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Politics replacing Habima as Israel’s national ‘theatre’

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Politics is serious business. It is how societies move from disputes about issues large and small to the selection of their leaders, choices between public policy alternatives, and the actual implementation of what government does. Politics is also theater. It provides the platforms for the best and most bizarre actors […]

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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East

JNS news briefs: December 7, 2012

    IDF soldiers attacked by Palestinians in Hebron (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) A routine Israel Defense Forces patrol in Hebron turned violent on Thursday when a six-man IDF unit found itself surrounded, cornered, and threatened in Hebron’s market area. According to various reports of the incident, Palestinian Authority policemen confronted troops from the Nahal

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JNS news briefs: December 6, 2012

  Hamas to create Palestinian ‘Defense Ministry’ JNS.org (JNS.org) At a ceremony honoring Hamas terrorists, Interior Minister Fathi Hammad, who oversees Hamas’s police apparatus, announced plans to establish the first-ever Palestinian “Defense Ministry,” the Jerusalem Post reported.   Hamas, designated as a terrorist organization by Israel, U.S., Canada and European Union, also operates as a

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‘Pushy’ Israelis, assimilated U.S. Jews, and a goat in the tent

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Should Israelis worry about a lack of public support? For some time now we have not been popular with the crowds of Western Europe. Overall sentiment in the United States remains favorable, but not in the liberal wing of the Democratic party. Thomas Friedman writes about the contrast between Israeli

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Those good friends in Sudan of the anti-Israel crowd

By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C–Iran has made common cause with similarly nasty countries around the world to promote an anti-American, anti-Israel and anti-Western agenda. This includes the transfer of weapons as well as the training of terrorists who return to their places of origin ready and able to blow themselves up. While the U.S. focuses

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JNS news briefs: December 5, 2012

PA, writing to UN, calls Israeli construction plans ‘war crimes’ (JNS.org) Palestinian leaders delivered a harsh complaint to United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday in light of Israel’s recent decision to move ahead with plans to build an additional 3,000 housing units in area E1 between Jerusalem and Maaleh Adumim, Israel Hayom reported. A letter

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Novelist Yehoshua says Israel should negotiate with Hamas

By Rabbi Ben Kamin ENCINITAS, California  — A.B. Yehoshua, the renowned Israeli novelist, playwright, and thinker, fiercely independent and deeply rooted in the marrow of Jerusalem, wrote an article Monday for the Op-ed page of Ha’aretz.   He declared that the time has come for Israel to talk with Hamas—something whispered about by many people on

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JNS news briefs: December 4, 2012

Jerusalem mayor: No city regulated by the U.S. president (JNS.org) Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat expressed support on Monday for the Israeli government’s plan to build 3,000 additional housing units in the E1 section between Jerusalem and Maaleh Adumim, Israel Hayom reported. The decision came as a response to the recent upgrade of Palestinian status at

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JNS news briefs: December 3, 2012

Harvard students receive club invitations excluding Jews, welcoming ‘coloreds’ (JNS.org) Harvard University students received flyers from a supposed “Harvard’s Newest Final Club” explicitly stating that Jews should not apply but “coloreds” are welcome to do so. The flyer invited students to an introductory club event, listing three virtues: “inclusion,” with the footnote of “Jews need not

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