Number 174 - 2012/34                        August 20, 2012                            Elul 2, 5772

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Cannes judges love "God's Neighbors" (Israel21c)

Israeli Paralympic team goes for the gold (Israel 21c)

HIV peptide packs a punch for cancer treatment(Israel21c)

The new lifestyle hub at the heart of Tel-Aviv (Israel21c)

"Light On" turns sound into sight for hard of hearing (No Camels)

Bezalel Alumni impressive social design gadgets (No Camels)

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Israel Advocacy

Israeli-Egyptian security cooperation not at risk (The Times of Israel)

Israel will have to tackle Iran alone (The Times of Israel)

Palestinian Authority perpetuating the conflict through incitement to hate (The Times of Israel)

Sinai attack: unintended consequences (Jerusalem Post)

The case for stopping Iran at all costs (Benny Morris, Israel HaYom)

Arson suspected in several Jerusalem forest fires(Jerusalem Post)

Egypt condemns 14 Islamist militants to death for 2011 attack (Reuters)

What Israel expects from Obama on Iran (YNet)

Europeans add major Israeli city to settlements' list(Jerusalem Post)

Morsi studying Camp David Accords ammendments issue(Egypt Independent)

My neighbor, the Hamas leader (PJ Media)

The withdrawal from Gaza (Video documentary)

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Attacking Israel with genocidal intentions 

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Column One: the Land for Peace Hoax (Jerusalem Post)

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Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood crucifies opponents, attacks secular Media (Raymond Ibrahim, Investigative project on terrorism)

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BLOGGING JEWISH IN DUTCHESS  

“The trouble with tribbles” was (and still is) one of the most popular episodes of the original “Star Trek” TV series...and it holds a lesson for our time.

The episode dwells on a simple principle: The United Federation of Planets and the Klingon Empire are competing for control of a planet. The UFP brings a special kind of wheat which would make the planet a breadbasket for that entire sector of the Galaxy. The problem is that a well-meaning merchant brings into the station creatures called “tribbles” which can get anywhere, multiply like crazy, and eat everything they can find edible. As a result, the efforts of the UFP to introduce the new wheat to the planet is destroyed because the tribbles eat all the experimental seeds. So you might ask, how do I manage to extract a lesson from this?

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