By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — The optics, certainly, were fine. It was good to see an American president and an Israeli prime minister standing together on the podium with what appeared to be genuine good will. Most important, and promising for the future, perhaps, was how they dealt with the “two state solution” mantra. There
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Middle East, Shoshana Bryen, USABy Charles B. Strozier, Professor of History, City University of New York. Joshua Speed found his BFF in Abraham Lincoln. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY In the spring of 1837, a “long, gawky, ugly, shapeless man” walked into Joshua Speed’s dry goods store in Springfield, Illinois, requesting supplies for a bed. Speed said the cost would
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USATentatively backing Trump, foreign minister says government wants Palestinian statehood but will support new idea if both sides come up with something else By Stuart Winer Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop at the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem on September 4, 2016. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO) Australia’s foreign minister expressed
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International, Middle East, USANEW YORK (Press Release) — Extremism and terrorism contributed to the deaths of at least 69 people in the United States in 2016, a slight increase from the 65 deaths attributed to violent extremism in 2015, according to a new report from the Anti-Defamation League. That figure establishes 2016 as the second deadliest year for
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USABy Barry Shaw NETANYA, Israel — When Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, spoke with President Trump at the White House press conference on February 15 he spoke about the inadmissibility of forcing Israel to live alongside a terrorist state of Palestine as the result of a global effort to establish a Palestinian state. Ignored by
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TEL AVIV, Israel (Press Release)– Seventy-two members of the Indian Bnei Menashe Jewish community arrived at Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion Airport on Thursday. A total of 102 members of the Bnei Menashe were brought on Aliyah this week by Shavei Israel, a Jerusalem-based nonprofit that aims to strengthen ties between the Jewish people and descendants of Jews
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International, Middle EastJERUSALEM (Press Release) – On Tuesday, United Hatzalah of Israel received a letter from a 10-year-old boy thanking them for saving the lives of people in Israel. The organization, which serves as Israel’s fully volunteer community-based EMS organization, also received a donation of 50 NIS from the young boy. According to an attached letter from
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Middle East, San Diego CountyTEL AVIV, Israel (Press Release)– Magen David Adom, with the coordination of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, has been flying blood units to Lima, Peru, in order to save the life of Zohar Katz, an Israeli traveler who is hospitalized there in severe condition. On Thursday, MDA paramedic Yonat Daskal took 100 blood units and
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International, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationPrime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Wednesday held a press briefing following his meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump, in which he revealed that he asked Trump to fully recognize Israel”s presence in Golan Heights as part of the State of Israel. He noted that Trump did not rule out the possibility and was not surprised
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Middle East, USAWASHINGTON — The troubled nomination of fast-food executive Andy Puzder to become President Donald Trump’s labor secretary collapsed Wednesday amid growing Republican opposition. Puzder, chief executive of Carpinteria, Calif.-based CKE Restaurants Inc., the parent company of the Carl’s Jr. and Hardee’s chains, abruptly withdrew his nomination just a day before he was to face his
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USAA new Gallup poll headline has the news: “Americans say Trump keeps promises, is a strong leader.” In an analysis, Gallup poll director Frank Newport writes: “Majorities of Americans believe President Trump keeps his promises, is a strong and decisive leader, and can bring about changes the country needs.” The numbers indeed show a nation
By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — It’s not an easy time for someone in the wide center of Israeli politics. The area at issue is fuzzy, with a shifting collection of political parties, party factions, and individuals. At its greatest, it includes much of the Knesset delegations of Likud, Labor (i.e., Zionist Union), and the parties
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USABy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — One reason why even liberal Israelis have qualms about a Palestinian state is because of what happened in the Gaza Strip after the Israeli disengagement in 2005. At the time many of us applauded the Israeli withdrawal in the belief that this was the first step in making the
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Middle EastBy Dov Waxman, Professor of Political Science, International Affairs and Israel Studies, Northeastern University. At their meeting at the White House today, U.S. President Donald Trump asked Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to “hold back on settlements for a little bit.” There are now more than 400,000 Israelis living in over 100 settlements located in
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