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Prof. Frederick Krantz, Director

2007

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December
1,750 December 31, 2007. YEAR IN REVIEW
Frederick Krantz. “Israel and the Middle East: Annual Year-End Review.” December 31, 2007.
Barry Rubin. “2007—The Year That Was.” Jerusalem Post, December 23, 2007.

1,749 December 28, 2007. PAKISTAN
Taheri, Amir. “Democracy Must Go On.” New York Post, December 28, 2007.
Kfir, Isaac. “The Assassination of Benazir Bhutto.” Jerusalem Post, December 27, 2007.
Jonas, George. “Democracy Isn’t the Best Medicine For Pakistan.” National Post, December 28, 2007.
Hitchens, Christopher. “Daughter of Destiny: Benazir Bhutto, 1953-2007.” Slate.com, December 27, 2007.
Steyn, Mark. “Benazir Bhhutto.” National Review Online, December 27, 2007.

1,748 December 27, 2007. PAKISTAN: BHUTTO ASSASSINATED
Massood, Salman and Graham Bowley. “Bhutto Assassinated in Attack on Rally.” New York Times, December 27, 2007.
Maddox, Bronwen. “Analysis: Can Democracy in Pakistan Survive the Death of Bhutto?” Times Online-UK, December 27, 2007.
Editorial. “Benazir Bhutto’s Life: A Sweeping Epic of Blood and Controversy.” The Associated Press, International Herald Tribune, December 27, 2007.
Page, Jeremy. “Who Killed Benazir Bhutto? The Main Suspects.” Times Online-UK, December 27, 2007.

1,747 December 24, 2007. IRAQ
Editorial. “News That’s Fit To Bury.” New York Post, December 1, 2007.
Kristol, William. “Gen. David Petraeus, Man Of the Year.” Weekly Standard, December 31, 2007.
Kagan, Frederic W. “Our Friends In Baghdad.” Wall Street Journal, December 21, 2007.

1,746 December 21, 2007. SDEROT & THE TESTING OF ISRAELI WILL
Rosenblum, Jonathan. “A Test Of Wills.” Jerusalem Post, December 13, 2007.
Halkin, Hillel. “Stopping the Kassams.” New York Sun, December 18, 2007.
Arens, Moshe. “The Numbers Don’t Lie.” Ha’aretz, December 17, 2007.

1,745 December 20, 2007. ISLAMISM
Editorial. “Free Steyn.” National Review, December 19, 2007.
Fatah, Tarek. “It’s No Sin to Shun the Hijab.” Globe and Mail, December 17, 2007.
Ali, Ayaan Hirsi. “Islam’s Silent Moderates.” New York Times, December 7, 2007.

1,744 December 19, 2007. NEWS IN REVIEW
CIJR Staff. Wednesday’s Round-Up.

1,743 December 18, 2007. FUNDING THE PA
Pipes, Daniel. “Bankrolling the Enemy.” National Post, December 18, 2007.
Toameh, Kaled Abu. “PA Aid No Guarantee For Boosting Moderates.” Jerusalem Post, December 18, 2007.
Rubin, Barry. “…The Distortion of Palestinian Aid Politics.” GLORIA, December 9, 2007.

1,742 December 17, 2007. NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE ESTIMATE
Kissinger, Henry A. “Misreading the Iran Report: Why Spying and Policymaking Don’t Mix.” Washington Post, December 13, 2007.
Stephens, Bret. “The NIE Fantasy.” Wall Street Journal, December 11, 2007.
Asa-El, Amotz. “The Middle-Israel Intelligence Estimate.” Jerusalem Post, December 13, 2007.

1,741 December 14, 2007. ANTISEMITISM
Blum, Ruthie. “Debunking Dastardly Debate.” Jerusalem Post, December 12, 2007.
Lagnado, Lucette. “Candle Power.” New York Times, December 8, 2007.

1,740 December 13, 2007. SYRIA & LEBANON
Shadid, Anthony. “Car Bombing Kills Army General in Increasingly Tense Lebanon.” Washington Post, December 13, 2007.
Rubin, Barry. “Syrian Toxication—An Infantile Malady.” Jerusalem Post, December 10, 2007.
Glick, Caroline. “Our Friends the Syrians.” Jerusalem Post, December 3, 2007.

1,739 December 12, 2007. NEWS IN REVIEW
CIJR Staff. Wednesday’s Round-Up.

1,738 December 11, 2007. UNITED NATIONS
Steinberg, Gerald. “From Defenders to Defamers.” Jerusalem Post, December 9, 2007.
Schifter, Richard. “Still ‘A Dangerous Place’.” Jerusalem Post, December 10, 2007.
Richman, Rick. “Shadow of 1947.” New York Sun, December 6, 2007.

1,737 December 10, 2007. NUCLEAR IRAN
Miliband, David. “Why We Must Not Take the Pressure Off Iran.” Financial Times, December 6, 2007.
Klein Halevi, Yossi. “An Insult To Intelligence.” The New Republic, December 6, 2007.
Editorial. “A Political Reversal.” Jerusalem Post, December 5, 2007.

