International

Environmentalists say high birth rates, immigration leading Israel to overpopulation

JERUSALEM (Press Release)– Ben-Gurion University of the Negev’s (BGU) Prof. Alon Tal presented the most comprehensive report to date on Israel’s environmental movement. It details the movement’s lack of training, involvement of experts and public support, as well as its perilous dependence on foreign donations. The report, “Israel’s Environmental Movement: Trends, Needs and Potential,” was […]

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Middle East

Enemy missiles? (Yawn) U.N. vote on Palestine (Yawn) What about the high price of cottage cheese?

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–Israel aspires to be a normal country, but can’t make it.   Two issues dominant in recent news are the price of cottage cheese, and a prolonged labor dispute between physicians working in the public sector (the vast majority of the country’s medicine) and several governmental agencies about salary, working conditions, and

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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East

In the long run, Arab Spring may open Middle East to modernization

      By Lloyd Levy        LONDON–We are witnessing  the most remarkable events across the Arab World, but  the direction of travel, and the end game, are impossible to foretell.   The situation does have many similarities with the Eevolutions that swept the Jewish World in the late 1880’s and early 1900’s. 

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International, Lloyd Levy

Jordan at the crossroads

By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C.  — The Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA) is generally sympathetic to the difficulties faced by Jordan’s King Abdullah II. He is a Hashemite ruling a mostly Palestinian and Bedouin country; an excellent security partner to Israel because Israel ensures that he will not be overthrown by Palestinians who believe

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Middle East, Shoshana Bryen

Berman, Issa, others introduce legislation to curtail aid to Hezbollah-influenced Lebanon

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) –  Congressman Howard L. Berman (D-CA) on Thursday, June 16, introduced the Hezbollah Anti-Terrorism Act (HATA), H.R. 2215, with a bipartisan group of original cosponsors including Congressmen Darrell Issa (R-CA), Charles Boustany (R-LA), and Nick Rahall (D-WV).  This legislation is necessary to make certain that no U.S. taxpayer funds benefit the terrorist

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International

Touring congressman decries Hamas participation in Palestinian government

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)- Congressman Steve Chabot (OH-1) is traveling in the Middle East. Congressman Chabot is the Chairman of the Subcommittee on the Middle East and South Asia and is visiting Israel, Egypt and Jordan.  He released the following statement regarding his meetings with the Israeli and Palestinian Prime Ministers: “I was deeply disturbed

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Middle East

U.S. using Palestine independence vote in U.N. to gain leverage on Israel

By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C — It seems the countries of the United Nations have begun to have second thoughts about trying to “create” a Palestinian state through the General Assembly, or – since the Palestinians declared their state independent in 1998 – accepting “Palestine” as a member of the UN without the imprimatur of the

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Middle East

Congressman seeks to preempt municipal action on circumcision

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Congressman Brad Sherman has announced from his Washington office that he has introduced legislation that would preclude San  Francisco and other municipalities from banning the practice of circumcision within their municipal boundaries. The Jewish Democrat, who represents a portion of Los Angeles’ San Fernando Valley, said in a

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Donald H. Harrison, USA

Israeli ‘agent’ Grapel failed to grapple with Egyptian realities

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM –Last weekend the Egyptian government announced that it had arrested an agent of the Mossad who had been sent to Cairo to provoke demonstrations against the regime.   The culprit is Ilan Grapel, since featured in a number of media reports.   Descriptions by those who knew him are of an

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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East