Archive for January, 2009
Friday, January 30th, 2009
David Weinberg, Director, CIC Israel Office tunes in as the parties launch their TV and radio ads.
Kadima, Labor, Likud, Shas and Israel Beiteinu are slugging it out on radio and television this week, in a concentrated slew of political advertisements. It is the most entertaining show in town! (By law, ...
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Thursday, January 29th, 2009
This morning (Jan. 29) on the CBC Radio show "The Current," guest host Linden MacIntyre got cozy with former U.S. President Jimmy Carter. MacIntyre lobbed gentle questions to Carter about his meetings with Hamas and his views about the Gaza conflict. Carter in turn reassured CBC listeners that Hamas leadership is a ...
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Thursday, January 29th, 2009
In his weekly Canadian Jewish News media analysis column “According to Reports,” Paul Michaels, CIC Director of Communications, looks at the widely differing views about who won and lost in Gaza.
Writes Michaels: "As the conflict between Israel and Hamas in Gaza ended, media analysis of who won and who lost ...
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Thursday, January 29th, 2009
David Weinberg, Director, CIC Israel Office, looks at some of the new and notable candidates in the race for the Knesset, including a surprising number of journalists.
Journalists in the Running: One interesting feature of this election campaign is the unusually high number of prominent Israeli journalists who have thrown their hats ...
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Wednesday, January 28th, 2009
Judson Polin of Hudson New York (affiliated with the Hudson Institute think tank) writes:
As the philosopher George Santayana once quipped, "a fanatic is one who redoubles his effort when he has forgotten his aim." Such loss of perspective is evident among those who have been condemning Israel in the name of humanitarian concern ...
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Wednesday, January 28th, 2009
Israeli entrepreneur Shai Reshef is launching the first global, tuition-free Internet university. Reshef, who has founded several successful Internet-based education businesses, is calling his nonprofit venture "the University of the People." Read more in the New York Times »
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Wednesday, January 28th, 2009
The Israeli political parties are involving two U.S. figures in their election debates, says David Weinberg, Director, CIC Israel Office: new U.S. President Barak Obama and - less predictably - former Mideast negotiator Dennis Ross.
Working with Obama: Kadima has let loose with a broad-based attack on the Likud, arguing that ...
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Tuesday, January 27th, 2009
From MediaCentral, an organization that provides support and services for foreign journalists in Israel, comes a guide to the 2009 Israeli Elections. It includes a directory of the parties running for election (with contact information for the parties' spokespeople) and detailed information on the party platforms, the leading figures in ...
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Tuesday, January 27th, 2009
David Weinberg, Director, CIC Israel Office, looks at how the three-week offensive in Gaza was spurred by the upcoming vote, and how the result is playing out on the campaign trail.
Conflict Impact: The impending Israeli elections were a contributing factor in the recent conflict with Hamas, according to an analysis ...
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Monday, January 26th, 2009
A surprising admission from an European Union official, in a Reuters story just posted by Haaretz:
Standing in the war-torn Gaza Strip on Monday, the European Union's foreign aid chief condemned Hamas for acting like "a terrorist movement," and accused the Islamist group of having "enormous responsibility" for the devastation caused during ...
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