1,736 December 7, 2007. JUDAISM
Wagner, Matthew. “‘Keeping All Settlements is Justified’.” Jerusalem Post, December 4, 2007.
Green, Alex. “Finding the Forgotten Space Between ‘Religious’ and ‘Secular’.” Canadian Jewish News, October 11, 2007.
Herman, Alan. “Books of Interest.” December 7, 2007.

1,735 December 6, 2007. IRAN & THE NIE
Zeihan, Peter. “A Secret US-Iran Entente?” New York Post, December 5, 2007.
Lincy, Valerie & Gary Milhollin. “In Iran We Trust?” New York Times, December 6, 2007.
Ben-David, Calev. “Reading Between the Lines of the New Iran Report.” Jerusalem Post, December 4, 2007.

1,734 December 5, 2007. NEWS IN REVIEW
CIJR Staff. Wednesday’s Round-Up.

1,733 December 4, 2007. ANNAPOLIS
Cohen, Baruch. “Hanukkah 5768.” December 4, 2007.
Satloff, Robert. “Bush At Annapolis: Hints About the Final Thirteen Months.” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, November 28, 2007.
Rubin, Barry. “Annapolis—One Cheer, One Yawn, One Cynical Shrug.” Jerusalem Post, December 2, 2007.

1,732 December 3, 2007. LEBANON
Avni, Benny. “As Lebanon Goes, So Goes the Middle East.” New York Sun, November 19, 2007.
Avni, Benny. “U.N. Investigator Declines to Name Suspects in Assassination Case.” New York Sun, November 29, 2007.
Young, Michael. “Syriana.” Wall Street Journal, November 28, 2007

November
1,731 November 30, 2007. ANTISEMITISM
Rubin, Barry & Judith Roumani. “An Interview With Robert Wistrich: Antisemtism, the World’s Obsession.” Covenant, Volume 1, Issue 3, October 2007.

1,730 November 29, 2007. FROM PARTITION TO ANNPOLIS: 60 YEARS OF JEWISH HISTORY
Steinman, Diane. “Nov. 29, 1947: The UN Did It Right.” New York Post, November 29, 2007.
Cotler, Irwin. “The Forgotten Exodus.” National Post, November 28, 2007.
Rubinstein, Amnon. “On Dreams and Nightmares.” Jerusalem Post, November 28, 2007.
Kay, Barbara. “Taking Back the Campus.” National Post, November 28, 2007.

1,729 November 28, 2007. NEWS IN REVIEW
CIJR Staff. Wednesday’s Round-Up.

1,728 November 27, 2007. ANNAPOLIS 2007 – PART II
Inbar, Efraim. “The Great American Delusion.” Jerusalem Post, November 24, 2007.
Ibrahim Youssef. “Owls Gather at Annapolis.” New York Sun, November 26, 2007.
Rubin, Barry. “Inviting a Bull Into the China Shop.” Jerusalem Post, November 25, 2007.
Benny Avni. "Barking Up the Right Tree." New York Sun, November 26, 2007

1,727 November 26, 2007. ANNAPOLIS 2007 – PART I
Lewis, Bernard. “On the Jewish Question.” Wall Street Journal, November 26, 2007.
Sharansky, Natan. “Strengthening Them Again.” Ha’aretz, November 23, 2007.
Glick, Caroline. “American Folly.” Jerusalem Post, November 22, 2007.
Gold, Dore. “Towards Annapolis: Is U.S. Policy Changing On Israel’s Rights In a Peace Settlement.” Jerusalem Issue Brief, JCPA, November 23, 2007.

1,726 November 23, 2007. EGYPT-ISRAEL
Avner, Yehuda. “Bygone Days: The Night Sadat Came.” Jerusalem Post, November 17, 2007.
Stern, Yoav. “In Egypt, Only Inquiring Students Know About the Peace Deal With Israel.” Ha’aretz, November 23, 2007.
Bialkin, Kenneth J. “Will It Be Sadat Or Arafat At Annapolis?” Wall Street Journal, November 23, 2007.

1,725 November 22, 2007. UNITED NATIONS
Steinberg, Gerald M. “Reclaiming Human Rights.” Jerusalem Report, October 29, 2007.
Editorial. “The Farce at the UNHRC?” National Post, November 15, 2007.
Edwards, Steven. “Too Bad UN Members Don’t Practice What They Preach.” National Post, November 14, 2007.

1,724 November 21, 2007. NEWS IN REVIEW
CIJR Staff. Wednesday’s Round-Up.

1,723 November 20, 2007. PEACE SUMMIT – PART II
Jacoby, Jeff. “Is Israel a Jewish State?” Boston Globe, November 14, 2007.
Horovitz, David. “The ‘Jewish Israel’ Genie.” Jerusalem Post, November 15, 2007.
Marcus, Yoel. “A Journey to La-La Land.” Ha’aretz, November 10, 2007.
Halkin, Hillel. “Unpopular Child.” New York Sun, November 20, 2007.

