” New
York Post,
December 7, 2006.
Podhoretz, John.
“Paris’ Peace Plan.” New
York Post, December 7, 2006.
Himelfarb, Joel. “We’ve
Been Talking.” Wall
Street Journal, December 6, 2006. [Discusses
the recommendations of the Iraq Study Group.]
1,500 December
6, 2006.
Wednesday’s “News
in Review” Round-Up. Compiled
by CIJR Staff.
1,499 December
5, 2006.
Ajami, Fouad. “Back
to the Future.” U.S.
News, November 26, 2006.
Krauthammer, Charles.
“Why Iraq is Crumbling.” Washington
Post, November 17, 2006.
Fumento, Michael. “Edward
I Goes to Ramadi.” National
Post, November 28, 2006.
Schweikart, Lawrence.
“Rise of the Neo-Culpas.” New York Sun, November 20,
2006. [Discusses the
U.S. - Iraq war.]
1,498 December
4, 2006.
Phares, Walid. “Hezbollah’s
Assault in Lebanon: Day Two.” CounterTerrorismBlog.org,
December 4, 2006.
“Lebanese Daily:
The Opposition’s Street Actions Are a Syrian-Iranian Coup.”
MEMRI
Special Dispatch-Lebanon, No. 1377, December 5, 2006.
Taheri, Amir. “Lebanon
: Sliding to Disaster.” New
York Post, December 1, 2006. [On
the current Lebanese government-Hezbollah crisis.]
1,497 December
1, 2006.
Goldstien, Yoni. “Taking
on God.” Jerusalem Report,
October 3, 2006. [Review
of Jesus And Yahweh: The Names Divine by Harold Bloom, Riverhead, 256
pp.; $24.95.]
Chertok, Haim. “With
Semites Like These.” Jerusalem
Report, October 10, 2006. [Review
and
discussion of The Jewish Divide over Israel: Accusers and Defenders Ed.
by Edward Alexander and Paul Bogdanor, Transaction and The Wicked Son:
Anti-Semitism, Self-Hatred, and the Jews by David Mamet, Schocken/Nextbook.]
November
1,496 November
30, 2006.
Galbraith, Peter W. “Divide
Iraq.” The New
Republic, November 27, 2006. [Discusses
current political state of Iraq.]
Kagan, Robert. “Send
More Troops.” The
New Republic, November 27, 2006. [Discusses
proposed U.S. pullout of troops from Iraq.]
Peretz, Martin. “Ignore
James Baker.” The
New Republic, November 27, 2006. [On
co-chairman of Iraq Study Group James Baker.]
Wieseltier, Leon. “Try
Anything.” The
New Republic, November 27, 2006. [Discusses
U.S-Iraq War.]
1,495 November
29, 2006.
Wednesday’s “News
in Review” Round-Up. Compiled
by CIJR Staff.
1,494 November
28, 2006.
Tobin, Gary A. “On
Campus, A Culture of Conformity.” The
Forward, November 10, 2006.
Brodsky, Adam. “Dissent
Crushed.” New
York Post, November 19, 2006. [Discusses
the cancellation of Nonie Darwish’s lecture at Brown University.]
Fulford, Robert. “Reading
Lolita at Columbia.” National
Post, November 1, 2006. [Discusses
a Columbia University Iranian-born professor’s denouncement of Reading
Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi as propaganda.]
1,493 November
27, 2006.
Gagnon, Lysiane. “Women
and Children First!” La
Presse, November 23, 2006. [Discusses
UN Human Rights Commissioner Louise Arbour’s visit to Israel and
the Gaza Strip last week.]
Editorial, “Deadly
Logic”. Jerusalem
Post, November 25, 2006. [Discusses
UN Human Rights Commissioner Louise Arbour’s anti-Israel bias.]
Editorial, “For
a Long-Term Halt to Violence.” Jerusalem
Post, November 26, 2006. [On
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’s
agreement to a cease-fire.]
1,492 November
24, 2006.
Shaltiel, Eli.
“Eyewitness to Hell.” Ha’aretz,
October 28, 2006. [Review
of Vasily Grossman, A Writer at War by Antony Beevor and Luba Vinogradova
(eds.), Pimlico, 378 pages.]
Alon, Shiri. “Books
of Interest.” Original
publication.
1,491 November
23, 2006.
Hitchens, Christopher.
“Look Who’s Cutting and Running Now.” Slate.com,
November 20, 2006. [Discusses
the U.S.- Iraq war.]
Editorial, “Assassins
and Diplomacy.” Wall
Street Journal, November 22, 2006.
