By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM –Wednesday morning’s news was of two rockets that fell in the outskirts of Eilat. There was no significant damage, but the reminder was clear about the unsettled nature of the Sinai, and the lack of Egyptian control. At the same time, rockets also landed across the border in the Jordanian city […]
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastBy Joshua Sinai The Internet is a crucial tool that terrorist groups and their extremist supporters use to distribute their propaganda and attack planning beyond the “physical” space where they operate clandestinely into the worldwide “cyber” space, where it is easier to reach vast audiences that have Internet connectivity. Terrorist presence and appeal on the
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USAEilat hit with two rockets (JNS.org) Sirens sounded in the southern Israeli city of Eilat on Wednesday morning after two rockets fired from the Sinai Peninsula exploded in a planned new residential area within the city, causing no injuries or damage, the Israel Defense Forces said. The rockets that struck Eilat were part of a
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InternationalNEW YORK (Press Release) — The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has noted the recent overwhelming call in the Jordanian parliament for the release from prison of Musa Mustafa Daqamseh, the Jordanian soldier who in 1997 went on a rampage and murdered seven Israeli schoolgirls. The Jordanian parliament’s lower house, which has 120 legislators, produced an
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Middle EastNEW YORK (Press Release)–More than one million people around the world have viewed the Anti-Defamation League’s inspirational video, “Imagine A World Without Hate” as the public service campaign has gone viral on the Internet bolstered by word of mouth and “shares” by a number of luminaries and celebrities, from Ricky Martin to Lena Dunham and
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USABy Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — If countries were people and Israel was an American, it would begin to collect Social Security in nine months. It would be eligible for a reverse mortgage and only a few years from mandatory withdrawals from its 401k. We’d be talking retirement and watching the grass and the grandchildren
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Middle East, Shoshana BryenCanadian university student union strips anti-Israel group of official status (JNS.org) The University of Manitoba Student Union (UMSU) in Canada has become the first student group in North America to ban the anti-Israel “Israel Apartheid Week” and strip the anti-Israel “Students Against Israel Apartheid (SAIA)” group of official status. The motion, which passed 19-15, bars
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InternationalBy Bob Jacob/Cleveland Jewish News/JNS.org Kevin Goodman’s second Boston Marathon will be one he will never forget. That’s because just about 60 minutes after he concluded the race, two explosions rocked the finish line. “It’s a gruesome day,” Goodman, who lives in Cleveland, told the Cleveland Jewish News from the Fairmont Copley Hotel, where he
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USABy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — Pretense seems to be an important factor in Israeli-Palestinian relations. It’s particularly acute in and around the issue of Jerusalem. Thus many Israeli politicians and their supporters never tire of speaking of the city as “Israel’s united and eternal capital” thereby implying that no peace deal will persuade Israelis to
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Middle EastBalfour Declaration to visit Israel (JNS.org) The historic Balfour Declaration will, for the first time, leave Britain and be presented to the Israeli public, Israel Hayom reported. Lord Arthur James Balfour’s declaration, made in November 1917, was the Zionist movement’s watershed diplomatic achievement, marking the first time that the idea of the need for a national home
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InternationalBy Aryeh Savir JERUSALEM –The Central Bureau of Statistics, in its traditional Yom Ha’atzmaut statistical report about the citizens of Israel, stated that Israel has now 8.018 million residents, almost ten times more the 806,000 citizens in its establishment. The Jewish population stands at 6.042 million (75.3% of the entire population). Israel’s Arab citizens constitute
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Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — A hundred meters from these fingers is a border between civilizations. To the east of that border is the “village,” “suburb,” or “neighborhood” of Isaweea. With more than 20,000 residents, the label “village” is misleading, but that’s the term many use. “Suburb” suggests something outside of Jerusalem, but it is
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastBy Evelyn Gordon This past February, the New York Times reported on a love affair gone sour. For months, Algeria had courted an Islamist warlord in Mali. The Algerians knew, as the Times put it, that he was “the leader of one of the militant Islamist groups holding northern Mali captive,” but they thought he
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Middle EastObama stresses ‘window of opportunity’ for Mideast (JNS.org) Israel and the Palestinians have a “window of opportunity to get back to the peace table,” U.S. President Barack Obama said on Thursday after meeting with United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in the Oval Office. Obama said the two discussed how “the United States, as a
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