1,722 November 19, 2007. PEACE SUMMIT – PART I
Guttman, Nathan. “White House Implores Organized Jewry To Support Peace Summit.” Forward, November 14, 2007.
Richman, Rick. “What Most Palestinians Believe.” New York Sun, November 12, 2007.
Benn, Aluf. “And After Annapolis, Gaza?” Ha’aretz, November 8, 2007.
Glick, Caroline. “Fantasists vs. Realists.” Jerusalem Post, November 15, 2007.

1,721 November 16, 2007. ANTISEMTISM
Wisse, Ruth. “Are American Jews Too Powerful? Not Even Close.” Washington Post, November 4, 2007.
Phillips, Melanie. “Oldest Hatred, New Mutation.” City Journal, Autumn 2007.

1,720 November 15, 2007. CAMPUS
Halkin, Hillel. “Déjà Vu At Columbia.” New York Sun, October 23, 2007.
Lando, Michal. “Israel Critique On Campus.” Jerusalem Post, November 4, 2007.
Editorial. “Colonizing Barnard.” New York Sun, November 6, 2007.

1,719 November 14, 2007. NEWS IN REVIEW
CIJR Staff. Wednesday’s Round-Up.

1,718 November 13, 2007. MEDIA
Landes, Richard. "Al-Dura and the “Public Secret” of Middle East Journalism". Pajamas Media, November 11, 2007.
Chesler, Phyllis. “An Unassuming Hero Standing Up For Truth.” Jewish Press, October 24, 2007.

1,717 November 12, 2007. IRAN
Bolton, John. “Dithering Diplomat.” New York Post, November 6, 2007.
Editorial. “The German Bottleneck.” Jerusalem Post, November 8, 2007.
Rubin, Barry. “Understanding the Iranian Threat.” Jerusalem Post, November 11, 2007.
Steinberg, Gerald M. “Why Are the IAEA and Mr. Mohammed El-Baradei Protecting Iran?” JCPA—ICA Jerusalem Issue Brief, November 4, 2007.

1,716 November 9, 2007. PODHORETZ’S WORLD WAR IV
“What Kind Of War Are We Fighting, And Can We Win It? A Symposium.” Commentary, November 2007.
Ajami, Fouad.
Hanson, Victor Davis.
Pryce-Jones, David
.

1,715 November 8, 2007. KRISTALLNACHT
Cohen, Baruch. “The Unleashing of the Holocaust: Krstanllnacht, November 9, 1938" Original Publication
Rozett, Robert. “Shoah Paradox.” Jerusalem Post, November 7, 2007.
Haberman, Clyde. “Honoring the Hands of a Pianist and a Survivor.” New York Times, November 6, 2007.

1,714 November 7, 2007. NEWS IN REVIEW
CIJR Staff. Wednesday’s Round-Up.

1,713 November 6, 2007. PEACE PROCESS
Gordon, Evelyn. “The Palestinians Don’t Want a State.” Jerusalem Post, October 24, 2007.
Inbar, Efraim. “The November Conference Cannot Succeed.”
Pipes, Daniel. “Annapolis Blues.” Jerusalem Post, October 24, 2007.

1,712 November 5, 2007. PAKISTAN
Editorial. “Musharraf’s Move.” New York Sun, November 5, 2007.
Editorial. “Pakistan Emergency.” Wall Street Journal, November 5, 2007.
Sanger, David E. & David Rohde. “U.S. Is Likely to Continue Aid to Pakistan.” New York Times, November 5, 2007.

1,711 November 2, 2007. BALFOUR DECLARATION
Balfour, Arthur. Balfour Declaration. November 2, 1917.
Makovsky, Michael. “Winston Churchill’s Complex Zionist Evolution.” Jerusalem Post, October 31, 2007
Rubin, Barry. “Rules of the Game, Palestinian-Style.” Jerusalem Post, October 30, 2007.

1,710 November 1, 2007. MEDIA
Abramovitz, Marylin Machla. “CBC: Accuracy? Integrity? Fairness?” November 1, 2007
Fegelman, Mike. “CBC Whitewashes Palestinian Prisoners.” Honest Reporting Canada, October 29, 2007.
Fumento, Michael. “Hollywood Goes to War.” New York Sun, October 25, 2007.

October
1,709 October 31, 2007. NEWS IN REVIEW
CIJR Staff. Wednesday’s Round-Up.

1,708 October 30, 2007. IRAN
Cotler, Irwin. “Ahmadinejad and International Law.” Jerusalem Post, October 2, 2007.
Glick, Caroline. “Preventing World War III.” Jerusalem Post, October 30, 2007.
Hanson, Victor Davis. “Why No One’s Stopping Iran.” New York Post, October 27.

1,707 October 29, 2007. OLMERT
Olmert, Prime Minister Ehud. “Special Knesset Session Commemorating the 12th Anniversary Of the Murder Of Yitzhak Rabin.” Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Israel, October 24, 2007.
Lewis, Bernard. “Second Acts.” The Atlantic, November 2007.
Marcus, Itamar & Barbara Crook. “PA TV: Singing to Israel’s Destruction.” Palestinian Media Watch Bulletin, October 29, 2007.

