Speaking at an international forum last week, Russian President Vladimir Putin praised Israel”s anti-terror efforts, suggesting the United States could learn much from the Jewish state. In an address to the Valdai International Discussion Club, the Russian leader offered a critique of American foreign policy, particularly with regards to the Middle East and the spread […]
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International, Middle East, USAThe State Department on Wednesday issued a scathing condemnation of Israel after it issued building permits for 181 new homes in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Gilo, located in the southern part of the city. Jerusalem spokeswoman Brachie Sprung said plans in Gilo were first approved in 2012 and that Wednesday’s approvals were for “technical details
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Middle East, USADonald Trump would ask the Justice Department to investigate the intimidation of pro-Israel and Jewish students on American college campuses if elected president, according to a report by the Algemeiner news site. “Colleges are generally being far too lenient in allowing the pro-Palestinian community to deprive those in the pro-Israel camp of their First Amendment
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Middle East, USAIf love means never having to say you are sorry, then the renewed push for the U.K. to “atone” for the 1917 Balfour Declaration is yet another reminder of the bad blood between Israelis and Palestinians—and of how elusive peace remains. Today, on 99th anniversary of the letter, which endorsed “the establishment in Palestine of
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International, Jewish History, Middle EastA pair of hooded hoodlums launched a lit firecracker at a group of Jewish children who were walking past them on the opposite side of a street in Stamford Hill, London. Stamford Hill is populated mainly by religious Jews. An eight year old Jewish girl suffered burns to her leg after being struck by the
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InternationalMIAMI — When Donald Trump believes he’s winning, he stays on script. Looks like feels good about Florida. The Trump who marshaled his political army in downtown Miami on Wednesday rattled off a list of touchstone issues in Florida politics: the Herbert Hoover Dike in Lake Okeechobee, the Everglades, Homestead Air Reserve Base. He talked
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USAThe Islamic State group has prohibited its members from eating more than once a day as it deals with food shortages in Iraq. ISIS leaders have also told militants that keeping fast puts them closer to the Prophet Muhammad, according to local media reports. The food shortages have unfolded as ISIS fights off the Iraqi
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InternationalA longtime Clinton ally and donor has a theory about black Republicans: They’re like the Jewish guards in concentration camps who tried to save their own skins by helping the Nazis kill Jews. In a hidden-camera video released Wednesday by Project Veritas Action, author and academic Benjamin R. Barber compared black Republicans to the “Sonderkommandos”
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USAOfficials have captured an Iowa man who is suspected of ambushing and killing two Des Moines-area police officers in separate shootings early Wednesday morning. Officials have not given a possible motive for the attack. Scott Michael Greene, 46, was detained without incident on a rural road after flagging down a state Department of Natural Resources
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USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — There should be a special place in hell for officials who reach high office, then act in a manner that brings ridicule on their institutions. There are two candidates for that special place. One is the Director of the FBI, who has mucked up the presidential campaign at close to
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Ira Sharkansky, USAHILLSBOROUGH, N.C. — Republicans rejoiced Wednesday morning after reopening the Orange County Republican Party headquarters, less than a month after someone firebombed the building. North Carolina GOP executive director Dallas Woodhouse said the reopening of the building has taken a “monumental effort” with the support of both Republicans and Democrats. “We don’t believe this represents
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USAIn June 2016 a woman who identified herself as “Jane Doe” filed a federal lawsuit against Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump. On Wednesday Jane Doe was set to speak to reporters with her attorney Lisa Bloom by her side and identify herself. Instead of a press conference with Jane Doe reporters were met by her
At the end of Thelma & Louise, the 1991 film for which Susan Sarandon is probably most famous, the two titular characters drive off a cliff instead of surrendering to law enforcement. The decision is lethal, but principled. The film’s final frame shows their blue Ford Thunderbird flying with slow, deadly grace into the Grand
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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USABy Eric George Tauber SAN DIEGO — How far can you run from yourself? Playwright Ayad Akhtar gives us Amir, a man born in America to Pakistani Muslim parents. But he describes his heritage as “Indian” because Americans find it less threatening. Amir calls the Koran “one long hate-mail to humanity.” He felt that he
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