Archive for the ‘Lebanon’ Category
Thursday, August 12th, 2010
In his weekly Canadian Jewish News media analysis column "According to Reports," Paul Michaels, CIC Director of Communications, says that the mainstream media, for the most part, was able to get the facts straight regarding the recent Lebanese-Israeli border clash.
We frequently read these days that news is getting "dumbed ...
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Thursday, August 5th, 2010
by Uri Goldflam
I'm about to confuse you.
A short summary of the past few days in the neighbourhood:
Unprovoked, the Lebanese army shoots and kills an Israeli soldier.
Six rockets are fired from Sinai, Egypt into Israel and Jordan. A Jordanian civilian is killed.
Three rockets and two mortars are fired ...
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Wednesday, August 4th, 2010
The Issue:
Today, the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) confirmed Israel's assertion that its forces were operating in its sovereign territory when they came under fire yesterday (August 3, 2010) from the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) at the border. One Israeli commander was killed and another seriously wounded in ...
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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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Tuesday, July 6th, 2010
In the wake of Toronto's Gay Pride Parade controversy, Toronto Star columnist Martin Regg Cohen points out that apartheid is indeed practiced against the Palestinians - in Lebanon:
Thousands turned out to protest racial discrimination against Palestinians the other day — and with good reason.
The long-suffering Palestinians face armed soldiers at ...
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Wednesday, May 5th, 2010
Brig. Gen. Yossi Beiditz briefed the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee on Hizbullah, Syria and Iran. According to Beiditz, the transfer of weapons to Hizbullah is not considered the smuggling of weapons to Lebanon - it is an official and organized transfer:
The head of the Research Department in the ...
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Wednesday, February 24th, 2010
In his weekly Canadian Jewish News media analysis column “According to Reports,” Paul Michaels, CIC Director of Communications, looks at how the media ignored an important Mideast story - the fifth anniversary of the murder of Lebanese PM Rafik Hariri. Early last week, the media's foreign affairs gaze was ...
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Wednesday, November 4th, 2009
On November 4, the Israel Navy intercepted the "Francop" cargo ship, which was laden with roughly 500 tons of weapons hidden amongst civilian cargo. The 36 weapons containers were sent from Iran and meant for the Hezbollah terrorist organization in Lebanon. For further information on how the interception occurred and ...
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Tuesday, August 4th, 2009
Journalist Ben Gilbert wrote an article for Globalpost about the restoration of an old beautiful synagogue in Lebanon:
Beirut's Synagogue Reconstruction Kicks off
Construction could spell a new beginning for Lebanon's underground Jewish community
BEIRUT — A long-delayed plan to renovate Beirut’s only synagogue is finally coming to fruition.
The Lebanese architect working with ...
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Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009
The BBC website recently posted an exclusive interview with a Hezbollah "militant" who makes it crystal clear that governments, like Britain's, who think they can deal with the movement's purely political wing are fooling themselves.
The Hezbollah source is quoted as saying: "We have two arms, but we belong to one ...
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