ISRANET DAILY BRIEFING ARCHIVES
January 2002 to Present
A Service of CIJR
Canadian Institute for Jewish Research
Prof. Frederick Krantz, Director

2008

August
1,916 August 29, 2008 THE JEWS & “EL LOCO” CHAVEZ
Marnie Winston-Macauley, "The Yiddish Dictionary of Fools", Aish.com, June 1, 2008
Travis Pantin, "Hugo Chavez's Jewish Problem", Commentary, July 24, 2008
Isi Leibler, "WJC Embraces an Anti-Semite", Jerusalem Post, August 18, 2008
Peter Brookes, "Hugo's Arms Spree", New York Post, August 7, 2008

1,915 August 28, 2008 POST-ZIONISM & APARTHEID
Martin Sherman, "Post-Zionism's Fatal Flaw", YNet news, August 11, 2008
Warren Goldstein, "This is Apartheid", Jerusalem Post, August 11, 2008

1,914 August 27, 2008 CIJR CELEBRATES 20 YEARS—PART II
Letters to the Editor
Janice Arnold, "Institute Celebrates 20 Years of Defending Israel", Canadian Jewish News, August 21, 2008
Mike Cohen, "Canadian Institute for Jewish Research to Mark 20th Anniversary", Jewish Tribune, August 20, 2008

1,913 August 26, 2008 CIJR CELEBRATES 20 YEARS—PART I
Frederick Krantz, "Celebrating CIJR - Bis Zu [Hunert Un] Zwanzig" , CIJR 20th Anniversary Commemorative Program Book, Aug. 27, 2008
Baruch Cohen, "CIJR at 20: Illuminating a Towering Tribune", CIJR 20th Anniversary Commemorative Program Book, Aug.27, 2008
Jacqueline Douek, "A Year in Review", CIJR 20th Anniversary Commemorative Program Book, Aug.27, 2008

1,912 August 25, 2008 “HUMAN RIGHTS” COMMISSIONS
Ezra Levant, "A Hollow Victory", National Post, August 7, 2008
Andrew Higgins, "Why Islam is Unfunny for a Cartoonist", Wall Street Journal, July 12, 2008
Kevin Libin, "Academics Fear Speaking Freely in Canada", National Post, August 23, 2008

1,911 August 22, 2008
Victor Davis Hanson, "As Goes Anerica, So Goes the World", New York Post, August 19, 2008
Rafael Medoff, "Exposing Allied Perfidy", Jerusalem Post, June 10, 2008
Yehuda Bauer, "Hillel Kook and Stephen Wise"

1,910 August 21, 2008 PRISONER RELEASE
Hillel Halkin, "The High Price of Ransom", New York Sun, August 19, 2008
Sam Ser, "The Bolsheviks of Gaza", Jerusalem Post, August 18, 2008
Caroline Glick, "Ignoring Failure in Gaza", Jerusalem Post, August 7, 2008
"[Canadian Senator Jerry Grafstein and] U.S. Representative Alcee S. Hastings Urge...Renewed Red Cross Focus on Status of Captured Israeli Soldier", Congress of the U.S. House of Representatives, August 20, 2008

1,909 August 20, 2008 WEDNESDAY’S “NEWS IN REVIEW” ROUND-UP
CIJR Staff. Wednesday’s Round-Up

1,908 August 19, 2008 PAKISTAN POST-MUSHARRAF
Peter Goodspeed, "Pakistan Left in a Political Vacuum", National Post, August 19, 2008
Editorial, "After Musharraf", New York Sun, August 15, 2008
Yaakov Lappin, "'Islamic Bomb' Casts a Long Shadow", Jerusalem Post, August 18, 2008

1,907 August 18, 2008 RUSSIA, GEORGIA & THE MIDDLE EAST
Charles Krauthammer, "How to Stop Putin", Washington Post, August 14, 2008
Melik Kaylan, "Welcome Back to the Great Game", Wall Street Journal, August 13, 2008
Brenda Shaffer, "What Does Moscow Want in Georgia", Jerusalem Post, August 14, 2008

1,906 August 15, 2008 HOLOCAUST, YESTERDAY AND TODAY
Stephen Gabriel Rosenberg, "Tish Be'Av: The Aftermath", Jerusalem Post, August 12, 2008
Andrew Baker, "Europe's Shameful Honoring of Vilnius", Forward, June 26, 2008
"The Power of Holocaust Survivors to Shape Young Minds", Canadian Jewish News, August 6, 2008