1,706 October 26, 2007. DISPATCHES
Gordis, Daniel. “One treadmill, Two Refugees, One College.” Dispatches, Daniel Gordis.org, October 14, 2007.

1,705 October 25, 2007. ISLAMOFASCISM
Hitchens, Christopher. “Defending Islamofascism. It’s A Valid Term. Here’s Why.” Slate.com, October 22, 2007.
Hughes, Donna M. “Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week Day 3.” FrontPageMagazine.com, October 25, 2007.

1,704 October 24, 2007. NEWS IN REVIEW
CIJR Staff. Wednesday’s Round-Up.

1,703 October 23, 2007. ANNAPOLIS PEACE CONFERENCE
Diker, Dan. “Rethinking the Core Issues.” Jerusalem Post, October 15, 2007.
Lake, Eli. “Ahead of Annapolis Talks, Barak Emerges As Skeptic.” New York Sun, October 17, 2007.

1,702 October 22, 2007. ISRAEL, THE P.A. & THE U.S.
Rubin, Barry. “And What Do We Get?” Jerusalem Post, October 14, 2007.
Halkin, Hillel. “Olmert’s Shaky Act.” New York Sun, October 16, 2007.
Glick, Caroline. “Idle Talk, Reckless Talk.” Jerusalem Post, October 18, 2007.

1,701 October 19, 2007. NAZISM
Küntzel, Matthias. “Jew-Hatred and Jihad: The Nazi Roots of the 9/11 Attack.” Weekly Standard, September 17, 2007.
Cohen, Roger. “Down Time From Murder.” New York Times, September 24, 2007.
Sciolino, Elaine. “A Priest Methodically Reveals Ukrainian Jews’ Fate.” New York Times,October 6, 2007.

1,700 October 18, 2007. IRAN
Stephens, Bret. “Iran’s Al-Qaeda.” Wall Street Journal, October 16, 2007.
Klein Halevy, Yossi. “Iran’s German Enablers.” Wall Street Journal, September 24, 2007.
Sneh, Ephraim. “Preparing for the Military Operation.” Ha’aretz, October 10, 2007.

1,699 October 17, 2007. NEWS IN REVIEW
CIJR Staff. Wednesday’s Round-Up.

1,698 October 16, 2007. IRAQ UPDATE
Luft, Gal. “The War For Oil That Wasn’t.” New York Post, October 8, 2007.
Kagan, Frederick W. “Why We’re Winning Now in Iraq.” Wall Street Journal, September 8, 2007.
Steingart, Gabor. “From Berlin To Baghdad.” Wall Street Journal, September 18, 2007.

1,697 October 15, 2007. SYRIA & LEBANON
Sanger, David E. & Mark Mazetti. “Israel Struck Syrian Nuclear Project, Analysts Say” New York Times, October 14, 2007.
Bolton, John R. “Syria Joins the Axis of Evil.” Wall Street Journal, September 25, 2007.
Kazimi, Nibras. “Lebanese Malaise.” New York Sun, October 15, 2007.

1,696 October 12, 2007. BOOK REVIEWS
Herf, Jeffrey. “The Whole Horror.” The New Republic, September 4, 2007.
Stephens, Bret. “Against Weakness.” Commentary, September 2000.

1,695 October 11, 2007. ISRAELI CONCESSIONS
Leibler, Isi. “A Banana Republic in the Making.” Jerusalem Post, October 10, 2007.
Marcus, Yoel. “The Cat’s Tail.” Ha'aretz, October 9, 2007.
Asa-El, Amotz. “Days of Cartography.” Middle Israel, October 11, 2007.

1,694 October 10, 2007. NEWS IN REVIEW
CIJR Staff. Wednesday’s Round-Up.

1,693 October 9, 2007. PEACE PROCESS
Glick, Caroline. “Rice’s Rabbit Hole.” Jerusalem Post, October 4, 2007.
Ross, Dennis. “Condi’s Keys.” The New Republic Online, October 8, 2007.
Rubin, Barry. “Let’s Not Make A Deal.” Jerusalem Post, October 7, 2007.

1,692 October 2, 2007. PALESTINIAN POLITICS & SOCIETY
Gold, Dore. “Where Is the Issue of Education For Peace in the Olmert-Rice-Abbas Initiative?” JCPA Jerusalem Issue Brief, September 25, 2007.
Ya’ari, Ehud. “Who’s Who in the Abbad Succession Stakes.” Jerusalem Report, September 17, 2007.

1,691 October 1, 2007.
Cohen, Baruch. “The Festival of Ingathering (Hag Haassif): Sukkot-5768.” Original Publication
Glick, Caroline. “Columbia’s Choice—and Ours.” Jerusalem Post, September 24, 2007.
Oren, Michael and Mark Gerson. “Jonah’s Dilemma.” Wall Street Journal, September 21, 2007.
Hansen, Victor Davis. “Scapegoats Yet Again.” Washington Times, September 15, 2007.