Editorial, “The
Battle for Lebanon .” Jerusalem
Post, November 22, 2006. [Discusses
U.S.-Syria relations and the assassination of Pierre Gemayel.]
1,490 November
22, 2006.
Wednesday’s “News
in Review” Round-Up. Compiled
by CIJR Staff.
1,489 November
21, 2006.
Hazony, David. “The
War of Fog.” Azure,
September 15, 2006. [Interpreting
the 2006 Israel -Hezbollah conflict.]
Pfeffer, Anshel. “Angst-Ridden
Anniversary.” Jerusalem
Post, November 16, 2006. [Discusses
the Kadima party.]
1,488 November
20, 2006.
Gerecht, Reuel Marc. “Gates
Crasher.” Wall
Street Journal, November 10, 2006.
Stephens, Bret. “Father
Knows Best?” Wall
Street Journal, November 14, 2006.
[Discusses former CIA Director Robert Gates’ new position as Secretary
of Defense, replacing Donald Rumsfeld.]
Lizza, Ryan. “Baker’s
Choice.” The
New Republic, November 13, 2006. [Discusses
James Baker as co-chairman of the Iraq St udy Group.]
1,487 November
17, 2006.
Ragen, Naomi. “The
Gathering Storm.” Naomi
Ragen’s Listserv, November 2006. [Discusses
current situation in Israel.]
Grimes, William. “The
West Studies the East, and Trouble Follows.” New
York Times,
November 1, 2006.
[Review of Dangerous Knowledge: Orientalism and Its Discontents, by Robert
Irwin. The Overlook Press. 410 pages. $35.]
1,486 November
16, 2006.
Oren, Michael B. “Abba
Olmert.” Wall
Street Journal, November 16, 2006. [Compares
1967 meeting between Abba Eban and former U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson
to the meeting earlier this week between U.S. President George W. Bush
and Israel i Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.]
Editorial, “Bush,
Olmert and Iran .” Jerusalem
Post, November 13, 2006.
Halkin, Hillel. “An
Israel Without Hope.” New
York Sun, November 14, 2006.
1,485 November
15, 2006.
Wednesday’s “News
in Review” Round-Up. Compiled
by CIJR Staff.
1,484 November
14, 2006.
Basch-Tetreault, Chantal.
“Stand Up For
A Bangladeshi Hero.” National
Post, November 11, 2006. [Discusses
Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury’s trial.]
Hull, C. Bryson. “Full-Scale
War Feared in Somalia.” National
Post, November 11, 2006.
Abdinur, Mustafa Haji.
“Somalia Slipping Closer to All-Out War.” National
Post, November
13, 2006.
Gettleman, Jeffrey. “U.S.
Official Offers a Bleak Assessment of Somalia.” New
York Times, November 10, 2006.
1,483 November
13, 2006.
De Souza, Father Raymond J.
“Take Up Our Quarrel.”
National Post, November 10,
2006. [Discusses
Remembrance Day and Lieut. Col . John McCrae’s poem “In Flanders
Fields.]
Fisher, Matthew. “Israelis
Uneasy About Leaders.” National
Post, November 13, 2006.
Glick, Caroline. “Olmert’s
Ill - Timed Washington Visit.” Jerusalem
Post, November 10, 2006.
1,482 November
10, 2006.
Editorial, “By
the Horns.” The
New Republic, October 6, 2006.
Burstein, Nathan. “Borat
Sagdiyev’s American Odyssey.” Jerusalem
Post, November 1, 2006. [Discusses
the film Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious
Nation of Kazakhstan .]
1,481 November
9, 2006.
Hanson, Victor Davis.
“Don’t Blame Rumsfeld!” National
Review Online, November 9, 2006.
[Discusses resignation of U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.]
Timmerman, Kenneth R. “The
Road to Withdrawal.” FrontPageMagazine.com,
November 9, 2006. [Analyzes
results of U.S. mid-term election.]
Gunter, Lorne. “A
Sign President Couldn’t Ignore.” National
Post, November 9, 2006. [Discusses
resignation of U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and the results
of U.S. mid-term elections.]
1,480 November
8, 2006.
Wednesday’s “News
in Review” Round-Up. Compiled
by CIJR Staff.
1,479 November
7, 2006.
Dershowitz, Alan. “Imperfect,
But Fair Enough.” Wall
Street Journal, November 7, 2006.
O’Sullivan, John.
“ Dead Man St
ill Walking.” Globe
and Mail, November 7, 2006.
Hitchens, Christopher.
“Don’t Hang Saddam.” National
Post, November 7, 2006. [Discusses
Saddam Hussein’s death sentence.]
1,478 November
6, 2006.