1,905 August 14, 2008 MEDIA—FEAR AND BIAS
Asra Q. Nomani, "You Still Can't Write About Muhammad", Wall Street Journal, August 6, 2008
Calev Ben-David, "The "Expert Reassurance" of Nicholas Kristoff", Jerusalem Post, August 7, 2008
Clark Hoyt, "Sometimes, There's News in the Gutter", New York Times, August 10, 2008
Margaret Wente, "Sex, Lies and the National Enquirer", Globe and Mail, August 12, 2008

1,904 August 13, 2008 WEDNESDAY’S “NEWS IN REVIEW” ROUND-UP
CIJR Staff. Wednesday’s Round-Up

1,903 August 12, 2008 GEORGIA ON [OUR] MIND…
William Kristol, "Will Russia Get Away With It?", New York Times, August 11, 2008
David Blair, "Georgia: Vladimir Putin Sends Emphatic Message of Global Importance", Daily Telegraph-UK, August 12, 2008
John O’Sullivan, "Is Russia Morphing Into Another USSR?", Globe and Mail, August 12, 2008
Robert Kagan, "Putin Makes His Move", Washington Post, August 11, 2008

1,902 August 11, 2008 PEACE AND DEMOCRACY, BALANCED AND UNBALANCED
David Horovitz, "That Elusive Balance", Jerusalem Post, August. 7, 2008
Natan Sharansky and Bassem Eid, "There Won't Be "Peace" Without Democracy", Wall Street Journal, August 8, 2008
Caroline Glick, "Capital Punishment for Capital Crimes", Jerusalem Post, August 4, 2008

1,901 August 8, 2008 FIGURES OF THE HOLOCAUST
Alvin H. Rosenfeld, "Exploiting Anne Frank: The Most Tasteless T-Shirt Ever", Weekly Standard, June 23, 2008
David Pryce-Jones, "Malevolance and the Mufti", Wall Street Journal, June 26, 2008
Isi Leibler, "Yad Vashem and Hillel Kook", Jerusalem Post, July 8, 2008

1,900 August 7, 2008 KADIMA
Hillel Halkin, "A Party Without Distinction", New York Sun, August 5, 2008
Moshe Arens, "Making a Farce of Democracy", Ha’aretz, August 5, 2008

1,899 August 6, 2008 WEDNESDAY’S “NEWS IN REVIEW” ROUND-UP
CIJR Staff. Wednesday’s Round-Up

1,898 August 5 , 2008 IRAQ
Editorial, "Maliki's Withdrawal Card", Wall Street Journal, July 9, 2008
Rich Lowry, "Plannig to Ignore the Facts", New York Post, July 15, 2008
Peter Hoekstra, "The Democrats' Baghdad Two Step", Washington Post, July 21, 2008
Amir Taheri, "A Path Out of the Desert", New York Post, July 13, 2008

1,897 August 4 , 2008 MEDIA
Andrea Levin, "The Silence of the Times", Jerusalem Post, July 10 2008
Bill O’Reilly, "AP's Snarky Snow Obit", New York Post, July 18 2008
Zalman Shoval, "The 'Economist' Rewrites History", Jerusalem Post, August 2 2008

1,896 August 1 , 2008 OLMERT’S LEGACY—UNCERTAINTY
David Makovsky, "Olmert's Announcement Fuels Uncertainty in Israel", Washington Institute, PolicyWatch #1393, July 31, 2008
Yossi Klein Halevi and Michael Oren, "Will Olmert Make a Lame Duck Peace Push", Wall Street Journal, August 1, 2008
Caroline Glick, "Kadima's Legacy of Nothingness", Jerusalem Post, July 31, 2008
Frederick Krantz, "Shalom Ehud, It's (Not) Been (So) Good to Know You"

July
1,895 July 31, 2008 TURKEY
Editorial, "Turkish Regress", Wall Street Journal, June 19, 2008
Sabrina Tavernise and Sebnem Arsu, "Turkish Court Calls Ruling Party Constitutional", New York Times, July 31, 2008

1,894 July 30, 2008 WEDNESDAY’S “NEWS IN REVIEW” ROUND-UP
CIJR Staff. Wednesday’s Round-Up

1,893 July 29, 2008 ISRAEL POLITICS
Isi Leibler, "Post Olmert: A New Era or More of the Same?", Jerusalem Post, July 23, 2008
Moshe Arens, "No Margin for Error?", Ha’aretz, July 22, 2008
Amotz Asa-El, "The Next Givernment's Record", Jerusalem Post, June 26, 2008
Dick Morris and Eileen Mcgann, "How Israel's Race Could Shift Ours", New York Post, July 28, 2008

1,892 July 28, 2008 LEBANON
Fouad Ajami, "Lebanon's "Soldiers of Virtue", Wall Street Journal, July 23, 2008
"Excerpts from Nasrallah's Speech on the July 16 Prisoner Exchange", MEMRI, July 17, 2008
Editorial, "The New Lebanon", Jerusalem Post, July 17, 2008

