Archive for the ‘Israeli Foreign Affairs’ Category
Monday, August 30th, 2010
On Sat. Aug. 28, the Globe and Mail ran a cautiously optimistic op-ed by Aluf Benn, editor-at-large of Haaretz:
The announcement of the resumption of direct Israeli-Palestinian talks has been greeted by an indifferent Israeli public. Politicians and pundits lamented the effort as yet another futile exercise in diplomacy, the product ...
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Wednesday, August 25th, 2010
Israel, in any future agreement with the Palestinians, has a critical need for defensible borders. This video from the Jersualem Center for Public Affairs outlines the threats to Israel from terrorist rockets, ballistic missiles, and conventional ground and air threats from the east.
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Monday, August 23rd, 2010
by Uri Goldflam
As pressure for direct negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority continued to rise, PA President Mahmoud Abbas continued to stall. He was refusing to climb down from the tree that U.S President Barack Obama planted last year ("full construction freeze in settlements").
Meanwhile, the moratorium on building ...
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Thursday, August 19th, 2010
In July, The Peace Index, a joint venture of The Evens Mediation and Conflict Resolution Center at Tel Aviv University and The Israel Democracy Institute, looked at issues related to Israel's status in the world community. Among the findings:
"The whole world is against us." That is what 56% of the ...
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Thursday, July 29th, 2010
Here is an opinion piece by Danny Ayalon, Israel's deputy minister of foreign affairs, published in the July 29 Wall Street Journal:
The Flotilla Farce
Whether they are from Turkey, Ireland or Cyprus, those that participate reek of hypocrisy.
By DANNY AYALON
A couple of years ago, a Palestinian refugee camp was encircled and ...
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Thursday, July 29th, 2010
In his weekly Canadian Jewish News media analysis column “According to Reports,” Paul Michaels, CIC Director of Communications, looks at how a double standard is often applied to Israel's conduct.
In a July 12 Globe and Mail opinion piece, “Is Israel a normal country?” Ian Buruma raised a number of ...
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Wednesday, July 28th, 2010
On July 27, British Prime Minister David Cameron gave a speech in Turkey, in which he called Gaza a "prison camp."
Here is an opinion piece on Cameron's remarks by Washington Post columnist Jackson Diehl:
Western leaders have been puzzling over how to respond to the Turkish government of Recep Tayyip Erdogan, ...
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Thursday, July 22nd, 2010
This is an op-ed by James Kirchick in the National Post:
Earlier this month, Madrid celebrated its annual gay pride festival, reputed to be the largest in Europe. It featured the usual mixture of calls for tolerance, righteous political speechifying and raucous display of sexuality. But the Spanish capital also earned ...
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Wednesday, July 21st, 2010
In July, The Peace Index, a joint venture of The Evens Mediation and Conflict Resolution Center at Tel Aviv University and The Israel Democracy Institute, looked at Israelis' positions on peace talks, captive soldier Gilad Schalit, U.S. President Barack Obama and other current issues. Among the findings:
While 71.5% of the ...
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Monday, July 19th, 2010
This Calgary Herald editorial takes a close look at what is really motivating Canadian "activists" who want to charter a boat and set sail for Gaza:
Charity is supposed to be fuelled by a selfless desire to help others, but it's hard to see any such motivation in the plans advanced ...
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