Netanyahu'​s Phony Realism

BY DAVID ISAAC, SHMUELKATZ.COM— “People do not understand where they live. If you do not live in the real world, it is possible to disregard everything, and I suggest that they start being wary in order to protect the existing construction.” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made these remarks last month in an effort to justify…

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Goldstone takes it back

BY JEFF JACOBY, BOSTON GLOBE— THE GOLDSTONE REPORT was a blood libel. Issued in September 2009 by a UN “fact-finding mission” headed by the South African jurist Richard Goldstone, the 450-page document was an indictment of Israel’s conduct during the brief war it launched in Gaza at the end of 2008 to end the intolerable…

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Israel and Hamas near a Spring war

BY DEBKAFILE— After nearly two months of rising tension, Israel and Hamas have taken a step towards a full-blown military confrontation: Before dawn Saturday, April 2, an Israeli air strike killed three senior Hamas Izz al-Din Qassam Brigades gunmen in the Gaza Strip in an operation described by an Israeli army spokesman as pre-empting a…

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Goldstone Recants! Will the Left Follow His Example?

BY JONATHAN TOBIN, COMMENTARY MAG— In what must be considered as shocking a turnaround as any we have seen in recent years, Richard Goldstone, the chair of the United Nations Human Rights Commission’s fact-finding commission about the conflict in Gaza, has retracted his claim that Israel deliberately sought to target and kill Palestinian civilians. A…

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Passover’s Gift: The Promised and Undivided Land

BY VICTOR SHARPE— Millions, perhaps billions, of the world’s population do not know the meaning of the towering festival of freedom and liberty known as Passover; a festival recognizing an event that has blessed the world for some 3,300 years. The festival begins on April 18th of this year and always on the 15th day…

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Passover’s Gift: The Promised and Undivided Land.

BY VICTOR SHARPE— Millions, perhaps billions, of the world’s population do not know the meaning of the towering festival of freedom and liberty known as Passover; a festival recognizing an event that has blessed the world for some 3,300 years. The festival begins on April 18th of this year and always on the 15th day…

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A school in trouble

By MICHAEL ANBAR, PhD, Professor Emeritus at Un. of Buffalo — The Muslim Student Association (MSA) at the University at Buffalo (UB) is sponsoring a talk by Norman Finkelstein, the notorious Jewish-born, anti-Jewish and anti-Israeli Holocaust denier, who was denied a tenured academic appointment at DePaul University in 2007, after having been fired by NYU…

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So much to say

Dear Friends, Praise the Lord, the Spanish translation of the most popular issue of our magazine, The Sephardic Jews, is finally complete, printing and all. Copies are available on our website or at the office – by single copy or multiples. I called one Hispanic Leader in Arizona who networks with other Hispanics and he…

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From one victim to another…

BY ELAD BENARI, ARUTZ SHEVA— The coming month will mark the ninth anniversary of a deadly 2002 terror attack in the Samaria community of Elon Moreh. The attack occurred when a Hamas terrorist entered the home of the Gavish family, gunning down the parents, Rachel and David, and their son, 25-year-old Avraham, who was home…

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