International

Eilat attacks should be denounced worldwide

By Roz Rothstein LOS ANGELES — The StandWithUs community  is outraged and heartbroken by the coordinated terrorist attacks near Eilat in  southern Israel on Thursday.  At least seven people are  reported dead and an estimated 25 injured in a three-stage terrorist attack  along Israel’s border with Egypt on Thursday. Two children, a four-year-old and a six-year-old, […]

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Middle East

Quartet “greatly concerned” by Israeli plans to build in Ariel, East Jerusalem

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)–The following statement was issued Tuesday by the  Middle East Quartet (United Nations, Russian Federation, United States, and European Union): The Quartet is greatly concerned by Israel’s recent announcements to  advance planning for new housing units in Ariel and East Jerusalem, and reiterates its position in this regard, in particular its statement

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Middle East

Honduras should know better

By Shoshana Bryen Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C.  –The President of Honduras has indicated that his government will support a vote in favor of “Palestine” in the United Nations General Assembly in September. Honduras, of all countries, should know better; not about Israel, but about importance of truth. When Manuel Zelaya, then President of Honduras, subverted the

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Glenn Beck want to protect Israel but doesn’t understand it

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–Some time  ago, a Texas friend wrote to ask how Glenn Beck’s pending mission to Israel was  being received here. My response: it wasn’t. A few days ago, I wrote to him again with the news that Israel Today, the most  conservative of the daily papers, had a story about Beck’s upcoming visit

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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East

Palestinians just don’t get the essence of politics

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — It would be an extreme rejection of what is politically correct to claim that the Palestinians are not a people. Palestinian intellectuals expressed a sense of nationhood about a century ago. Most governments of the world are willing to grant them statehood. Doubters may point to the incomplete process of

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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East

Why the financial community repudiates American politicians

By Isaac Yetiv LA JOLLA, California– The month-old painful spectacle of  Washington partners-in-government fighting  each other on “raising the debt limit,”something that should have never occurred in the first  place, has strengthened my belief, expressed in a previous column, that the  system as presently constituted is broke and, as a result, we have a  dysfunctional

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USA

Jewish Federations laud bill to aid aging Holocaust survivors

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)—The Jewish Federations of North America lauded the introduction of a Congressional bill to provide support for agencies serving Holocaust survivors as they age in place in communities across the country.  This bill is a result of meetings and discussions that Reps. Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Iliana Ros-Lehtinen conducted with Holocaust survivors and social

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Israeli protests: a secular backlash against religious settlers and Netanyahu’s foreign policy

  By Rabbi Ben Kamin SAN DIEGO — It is not as dramatic a phenomenon in Israel as, say, the bold, treacherous discord ongoing in the Arab world.   And certainly the thousands upon thousands of Israeli youth (and many older citizens) already have the freedom of assembly that their counterparts in Syria, Libya, Egypt and

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