Father Raymond J. de Souza: A new Knesset — for a new Israel? | Full Comment | National Post

A good analysis of what the changes to the Knesset could mean to Israeli society and politics. **Please mind CoH.

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'Anti-Semitic' comic Dieudonné M'bala M'bala ostracized in Europe, booked in Montreal | News | National Post

Only in Canada, you say?  Pity.  Really...

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Iran’s leadership ‘rational’ and won’t build nuclear bomb, Israel’s army chief says | News | National Post

“Iran is moving step-by-step towards a point where it will be able to decide if it wants to make a nuclear bomb. It has not decided yet whether to go the extra mile,” Gantz told the Haaretz daily. “In my opinion, (Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei …

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Japanese must tap their 'inner Israeli' | The Japan Times Online

[A]t a macro level Japan and Israel share a common core: Both nations possess few natural resources but their people. By effective deployment of their human resources, both rose from deprivation to prosperity in, historically speaking, the blink of an eye, leaving many other, s …

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From neo-Nazi to Hasidic Jew: Former skinhead who discovered his Jewish roots to speak in Montreal | News | National Post

Pawel Bromson grew up in Poland where he and his skinhead friends sometimes roamed the streets of Warsaw, terrorizing Jewish, Arab and black children. On one occasion, he and his mates boarded a train to Auschwitz and vandalized the former concentration camp. They hurled insul …

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Toulouse Shooting: France's response to Mohamed Merah's rampage is bad news for Jews ... how? | Full Comment | National Post

The idea that the continent [Europe] has become an anti-Semitic hell hole has attained a curious popularity in the media — and especially the right-wing media — since 9/11. In many cases, the pattern is the same as the one display here: A single episode of …

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Mohamed Merah siege in Toulouse draws heavy criticism from Israeli experts over France's 'failures' | News | National Post

[I]ntelligence failures began long before Merah began his shooting spree on March 11, which saw him kill three three soldiers last week before gunning down a Jewish teacher and three small children at a Toulouse school on Monday. “One of the lessons which in my opinion [ …

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UN rights group targets Israel

In a resolution passed Thursday, the council decided to "dispatch an independent, international, fact-finding mission, to be appointed by the President of the Human Rights Council, to investigate the implications of the Israeli settlements on the civil, political, economic, soc …

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Fatuous U.S. energy policy is fuelled by fantasy | Full Comment | National Post

[T]he event that drove home the extent of Obama’s antipathy to nearby, abundant, available oil was his veto of the Keystone pipeline. It gave the game away because the case for Keystone is so obvious and overwhelming. Vetoing it gratuitously prolongs our dependence on out …

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Oil sands are a triumph for the human 'environment' | Full Comment | National Post

The environment is not just what you see on green posters. It is not just sunsets and tall trees. It is also the people living in it. And people need energy, and people need jobs. Projects such as the oilsands, which supplies both in abundance, should be celebrated for its cutt …

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Jonathan D. Sarna: When General Grant expelled the Jews | Full Comment | National Post

On Dec. 17, 1862, as the U.S. Civil War entered its second winter, General Ulysses S. Grant issued the most notorious anti-Jewish official order in American history: “The Jews, as a class violating every regulation of trade established by the Treasury Department and also  …

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David Frum: Post-zionism is just another name for Israel hatred | Full Comment | National Post

Over the past few years, there’s been an interesting shift among opponents of the state of Israel. They’ve begun to call themselves “post-Zionist” — a bland, bloodless phrase. The idea embedded in the phrase is that Israel can somehow be transition …

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Former CIA Officials Say Iran's Clerics Want to Goad Israel Into an Attack - The Daily Beast

Marty Martin, a former senior officer in the CIA, ran the unit that hunted Al Qaeda terrorists from 2002 to 2004. Iran’s most militant leaders “are goading the Israelis,” he tells The Daily Beast, “because a bombing will help them put their internal proble …

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The Palestinians are doing their best to derail peace talks with Israel – Telegraph Blogs

Most people in the West believe the main reason the talks are not going anywhere is because of Israel's refusal to compromise on its settlement building programme. But while the Netanyahu government's insistence on building settlements is certainly an obstacle, I am t …

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Love 'em or hate 'em... great message from Nickelback

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No text is worth a human life | Bankrate.com

"No call, no text, no update is worth a human life," said NTSB Chairwoman Deborah Hersman in announcing the recommendation. "Needless lives are lost on our highways, and for what? Convenience? Death isn't convenient.

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Jonathan Kay reporting from Washington: America's Zionist mission | Full Comment | National Post

I haven't changed the title of the seed from the article; but, I'm not sure I agree with the use of the word "Zionist" here.

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Hamas set to reject violence: report | Full Comment | National Post

Hamas renouncing violence?  Uh, huh.  Anybody want a bridge, cheap?

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Israel and the Arab Awakening - NYTimes.com

Israel Cannot Afford to do Nothing

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Iran's escalating conflict with Gulf neighbours increases risk of war | News | National Post

Speculation Israel might attack Iran’s nuclear programme has been rife in the Israeli media and oil markets in recent weeks, with concerns that Tehran might retaliate with devastating attacks on Gulf oil shipments. But that debate, experts say, misses large parts of the  …

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Erol Araf: The day Tel Aviv died | Full Comment | National Post

Erol Araf describes what could happen if a single nuclear missile got through Israel’s defences:

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Jerry Amernic: Why we're forgetting the Holocaust | Full Comment | National Post

The understanding of the Shoah, the events that led up to it and the resulting changes in the geo-political world after the war, are being lost as it becomes less relevant to the youth of each passing generation. "Those that do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it." (p …

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It depends on your defi nition of 'peace'

For peace negotiations to succeed, it's not enough for both sides to want peace in the abstract. They must also ascribe the same meaning to the term - and the two sides in the Middle East do not.

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