Cohen, Baruch. “Kristallnacht:
A Nation’s Degradation.” Suburban,
November 1, 2006.
Bayefsky, Anne. “The
UN’s Spokesperson for Suicide Bombers.” National
Review Online,
October 23, 2006.
[On John Dugard, UN Special Rapporteur to the Human Rights Council.]
Pipes, Daniel. “The
UN and EU Are Irrelevant.” Jerusalem
Post, November 1, 2006.
1,477 November
3, 2006.
Fulford, Robert. “The
Zionist Hawk Among Israeli Journalists.” National
Post, September 30, 2006. [On
journalist Caroline Glick.]
Frum, Linda. “The
Man Who Likes to Poke the World in the Eye.” National
Post, October 14, 2006. [Interview
with columnist Mark Steyn.]
Steyn, Mark. “A
Dark Globalism.” New
York Post, October 17, 2006.
[Excerpt from Mark Steyn’s new book “America Alone.”]
1,476 November
2, 2006.
Glick, Caroline. “Postcards
From Saigon" . Jerusalem
Post, October 27, 2006.
Editorial, “America
in Iraq.” The
Economist, October 26, 2006.
Sowell, Thomas. “Diversity’s
Oppressions: Why Iraq [is] So Hard to Pacify.” Wall
Street Journal, October 30, 2006. [On
war in Iraq.]
1,475 November
1, 2006.
Wednesday’s “News
in Review” Round-Up. Compiled
by CIJR Staff.
October
1,474 October
31, 2006.
“Ahmadinejad: The
West Should Pick Up the Zionist Regime ‘By the Arms and Legs’
and
Remove It From the Region.” MEMRI,
Special Dispatch Series, No. 1337, October 27, 2006.
Editorial, “Choose
Honor”. Jerusalem
Post, October 23, 2006.
[Discusses Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s call to “wipe
Israel of the map.’]
Rubin, Barry. “Time
for RealPolitik.” Jerusalem
Post, October 23, 2006. [Discusses
U.S. alliances in the Middle East.]
1,473 October
30, 2006.
Wieseltier, Leon. “The
Shahid.” The
New Republic, October 23, 2006.
Editorial, “Judt
and the Poles.” New
York Sun, October 23, 2006. [Discusses
the Polish Consulate of New York’s decision to cancel a lecture
by Tony Judt.]
Editorial, “The
Credibility Watch.” New
York Sun, October 19, 2006. [Discusses
article by Human Rights Watch former executive director Arieh Neier published
in the New York Review of Books.]
1,472 October
27, 2006.
Gerecht, Reuel Marc.
“Running From Iraq.” The
Weekly Standard, October 23, 2006.
Kagan, Frederick W. “Insult
to Injury in Iraq.” Washington
Post, October 25, 2006.
1,471 October
26, 2006.
Harper, Stephen. “An
Uncompromising Opposition to Terrorism.” National
Post, October 20, 2006. [Edited
transcript of a speech delivered at B’nai Brith’s Award of
Merit dinner in Toronto.]
Pipes, Daniel. “In
Iraq, Stay the Course—But Change It.” New
York Sun, October 24, 2006.
Rubin, Barry. “Bush—Noble,
But Mistaken.” Jerusalem
Post, October 16, 2006. [On
U.S. President George W. Bush’s decision not withdraw U.S. troops
from Iraq.]
Kay, Jonathan. “Confessions
of a Misguided Hawk.” National
Post, October 17, 2006. [Author’s
change of heart on the war in Iraq.]
1,470 October
25, 2006.
Wednesday’s “News
in Review” Round-Up. Compiled
by CIJR Staff.
1,469 October
24, 2006.
De Borchgrave, Arnaud.
“Gallic Intifada.” Washington
Times, October 16, 2006. [On
fighting radical Islamists and anti-Semitism in France.]
Meyer, David. “Europe
Knows Not Evil.” Jerusalem
Post, October 17, 2006. [Discusses
antisemitism in Europe.]
Ben Simon, Daniel. “The
Le Pen Bombshell.” Ha’aretz,
September 18, 2006.
[On the April 2007 Presidential elections in France.]
1,468 October
23, 2006.
Editorial, “Hamas’s
Willful Failure of Government.” Jerusalem
Post. October 3, 2006.
Marcus, Itamar and Barbara Crook.
“Abbas Dupes U.
S.: ‘Recognition’ is Functional, Not
Inherent.” Palestinian
Media Watch, October 5, 2006. [On
PA chairman Mahmoud Abbas pledging to U.S. Secretary of State Condoleeza
Rice that the Hamas-led government will be fired unless it recognizes
Israel.]