September
1,690 September 25, 2007. LEBANON — IRAN & SYRIA
Krauthammer, Charles. “Middle East Volcano.” Washington Post, September 21, 2007.
Taheri, Amir. “Don’t Sell Out Lebanon’s Hopes.” New York Post, September 19, 2007.
Young, Michael. “Showdown in Lebanon.” Wall Street Journal, September 21, 2007.

1,689 September 24, 2007. AHMADINEJAD AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
Rosen, Barry. “Hostage Tells Him: Shut Up!” New York Post, September 23, 2007.
Taheri, Amir. “Sympathy From the Devil.” New York Post, September 23, 2007.
Gershman, Jacob. “Legislators May Act On Columbia.” New York Sun,September 24, 2007.
Editorial. “Ahmadnejad In New York.” New York Sun, September 20, 2007.

1,688 September 20, 2007. JEWISH HOLIDAYS
Lagnado, Lucette. “Ah Yes, I Remember Them Well.” Wall Street Journal, September 14, 2007.
Ser, Sam. “The Joy of Judaism.” Jerusalem Post, August 30, 2007.

1,687 September 19, 2007. NEWS IN REVIEW
Wednesday’s “News in Review” Round-Up. Compiled by CIJR Staff.

1,686 September 18, 2007. THE PETRAEUS REPORT
Editorial. “Trashing Petraeus.” Wall Street Journal, September 11, 2007.
Krauthammer, Charles. “Good Tidings From Iraq.” National Post, September 14, 2007.
Henninger, Daniel. “The Remains of That Day.” Wall Street Journal, September 13, 2007.

1,685 September 17, 2007. SYRIA-NORTH KOREA NUCLEAR CONNECTION
Kessler, Glenn. “Syria-N. Korea Reports Won’t Stop Talks.” Washington Post, September 15, 2007.
Butcher, Tim. “North Korean Ship ‘Linked to Israel’s Strike on Syria’.” Daily Telegraph-UK, September 17, 2007.
Glick, Caroline. “Recognizing the Axis of Evil.” Jerusalem Post, September 17, 2007.
Katz, Yaakov. “Keeping Quiet In Order to Prevent War.” Jerusalem Post, September 17, 2007.

1,684 September 11, 2007. ROSH HASHANA
Cohen, Baruch. “Heshbon Hanafesh.” Original Publication
Jerusalem Post St aff. “ Israel ’s Population Numbers 7.2 Million.” Jerusalem Post, September 10, 2007.
Steyn, Marc. “From September to September.” New York Sun, September 10, 2007.
Editorial. “9/11 + Six.” National Post, September 11, 2007.

1,683 September 10, 2007. SEPT. 11, 2001: SIX YEARS LATER
Hanson, Victor Davis. “A False Post-9/11 Quiet.” New York Post, September 8, 2007.
Ajami, Fouad. “‘You Have Liberated A People’.” Wall Street Journal, September 10, 2007.
McCain, John & Joe Lieberman. “Listening to Petraeus.” Wall Street Journal, September 10, 2007.

1,682 September 7, 2007. JEWISH SURVIVORS
Lagnado, Lucette. “Searching For My Father’s Lost City .” Wall Street Journal, June 30, 2007.
Polack, Monique. “Trek To Terezin.” Montreal Gazette, July 7, 2007.
Henry, Marilyn. “Why the Victims of the Nazis St ill Suffer.” Jerusalem Post, August 6, 2007.

1,681 September 6, 2007. SDEROT
Krantz, Frederick. “Defend the People of Sderot!” September 6, 2007.
Mizroch, Amir. “‘Waiting for Babies to Die is No Strategy’.” Jerusalem Post, September 4, 2007.
Jacobson, Philip. “Close to the Edge.” Sunday Times—UK, September 2, 2007.

1,680 September 5, 2007. NEWS IN REVIEW
Wednesday’s “News in Review” Round-Up. Compiled by CIJR Staff.

1,679 September 4, 2007. LEBANON
Rubin, Barry. “Losing Lebanon.” Jerusalem Post, September 2, 2007.
Krieger, Zvika. “Hezbollah’s Creepy New Museum.” The New Republic, August 27, 2007.
Kay, Jonathan. “The Dark Genius of Hezbollah.” National Post, August 16, 2007.

August
1,678 August 31, 2007. DURBAN II: FOLLOW UP .
Neuer, Hillel. “Challenging the UN's Darker Side.” Boston Globe, August 25, 2007
Steinberg, Gerald. “Europe to Host NGO Attack on Israel.” Jerusalem Post, August 22, 2007.
Bayefsky, Anne “Notorious UN Committee Hosting Anti-Israel Event at European Parliament.” EyeontheUN, August 28, 2007.

