CNN comes under fire for calling Tel Aviv shooters ‘terrorists’ in quote marks (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) CNN came under fire Wednesday for its social media reporting on the Palestinian terrorist shooting attack in Tel Aviv that left four Israelis dead and seven others wounded. The breaking news update on CNN’s Twitter account presented the […]
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-60th in a Series- Exit 36, East Willows Road, Viejas Indian Reservation By Donald H. Harrison VIEJAS INDIAN RESERVATION, California – I grew up watching cowboys and Indians in the movies and on television. Cowboys and Indians were enemies back then, but not anymore. Especially not here. Levi’s, which today we know as “jeans,” is one
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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, USAPolice have opened an investigation into the Balad party over suspected illegal donations during the 2013 election campaign. Party officials claim that all of the money was collected in accordance with the finance laws. Senior Balad members told Haaretz that the investigation only began in the past few weeks and expressed suspicion that it is
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Middle East“Israelis have to be bombed… it is wrong to maintain the State of Israel. It is an illegitimate creation” — Taher Herzallah, American Muslims for Palestine National Campus Coordinator By Max Samarov and Philippe Assouline On April 19th Jonathan Schanzer, a former US Treasury Department official, testified in Congress regarding the activities of the anti-Israel boycott movement
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USAAuthorities carried out a controlled explosion Wednesday on a suspicious vehicle outside the Israeli embassy in central London. After London Metropolitan Police cordoned off High Street Kensington, Witnesses reported the sound of a loud explosion to SkyNews. Police reportedly evacuated a nearby Whole Foods Market. A witness on the scene tweeted that the Whole Foods
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International, Middle EastJune 8, 2016 Marc Schulman Displayed with permission from Newsweek On Wednesday, thousands in Tel Aviv were enjoying the beautiful summer evening when gunmen opened fire on diners at the crowded Benedict eatery. Initial reports suggest the terrorists were using home-made machine guns and fired until they ran out of ammunition, killing and injuring nine.
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Middle EastThe trajectory the presidential contest took over the last week could be seen from the tone and content of the speeches that Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton gave Tuesday night — to Trump’s detriment. Trump insisted that his party’s voters could trust him to not let them down: He had to offer that reassurance after
NEW YORK — Now comes the hard part. Or maybe the harder part. Having made history as the first woman to lead a major party ticket, Hillary Clinton now enters a critical period of trying to cement her status in Democrats’ hearts and minds, not just with delegate math. To unite the party for a
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USA“We are stronger together.” That is the slogan Hillary Clinton’s campaign has adopted for their drive to elect the first female president in American history. In order to crash through that ultimate glass ceiling, however, the Clinton folks must convince Bernie Sanders and his die-hard supporters that getting together is a good idea. Sanders had
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USAWASHINGTON – The US House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly Tuesday evening to pass a resolution calling upon Germany to increase restitution support for Holocaust survivors in what one of the legislation’s sponsors described as a last chance to support the dwindling number of Nazi victims. The resolution, passed unanimously by a vote of 363-0 with
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International, Jewish History, USAWASHINGTON — At an event promoting his memoir Tuesday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said it was “stupid” for Donald Trump to single out a judge’s Mexican heritage and said the Republican presidential candidate should apologize and “get on script.” He did not, though, back away from supporting the New York real estate magnate. Instead,
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USAWashington (dpa) – US President Barack Obama has called Democratic candidates Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders as final state primaries were held. Obama congratulated Clinton on winning enough delegates to secure the nomination and called her campaign “historic” and an extension of her life-long fight for middle-class families and children. He praised Sanders for “for
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USATony Blair has said that left-wing Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn has no desire to win power, and accused him of standing by and allowing Syrians to be killed. In an extraordinary personal attack, Blair, who led the Labour Party until he stood down as prime minister in 2007, said in an interview with Bloomberg:
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International, USARepublican presidential candidate Donald Trump has estimated that his campaign will need $1.5 billion to compete against Hillary Clinton. Now the finance chair of the Republican Governors Association is predicting that Trump could fall well short of his goal. “Unless he’s willing to write a huge personal check, which is unlikely, I believe Trump will
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