International

PA textbooks incorporate Mufti’s & Hitler’s genocidal visions

By David Bedein JERUSALEM — On Holocaust Remembrance Day, people in Israel stand in silence to recall the victims  murdered by the Nazis and their allies. Tragically, the Palestinian Authority’s curriculum and media still carry the legacy of Haj Amin Al Husseini, the former Mufti of Jerusalem  and leader of the Palestinian Arab community, who forged […]

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The Relegitimization of Israel and the Battle for the Mainstream Consensus: Article from the Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs

(From the Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs) By Joel Fishman I The Delegitimization Process and the Boycott: Background and Context The purpose of delegitimization on the international level is to isolate an intended victim from the community of nations as a prelude to bringing about its downfall or even destruction. This process denies the victim

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U.N. Indigenous Rights Declaration a recipe for global trouble

By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — In early 2011, President Obama announced that the United States would sign the U.N. Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Now the U.N. wants us to give Mt. Rushmore to the Indians. James Anaya, U.N. special rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples, spent twelve days in the

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Shoshana Bryen, USA

Obama’s support for same-sex marriages ripples through Israel

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — The country once riled (and still so in some localities) on the subject of alcohol and which has pursued a war against drugs since the 1970s is now beginning a presidential campaign with same-sex marriages as a central issue. Its difficult to decide between ridicule and laughter, sadness and tears

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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East

Israel and U.S. should become partners in Iron Dome

By Gabriel Max Scheinmann        WASHINGTON, D.C– After initially omitting funding for Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense system from its budget request, the Obama administration is now backing Congressional efforts to vastly increase funding for the successful system. The House Armed Services Strategic Forces subcommittee has voted to allocate $680 million, which would allow Israel to

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Obama’s endorsement of gay marriage draw Jewish responses

-SDJW staff report- SAN DIEGO — The decision by President Barack Obama to throw his support behind same-sex marriages in the United States has prompted comment pro and con from various Jewish groups. The Orthodox Union pronounced itself “disappointed by (Wednesday, May 9)’s  statement by President Obama endorsing legal recognition of same sex marriage. Jewish law is

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USA

U.S. Constitution’s 9th Amendment may become bulwark against an expanding federal government

By Bruce Kesler ENCINITAS, California — With the enlargement of federal powers and intrusions into  individual’s lives, the 9th Amendment to the US Constitution, part of our Bill   Of Rights, may well gain more judicial attention.  The 9th Amendment should be elevated  to central prominence, as it was intended, in applying judgment of all federal  

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USA

Why the very strange leaks from Secretary of Defense Panetta?

By Isaac Yetiv, PhD LA JOLLA, California — There are different kinds of “leaks.” There are inadvertent leaks such as the US President’s “microphone malfunctions” in Paris with former President Sarkozy, and in Moscow with former President Medvedev, and there are deliberate leaks intended to achieve a political result, which sometimes backfire. In military intelligence parlance,

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