Archive for December, 2008
Wednesday, December 31st, 2008
Courtesy of Wejew.com - Arutz Sheva coverage of a Hamas strike that - for the first time - reached the city of Beer Sheva in the Negev at 40km. Now over 700,000 Israelis are in Hamas' rocket range.
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Wednesday, December 31st, 2008
In a piece for Pajamas Media, Barry Rubin spells out the logic behind the IDF's operations in Gaza: "[I]t's like Pearl Harbor or September 11. If someone announces they are going to go to war with you and then does it, you retaliate and fight."
Read the whole post here » ...
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Tuesday, December 30th, 2008
Arutz Sheva has a report from Ashkelon's Barzilai Hospital, where dozens of Gazan residents are being treated "at the same time terrorists are bombarding the city. The medical facility, the largest on the southern coast, is in the line of rocket fire, and medical staff often have to stop caring ...
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Tuesday, December 30th, 2008
The Israel Defence Force's International Press Branch has opened a YouTube Channel. They will be uploading IDF footage as it comes out.
The channel is at: http://www.youtube.com/user/idfnadesk. The IDF's latest YouTube video is also embedded below:
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Tuesday, December 30th, 2008
Jerusalem - Israelis, Jews and Christians from around the world are joining a Facebook community forum to express their support for the men and women of the Israel Defense Forces in their fight to counter terrorism against innocent civilians in Israel from Gaza.
The Facebook group is located at: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=69810300128
Facebook is ...
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Monday, December 29th, 2008
The Dec. 28 Calgary Herald has a hard-hitting editorial on the situation in Gaza: "The expiration of a six month-old ceasefire between Israel and Hamas on Dec. 19 is regrettable and the dim prospects for its renewal even more so, but none of the blame can be laid at Israel's ...
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Sunday, December 28th, 2008
For Immediate Release
Dec. 28, 2008
Yesterday, following more than a week of Hamas's unceasing rocket and mortar fire attacks onto Israel's southern communities, Israel was forced to respond with limited miltary airstrikes to put and end to the rocket attacks from Gaza. Israel targetted Hamas's military installations, tried to avoid civilian ...
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Monday, December 22nd, 2008
Ambassador Gabriela Shalev, on behalf of Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, sent a letter today to Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations, with respect to the escalating situation at the Israel-Gaza border. Below is the text of that letter
H.E. Mr. Ban Ki-moon
Secretary-General of the United Nations
Excellency,
I am writing to ...
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Sunday, December 21st, 2008
Open Letter
To whom it may concern,
On behalf of the Canadian Federation of Jewish Students, we wish to condemn the recent decision by the Ontario Public Interest Research Group (OPIRG) at the University of Ottawa against partnering with a Jewish organization, based on one element of that organization's mandate.
As a social ...
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Friday, December 19th, 2008
With election day set for Feb. 10, the Israeli elections campaigns are starting to get into gear. The CIC will be blogging about the election, and regularly updating our Website coverage.
Perhaps not surprisingly, Israeli PM hopefuls are taking a cue from Barack Obama's successful US presidential campaign. According to the ...
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