Dubowitz, Mark and Jonathan Snow.
“The Hamas Network.”
Wall Street Journal,
October 18, 2006.
1,467 October
20, 2006.
Avner, Yehuda. “The
Case for ‘Dwelling Alone.’ ” Jerusalem
Post, October 12, 2006. [On
Israel’s diplomatic solitude.]
Netanyahu, Benjamin. “Diaspora’s
Future Depends on Israel.” Jerusalem
Post, October 8, 2006.
1,466 October
19, 2006.
Krauthammer, Charles.
“The Tehran Calculus.” Washington
Post, September 15, 2006. [Discusses
costs of U.S. military attack on Iran.]
Solomon, Lawrence. “Call
Iran’s Bluff.” National
Post, September 28, 2006. [Discusses
hypothetical U. S. sanctions military strike on Iran and the effects on
Iran’s oil industry.]
Frum, David. “Mutually
Assured Disruption.” New
York Times, October 10, 2006. [On
U.S. strategies in dealing with the nuclear proliferation of North Korea
, Pakistan , and Iran.]
1,465 October
18, 2006.
Wednesday’s “News
in Review” Round-Up. Compiled
by CIJR Staff.
1,464 October
17, 2006.
Glick, Caroline.
“ Soros Moves On to Israel.” Jerusalem
Post, October 12, 2006.
[Discusses weakening U.S.-Israeli relations.]
Leibler, Isi. “We
Need to Say No to Rice.” Jerusalem
Post, October 16, 2006. [On
U.S.-PA relations regarding aid and forming a unity government.]
1,463 October
16, 2006.
Krantz, Frederick. “But
if the Current Leaders Falter, There is a Dark Horse…”
Original Publication, Isranet Briefing, No. 1,272, January 6, 2006.
[On nominating Natan
Sharansky to the the Israeli presidency.]
Greenberg, Irving. “Draft
Sharansky for President.” Jerusalem
Post, October 15, 2006.
Hoffman, Gil. “
Politics: Lieberman Up, Sharansky Out.” Jerusalem
Post, October 13, 2006.
[On Natan Sharansky’s resignation from politics,]
1,462 October
13, 2006.
Halkin, Hillel. “What
Should Be Israel ’s Real Reform.” New
York Sun, October 10, 2006.
Glick, Caroline. “As
the Storm of War Approaches.” Jerusalem
Post, October 5, 2006. [On
Russia sending military engineers to Lebanon to help rebuild bridges and
work outside the command of UNIFIL.]
Dan, Uri.
“The Defense Minister’s Ignorance.” Jerusalem
Post, September 27, 2006.
1,461 October
12, 2006.
Sharon, Moshe. “Negotiating
in the Bazaar.” Jerusalem
Post, October 10, 2006.
[Comparison of Middle East politics to a “bazaar”, based on
a quote by Egyptian President Anwar Sadat.]
Rubin, Barry. “Wage
War, Pretend Peace.” Jerusalem
Post, September 17, 2006. [Discusses
history of Arab-Israeli conflict.]
Marcus, Yoel. “One
Leader With an Agenda.” Ha’aretz,
September 26, 2006.
[On Ehud Olmert and Hassan Nasrallah.]
1,460 October
11, 2006.
Wednesday’s “News
in Review” Round-Up. Compiled
by CIJR Staff.
1,459 October
10, 2006.
Batchelor, John.
“Persian Hands.” New
York Sun, October 10, 2006.
[Discusses Iranian ties to North Korean nuclear weapons testing.]
Benn, Aluf. “Israel
and North Korea /Maybe Now They’ll Take Iran Seriously.”
Ha’aretz,
October 9, 2006.
Glick, Caroline. “History’s
Dangerous Repetition.” Jerusalem
Post, October 9, 2006. [Discusses
U.S. policy of appeasement in the face of terrorism and nuclear threat.]
1,458 October
6, 2006.
Cohen, Baruch. “Sukkot
5767: A Short History.” Original
publication, October 6, 2006.
Krauthammer, Charles.
“Everyone’s Jewish.” Washington
Post, September 25, 2006. [Discusses
politicians’ “secret” Jewish backgrounds.]
De Souza, Father Raymond J.
“Does Islam Need
the Pope?” National
Post, October 3, 2006.
1,457 October
5, 2006.
Bayefsky, Anne. “Enough
of the UN.” New
York Sun, September 12, 2006.
Editorial, “Another
Shameful UN Moment.” Jerusalem
Post, September 20, 2006.
Editorial, “Same
old UNIFIL?” Jerusalem
Post, September 25, 2006.
1,456 October
4, 2006.