1,891 July 25, 2008 AUSCHWITZ
Menachem Z. Rosensaft, "Sanctuary in Auschwitz", Jerusalem Post, April 29, 2008
James Barron, "From Auschwitz, a Torah as Strong as Its Spirit", New York Times, April 30, 2008

1,890 July 24, 2008 IRAN NUCLEAR—ONE STRIKE AND YOU’RE OUT
Caroline Glick, "When Talking Can Kill", Jerusalem Post, July 14, 2008
Moshe Sharon, "We Get Only One Strike", Jerusalem Post, July 16, 2008
Benny Morris, "Using Bombs to Stave Off War", New York Times, July 18, 2008

1,889 July 23, 2008 WEDNESDAY’S “NEWS IN REVIEW” ROUND-UP
CIJR Staff. Wednesday’s Round-Up

1,888 July 22, 2008 THE RETURN OF GILAD SCHALIT
Shlomo Avineri, "The State, Not the Families", Ha’aretz, July 22, 2008
Daniel Gordis, "When Mistakes are Worth Making", Dispatches, 18 July 2008

1,887 July 21, 2008 A SAD STATE OF ISRAELI AFFAIRS
David Horovitz, "The Prime Minister Against the State", Jerusalem Post, July 17, 2008
Steven Emerson, "Deals With Devils", New York Post, July 16, 2008
Gil Hoffman, "Shaul Mofaz's Plan to Secure the Premiership", Jerusalem Post, July 17, 2008

1,886 July 18, 2008
Anne-Elisabeth Moutet, "L'Affaire Ebderlin", The Weekly Standard, July 7, 2008

1,885 July 17, 2008 LOPSIDED EXCHANGE
Yoram Elron, "A Pact With Child Killers", The Gazette, Montreal, July 16, 2008
Israel Harel, "An Exorbitant Price", Ha’aretz, July 17, 2008
Frederick Krantz, "Politics and Tragedy: Israel's Prisoner Exchange"
Naomi Ragen, "A Day of Infamy", YNet News, July 17, 2008

1,884 July 16, 2008 WEDNESDAY’S “NEWS IN REVIEW” ROUND-UP
CIJR Staff. Wednesday’s Round-Up

1,883 July 15, 2008 HUMAN RIGHTS IN SUDAN
Editorial, "The Impotence of the ICC", National Post, July 15, 2008
Abdel Wahid al-Nur, "Why We Won't Talk to Sudan's Islamo-Fascists", Wall Street Journal, June 18, 2008
Hillel Neuer, "Who Will Guard Human Rights at the UN", Jerusalem Post, July 14, 2008

1,882 July 14, 2008 WWII REVISIONISM
Christopher Hitchens, "A War Worth Fighting", Newsweek, June 14, 2008

1,881 July 11, 2008
Jerome Groopman, "Genes and Identities", The New Republic, June 25, 2008

1,880 July 10, 2008 MEDIA DISTORTIONS
Caroline Glick, "Media and Enduring Narrative", Jerusalem Post, July 8, 2008
Brian Benry, "Al-Jazeera North", Jewish Tribune, June 12, 2008

1,879 July 9, 2008 WEDNESDAY’S “NEWS IN REVIEW” ROUND-UP
CIJR Staff. Wednesday’s Round-Up

1,878 July 8, 2008 PAKISTAN, INDIA, AFGHANISTAN: THE ISLAMIST THREAT
Ahmed Rashid, "Pakistan's Worrisome Pullback", Washington Post, June 6, 2008
Paul Koring, "Taliban Must be Defeated  in Pakistan, Study Says Pakistani Intelligence Aided Jihadists...Report Concludes", Globe and Mail, June 11, 2008
Rama Lakshmi, "India's Moderate Muslimes See Peril in Growth of Stricter for of Islam", Washington Post, June 29, 2008

1,877 July 7, 2008 THE SECOND LEBANON WAR: RAMIFICATIONS
Yehezkel Dror, "A Severe Verdict That Didn't Go Far Enough", Forward, July 2, 2008
Shmuel Rosner, "Image Still Under Renovation", Ha’aretz, June 30, 2008
Caroline Glick, "Barak's Target Audience", Jerusalem Post, June 23, 2008

1,876 July 4, 2008 FOURTH OF JULY
Maggie Gallagher, "Three Great American Ideas", Townhall.com, July 2, 2008
George F. Will, "Independence Days", Washington Post, July 3, 2008
Daniel Henninger, "The Politices of Can't-Possibly-Do", Wall Street Journal, July 3, 2008
Thomas F. Madden, "America's Days Aren't Numbered", Wall Street Journal, July 3, 2008

