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November 2009

AL HA-ARETZ ASKS: IS OBAMA LEARNING TACTICS FROM THE IDF?

Obama is learning from the IDF By Aluf Benn http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1125723.html Israel’s critics in the United States portray it as a strategic burden. They argue that during the Cold War there was value in cooperating with the Israel Defense Forces, which gave the Americans useful information on Soviet weapons systems used by Arab armies. But the […]

ROBERT WISTRICH: COMPARING ISLAMIC ANTI-SEMITISM TO GERMANY AT ITS WORST

Comparing Islamic anti-Semitism to Nazi Germany at its worst By Robert S. Wistrich http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1125584.html On November 9, 1938, a massive nation-wide anti-Jewish pogrom took place during peacetime across the entire territory of the Third Reich. The pretext for this orgy of violence against German Jews was the shooting in Paris two days earlier of German […]

MAKING MOVIES ABOUT THE PROPHET

guardian.co.uk, Monday 2 November 2009 11.00 GM Matrix producer plans Muhammad biopic Barrie Osborne, part of the Oscar-winning team behind the Lord of the Rings films, says the new production ‘will educate people about the true meaning of Islam’   Producer Barrie Osborne cast Keanu Reeves as the messiah in The Matrix and helped defeat […]