1,677 August 30, 2007. DURBAN II
Reshef, Peleg. “Revisiting the Trauma of the Durban Conference.” Jerusalem Post, August 20, 2007.
Press Release. “UN Committee Set to Allow Racist NGOs to Participate in UN Anti-Racism Conference—Durban II.” EyeontheUN, August 23, 2007.
Editorial. “Stop Durban II.” Jerusalem Post, August 22, 2007.
Lazaroff, Tovah. “J’lem, US Keep Low Profile on ‘Durban II’ Parley.” Jerusalem Post, August 27, 2007.

1,676 August 29, 2007. NEWS IN REVIEW
Wednesday’s “News in Review” Round-Up. Compiled by CIJR Staff.

1,675 August 28, 2007. PEACE CONFERENCE
Halevy, Ephraim. “Can the New Peace Push Work?” Jerusalem Post¸ August 23, 2007.
Leibler, Isi. “The Unholy Trinity and Oslo Redux.” Jerusalem Post, August 14, 2007.

1,674 August 27, 2007. EUROPE
Johnson, Daniel. “‘Lions Led By Donkeys’.” New York Sun, August 16, 2007.
Taheri, Amir. “France’s Pro-U.S. Turn on Iraq.” New York Post, August 21, 2007.
Guitta, Olivier. “Cuckoo Clocks and Jihadis: What Switzerland is Now Producing.” Weekly Standard, July 26, 2007.

1,673 August 24, 2007.
Levy, Bernard-Henri. “New-Look Bonaparte.” New York Times Book Review, July 22, 2007
Reich, Walter. “What Could Make a Dedicated Holcaust Scholar Cry?” Los Angeles Times, August 11, 2007.

1,672 August 23, 2007.
Katz, Yaakov. “Rotten to the Corps.” Jerusalem Post, August 9, 2007.
Susser, Leslie. “‘We Are Proposing a National Academy for the Art of War.’” Jerusalem Report, August 6, 2007.

1,671 August 22, 2007.
Wednesday’s “News in Review” Round-Up. Compiled by CIJR Staff.

1,670 August 21, 2007.
Editorial, “Cleansing the ACLU.” Wall Street Journal, August 19, 2007.
French David. “Wages of Ward: Academy Exposed.” New York Post, July 30, 2007.
Editorial, “The Nutty Professor.” National Post, July 26, 2007.

1,669 August 20, 2007.
West, Diana. “Appeasement or ‘Grand Strategy’.” Washington Times, August 3, 2007.
Stephens, Bret. “Kernel of Evil.” Wall Street Journal, August 7, 2007.
Steyn, Mark. “A Censorship Sheikdown.” Washington Times, August 6, 2007.

1,668 August 17, 2007.
Podhoretz, Norman. “Jerusalem : The Scandal of Particularity.” Commentary Magazine, July-August 2007.

1,667 August 16, 2007.
Inbar, Efraim. “The Turkish Elections—‘Demo-Islam’? ” Jerusalem Post, July 28, 2007.
Cagaptay, Soner. “Turkish Troubles.” Wall Street Journal, July 30, 2007.
Rubin, Barry. “Beware of Turkey ’s Islamists.” Jerusalem Post, July 29, 2007.

1,666 August 15, 2007.
Wednesday’s “News in Review” Round-Up. Compiled by CIJR Staff.

1,665 August 14, 2007.
Singer, Saul. “End the Balancing Act.” Jerusalem Post, August 9, 2007.
Gold, Dore. “The Dangers of ‘Peace’-making.” Wall Street Journal, August 11, 2007. [Discusses U.S., Arab, Israeli relations and the ongoing Peace Process.]
Netanyahu, Binyamin. “A Mandate for Change.” Jerusalem Post, August 12, 2007. [Likud leader Binyamin Netanyahu presents his election platform.]

1,664 August 13, 2007.
Diker, Dan. “Why Israel Must Now Move from Concessions-based diplomacy to Rights-based Diplomacy.” Jerusalem Viewpoints, July 2007.

1,663 August 10, 2007.
Hanson, Victor Davis. “Armies for Democracy— Past, Present, and Future.” The American Spectator, June 2, 2007. [Discusses U.S. military policy.]

1,662 August 9, 2007.
West, Diana. “Appeasement or ‘Grand Strategy’.” Washington Times, August 3, 2007. [Discusses
U.S.-Saudia Arabian relations.]

Ibrahim, Youssef. “Bush’s Baffling Policy Toward Saudi Arabia.” New York Sun, July 30, 2007.
Lowry , Rich. “Dems’ Coddle the Terrorists.” New York Post, August 7, 2007. [Discusses Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.]

1,661 August 8, 2007.
Wednesday’s “News in Review” Round-Up. Compiled by CIJR Staff.

1,660 August 7, 2007.
Ya’ari, Ehud. “Cedars on Fire.” Jerusalem Report, August 6, 2007. [Discusses the current
situation in Lebanon.]

Ballen, Ken. “Syrian Survey.” Wall Street Journal, August 4, 2007. [Discusses Syria , Iran and the U.S.]
Dayan, Danny. “Bashir Abbas and Mahmoud Gemayel.” Ha’aretz, July 30, 2007.

