International

OPIC announces $500 million financing for small businesses in Egypt and Jordan

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Relesse) – Making significant progress  toward fulfilling Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s pledge of U.S.  investment support for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), the  Board of Directors of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) approved $500 million in financing to support lending to small businesses in Egypt and Jordan. The project […]

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International

3 GOP congressman criticize U.S. contacts with Muslim Brotherhood

WASHINGTON D.C. (Press Release) –Following remarks made by Secretary of State Hilary Clinton that the Obama Administration is now pursuing a policy of “limited contacts” with Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood, Rep. Trent Franks (AZ-02), a member of the House Committee on Armed Services, Friday denounced this policy of engaging an “extremely violent Islamic fundamentalist group” saying:

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Middle East

4th of July no time to draw close to groups that restrict rights of minorities

By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Muslim Brotherhood, The Fourth of July: compare and contrast. The Declaration of Independence reflects our founders’ understanding of man, State  and God. The rights that come to man from God are unalienable – life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness – and drawn broadly enough to encompass all

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Shoshana Bryen, USA

Many tenets of U.S. government drawn from Hebrew Scriptures

By Rabbi Ben Kamin SAN DIEGO — The founding parents of this nation—the greatest experiment in democracy ever known in human history—were motivated by egalitarian values and aspirations first noted in the Hebrew Bible.   When Moses looked Pharaoh in the eye and proclaimed, “Let my people go,” he foretold the visceral objections of Franklin, Jefferson,

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USA

Gaza flotilla seeks to demonize Israel, not to help Gaza

SAN DIEGO  (Press Release)– The American-flagged ship, The Audacity of Hope, is part of an international flotilla organized to violate Israel’s legal blockade of the Gaza Strip, allegedly to deliver humanitarian aid.   StandWithUs condemns the flotilla as a hypocritical  and dangerous publicity stunt, and joins international leaders who have urged the flotilla organizers to send goods

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Middle East

The shameful western ‘don’t botherhood’ of research

By Barry Rubin HERZLIYA, Israel — In 2003, I and the publication I edit, the Middle East Review of International Affairs (MERIA) Journal, became the world’s biggest story for two or three days. Last week I became a “story” without knowing it until later. First, the 2003 experience. An Iraqi-American author submitted a good article

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International, Middle East

This will captcha your imagination: Did computer recognize Hebrew speaker in Taiwan?

By Danny Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — There I was, minding my own business, as usual, working not out of my wireless cave that day, but in my local internet cafe, since I don’t own a computer and do all my email and surfing chores at the rent-a-computer cafe down the street from the place

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International

Red Cross takes a stand on Shalit; CNN, NYT taking sides for Gaza

By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — Following the Flag & General Officers Program in Israel, the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA) asked the Israeli government why it gives Hamas a “free ride” from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). We wrote, “You let/enable/assist the Red Cross in doing its humanitarian work in the

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Middle East, Shoshana Bryen

Berman draws Congress’ attention to Iran’s role in Syria crackdowns

WASHINGTON, D.C.  (Press Release)– Congressman Howard L. Berman, Ranking Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, submitted the following remarks to the Congressional Record drawing attention to the link between Iran and Syria’s violent repression of the Syrian people.  Congressman Berman is working to keep the pressure on the regimes in Damascus and Tehran, and

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International

Obama’s Afghanistan conclusions mirror Israel’s in Mideast

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — In 1966 Senator George Aiken (R Vt) said that America should declare victory and leave Vietnam.   What he actually said was more nuanced, but the press simplified it in a way that did not distort his message. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Aiken   Between 1966 and the final US pullout marked by the

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Ira Sharkansky, USA