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Tuesday, June 19, 2012
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Hamas claims responsibility for escalating rocket fire from Gaza
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ToI Staff
IAF strikes military targets in the Strip in retaliation for over 50 missiles fired at southern Israel since Tuesday; nine injured near Kibbutz Yad Mordechai; schools closed in Sderot and Sdot Negev
PM condemns suspected ‘price tag’ attack on West Bank mosque
By
Ron Friedman
Police believe right-wing extremists are behind arson and vandalism in village near Ramallah; PA demands arrests
Top Ops
Irwin Cotler
Ending the ‘unacceptable’ and ‘unspeakable’ in Syria
If, as Obama put it, ‘awareness without action changes nothing,’ what is to be done? And will Obama and the US take the lead in acting upon our responsibility to save the innocent?
David Bernstein
Against Jewish moral aestheticism on Israel
Some criticism of Israel does indeed apply sound moral logic and should be taken seriously, but much of it does not
Analysis
The Sinai desert: From strategic depth to strategic threat
By
Mitch Ginsburg
Previously regarded as a vast demilitarized zone that ensured calm, the peninsula is increasingly seen as a potential source of Egypt-Israel conflict
Tel Aviv resident elected to French parliament
Daphna Poznanski-Benhamou of the Socialist Party will represent French expats from eight Mediterranean countries
Syria, Iran, Russia and China plan joint war games, Iranian news agency says
By
Gabe Fisher
Largest exercise in Mideast history set to take place within a month; Syrian official denies report
600 illegal migrants sign up to leave Israel
By
Hillary Zaken
500 of the applicants are South Sudanese nationals
Foreign sperm more potent than local seed?
By
Hillary Zaken
Study shows that foreign donor sperm causes more successful pregnancies in both IVF and artificial insemination
Lost in translation
Alice Walker says no to Hebrew ‘Purple’
Author cites Israeli ‘apartheid’ behind refusal to release her Pulitzer Prize winning novel in translation
Playing with, or putting out, the Holocaust fascination fire?
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Toby Axelrod
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Arab media divided on apparent Brotherhood victory
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Hebrew media review
Borders, elections, and evacuations
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Yossi Nachemi
Jerusalem ‘geek’ summer camp gives kids a leg up in hard sciences
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