1,659 August 6, 2007.
Glick, Caroline. “Sharansky’s Democracy Lesson.” Jerusalem Post, August 3, 2007. [Discusses Natan Sharansky’s views on the state of the current Israeli government.]
Inbar, Efraim. “Bush Cannot Succeed in the Holy Land.” BESA Perspectives, July 23, 2007.
Susser, Asher. “March of Folly I.” Jerusalem Report, June 25, 2007. [Discusses the West Bank settlement after the Six-Day War.]

1,658 August 3, 2007.
Shanks, Hershel. “Biblical Destruction.” Wall Street Journal, July 18, 2007. [Discusses new electric and telephone wires being installed underground by the Waqf between Jerusalem ’s Dome of the Rock and the Temple Mount .]
North, Steve. “A Letter From Budapest.” Jerusalem Post, June 25, 2007. [Discusses the current Jewish community and antisemitism in Hungary .]
Pryce-Jones, David. “A Twentieth Century Career.” National Review, July 9, 2007. [On Kurt Waldheinm.]

1,657 August 2, 2007.
Dale, Helle. “Stopping Iran.” Washington Times, July 25, 2007. [Discusses the threat of a nuclear Iran.]
Boms, Nir. “The Other Iran Crisis.” Wall Street Journal, July 19, 2007. [Discusses the Iranian government’s crackdown on dissidents.]
Steyn, Mark. “Those Irascible Iranians.” Washington Times, July 23, 2007. [On American prisoners being held in Iran’s Evin Prison.

1,656 August 1, 2007.
Wednesday’s “News in Review” Round-Up. Compiled by CIJR Staff.

July
1,655 July 31, 2007.
Steyn, Mark. “After Arafatuation.” National Review, July 9, 2007. [Discusses life in Gaza City after the 2004 death of Yasser Arafat and the 2006 election of Hamas as the governing party.]
Gordon, Evelyn. “Civil Fights: Salaam Fayad’s Surge.” Jerusalem Post, July 18, 2007. [Discusses PA Prime Minister Salaam Fayad’s political strategy.]
Glick, Caroline. “The Joke’s On Us.” Jerusalem Post, July 16, 2007. [On the outcomes of the July 15 meeting between Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Fatah commander Mahmoud Abbas.]

1,654 July 30, 2007.
Editorial, “Our Enemy’s Work.” New York Sun, July 16, 2007. [Discusses al Qaeda and the war in Iraq.]
Ibbitson, John. “Hang On, Mr. Bush, For All our Sakes.” Globe and Mail, July 10, 2007. [Discusses U.S. President George Bush and the war in Iraq.]
Shelton, Christina. “ Iraq , Al-Qaeda and Tenet’s Equivocation.” Washington Post, June 30, 2007. [Discusses former CIA director George Tenet and the Iraq war.]

1,653 July 27, 2007.
Avner, Yehuda. “Bygone Days.” Jerusalem Post, July 25, 2007. [Column dedicated to three members of Irgun underground Avshalom Haviv, Yaakov Weiss and Meir Nakar.]
Morris, Benny. “Provocations.” The New Republic, July 10, 2007. [Review of Tom Segev’s 1967: Israel, the War, and the Year That Transformed the Middle East and Isabella Ginor and Gideon Remez’s Foxbats Over Dimona.]

1,652 July 26, 2007.
O’Sullivan, John. “The Evolution of Turkey’s Amiable Islamists.” Globe and Mail, July 24, 2007.
Peters, Ralph. “Electing Allah.” New York Post, July 24, 2007.
Halkin, Hillel. “Ataturk’s Turkey Overturned.” New
York Sun, July 24, 2007. [Discusses the recent elections in Turkey in which the Justice and Development Party (AKP) won.]

1,651 July 25, 2007.
Wednesday’s “News in Review” Round-Up. Compiled by CIJR Staff.

1,650 July 24, 2007.
Lowry, Rich. “The Last Hawk.” New York Post, July 17, 2007. [Discusses U.S. President George Bush and U.S. policy in Iraq.]
Krauthammer, Charles. “Iraq’s 20% Solution.” National Post, July 20, 2007. [Discusses Gen. David Petraeus and the political shift in Iraq.]
Gartenstein-Ross, Daveed. “Musharraf: Not Tough Enough.” National Review, July 23, 2007. [On Pakistani politics and President Pervez Musharraf.]

1,649 July 23, 2007.
Podhoretz, John. “Bribing Abbas.” New York Post, July 17, 2007.
Oren, Michael B. “The Bush Doctrine Lives.” Wall Street Journal, July 18, 2007. [Discusses U.S. aid to the PA.]
Asa-El, Amotz. “A Tale of Two Pities.” Jerusalem Post, July 12, 2007. [Discusses the current state of Israeli politics.]
Toameh, Khaled Abu. “A Dubious Pair of ‘Allies’ for Abbas.” Jerusalem Post, July 16, 2007. [On the arrival of Nayef Hawatmeh and Farouk Kaddoumi in Ramallah to bolster the standing of PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas.]