1,875 July 3, 2008 MURDER IN JERUSALEM
Gerald M. Steinberg, "Terrror's Predictable Spontaneity", Jerusalem Post, July 3, 2008
Bradley Burston, "Palestinian Terrorism as a Natural Act", Ha’aretz, July 2, 2008
Editorial, "Terror in Jerusalem", Jerusalem Post, July 2, 2008

1,874 July 2, 2008 WEDNESDAY’S “NEWS IN REVIEW” ROUND-UP
CIJR Staff. Wednesday’s Round-Up

June
1,873 June 30, 2008 ISRAEL-HEZBOLLAH PRISONER EXCHANGE
Moshe Arens, "Bargaining for the Living and the Dead", Ha’aretz, June 30, 2008
Benny Avni, "Israel Loses in Prisoner Swap with Hezbollah", New York Sun, June 30, 2008
Herb Keinon, "A Very Israeli Decision", Jerusalem Post, June 30, 2008

1,872 June 27, 2008 HOLOCAUST REFLECTIONS
Baruch Cohen, "That Sunday - Yassi June 28 - 20, 1941"
Vasily Grossman, "Excerpt From Life and Fate", Harvill Press, 1985
Stuart Leon Krantz, "Bittersweet", May 2008

1,871 June 26, 2008 HUMAN RIGHTS IN CANADA AND BEYOND
Editorial, "The Mark Steyn Complaints Don't Understand Freedom of Speech", National Post, June 9, 2008
Mark Steyn, "But We Were Getting Along So Well", SteynOnline.com, 14 June, 2008
Mark Dubowitz, "Sounds of Silence", Wall Street Journal, June 19, 2008

1,870 June 25, 2008 WEDNESDAY’S “NEWS IN REVIEW” ROUND-UP
CIJR Staff. Wednesday’s Round-Up

1,869 June 23, 2008 US ISRAEL-POLICY
Morris J. Amitay, "McCain for America - and Israel", Jerusalem Post, June 17, 2008
Jeffrey T. Kuhner, "Appeal to AIPAC", Washington Times, June 15, 2008
Editorial, "Rice Grabs for the Key", New York Sun, June 16, 2008

1,868 June 20, 2008 POST-HOLOCAUST AND ANTI-SEMITISM
Interview with Robert Solomon Wistrich, "Antisemitism Embedded in British Culture", Jerusalem Issue Brief, JCPA, June 2008

1,867 June 19, 2008 THE TRUCE NOOSE
Michael B. Oren, "Israel's Truce With Hamas is a Victory for Iran", Wall Street Journal, June 19, 2008
Jonathan Dahoah Halevi, "The Hamas Interest in the Tasiyah (Temporary Truce) With Israel", Jerusalem Issue Brief, JCPA, 19 June 2008
Amos Harel and Avi Issacharoff, "For Truce Architect, Israel Chose Lesser of Two Evils", Ha’aretz, June 19, 2008

1,866 June 18, 2008 WEDNESDAY’S “NEWS IN REVIEW” ROUND-UP
CIJR Staff. Wednesday’s Round-Up

1,865 June 17, 2008 THE TRAGIC END OF LEBANON
Barry Rubin, "The Fall of Lebanon", Global Research in International Affairs, May 24, 2008

1,864 June 16, 2008 IRAQ, THE POLITICS OF SUCCESS
Fouad Ajami, "Why We Went to Iraq", Wall Street Journal, June 4, 2008
Caroline Glick, "Peace With Friends", Jerusalem Post, June 12, 2008
Charles Krauthammer, "Make the Election About Iraq", Washington Post, June 13, 2008

1,863 June 13, 2008 THE THIRTY-SIX WHO SAVE THE WORLD
Philologos, "The Joys of Being Taken to Task", Forward, May 15, 2008
Philologos, "The Thirty-Six Who Saved the World" , Forward, May 22, 2008

1,862 June 12, 2008 ISRAEL POLITICS
Hillel Halkin, "Election Echoes in Israel", New York Sun, June 3, 2008
Moshe Arens, "Another Defeat", Ha’aretz, June 04, 2008
Caroline Glick, "The Government's Plan for Gaza", Jerusalem Post, June 9, 2008
Frederick Krantz, "The Politics of "If""

1,861 June 11, 2008 WEDNESDAY’S “NEWS IN REVIEW” ROUND-UP
CIJR Staff. Wednesday’s Round-Up

1,860 June 6, 2008 SHAVUOT 5768 / CROSSING “J STREET”
Baruch Cohen, "Celebrating the Ten Commandments"
Isi Leibler, "With Friends Like These...", Jerusalem Post, April 28, 2008
James Kirchick, "Street Cred?", The New Republic, May 28, 2008