Wednesday’s “News
in Review” Round-Up. Compiled
by CIJR Staff.
1,455 October
3, 2006.
Ajami, Fouad.
“Infidel Documents.” Wall
Street Journal, September 28, 2006. [Discusses
the continuing violence and political reconstruction in Iraq , as well
as U.S. presence.]
September
1,454 September
29, 2006.
Fackenheim, Emil L. z”l.
From “What is Judaism?”
New York: Summit Books, 1987.
Hanson, Victor Davis.
“The Hate the Left Learned to Love.” New
York Post, September 28, 2006. [On
the renewed anti-Semitism in the U.S., Europe and the Middle East.]
1,453 September
28, 2006.
Rubin, Barry. “Stay
Away From Syria.” Jerusalem
Post, September 28, 2006. [In
an August 15, 2006 speech, Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad repeatedly
emphasized that resistance is the way to peace, and that Syria would liberate
the Golan "by [its] own hands." In the days following the speech,
the Syrian media published articles in a similar vein. The following are
excerpts.]
Halkin, Hillel. “Talking
About Peace.” New
York Sun, September 26, 2006.
“Syrian Government
Press Threatens War in the Golan…” MEMRI,
Special Dispatch Series, No. 1264, August 25, 2006.
1,452 September
27, 2006.
Wednesday’s “News
in Review” Round-Up. Compiled
by CIJR Staff.
1,451 September
26, 2006.
Susser, Asher. “Lebanon
—A Reassessment.” Jerusalem
Post, September 13, 2006.
Leibler, Isi.
“Elections Now!” Jerusalem
Post, September 6, 2006.
Schiff, Ze’ev. “An
Unwritten Understanding With the Public.” Ha’aretz,
September 18, 2006.
Arens, Moshe. “Bye
Bye Kadima.” Ha’aretz,
September 6, 2006. [On
the Olmert administration’s handling of the latest Israeli-Hezbollah
conflict and the Israeli public’s loss of confidence in the current
leadership.]
1,450 September
25, 2006.
North, Steve. “Bleakness
and Balloons.” Jerusalem
Post, September 25, 2006.
[On the Israeli victims of the recent Israeli-Hezbollah conflict.]
Krauthammer, Charles.
“Hezbollah’s ‘Victory’.” Washington
Post, September 1, 2006.
Yaari, Ehud. “Nasrallah’s
Malaise.” Jerusalem
Report, October 2, 2006.
1,449 September
22, 2006.
Cohen, Baruch. “Rosh
Hashanah 5767: A Few Thoughts.” Original
publication, September 22, 2006.
Fackenheim, Emil L. z”l.
From “What is Judaism?”
New York: Summit Books, 1987.
Glick, Caroline. “A
Prayer for 5767.” Jerusalem
Post, September 22, 2006.
De Souza, Father Raymond J.
“Keeping the Sabbath
Scared.” National
Post, September 14, 2006.
1,448 September
21, 2006.
Blair, Tony.
“Our Fight.” New
York Sun, September 15, 2006. [On
“civilization being at risk from radical Islamists if terrorism
is not defeated.”]
Forsyth, James G. “Satanic
Delusions.” Foreign
Affairs, August 2006.
[Discusses Islamic Fundamentalism in Britain.]
1,447 September
20, 2006.
Wednesday’s “News
in Review” Round-Up. Compiled
by CIJR Staff.
1,446 September
19, 2006.
Schwartz, Adi. “See
You in Court, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.” Ha’aretz,
August 25, 2006.
Editorial,
“Confront Ahmadinejad.” Jerusalem
Post, September 12, 2006.
Editorial, “Ahmadinejad
in New York.” New
York Sun, September 13, 2006.
“ Iranian Activists
Demand the Arrest of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for the Violation
Of Human Rights in Iran.” Press
Release, International Campaign Against Sharia Court in Canada, September
17, 2006
1,445 September
18, 2006.
Frum, David. “The
Washington Scandal That Wasn’t.” National
Post, September 2, 2006.
Editorial, “The
Plamegate Hall of Shame.” Weekly
Standard, September 11, 2006.
Podhoretz, John. “About
That White House Cabal.” New
York Post, August 29, 2006. [Discusses
White House scandal involving Richard Armitage and CIA agent Valerie Plame.]
1,444 September
15, 2006.
Fallaci, Oriana. “On
Antisemitism Today.” Panorama,
April 12, 2002.
Cotler, Irwin.
“The Disgrace of Durban —Five Years Later.” National
Post, September 12, 2006.
Kristol, William. “Anti-Judaism.”
Wall Street Journal, September
8, 2006.
