Donald H. Harrison

Santana thumbs nose at BDS to appear in Tel Aviv

The legendary Grammy-award winning guitarist Carlos Santana is scheduled to appear in Park Hayarkon is Tel Aviv on July 30, Yediot Aharonot reported. When asked what his stance is regarding the anti-Israel BDS movement, that encourages the boycott of Israeli businesses and often pressures artists not to perform in Israel, Santana stated that “I prefer […]

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Middle East, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts

Germany sees increase in Hamas and Hezbollah members

A new report put out by the German domestic intelligence agency indicates a significant increase in the number of Hamas and Hezbollah members living within Germany’s borders. Germany’s domestic intelligence agency, the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV), put out its annual report last week, in which it indicated that there are

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International, Middle East

Officials: Egypt wants to host direct Israel-PA talks

Egypt wants to host direct talks between Israel and the Palestinians in Cairo with the participation of senior Egyptian and Jordanian officials, officials told Haaretz late Sunday, following the visit of Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry to Israel. The goal of the talks will be to develop a package of confidence-building measures that would lead

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Middle East

She wasn’t a cop, she wasn’t white, but she took bullet in Dallas while shielding her son

DALLAS — When the shooting started at the Black Lives Matter protest here last week, Shetamia Taylor shouted at her four sons to run. “They started running up the block and I was running behind them and I felt the bullet,” she said Sunday. Taylor, 38, had been shot from behind, in her right calf.

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USA

Dallas protesters, counterprotesters come together with police

DALLAS — “Lives matter.” That was the message Sunday afternoon after two groups of protesters with two agendas came together at a northeast Dallas intersection. A rally began about noon outside NorthPark Center with a group dressed in black holding signs that read “#BlackLivesMatter” as Dallas police and SWAT looked on. Britny Morrison, 27, who

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Donald Trump likely to choose Indiana Gov. Mike Pence as vice presidential pick

CLEVELAND | Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, little known nationally but highly admired in conservative circles, has a “95 percent probability” of being Donald Trump’s choice for vice president, The Washington Times has learned. The sources for that assessment are Republicans close to the campaign and to the governor. A tipoff came a few days ago

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USA

Neither Trump nor Clinton deserving of the White House

By Ira Sharkansksy JERUSALEM — Pity our American friends. And–given the importance of the US–pity the rest of us. Friends and family have to choose between Hillary and Donald, both of whom should be in retirement homes, neither close to anything important. If someone less well connected had fiddled with the email in the manner

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International, Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USA

Sanders faces growing pressure to get behind Clinton’s candidacy

ORLANDO, Fla. — When Bernie Sanders appeared last week before an audience of 100 or so Democratic House members, the closed-door reception in a basement hearing room on Capitol Hill was distinctly cool. Lawmakers shouted, “Timeline! Timeline!” — pressing him to hurry up and endorse the party’s presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, Hillary Clinton — and

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