1,859 June 5, 2008 OBAMA VS MCCAIN
Daniel Pipes, "Obama vs McCain on the Middle East", Jerusalem Post, June 5, 2008
Daniel Henninger, "Obama vs McCain: Let's Get It On", Wall Street Journal, May 8, 2008
Gabriel Schoenfeld, "Our Enemies and the Election", Wall Street Journal, May 10, 2008

1,858 June 4, 2008 WEDNESDAY’S “NEWS IN REVIEW” ROUND-UP
CIJR Staff. Wednesday’s Round-Up

1,857 June 3, 2008 TERRORISM
Moshe Arens, "A Cease Fire With Terror?", Ha’aretz, May 20, 2008
Editorial, "Al-Qaeda on the Run", Wall Street Journal, May 31, 2008
Tarek Fatah, "Triggering a State of Islam", National Post, Tuesday, May 13, 2008

1,856 June 2, 2008 MEDIA
Editorial, "Myth and Muhammad Al-Dura", Jerusalem Post, May 29, 2008
Calev Ben-David, "'The First Casualty of War is the Truth'", Jerusalem Post, April 24, 2008
Ralph Peters, "Success in Iraq: A Media Blackout", New York Post, May 20, 2008

May
1,855 May 30, 2008 YOM YERUSHALAIM
Yehuda Halevi, "City of the World".
Rose Ausländer, "Jeruasalem"
Baruch Cohen, "City of Peace - Jerusalem the Eternal - Yerushalaim - Ir Shalom"
"Thoughts on Jerusalem"

1,854 May 29, 2008 HAMAS
Efraim Karsh, "The Diplomatic Dance With Hamas", Jerusalem Issue Brief, JCPA, April 30, 2008
Hamas Leader Khaled Mash'al: Our purpose for Tadiah (“Calm”) is Tactical, MEMRI, April 29, 2008
David B. Rivkin Jr. & Lee A. Casey, "The Myth of Occupied Gaza", Washington Post, May 10, 2008

1,853 May 28, 2008 WEDNESDAY’S “NEWS IN REVIEW” ROUND-UP
CIJR Staff. Wednesday’s Round-Up

1,852 May 27, 2008 ISRAEL & SYRIA—GOLAN HEIGHTS
Hillel Halkin, "Holding on to the Golan", New York Sun, May 27, 2008
Caroline Glick, "Utopian Peace Junkies", Jerusalem Post, May 26, 2008

1,851 May 26, 2008 THE WAR IN IRAQ
Fouad Ajami, "America's "Gift" to Iraq", National Post, May 26, 2008
Frederick W. Kagan, "Progress, Actually", Weekly Standard, April 21, 2008
Kevin Libin, "Ajami is an Astonishing Rarity", National Post, Monday, May 26, 2008

1,850 May 23, 2008 ANTISEMITISM
Robert Krell, "From The Hague to Hamas, Anti-Semitism Refuses to Die", National Post, May 8, 2008
Daniel Treiman, "Koch on Koch on Anti-Semitism", Forward, April 15, 2008

1,849 May 22, 2008 IRAN – SYRIA ALLIANCE: CONSEQUENCES FOR LEBANON
Benny Avni, "Iran gains a Big Victory in Lebanon", New York Sun, May 22, 2008
Bruce Maddy-Weitzman, "Lebanon and the Weakeining of the Arab Order", Tel Aviv Notes, Moshe Dayan Center, May 22, 2008
Nazila Fathi, "Ahmadinejad Exploits Religion, Critics Charge", International Herald Tribune, May 19, 2008

1,848 May 21, 2008 WEDNESDAY’S “NEWS IN REVIEW” ROUND-UP
CIJR Staff. Wednesday’s Round-Up

1,847 May 20, 2008 LEBANON & HEZBOLLAH
Caroline Glick. "Hizbullah's Power Play", Jerusalem Post, May 16, 2008
Amir Taheri, "Iran's Leb Game", New York Post, May 19, 2008
Hillel Halkin, "In Lebanon, A Bitter Lesson", New York Sun, May 13, 2008

1,846 May 16, 2008 ISRAEL: A HISTORY
Benny Morris, "UN Resolution 181: 'A Crossroads in History'", National Post, May 7, 2008
Shlomo Avineri, "Nakhba", Ha'aretz, May 9, 2008
Elliot Jager, "Shmuel Kats Dies at 93", Jerusalem Post, May 10, 2008

1,845 May 15, 2008 PRESIDENT BUSH IN ISRAEL
George W. Bush, "Masada Shall Never Fall Again", Commentary, May 15, 2008

1,844 May 14, 2008 WEDNESDAY’S “NEWS IN REVIEW” ROUND-UP
CIJR Staff. Wednesday’s Round-Up

