Shin Bet uncovers Hezbollah attempts to recruit Palestinians on Facebook (JNS.org) Several Palestinian terror cells in the Judea and Samaria region were recruited through Facebook by the Lebanese terror group Hezbollah to carry out attacks against Israelis, Israel’s security agency (Shin Bet) announced on Tuesday. One of the groups in the Palestinian city, Qalqilya, was […]
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Middle EastBy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO –I know I said I was taking a vacation for a week, but when Donald Trump invents a new word, I can’t resist jumping in. (Extreme Vocabulary by Donald J. Trump) Extreme Bedding: Courtship. Extreme Debting: Business strategy of borrowing more than you can pay back, declaring bankruptcy, and not paying your
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire, USAThey came for Bill but left with Hillary. San Francisco philanthropist Susie Tompkins Buell says the first time she was in the same room with Hillary Clinton was at a Bay Area fundraiser for Bill Clinton, in the early 1990s. Hillary was there to deliver the introduction for her husband, and Buell was instantly smitten—but
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USAA New York man has been charged in connection with the deaths of a imam and his assistant at the weekend. 35-year-old Oscar Morel of Brooklyn has been charged with two counts of second-degree murder following the deaths of 55-year-old Imam Maulama Akonjee and 64-year-old Thara Uddin. He has also been charged with two counts
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USAWhen United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon steps down at the end of the year, he, like many others, is hoping that for the first time in its 71-year history a woman become the new leader of the international organization. “We have many distinguished and eminent women leaders in national governments or other organizations or even
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InternationalHouse Republicans have sent detailed perjury allegations against Hillary Clinton to the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, accusing the Democratic presidential nominee of lying under oath during congressional hearings. The group of Republicans, with 83 days (and counting) left before Clinton faces Republican challenger Donald Trump in the general election, are charging that
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USAWhen women envision their worst nightmares of rape, this is the type of extreme and rare horror they imagine: in November 2014, a 17-year-old girl was standing at a bus stop in Northeast Calgary when she was approached by two men. They were carrying shovels. They asked her for directions before forcing her into an
The US presidential campaign has taken another personal turn. What did Trump say? Speaking at a rally in the swing state of Ohio, Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump likened his Democrat rival to the Chancellor of Germany. He then drew parallel’s with Europe’s migrant crisis. “In short, Hillary Clinton wants to be America’s Angela Merkel
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International, USAWASHINGTON — Donald Trump, who has made tighter controls on immigration a mainstay of his campaign, has a new plan: an ideological test for anyone entering the U.S. Trump has famously proposed building a wall on the Mexican border and a ban on Muslims entering the U.S., an idea that has spawned continuing attacks on
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International, USASalma Hage hooked me with her baba ganoush – smooth, garlicky, and most definitely moreish. She reeled me in with her other mezze classics: fava bean and mint falafel; sweet potato kibbeh; and beets with labneh (a tart, strained yogurt cheese). The Lebanese cook focuses entirely on the meatless in her second book, The Middle
RIO DE JANEIRO — The day before the women’s gymnastics team final, a Twitter user suggested Simone Biles and her coach Aimee Boorman were their sport’s equivalent to Walter Payton and Mike Ditka. “Sounds about right,” Payton’s son, Jarrett, chimed in on Twitter. Never mind that the Chicago-born Boorman doesn’t smoke cigars, has never thrown
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By Mimi Pollack RAMONA, California — Many of us lead mundane lives, but not Roy Toft. This amiable, 55 year old wildlife photographer has had enough adventures for many lifetimes! Originally, his major was wildlife biology at California Polytechnic University, but a camera, a Canon AE1, given as a graduation gift by his father,
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Mimi Pollack, The World We Share, Travel and FoodEven Wonder Woman can do with a little extra protection sometimes. The upcoming movie depicting the DC comic heroine got some defense this week from director Patty Jenkins after a letter published online claimed that, inside the production studio, the film is seen as “a mess.” “Woah, just saw this press about WW having problems,”
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