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What Matters Most On Friday, August 17, 2012

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Jewish school children in the Maimonides School of Damascus in 1991 (photo credit: David Lisbona)

‘Thank God, there are almost no Jews in Syria now,’ says the woman who rescued most of them

By Raphael Ahren

Over almost 30 years from the mid-1970s, Judy Feld Carr, a music teacher from Toronto, arranged to smuggle 3,228 Jews out of Syria. Amid the brutal civil war raging there today, the importance of that remarkable life-saving operation has never been more evident

President Shimon Peres in an interview with Channel 2, Thursday (photo credit: Image capture from Channel 2)

Israel ‘can’t go it alone’ against Iran, Peres says in rare moment of public dissent with PM

By Ilan Ben Zion and Sam Ser

President says Obama committed to halting Tehran’s nuclear drive; source close to Netanyahu dismisses the statements, says Peres ‘forgot his role’

The imagined ‘niggerization’ of Obama

Pundits and politicians alike have succeeded in emasculating American English to the point where using the word ‘angry’ makes you a racist

Magnus Norell and David Pollock

The case for ramping up EU intervention in Syria

If Europe wishes to effect true democracy in the wake of the Assad regime, it must stop playing into the hands of the Muslim Brotherhood and start aiding the rebels on the ground — yes, militarily, as well

Saudi cleric Salman al-Odeh speaking on Rotana Khalijia TV. (photo credit: Image capture from MEMRI TV video)

Saudi cleric accuses Jewish people of genocide, drinking human blood

By Ilan Ben Zion

‘The role of the Jews is to wreak destruction, to wage wars, and to practice deception and extortion,’ Salman al-Odeh says

Police Commissioner Yohanan Danino, June 2012 (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Netanyahu to Abbas: We will track down those who petrol-bombed Palestinian car

By Philip Podolsky and Asher Zeiger

Shin Bet questions Bat Ayin settlement youths on possible involvement in attack that burned Palestinian family; police chief says he won’t give in to extremists; ADL proposes educational initiatives to combat hate

A masked man from a Sunni group who blocked a road linked to the Lebanese-Syrian border, checks a Syrian car which carries Syrian passengers, in Masnaa, eastern Lebanon, in August 2012. (photo credit: AP photo)

With cross-border attacks, kidnappings and sabotage, Assad tries to deflect attention to Lebanon

By Elhanan Miller

Syrian regime’s desperate survival strategy also involves stirring up trouble with Turkey

Iranian demonstrators burn an Israeli and British flag during an annual pro-Palestinian rally marking Quds (Jerusalem) Day, on the last Friday of the holy month of Ramadan, at the Enqelab-e-Eslami (Islamic Revolution) St. in Tehran, August 17, 2012 (photo credit: AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Ahmadinejad anticipates a ‘new Middle East’ with no Americans or Zionists

By Asher Zeiger

Millions of Iranians commemorate ‘Al-Quds Day’ by marching with Palestinian flags, burning Israeli and US flags, shouting ‘Death to Israel’; US, UN condemn Iranian president’s statements

Israeli postal workers distribute gas masks to residents of Jerusalem last month (photo credit: Noam Moskowitz/Flash90)

Reporter's notebook

It’s business as usual, Israelis say, as they get in line for gas masks

By Matti Friedman

Amos Yadlin in 2010 (photo credit: Kobi Gideon/Flash90)

Interview

A veteran intel head’s message to the US: Show us that you’ll really stop Iran, or we may have to

By David Horovitz

Amos Yadlin on thwarting the Iranians, how we’ll know that Assad is finished, apologizing to Turkey, and why even a canceled Egyptian peace treaty would not be the end of the world

Israeli Air Force F-16B jets, June 2011 (photo credit: Ofer Zidon/Flash90)

Most Israeli Jews reject Iran strike, say war chatter a bluff to get US to act, poll says

By Raphael Ahren

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A crowded Jerusalem bus in January. Is this the reason why there are less buses in Mea Sharim now? (photo credit: Miriam Alster / Flash90)

Hebrew Media ReviewClear and pres(id)ent danger?

By Yossi Nachemi

Illustrative image of a hotel pool, on the shoreline of Valletta, the capital of Malta, in the Mediterranean Sea (photo credit: Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Santa Monica hotel discriminated against Jews, court rules

By Philip Podolsky

The ADL's Abe Foxman (Courtesy Shilo Productions)

Abe Foxman: Draft Haredim, Arabs to defend the home front

By Raphael Ahren

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