1,843 May 13, 2008 THE SITUATION ON CAMPUS
Isi Leibler, "Hillel Goes Post-Modern", Jerusalem Post, March 31, 2008
Editorial, "Columbia Errs Again", New York Post, May 11, 2008
Ilana Diamond, "It's Lonely Being Pro-Israel on Campus", Jerusalem Post, April 15, 2008

1,842 May 12, 2008 LEBANON: AT THE TIPPING POINT?
Noah Pollak, "The Lesson of Lebanon", Commentary Magazine, May 9, 2008
Benny Avni, "Who Lost Lebanon?", New York Sun, May 12, 2008
Amos Harel and Avi Issacharoff, "Clashes in Beirut - Not Only Lebanon's Problem", Haaretz, May 11, 2008
Barry Rubin, "As Lebanon Turns Into Gaza", Jerusalem Post, May 11, 2008

1,841 May 9, 2008 May 8, 2008; ISRAEL @ 60 — Part III
Michael Oliveira, "Canada Will Continue to Stand by Israel, PM Says", Canadian Press, May 8, 2008
Daniel Pipes, "World's Worst Neighbourhood", National Post, May 6, 2008
Hillel Halkin, "Land Without Regret", National Post, May 6, 2008
Michael B. Oren, "Israel is Now Amnerica's Closest Ally", Wall Street Journal, May 7, 2008

1,840 May 8 , 2008 May 8, 2008; ISRAEL @ 60 — Part II
Baruch Cohen, "Rebirth - T'kuma The State of Israel at 60 - A Short History"
Gerald Steinberg, "60 Years on the Map", Jerusalem Post, May 4, 2008
David Horovitz, "The State of the Nation at 60", Jerusalem Post, May 1, 2008

1,839 May 7 , 2008 WEDNESDAY’S “NEWS IN REVIEW” ROUND-UP
CIJR Staff. Wednesday’s Round-Up

1,838 May 6 , 2008 ISRAEL @ 60 — Part I
Editorial, "Birth of a Nation", New York Post, May 15, 1948
Lorne Gunter, "As Goest Israel ...", National Post, May 5, 2008
Editorial, "Miraculous Milestone", New York Post, May 4, 2008
David Frum, "America's Ally in the Middle East", National Post, May 3, 2008

1,837 May 5 , 2008 THE IRANIAN CHALLENGE
Fouad Ajami, "Iran Must Finally Pay a Price", Wall Street Journal, May 5, 2008
Zev Chafets, "Israel Can Stand Up for Itself", International Herald Tribune, April 14, 2008
Amir Taheri, "Iran's Busted Iraq Bid", New York Post, April 10, 2008

1,836 May 2 , 2008 THE HOLOCAUST: NEVER FORGET
Editorial, "The Meaning of Yom Hashoah", Jerusalem Post, May 1, 2008
James Barron, "From Auschwitz, A Torah as Strong as Its Spirit", New York Times, April 30, 2008
Manfred Gerstenfeld, "Trivializing the Unbearable", Jerusalem Post, April 29, 2008

1,835 May 1 , 2008 LACK OF INTELLIGENCE IN A WAR ON TERROR
David B. Rivkin Jr. and Lee A. Casey, "The War on Terror is Not a Crime", Wall Street Journal, April 25, 2008
Laurie Mylroie, "Willful Blindness: Prosecuting the War on Terror", New York Sun, April 23, 2008
Gabriel Schoenfeld, "Post-9/11 Reform Follies", New York Post, March 6, 2008

April
1,834 April 30, 2008 WEDNESDAY’S “NEWS IN REVIEW” ROUND-UP
CIJR Staff. Wednesday’s Round-Up

1,833 April 29, 2008 YOM HASHOAH
Baruch Cohen, "Maintaining Dignity During the Shoah Telling the World the Unimaginable"
Lidia Vago, "Invasion!", Jerusalem Post, June 15, 1994
Shavaun Stendel, "On the Other Side of the Gate", Canadian Jewish News, April 17, 2008

1,832 April 28, 2008 SYRIA’S NUKES
"'Syria's Reactor was Hit Weeks Before Becoming Operational'", Associated Press, Jerusalem Post, April 24, 2008
Caroline Glick , "Covering for the Enemy", Jerusalem Post, April 7, 2008
Charles Krauthammer, "Deterring the Undeterrable", Washington Post, April 18, 2008
Alasdair Palmer, "Destroy Iran's Nukes to Save Our Cities ", Daily Telegraph-UK, April 27, 2008