1,648 July 20, 2007.
Abulafia, David. “Libels of Blood.” The Times Literary Supplement, March 2, 2007.
Halkin, Hillel. “Bloody Jews?” Commentary, May 2007.

1,647 July 19, 2007.
Diehl, Jackson. “A Shadow of Human Rights Movement.” Washington Post, June 25, 2007.
Rosett, Claudia. “Human Rights, BMWs and Tyrannies.” National Review Online, June 20, 2007.
Editorial,“Canada the Brave.” Jerusalem Post, June 21, 2007. [Discusses Canada and the UN Human Rights Council’s removal of Cuba and Belarus from human rights abusers list and not Israel.]

1,646 July 18, 2007.
Wednesday’s “News in Review” Round-Up. Compiled by CIJR Staff.

1,645 July 17, 2007.
Man, Saviona. “Muslim, Italian and Zionist.” Ha’aretz, July 2, 2007.
Pipes. Daniel. “Is Tariq Ramadan Lying [About Magdi Allam]?" FrontPageMagazine, March 5, 2007. [Discusses Egyptian-born Italian writer and journalist Magdi Allam.]

1,644 July 16, 2007.
Ajami, Fouad. “Nationalist Suicide.” U.S. News and World Report, July 2, 2007.
Glick, Caroline. “No Heroes in Act Three.” Jerusalem Post, July 9, 2007. [Discusses U.S. and Israeli support for a Palestinian state.]

1,643 July 13, 2007.
Gordis, Daniel. “Believe. And Be Brave. And Come Home.” Danielgordis.org, June 22, 2007. [Discusses former speaker of the Israeli Knesset and former head of the Jewish Agency, Avrum Burg, and his critiques of Israel.]
Leibler, Isi. “Avrum Burg’s Act of Infamy.” Jerusalem Post, July 9, 2007.

1,642 July 12, 2007.
Goodspeed, Peter. “Siege Seen As Watershed for Pakistan.” National Post, July 12, 2007.
Schmidle, Nicholas. “Radical Sheik.” The New Republic, June 21, 2007.
Sengupta, Somini. “After Mosque Battle, Musharraf’s Troubles Persist.” New York Times, July 12, 2007.

1,641 July 11, 2007.
Wednesday’s “News in Review” Round-Up. Compiled by CIJR Staff.

1,640 July 10, 2007.
Wurmser, Meyrav. “Up to No Good: Iran and Syria’s Sinister Mideast Offensive.” The Weekly Standard, June 25, 2007.
Novak, Michael. “The Ebb and Flow of Global Liberty.” The American Spectator, June 2, 2007.

1,639 July 9, 2007.
Boot, Max. “Enter the Cut and Run Republicans.” New York Post, July 7, 2007.
Kagan, Frederick W. “The New Old Thing: The Return of the Iraq Study Group.” The Weekly
Standard, June 11, 2007.

Lieberman, Joseph. “What I Saw in Iraq; Iran’s Major Problem, But Anbar Has Joined the Fight Against Terror.” Wall Street Journal, June 15, 2007.

1,638 July 6, 2007.
Waldman, Peter. “As Israel Prospers, Some Fear Its Defenses May Grow Soft Blaming
Materialism for Lebanon Stalemate; Zion ism Meets Feng Shui.”
Wall Street Journal, June 26, 2007.
Friedman, Thomas L. “Israel Discovers Oil.” New York Times, June 10, 2007.
Baker , Alan. “Remember the Other Captives.” National Post, July 6, 2007.

1,637 July 5, 2007.
Podhoretz, Norman. “The Case for Bombing Iran.” Commentary, June 2007.

1,636 July 4, 2007.
Wednesday’s “News in Review” Round-Up. Compiled by CIJR Staff.

1,635 July 3, 2007.
Phillips, Melanie. “Still Behind the Terror Curve.” Daily Mail-UK, July 2, 2007.
Taheri, Amir. “ ‘Islamophobia’ Idiocy.” New York Post, July 3, 2007.
Robinson, Eugene. “Why Not Here?” Washington Post, July 3, 2007. [Discusses terror threats in Britain and Europe and the lack of terror attempts in the U.S. since Sept. 11, 2001.]

June
1,634 June 29, 2007.
Cohen, Baruch. “The Yassi Massacre: ‘That Sunday’, June 28, 1941.” Original publication.
Evans, Richard J. “Whose Orders?” New York Times, June 24, 2007. [Review of Saul Friedländer’s The Year of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews.]
Wahid, Abdurrahman and Israel Lau. “The Evils of Holocaust Denial.” Wall Street Journal, June 12, 2007.

1,633 June 28, 2007.
Dershowitz, Alan M. “An Academic Hijacking.” Wall Street Journal, June 28, 2007.
Leibler, Isi. “British Jewry in Crisis.” Jerusalem Post, June 25, 2007.
Plaut, Steven