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Israel worries over intense legal war

Posted in Uncategorized on July 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

The defense establishment is concerned at intensifying legal campaigns in foreign courts that aim to deter Israel from using force against Hamas and Hizbullah.
Reeling from four damning reports in one week from human rights organizations about the IDF’s conduct in Operation Cast Lead, the sense among senior defense officials is that the “legal front” against [...]

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Full text of Netanyahu’s speech at Bar-Ilan

Posted in Uncategorized on June 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Honored guests,
Citizens of Israel.
Peace has always been our people’s most ardent desire. Our prophets gave the world the vision of peace, we greet one another with wishes of peace, and our prayers conclude with the word peace.
We are gathered this evening in an institution named for two pioneers of peace, Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat, [...]

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Netanyahu calls for a demilitarized Palestinian state

Posted in Uncategorized on June 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

At his speech at Bar Ilan University tonight Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu called for a demilitarized Palestinian state.
Here is a list of other countries without armies:
Andorra – Defended by France and Spain.
Costa Rica – A standing military is prohibited byt the constitution, however [...]

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LiveTweet on Netanyahu’s speech

Posted in Uncategorized on June 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

A link to my LiveTweet on Netanyahu’s speech

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Netanyahu in 2002 on a Palestinian state

Posted in Uncategorized on June 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

In May 2002 Netanyahu gave a speech to the Likud Central Committee. Half of the speech was devoted to the issue of a Palestinian state. You can read the whole speech here. I’m copying just the section that deals with the issue of a Palestinian state. It will be interesting to compare this speech with [...]

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Bibi wants an Obama speech

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , on June 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Some thoughts on the situation:
Bibi’s upcoming speech at Bar Ilan: Obama gave a big speech that almost everyone in the world loved. Obama’s Cairo University speech was seen live by hundreds of millions of people. How many people will watch Bibi live? Bibi is to deliver his speech at Bar Ilan University’s BESA Center in [...]

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Enlightened, progressive, good American Jews

Posted in Uncategorized on June 7, 2009 | 2 Comments »

Meet America’s first black female rabbi, Alysa Stanton.
CINCINNATI (AP) — Describing herself as the “new face of Judaism,” Alysa Stanton became the first black female rabbi in the country during an ordination in Cincinnati.

Stanton, of Blue Ash, was among 14 rabbis ordained Saturday at the Plum Street Temple. She will serve as rabbi of the [...]

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Racist, ignorant, bad, bad, bad American Jews

Posted in Uncategorized on June 7, 2009 | 4 Comments »

This is shocking:

The bad news is that this video is rising meteorically in the ranks on YouTube and blogs – so I can safely say this is officially “bad for the Jews”.
Ben Hartman of Haaretz has a thoughtful analysis of the scene:
“Not to excuse the behavior of those in the video, [...]

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Obama’s entire speech

Posted in Uncategorized on June 4, 2009 | 2 Comments »

Remarks of President Barack Obama
A New Beginning
Cairo, Egypt
June 4, 2009
I am honored to be in the timeless city of Cairo, and to be hosted by two remarkable institutions. For over a thousand years, Al-Azhar has stood as a beacon of Islamic learning, and for over a century, Cairo University has been a source of [...]

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The Sheinkin Street test

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged on June 2, 2009 | 2 Comments »

Maybe if they’d posted billboards showing Iranian missiles on parade with the headline: “Coming to your neighborhood soon. Do you know where your shelter is?” someone here would have paid attention to the siren. Maybe if IDF Homefront Command opened a shiny new store, placed naked mannequins wearing only gas masks behind its windows, and [...]

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Video: Jerusalem Post staff enter bomb shelter

Posted in Uncategorized on June 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Here’s a video my intern Ben Spier took today at our offices during the Homefront Command drill [I'm not in it I was in Tel-Aviv today]

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Eyeless in Givatayim

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged on June 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

In about 12 hours from now a siren will sound signaling the high point of the nationwide Homefront Command war preparedness drill. At 11:00 Tuesday the sirens will go off across the country and civilians are supposed to take shelter in safe rooms, bomb shelters, building stairwells, or simply lie flat on the ground near [...]

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Israel warming to Russia as rift with America deepens

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , on June 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

The Foreign Ministry is gradually placing more importance on diplomacy with Russia as the relationship with Washington undergoes a reformulation under the Obama administration.
Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, in his trip to Moscow this week, will try to balance out Israel’s overriding reliance on American diplomatic, financial and military support by strengthening its ties to Russia.
The [...]

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Hizbullah builds up its might

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , on May 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

No longer a purely guerrilla organization, Hizbullah is engaged in a huge political battle that culminates in the June 7 elections. “The Party of God” is in the pro-Iranian and Syrian camp facing off against the Hariri camp supported by America, Saudi Arabia and France.
The assessment in Israel is that Hizbullah will win the election [...]

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Who will speak for Israel?

Posted in Uncategorized on May 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Wrote this with Haviv Rettig Gur
The most important advice a communications and PR consultant can give a client is: Choose a message that works for you, and stick to that message.
So what would a communications consultant advise the Israeli government now? Would it be that on Iran, Israeli spokespeople should stick to the message formulated [...]

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IDF band plays German national anthem

Posted in Uncategorized on May 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

It’s German-Israel time again, and I’m currently attending the Bertelsman Stiftung German-Israel Young Leaders Exchange Program Reunion 2009 at the Dead Sea.
How coincidental that, just a few days ago as I was arriving at the Latrun base near Jerusalem for my miluim [reserve duty] the IDF marching band was practicing the German national anthem, for [...]

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The world according to Lieberman

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged on April 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Wrote this interview together with David Horovitz for the Jerusalem Post Magazine:
He’s only been in the job for a month, but already the foreign minister is fed up with the ’slogans’ he keeps hearing from his international counterparts: occupation, settlements, land-for-peace, two-state solutions… His favored key words? Security (for Israel). A stronger economy (for the [...]

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Foreign Minister Avigdor and Prime Minister Lieberman

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , on April 26, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Jerusalem Post Editor-in-Chief David Horovitz and I interviewed Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman on Thursday. Since then I’ve been asked quite frequently about my impressions of the man.
Everybody wants to know about Lieberman. What’s he like, this “Russian King” as a friend called him [actually he's Moldovan]. When I posted photos of our interview on [...]

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Lieberman wants new slogans

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged on April 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

On Thursday David Horovitz and I interviewed Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman. The story appeared in Friday’s Jerusalem Post:
The international community has to “stop speaking in slogans” if it really wants to help the new Israeli government work toward a solution to the Palestinian conflict and help bring stability to the Middle East, Foreign Minister Avigdor [...]

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Bad day for Arab women

Posted in Uncategorized on April 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Two Arab women were executed Monday for killing their husbands.
From AP
A Yemeni woman has been executed by firing squad for killing her husband, whom she accused of molesting their daughter.
The woman’s lawyer, Abdel-Alim al-Wafi, says she was executed Sunday in a province north of the capital, San’a.

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