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Law and Society
Middle EastBy Dr.Aaron.Lerner.IMRA
16 hours ago
Dr. Aaron Lerner Date: 18 March 2010
Why should Jordan's King Abdullah II get a free pass when he slams Israel
with criticism that grossly misrepresents the situation in Jerusalem?
"Jerusalem is a red line and the world should not be silent about Israel's
attempts to get rid of Jerusalem's Arabs residents, Muslims or Christians,"
the king told visiting EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton this week,
claiming that Israel seeks to "change Jerusalem's identity and threaten holy
sites there."
King Abdullah knows damn well that this is baloney.
Israel isn't clearing out Arabs from Jerusalem. If anything, Arabs from the
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Law and SocietyMiddle EastBy Dr.Aaron.Lerner.IMRA
2 days ago
Dr. Aaron Lerner Date: 16 March 2010
Makor Rishon correspondent Arial Kahaneh reports in today's edition that a
check of the maps signed by representatives of Israel and Jordan on 4 March
1949 in Rhodes finds that Ramat Shlomo is located in "No Man's Land" rather
than in territory that at the time was designated as being under Jordanian
control.
Among areas having the same "No Man's Land" status are Kfar Ruth. Shilat,
Lapid, Neveh Shalom (the Arab-Israeli community) part of the Tel
Aviv-Jerusalem highway route 1, Mini Israel and Ramot.
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Law and SocietyMiddle EastBy Dr.Aaron.Lerner.IMRA
2 days ago
Dr. Aaron Lerner Date: 16 March 2010
Channel Two's political correspondent Rina Matzliach said today on the
"Making Order" program that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is the most
ideologically committed prime minister Israel has had in years and that his
position regarding construction in Jerusalem in particular and Arab-Israeli
issues in general reflects his assessment of what he believes to genuinely
best serve Israel's interests rather than an attempt to placate coalition
members.
Matzliach discounted Eyal Arad 's assertion made on the program that
Netanyahu's constituents want "hope" and thus actually want Netanyahu to
make whatever concessions are needed to cut a deal with the Palestinians.
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Law and SocietyMiddle EastBy Dr.Aaron.Lerner.IMRA
2 days ago
Dr. Aaron Lerner Date: 15 March 2010
At the start of the Ramat Shlomo incident Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu
had to carefully and painstakingly weigh his moves as he attempted to
placate Washington without causing a crisis in his own party and the ruling
coalition.
This all changed when, over the course of the weekend, it became clear that
the Obama team had decided to exploit the Ramat Shlomo incident to try and
oust Netanyahu by forcing him to take actions that they themselves expected
would ultimately break up his ruling coalition.
This simplified matters considerably.
Fine tuning was no longer relevant.
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Law and SocietyMiddle EastBy jerusalemgypsy
5 days ago
Cellphones are expensive, but so necessary. I wonder how we managed years ago when we had to depend on pay phones to tell someone we'll be late, or make impulsive, last minute arrangements with friends and relatives. How inconvenient it all was, trying to find that quarter or whatever the cost was then. But my cellphone bill has been expensive of late and so I called up the competitor of my current cell provider.
There are three major cellphone companies in Israel, Cellcom, Pelephone and Orange. I got a much better offer from the competitor, after complaining about my current cellphone provider so after a week or so, I got on the phone with my current provider and told them about the offer. Can they match it? Closely. They connected me with a special department called Customer Retention or something like that. I would get a new phone at 50% of the cost. I complained that their competitor offered me a free one. OK - then they'll give me a free one too. Wow. It sounded so easy!
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Law and SocietyMiddle EastBy Dr.Aaron.Lerner.IMRA
6 days ago
Dr. Aaron Lerner Date 12 March 2010
For some reason, the Israeli media across the board (Jerusalem Post,
Haaretz, Ynet, Arutz 7 etc.) failed to note in their coverage of this poll
the following incredible result:
Israeli youth overwhelmingly (80% to 16%) prefer a democracy they disagree
with than a dictatorship they agree with.
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Telephone poll of a representative sample of 536 Israelis age 15-18
(including Israeli Arabs) carried out by Maagar Mohot Survey Institute
(headed by Professor Yitzchak Katz for Tel Aviv University's School of
Education and the Citizens' Empowerment Center in Israel in mid February
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