Today in Jewish History – Adar 10

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Sponsored by Aish: In 1980, Israel and Egypt exchanged ambassadors, marking a new era of cordial, if cold, diplomacy. In 1973, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat had orchestrated an attack on Israel in the Yom Kippur War, but after suffering defeat he became resigned to Israel’s existence. In 1977, Sadat and Menachem Begin signed the Camp David Peace Agreement, for which they received the Nobel Peace Prize. Much of the Arab world was outraged by Sadat’s overtures toward Israel, and he was assassinated by a Muslim extremist in 1981.

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Fitzgerald: How can Egypt explain?

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The excellent Hugh Fitzgerald dissects Egypt’s mask and reveals the wolf in sheep’s clothing. From Fitzgerald: How can Egypt explain? ‘Unclear how, if at all, Egypt can explain this’ — from this article How, since the Camp David Accords were signed, can Egypt explain the following: Despite its solemn commitment to end all hostile propaganda and to encourage friendly relations with Israel, how can Egypt explain the following acts, of commission, and omission, by the Egyptian government? 1) The preventing of Israeli participation in international book and film festivals in Cairo. 2) The discouragement, including repeated monitoring, and hounding directed

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BBC Apologizes to Muslims for Stating Jerusalem as Capital of Israel

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It is outrageous to the extreme that the global community would dare to tell a sovereign nation what is – or is not – its capital. What a bunch of pandering cowards the BBC is. The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) issued an apology this week to Muslims for having referred to Jerusalem as being the capital of Israel in one of its broadcasts. The apology came in response to complaints by four Muslim-British organizations:Arab Media Watch,Muslim Public Affairs Committee,Friends of Al-Aksa and,the Institute of Islamic Political Thought. The reference to Jerusalem that drew the complaints occurred on March 24th, when

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Financial Times Interview: Benjamin Netanyahu

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An excerpt from an interview with Benjamin Netanyahu, from Financial Times: FT: One final question: do you see the real danger that the war that happened last summer is going to be repeated very soon? BN: I hope not. But it could be. The result of the war is – if there’s one thing I have learned is that you don’t purchase peace by weakness or vacillation. If there’s one lesson I have learned is that you purchase peace from strength. Israel had seven countries attack it when it was an embryonic state in 1948. That number went down to

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40th Anniversary of the Reunification of Jerusalem

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Via Israel HighWay: Most Jews in Israel and throughout the world barely remember a time when the Old City of Jerusalem and the rest of east Jerusalem were not an important part of the fabric of the city and the country. For 19 years, from the founding of the State of Israel in 1948 until the Six Day War in 1967, Jerusalem was a city divided by barbed wire and dangerous “no-man’s land” running roughly north to south separating the Jewish people from the Old City of Jerusalem. The Old City, the City of David, was the cornerstone of 2,000

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Book Review: A Palestinian Two-Step

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From Book Review: A Palestinian Two-Step: In Once Upon a Country: A Palestinian Life, Sari Nusseibeh misses no opportunity to denigrate and delegitimize Israel through sharp, short, often subtle yet always false readings of history. His text is marred by countless factual errors and inaccuracies that cast a serious doubt on the validity of his personal narrative, not to mention the wider historical and political picture he seeks to paint. But Mr. Nusseibeh is not someone to be bothered by the facts. His text is marred by countless factual errors and inaccuracies that cast a serious doubt on the validity

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Leader of the Islamic Movement in Israel: Western Wall belongs to Muslims

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From YnetNews: The Western Wall – on all its various parts, structures and gates, and all the names these parts, structures and gates are called – is an inseparable part of the al-Aqsa compound,” declared Islamist leader Sheikhh Raed Salah. The Western Wall “is part of Al-Aqsa’s western tower, which the Israeli establishment fallaciously and sneakily calls the ‘Wailing Wall’. The wall is part of the holy al-Aqsa Mosque,” added Salah, who heads the northern faction of the Islamic Movement in Israel. However these statements were not made recently. Rather, they were made at a time when then Prime Minister

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Today in Jewish History – Adar 10

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Sponsored by Aish.com: In 1980, Israel and Egypt exchanged ambassadors, marking a new era of cordial, if cold, diplomacy. In 1973, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat had orchestrated an attack on Israel in the Yom Kippur War, but after suffering defeat he became resigned to Israel’s existence. In 1977, Sadat and Menachem Begin signed the Camp David Peace Agreement, for which they received the Nobel Peace Prize. Much of the Arab world was outraged by Sadat’s overtures toward Israel, and he was assassinated by a Muslim in 1981.

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