VISTA, Calif. — For months now, Bernie Sanders and the other white-haired gentleman on the campaign trail, Bill Clinton, have feuded over how closely the future of the Democratic Party will resemble its past. They have disagreed over trade and crime policies pushed by Clinton, and health care and college tuition policies pursued by Sanders. […]
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USAHillary Clinton tried to draw a sharper contrast with Donald Trump on Sunday, saying the central message of her campaign was “We’re stronger together,” even as a new poll showed the two candidates in a statistical tie. The new Washington Post/ABC News survey found the presidential frontrunners in “a virtual dead heat” among registered voters.
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USAMK Avraham Neguise (Likud), chairman of the Aliyah Committee and founder of the Lobby for Relations Between Israel and African Countries, welcomed a delegation of prominent women representing 10 sub-Saharan African nations to the Knesset on Monday. The delegation, which included 27 government officials, representatives of NGOs, political leaders, journalists and academics, met with Neguise
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International, Middle EastA school built in Gaza using German funds is educating their students on hatred and violence for Israel and providing children with military training At the end of March, a Hamas-affiliated news agency distributed a video showing a Palestinian teacher indoctrinating school children with hatred for Israel and support for an armed struggle against it.
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International, Middle EastDennis Ross, President Barack Obama”s former Middle East advisor, on Sunday criticized Obama and his decision to distance himself from Israel during his time in office. Speaking at the Jerusalem Post conference in New York, Ross said that Obama “is one of five presidents in modern history who have made a conscious decision to try
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Middle East, USAAn Iranian military adviser has said that Iran could wipe out Israel “in less than eight minutes” if the order was given by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. “If the Supreme Leader’s orders [are] to be executed, with the abilities and the equipment at our disposal, we will raze the Zionist regime in less than
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Middle EastWith his chances of capturing the Democratic presidential nomination virtually nil, Sen. Bernie Sanders declined to rule out accepting an offer to be Hillary Clinton’s running mate. With just a handful of primaries left, Sanders trails the former secretary of state in the delegate count by 274 pledged delegates and 486 superdelegates. Clinton needs just
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USALONDON — By accident, almost the first thing I do when interviewing Tim Samuels is to give him an opportunity to demonstrate his masculinity. For the writer of “Who Stole My Spear?” — a highly entertaining book on how to be a man in the 21st century — it was the possibility of demonstrating recording
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, InternationalThe UK Labour Party has suspended a senior journalist from the party for writing about the anti-Semitism scandal rocking the left-wing party. In his column, Rod Liddle, an associate editor of The Spectator, remarked on the virulent anti-Semitic sentiments held by many Muslim Labour members in particular. He said that anti-Semiitsm is “absolutely endemic within
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International, Middle EastWASHINGTON — Three weeks after The New York Times Magazine published its profile of deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes, in which he describes creating an “echo chamber” of nongovernmental organizations, nuclear proliferation experts and journalists to sell the Iran nuclear deal, it was revealed a group he cited as disseminating the administration’s narrative had
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Middle East, USAOn July 2, thousands of Islamists, radical anti-Israel activists and members of the fringe anti-Zionist group Naturei Karta will once again march in downtown Toronto to for an end to the Jewish State amid frenzied chants of “Zionism is terrorism”, “down, down, Israel” and “Netanyahu you will see, Palestine will be free”. Jewish Defense League
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ANTWERP, Belgium (WJC)– A 22-year-old Muslim woman from Belgium whose picture went viral after she posed defiantly in front of anti-Islam protesters is under fire for anti-Israel posts she made in 2012 and 2014 on her Facebook and Twitter pages. Zakia Belkhiri’s took a selfie picture against the backdrop of far-right demonstrators in Antwerp last week and
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VIENNA (WJC) — The candidate of the far-right Freedom Party in Austria, once led by the late Jörg Haider, only narrowly failed in his attempt to win the country’s presidency after postal ballots were counted on Monday. Alexander Van der Bellen (l) and Norbert Hofer at a debate The former leader of the Green Party, Alexander
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InternationalBritish historian spurns Israeli prize on ‘political’ grounds (JNS.org) British feminist historian Catherine Hall of University College London declined an Israeli award, the lucrative Dan David Prize, for what she called “political” reasons. Hall did not attend the award ceremony at Tel Aviv University (TAU) on Sunday. TAU administers annual $1 million prizes, named
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