|
Prepared for the
Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations by the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs
| |||||
To contact the Presidents Conference: click here In-Depth Issues:
Iraqi Insurgents Plotted U.S. Attack - Pierre Thomas (ABC News)
Russia Fulfills Iran Missile Deal (AP/Los Angeles Times)
Palestinians Claiming to be Al-Qaeda Blow Up Gaza Resort - Nidal al-Mughrabi (Reuters)
Norway: Israeli Imports Up After Socialist Boycott (Norway Post)
Useful Reference:
Smokescreen: Hizbullah Inside America (YouTube/FOX News) Search Key Links Media Contacts Back Issues Fair Use
|
News Resources - North America, Europe, and Asia:
Iran has barred 38 nuclear agency inspectors from entering the country in retaliation for a UN resolution aiming to curb Iran's nuclear program, Alaedin Boroujerdi, the head of Parliament's committee for foreign policy and national security, said Monday. On Friday, Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, Iran's most senior dissident cleric, criticized President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's defiant stance against the West on the nuclear issue. Montazeri said, "We should not provoke the enemy, otherwise the country will be faced with problems....We should get our right in a way that it does not create problems or excuses for others." (New York Times) See also EU Sets Tough Line on Iran UN Sanctions - Mark John EU foreign ministers agreed on Monday to apply UN sanctions on Iran "in full and without delay" and if necessary go further than a UN list in targeting those linked to Tehran's nuclear work. They say Iran will face harsher sanctions if it ignores a resolution passed on December 23 that gave Iran 60 days to suspend nuclear fuel-enrichment activity. European diplomats say the U.S. is thinking about further steps, one of which may be an oil embargo against Iran. (Reuters) Thousands of Lebanese protesters blocked main roads in Beirut and around the country with rubble and burning tires on Tuesday at the start of a general strike called by the opposition, which includes Hizbullah, to try to topple the government. (Reuters) The U.S. has drafted a UN resolution urging states to "reject any denial of the Holocaust," saying that "ignoring the historical fact of these terrible events increases the risk they will be repeated." Richard Grenell, spokesman for the U.S. mission to the UN, said the draft resolution was being circulated in the General Assembly ahead of the UN's International Day of Commemoration in memory of victims of the Holocaust on Jan. 27. He said its purpose was to "make perfectly clear that denying or minimizing the importance of the Holocaust is unacceptable to the UN membership." (AP/Washington Post) News Resources - Israel and the Mideast:
Israel is in "an enviable position" due to the unprecedented number of Arab states and organizations who wish to speak with it, Dr. Robert Satloff, the executive director of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, told the Herzliya Conference on Monday. "For the first time in which I can recall, all Arabs want to talk to you. Arabs who like you, and those who don't like you, want talk to you," he said. Satloff also said he has surveyed Arab opinion from North Africa to the Persian Gulf, and found that "they are begging us [the U.S.] to stop Iran. To prevent an Iranian nuclear acquisition, and stemming Iranian influence. We remain the most powerful player in region." (Ynet News) A group of 45 Yemeni Jews have left their homes in Al Haid for a hotel in Sadaa City after receiving warnings to leave Yemen from supporters of a militant in the northern province of Sadaa. Four masked people came to Dawoud Yousuf Mousa and threatened to slaughter him and the other Jews if they do not leave by January 19. (Gulf News-UAE) Palestinians in Gaza fired three Kassam rockets at Israel on Monday. One rocket was fired at strategic facilities located in the southern city of Ashkelon, while two additional rockets were fired at the town of Sderot. (Ha'aretz) Global Commentary and Think-Tank Analysis (Best of U.S., UK, and Israel):
Jimmy Carter's book, while exceptionally sensitive to Palestinian suffering, ignores a legacy of mistreatment, expulsion and murder committed against Jews. It trivializes the murder of Israelis. Now, facing a storm of criticism, he has relied on anti-Semitic stereotypes in defense. Carter has repeatedly fallen back - possibly unconsciously - on traditional anti-Semitic canards. In the Los Angeles Times he declared it "politically suicide" for a politician to advocate a "balanced position" on the crisis. On Al-Jazeera TV, he dismissed the critique of his book by declaring that "most of the condemnations of my book came from Jewish-American organizations." Does that invalidate their criticism - and mine? Perhaps unused to being criticized, Carter reflexively fell back on this kind of innuendo about Jewish control of the media and government. When David Duke spouts such stereotyping, I yawn. When Jimmy Carter does, I shudder. A man who has done much good and who wants to bring peace has not only failed to move the process forward but has given refuge to scoundrels. The writer teaches at Emory University. (Washington Post) See also Who Gave Us Islamist Iran? Jimmy Carter - Barry Rubin Who gave us Islamist Iran, inasmuch as any foreign factor could have done so? Jimmy Carter, through his incompetence at dealing with the Iranian revolution and its aftermath, plus his weakness in managing the state-sanctioned kidnapping of several dozen American diplomats. Carter helped produce the monstrosity in Teheran, the world's only openly genocidal state. (Jerusalem Post) We the undersigned Iranians, considering that the Nazis' coldly planned "Final Solution" and their ensuing campaign of genocide against Jews and other minorities during World War II constitute undeniable historical facts, deplore that the denial of these unspeakable crimes has become a propaganda tool that the Islamic Republic of Iran is using to further its own agendas. Noting that the new brand of anti-Semitism prevalent in the Middle East today has no precedent in Iran's history, we strongly condemn the Holocaust Conference sponsored by the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Tehran on December 11–12, 2006, and its attempt to falsify history. (New York Review of Books) Lately, we've heard the root cause of terrorism is alienation, poverty, or the West's support for Israel. What do I think is the root cause of terrorism? It works. Those using terrorism do it because it achieves their objectives. The more Israel has acceded to the demands of terrorists, the more terrorism has increased. The more Israel has unilaterally retreated from lands won in hard-fought combat, the more emboldened its attackers have become. The more accommodating Israel is with the terrorists, the higher become the demands on the Jewish state by international busybodies who blame their own problems with terrorists on Israel. There are only two ways to stop the terrorism: Surrender and live under the domination of Islam, or soundly defeat the Islamic jihad. You can't talk to it. You can't buy it off. You can't understand it. You can't win it over with compassion. You can't reason with it. You can't negotiate with it. You can't bargain with it. You can't appease it away. You can't wish it away. (WorldNetDaily) Observations: Iran, Hizbullah, Hamas and the Global Jihad: A New Conflict Paradigm for the West - Dore Gold (Ynet News)
Subscribe to the Daily Alert Unsubscribe from the Daily Alert |
||||