1,831 April 25, 2008 ON JEWISH BEING
Caroline B. Glick, "The Luckiest Jews in the World", The Jewish Press, April 23, 2008
David Horovitz, "A Vital Affirmation of our Awe-Inspiring History", Jerusalem Post, April 3, 2008

1,830 April 24, 2008 DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA
James W. Ceaser, "What a Long, Strange Race It's Been", Wall Street Journal, April 2, 2008
Peter Wehner, "Good News for the GOP", Contentions, Commentary Magazine Blog, April 23, 2008
"In Pennsylvania Primary Victory, Clinton Wins Jewish Vote", JTA, April 23, 2008
Editorial, "The Democrats Turn", New York Sun, April 24, 2008

1,829 April 23, 2008 WEDNESDAY’S “NEWS IN REVIEW” ROUND-UP
CIJR Staff. Wednesday’s Round-Up

1,828 April 22, 2008 PRESIDENT CARTER’S “PEACE”
Editorial, "Carter's True Colors", New York Post, April 16, 2008
Shmuel Rosner, "Just Say No to Carter", Ha’aretz, April 17, 2008
Caroline Glick, "Revealed Truths vs Revealed Lies", Jerusalem Post, April 17, 2008

1,827 April 18, 2008
Frederick Krantz, "Let My People Go...and Be Safe in Zion"
Baruch Cohen, "Passover 5768: The Holiday of Hope", Canadian Jewish News, April 10, 2008
Peter Steinfels, "Guidebook to Understanding the Liberation of Jews", New York Times, April 12, 2008

1,826 April 17, 2008 ISRAELI DEFENSE STRATEGY
Isi Leibler, "The Rabble That Is the Israeli Cabinet", Jerusalem Post, April 7, 2008
David Pryce-Jones, "Dead End: the Heartbreaking Realities of Today's Israel", National Review, April 7, 2008
Barry Rubin, "'Lennonism' Paints the Middle East", Jerusalem Post, April 14, 2008

1,825 April 16, 2008 WEDNESDAY’S “NEWS IN REVIEW” ROUND-UP
CIJR Staff. Wednesday’s Round-Up

1,824 April 15, 2008 NUCLEAR IRAN
Zev Chafets, "Israel Can Stand Up for Itself", New York Times, April 13, 2008
Efraim Inbar, "An Israeli View of the Iranian Nuclear Challenge", Foreign Policy Research Institute, E-Notes, April, 2008
Editorial, "Bush and Iran Again", Wall Street Journal, April 15, 2008

1,823 April 14, 2008 JIHAD, THEN AND NOW
David Horovitz, "It Was Always a Jihad", Jerusalem Post, April 10, 2008
Ehud Ya'ari, "More of the Same", Jerusalem Report, April 14, 2008

1,822 April 11, 2008 63RD ANNIVERSARY OF BUCHENWALD LIBERATION
Elie Wiesel, "A God Who Remembers", National Public Radio, April 7, 2008
Editorial , "General Petraeus's Testimony on Iraq: The Petraeus Effect", Wall Street Journal, April 8, 2008
Clifford D. May. "A Hundred Years of War? There is a Worse Scenario", National Review, April 10, 2008
David Brooks, "A Network of Truces", New York Times, April 8, 2008

1,821 April 10, 2008 STEYN & ONTARIO HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION
Mark Steyn, "I Prefer Living With Space Lizards", Maclean’s, February 27, 2008
Naseem Mithoowani, Khurrum Awan, & Muneeza Sheikh, "Rights Compaints Want Only Reasonable Access to Media", Montreal Gazette, February 24, 2008
Jonathan Kay, "Ontario's Spooky Thought Police", National Post, April 10, 2008

1,820 April 9, 2008 WEDNESDAY’S “NEWS IN REVIEW” ROUND-UP
CIJR Staff. Wednesday’s Round-Up

1,819 April 8, 2008 THE PALESTINIANS
Emilio Karim Dabul, "Arabs Must Take a Long, Self-Critical Look in the Mirror", New York Daily News, April 7, 2008
Bassem Eid, "The Palestinians are Under Inner and Outer Siege", Jerusalem Post, April 7, 2008
Barry Rubin, "An Abbas of Failure", Jerusalem Post, April 7, 2008

1,818 April 7, 2008 EUROPE & THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY
Etgar Lefkovits, "'Europe is the Center of Anti_Semitism'', Jerusalem Post, March 31, 2008
Dennis Prager, "A Tale of Two People", FrontPageMagazine.com, March 25, 2008
Roger Köppel, "Someone Stop Calmy-Rey", Wall Street Journal Europe, April 4, 2008

1,817 April 4, 2008 REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS PAST, AND PRESENT
David Horovitz, "When Jewish Communities Lose Their Voices", Jerusalem Post, February 29, 2008
Abby Wisse Schachter, "Out of Mind: In Search of Ukraine's Victims of the Holocaust", Weekly Standard, March 17, 2008