1,443 September
14, 2006.
Marcus, Itamar and Barbara Crook.
“How Fatah Got
Religion and Lost Power.” Jerusalem
Post, September 12, 2006.
Issacharoff, Avi. “Hamas
Declares EU to Lift PA Siege.” Ha’aretz,
September 13, 2006.
1,442 September
13, 2006.
Wednesday’s “News
in Review” Round-Up. Compiled
by CIJR Staff.
1,441 September
12, 2006.
Peretz, Martin. “Just
Cause.” The New
Republic, August 7, 2006.
[On Israel fighting terrorism.]
Weiner, Justus Reid and Noam Weissman.
“[T]he Critical
Role of Hate Indoctrination.” JCPA,
Jerusalem Viewpoints, No.545, August 1, 2006. [Discusses
Hamas’s use of education and media to brainwash Palestinians.]
1,440 September
11, 2006. (Special
Commemorative Briefing: Fifth Anniversary of 9/11)
Steyn, Mark. “Hiding
in Plain Sight.” Jerusalem
Post, September 10, 2006.
Hitchens, Christopher.
“Solidarity.” Wall
Street Journal, September 11, 2006.
Hanson, Victor Davis.
“Aptly Defined.” Washington
Times, September 9, 2006.
Fulford, Robert. “Forever
Changed: 9/11 Five Years On.” National
Post, September 11, 2006.
1,439 September
8, 2006.
Karsh, Efraim. “Pan-Muslim
Fiction.” New
York Sun, August 29, 2006.
Gerecht, Reuel Marc. “The
Last Orientalist.” The
Weekly Standard, June 5, 2006.
1,438 September
7, 2006.
Johnson, Daniel.
“Delusion in Britain.” New
York Sun, August 31, 2006.
[On the radicalization of the British Muslim community.]
Dershowitz, Alan. “Amnesty
International Redefines ‘War Crimes’.” Jerusalem
Post, August 30, 2006.
Editorial,
“Wanted: A Local Bill Maher.” Jerusalem
Post, August 30, 2006. [Discusses
Israel’s need for a strategic approach to arguing its case on the
media battlefield.]
Editorial, “Khatemi
at Harvard.” New
York Sun, August 31, 2006.
[On the John F. Kennedy School at Harvard University inviting Mohammed
Khatemi to speak at its fifth anniversary ceremony of 9/11.]
1,437 September
6, 2006
Wednesday’s “News
in Review” Round-Up. Compiled
by CIJR Staff.
1,436 September
5, 2006.
Glick, Caroline.
“Setting the Conditions for Disaster.” Jerusalem
Post, September 1, 2006.
[On securing Israel’s national security.]
Singer, Saul.
“The Next Revolution.” Jerusalem
Post, August 31, 2006.
[Discusses the aftermath of the Israel - Hezbollah conflict.]
1,435 September
1, 2006.
Margolick, David. “Postwar
Pogrom.” New
York Times Book Review, July 23, 2006.
[Review of Jan T. Gross’s “Fear: Anti-Semitism in Poland After
Auschwitz.”]
Cohen, Baruch. “The
Transnistria Killing Fields: A Solemn Commemoration Marking Sixty-Five
Years Since the Deportations of 1941.” Canadian
Jewish News, August 31, 2006.
August
1,434 August
31, 2006.
Davis, Douglas. “
Syria ’s Sights Are Set On Lebanon.” National
Post, August 29, 2006.
[On France sending troops into Lebanon as part of UN peacekeeping force.]
Guitta, Olivier.
“The French Connection.” The
Weekly Standard, August 7, 2006. [On
French President Jacques Chirac’s support for the disarming of Hezbollah.]
“Iran and Syria
Will Try to Use Hizbollah to Draw Israel into a War.” MEMRI,
August 30, 2006.
1,433 August
30, 2006.
Wednesday’s “News
in Review” Round-Up. Compiled
by CIJR Staff.
1,432 August
29, 2006.
Steinberg, Gerald. “Ken
Roth’s Blood Libel.” Jerusalem
Post, August 26, 2006. [Discusses
HRW executive director Kenneth Roth’s anti-Israel bias.]
Dershowitz, Alan.
“What Are They Watching?” New
York Sun, August 23, 2006. [On
HRW’s anti-Israel bias.]
1,431 August
28, 2006.
Krauthammer, Charles.
“The Two Meanings of Multilateralism.” Wall
Street Journal, August 25, 2006. [On
George W. Bush administration’s turn to multilateral diplomacy in
dealings with the Middle East and North Korea.]
Taheri, Amir. “Hezbollah
Didn’t Win.” Wall
Street Journal, August 25, 2006.
