Editor’s note: Author Bob Holloway served as an enlisted man in the Marines during the Korean Conflict. He was wounded and later received the Purple Heart. By Bob Holloway Son, I’m just a punk reporter and I’ve never lugged a mortar so believe me I’ll just listen here tonight For I know you went
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, International, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Profession? Craft? Learned skills? We’re not dealing with something like medicine, engineering, or law, with fixed courses of study built up over the years, and official organs handing out licenses to those who pass muster. However, the continuing flubs of the amateur who got himself to the White House invites
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By Jerry Klinger ASHLEY, North Dakota — May 21, 2017, was a sunny day. Strong, chilling winds whipped across the treeless Great Plains farming land. Nearly a hundred people gathered, some from the local community, some having traveled thousands of miles. They all came to honor, to remember, to respect, to preserve the past
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Jerry Klinger, Jewish History, USAU.S. President Donald Trump reportedly yelled at Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas during their meeting in Bethlehem last week, accusing Abbas of lying, Israeli television reported Sunday. “You lied to me in Washington when you talked about commitment to peace, but the Israelis showed me you were personally responsible for incitement,” Trump reportedly told his
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Middle EastSecretary-General Guterres says agency no longer affiliated with West Bank facility over its ‘glorification of terrorism’ By Times of Israel staff Palestinians hold posters showing Dalal Mughrabi, a Palestinian terrorist involved in the 1978 Coastal Road Massacre in which 38 Israelis were killed, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, on July 16, 2008. (Issam
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International, Middle EastThis article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. Even at John F. Kennedy’s centennial on May 29, 2017, the 35th president remains an enigma. We still struggle to come to a clear consensus about a leader frozen in time—a man who, in our mind’s eye, is forever young and vigorous, cool
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USAMarawi City, Philippines (dpa) – The death toll in a battle over a southern Philippine city besieged by Islamist militants has reached nearly 100, including 18 civilians, the military and police said Sunday. Sixty-one of the dead were militants who have laid siege to the city of Marawi, 800 kilometres south of Manila, since Tuesday,
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InternationalThe tomb of General de Gaulle, one of France’s most revered figures, has been vandalised. CCTV captured the moment a man climbed onto the former president’s grave and kicked the base of the cross which rose above it, until it smashed to the ground. It has sparked outrage at the village cemetery of Colombey-les-deux-Eglises in
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InternationalPM says Meyer Habib an ‘engine’ developing France-Israel relations who continuously looks out for interests of French olim By Times of Israel staff French-Jewish lawmaker Meyer Habib with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem in May 2017. (Screenshot) Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu threw his weight this week behind the reelection campaign of French-Jewish lawmaker
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International, Middle EastSen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina said Sunday he is highly suspicious of the latest bombshell allegations to roil White House – that President Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, tried to set up a secret channel of communications between the transition team and the Kremlin. Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak was taken aback by the request, which
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International, USACory Godbolt, of Bogue Chitto, Mississippi, has been arrested and charged in the murder of eight people, including a sheriff’s deputy. The Clarion-Ledger reports that Godbolt’s murder spree started late Saturday night when a sheriff’s deputy responded to a homeowner who wanted Godbolt removed from their property. He was arrested this morning after a manhunt
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USAGerman Chancellor Angela Merkel has suggested Donald Trump has made it difficult for her country and others in Europe to depend on the U.S. Speaking after the close of the G7 summit, which saw all the world leaders involved except Trump recommitting to the Paris climate deal, Merkel said the time to rely on others
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International, USAWhile it was a dry year for cinema coming out of the Jewish state, the Tribe is heavily represented in this year’s screenings By Jordan Hoffman CANNES, France — Time to pack up, head home and not think about how many flaky, butter-drenched croissants I stuffed in my maw during my 12-day stay in the
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International, Middle East, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USAHomeland Security Secretary John Kelly on Sunday said “it’s borderline, if not over the line of treason” to leak highly classified information gleaned from foreign intelligence, citing Britain’s alarm at seeing details of its probe into the Manchester terror bombing in the U.S. press. President Trump ordered the Justice Department and other agencies to conduct
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