1,816 April 3, 2008 IRAQ: THE SUNNI-SHIITE SPLIT
Robert McFarlane, "Voices From Iraq", Wall Street Journal, March 26, 2008
Amir Taheri, "The Sunni-Shiite Terror Network", Wall Street Journal, March 29, 2008
Editorial, "Saddam's Terror Links", Wall Street Journal, March 24, 2008

1,815 April 2, 2008 WEDNESDAY’S “NEWS IN REVIEW” ROUND-UP
CIJR Staff. Wednesday’s Round-Up

1,814 April 1, 2008 ISRAEL & EHUD OLMERT
Moshe Arens, "Olmert's Agenda", Ha’aretz, March 24, 2008
Amotz Asa-El, "When Ehud Olmert Met Mercaz Harav", Jerusalem Post, March 27, 2008
Bennett Zimmerman and Michael Wise, "Defusing the Demographic Time Bomb", InFocus, Jewish Policy Center, Spring 2008

March
1,813 March 31, 2008 WINNING THE BATTLE FOR BASRA
Con Coughlin, "A Defining Moment", National Post, March 31, 2008
Editorial, "Maliki vs Sadrr", National Review Online, March 31, 2008
Amir Taheri, "The Basra Battle: Signs of Iran", New York Post, March 31, 2008

1,812 March 28, 2008 JOHN MCCAIN
Herb Keinon & David Horovitz, "'The Nature of the Enemy is Hydra-Headed'", Jerusalem Post, March 20, 2008

1,811 March 27, 2008 IRAN
Arthur Herman, "How Not to Deal With Iran", New York Post, March 14, 2008
Zalmay Khalilzad, "Iran's Nuclear Threat", Wall Street Journal, March 4, 2008
Amir Taheri, "Iran's Fear - Iqaq's Chance", New York Post, March 11, 2008

1,810 March 26, 2008 WEDNESDAY’S “NEWS IN REVIEW” ROUND-UP
CIJR Staff. Wednesday’s Round-Up

1,809 March 25, 2008 FATAH, HAMAS & THE PALESTINIANS
Barry Rubin, "Palestinian Politics: Onward and Downward", Jerusalem Post, March 23, 2008
Caroline Glick, "Iraq, The Palestinians and Political Debate", Jerusalem Post, March 20, 2008
Arlene Kushner, "Education for War...", Israel Resource News Agency Newsletter, February 22, 2008

1,808 March 24, 2008 IRAQ: FIVE YEARS ON
Fouad Ajami, "No Surrender", Wall Street Journal, March 19, 2008
Amir Taheri, "Iraq Plus Five: What Went Right", New York Post, March 21, 2008
David Frum, "A Noble Project Badly Managed", National Post, March 22, 2008

1,807 March 20, 2008 PURIM 5768
Baruch Cohen. "The New Haman - Ahmadinejad", Original Publication
Isi Leibler, "The State of Jew-Hatred", Jerusalem Post, February 23, 2008
Bradley Burston, "Anti-Zionism as a Form of Racism", Ha’aretz, February 2, 2008

1,806 March 19, 2008 WEDNESDAY’S “NEWS IN REVIEW” ROUND-UP
CIJR Staff. Wednesday’s Round-Up

1,805 March 18, 2008 HELP US FIGHT BACK!
Frederick Krantz, "Support CIJR and Jewish Students", Original Publication

1,804 March 17, 2008 ISLAMISM
Mark Steyn, "Orwell Would Be Proud", New York Sun, January 28, 2008
Flemming Rose, "Free Speech and Radical Islam", Wall Street Journal, February 15, 2008
Olivier Guitta, "Europe is Facing a Triple Threat", Jerusalem Post, March 4, 2008

1,803 March 14, 2008
Daniel Gordis, "The Shame of it All", Danielgordis.org, March 7, 2008
H.N. Bialik, "The City of Slaughter"
Nathan Alterman, "The Silver Platter"

1,802 March 13, 2008 DURBAN II & THE UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL
Anne Bayefsky, "Dithering on Durban II", National Review Online, February 25, 2008
Ronan Farrow, "The U.N.'s Human-Rights Sham", Wall Street Journal, January 29, 2008
George Jonas, "A Moral Relativist Par Excellence", National Post, February 2, 2008
Editorial, :"The U.N. at Work - III", Wall Street Journal, March 1, 2008

1,801 March 12, 2008 WEDNESDAY’S “NEWS IN REVIEW” ROUND-UP
CIJR Staff. Wednesday’s Round-Up.

1,800 March 11, 2008 PALESTINIANS AND THE &