Schiff, Ze’ev. “Lessons
of War/War Could Have Been Shorter.” Ha’aretz,
August 28, 2006. [Discusses
Israeli-Hezbollah conflict.]
1,430 August
25, 2006.
Ben-Itto, Hadassa.
“In this War, the Protocols are to Blame?” Ha’aretz,
August 22, 2006. [Discusses
the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.]
Grossman, David.
“An Ode to Uri.” Montreal
Gazette, August 23, 2006. [As
the Israeli-Hezbollah war was at it height, David Grossman, a celebrated
Israeli writer, publicly urged his government to accept a ceasefire. Days
later, his soldier son was killed by a Hezbollah anti-tank missile. This
is the eulogy that Grossman read at his son's funeral.]
Kozak, Warren.
“Transforming the Jewish Psyche.” New
York Sun, July 20, 2006. [Discusses
why Jews are reluctant to stand up for Israel.]
1,429 August
24, 2006.
Marcus, Yoel. “Where
Are the Voices of Protest?” Ha’aretz,
August 22, 2006. [On
Israel’s shortcomings in the Israeli-Hezbollah conflict.]
O’Sullivan, John.
“Behold the First
Iranian-Israeli Clash of Arms.” Globe
and Mail, August 22, 2006.
Luttwak, Edward. “It’s
So Easy to Misread War.” Globe
and Mail, August 23, 2006.
[On the Israeli-Hezbollah conflict.]
1,428 August
23, 2006.
Wednesday’s “News
in Review” Round-Up. Compiled
by CIJR Staff.
1,427 August
22, 2006.
Scruton, Roger.
“Islamofascism.” Wall
Street Journal, August 17, 2006. [On
Islam and terrorism.]
Glucksmann, André.
“The Jerusalem
Syndrome.” The
New Republic, August 17, 2006.
[Discusses Middle East conflicts.]
Manji, Irshad. “Muslim
Myopia.” New
York Times, August 17, 2006.
[Discusses Western world And Islamic relations.]
1,426 August
21, 2006.
Gunter, Lorne. “Playing
Favorites.” National
Post, August 21, 2006. [Discusses
UN Secretary- General Kofi Annan’s anti-Israel bias.]
Krauthammer, Charles.
“In Lebanon , This Time It’s Serious.” Washington
Post, August
18, 2006. [On
the aftermath of the Israel -Hezbollah conflict and UN Security Council
Resolution 1701.]
Malkin, Michelle.
“Fauxtography.” New
York Post, August 17, 2006. [Discusses
Reuters photographer Adnan Hajj’s manipulation of Beirut war photographs.]
1,425 August
18, 2006.
Klein Halevi, Yossi. “Israel
’s Broken Heart.” National
Post, August 18, 2006.
Peters, Ralph. “Hezbollah
3, Israel 0.” New
York Post, August 17, 2006.
[On the 2006 Israeli-Hezbollah conflict.]
Berger, Suzanne.
“Time for a Bold Move.” Raoul
Wallenberg International Movement for Humanity, June 30, 2006.
[Discusses Russia’s need to reveal documentation regarding Raoul
Wallenberg’s disappearance.]
1,424 August
17, 2006.
Herman, Arthur. “The
Mideast’s Munich.” New
York Post, August 16, 2006. [Comparison
of current Israel - Hezbollah ceasefire with 1938 Adolf Hitler and Neville
Chamberlain accord.]
Glick, Caroline. “The
Olmert Government Must Go.” Jerusalem
Post, August 14, 2006.
1,423 August
16, 2006.
Wednesday’s “News
in Review” Round-Up. Compiled
by CIJR Staff.
1,422 August
15, 2006.
Lewis, Bernard. “August
22.” Wall Street
Journal, August 8, 2006. [On
Iran’s nuclear threat to the U.S. and Israel.]
Bayefsky, Anne. “Dealing
with the Devil.” National
Review Online, August 7, 2006.
[Discusses UN draft resolution on current Israel i-Hezbollah conflict.]
Neuer, Hillel C. “At
the UN, the Problem is Always Israel .” National
Post, August 11, 2006.
1,421 August
14, 2006.
Johnson, Daniel. “The
Other Cheek.” New
York Sun, August 10, 2006. [Discusses
editorial (“Mel Gibson Deserves Pity Not Pillory”) by Andrew
O’Hagan in Daily Telegraph, August 2, 2006.]
Glick, Caroline. “Why
Israel Must Win.” Jerusalem
Post, August 11, 2006.
Peters, Ralph. “Lessons
So Far.” New
York Post, August 11, 2006. [Discusses
the West’s military fight against Islamic extremists in the Middle
East .]
