Donald H. Harrison

JNS news briefs: May 30, 2013

Assad: Syria has received advanced Russian missiles (JNS.org) Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said Thursday that Syria “has received the first shipment of Russian anti-aircraft S-300 rockets,” the Lebanese newspaper Al-Akhbar reported. “The rest of the shipment will arrive soon,” Assad reportedly said. Israel fears that Syria’s receipt of S-300 surface-to-air missiles could be a regional […]

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International

Building up P.A. won’t make it more amenable to peace

By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. –Last week, before meeting with Israeli President Shimon Peres, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry pronounced Israel’s prosperity an impediment to “peace” with the Palestinians. “I think there is an opportunity [for peace], but for many reasons it’s not on the tips of everyone’s tongue. People in Israel aren’t waking

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Middle East, Shoshana Bryen

JNS news briefs: May 29, 2013

Hezbollah involvement heats up Syrian civil war (JNS.org) The civil war in Syria continued to spill over into Lebanon on Tuesday, with three Lebanese soldiers shot dead by gunmen on the porous border between the two countries. According to reports in Lebanon, the unidentified gunmen crossed into Lebanon from Syria in a jeep and opened

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International

Thoughts of JFK on his 96th birthday

By Rabbi Ben Kamin ENCINITAS, California — John Fitzgerald Kennedy was born on May 29, 1917, as American “doughboys” were being deployed to Europe in the closing frames of World War I. His gilded childhood and adolescence were shaped by his family-bred athleticism, the fervent paternalism of his father, Joseph P. Kennedy (the deeply-flawed US

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USA

Oncologists stressed over having to deliver bad news

BEER-SHEVA, Israel (Press Release) — A group of oncologists have revealed in a new study by Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) researchers that communicating about death and dying with their patients is one of the most difficult and stressful parts of their work. In the United States, 577,190 deaths from cancer occurred in 2012,

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Science, Medicine, & Education

JNS news briefs: May 28, 2013

Israel warns Russia over shipment of advanced missiles to Syria (JNS.org) Israel has sent a warning to Russia over the transfer of advanced S-300 anti-aircraft missiles to Syria, threatening to strike the shipments if necessary. Israel fears that the weapons could be a regional game changer, especially if its falls into the hands of terrorist

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International

Hezb’allah: The terrorist organization Europe tries to ignore

By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — The United States, Canada, Israel, the Netherlands, and Bahrain designate Hezb’allah a terrorist organization; Britain and Australia outlaw only Hezb’allah’s “terrorist wing” but permit its “political wing” to organize and raise money (only for political activity, of course). A motion by Britain will put the British/Australian formula on the

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Middle East, Shoshana Bryen

World should examine apartheid in Muslim states

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–It is unwise to invest too seriously as a consumer of political rhetoric. Politicians lie. They must, in order to serve diverse constituencies. Party platforms are designed to up the enthusiasm of those already committed. “Singing to the choir” pretty much summarizes what goes in election campaigns, with parties appealing to their

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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East