1,420 August
11, 2006.
Hanson, Victor Davis.
“The Brink of Madness.” National
Review Online, August 4, 2006. [Discusses
the reluctance of the Western world to fight Islamic jihadism.]
Davis, Douglas. “Hanging
Europe ’s Jews Out to Dry.” National
Post, August 10, 2006.
[On how events in the Middle East trigger anti-Semitic reactions in European
communities.]
1,419 August
10, 2006.
Kay, Jonathan. “How
Israel Fights.” National
Post, August 8, 2006. [On
media bias regarding military tactics in the Israeli-Hezbollah conflict.]
Gross, Tom. “The
Media Aims Its Missiles.” Jerusalem
Post, August 2, 2006.
Gunter, Lorne.
“Selective Outrage.” National
Post, August 8, 2006.
[On international media bias in the Israeli-Hezbollah conflict.]
1,418 August
9, 2006.
Krantz, Frederick.
“Yes, Mr. Goldstein. Precisely ‘In Your Name!’ ”
Montreal Gazette, August
9, 2006. [In
response to article by Warren Goldstein published in the Montreal Gazette,
titled “Not in My Name!”, August 6, 2006.]
Cohen, Baruch. “C.I.J.R.
A Zionist Flag.” ISRAFAX,
No. 256, August 9, 2006.
Douek, Jacqueline. “Happy
Birthday CIJR.” C.I.J.R.’s
Chai Gala Commemorative Program Book, August 9, 2006.
1,417 August
8, 2006.
Robinson, Ira. “What
Shakespeare Taught Me About Louise Arbour.” Original
publication.
Smith, Brian. “Denying
Israel the Right of Self-Defense.” Original
publication.
Steinmetz, Rabbi Chaim.
“On Pacifism,
Proportionality, and State Terrorism.” Original
publication.
Roth, Charles. “A
Bit of Clarity.” Original
publication.
Newman, Elaine. “The
Never Never Land of Hezbollah.” Original
publication. [On
the current Israeli-Hezbollah conflict.]
1,416 August
7, 2006.
Yaalon, Moshe. “Casus
Belli.” The New
Republic, July 31, 2006. [Discusses
Iran and Syria’s Involvement in the current Israeli-Hezbollah conflict.]
Steyn, Mark. “Disproportion.”
New York Sun, August 7, 2006.
[On the international community’s claim that Israel’s response
to Hezbollah has been “disproportionate”.]
Wieseltier, Leon.
“The Children of Qana.” The
New Republic, August 4, 2006. [On
July 30 Israeli air strike in Qana, Lebanon.]
1,415 August
4, 2006.
Rubin, Barry.
“The Craven French ‘Solution’.” New
York Post, August 2, 2006. [Discusses
France ’s stance in the current Israeli-Hezbollah conflict.]
Walzer, Michael. “War
Fair.” The New
Republic, July 31, 2006.
Kaplan, Lawrence F. “Other
Means.” The New
Republic, July 31, 2006.
[On the current Israeli-Hezbollah conflict.]
1,414 August
3, 2006.
Editorial, “War
Old and New.” The
New Republic, July 31, 2006.
Stephens, Bret. “Israel
is Losing This War.” Wall
Street Journal, August 1, 2006.
Ross, Dennis. “Roll
Back.” The New
Republic, July 31, 2006. [On
the Arab world’s involvement in the current Israeli-Hezbollah conflict.]
1,413 August
2, 2006.
Wednesday’s “News
in Review” Round-Up. Compiled
by CIJR Staff.
1,412 August
1, 2006.
Krauthammer, Charles.
“ ‘Disproportionate?’ In What Moral Universe?”
Washington Post, July,
28, 2006. [Discusses
international community’s response to Israeli retaliation against
Hezbollah in current conflict.]
Fulford, Robert. “Lebanon
According to Hezbollah.” National
Post, July 29, 2006.
Brooks, David . “Cease-Fire
to Nowhere.” New
York Times, July 30, 2006.
[On the international community’s call for a cease-fire in the Israeli-Hezbollah
conflict.]
Podhoretz, John. “It’s
Another Hezbollah Atrocity.” New
York Post, August 1, 2006.
July
1,411 July
31, 2006.
Murphy, Rex. “A
Doctrine of Cruelty and Folly.” Globe
and Mail, July 29, 2006.
[On Israeli retaliation against Hezbollah.]
Schiff, Ze’ev.
“A Must-Win Situation.” Ha’aretz,
July 27, 2006. [Discusses
current Israeli- Hezbollah conflict in Lebanon.]
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