A senior security official in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has sparked outrage after calling for the bombing of Al Jazeera, the Qatar-based media network. In a series of posts of Twitter on Friday, Dubai Lieutenant General Dhahi Khalfan launched a scathing attack against Al Jazeera blaming the network for a bomb and gun assault […]
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Middle EastBy Rabbi Ben Kamin OCEANSIDE, California — It was a bit of heaven; now it is a chunk of hell. Muslim extremists are killing each other in the wilderness where Moses received the Law; in Israel, hands are wringing and hearts are breaking. In a grisly familiar pattern, some 30 armed men entered the Rawdah
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Middle EastJewish human rights groups are denouncing Israel’s plans to deport almost 40,000 African asylum seekers, defending refugees that Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu calls ” infiltrators.” On Sunday, Netanyahu’s 28-member executive cabinet voted unanimously to give African asylum seekers three months to leave the country or face deportation to an undisclosed country. If they refuse to
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Middle EastBy TOI staff The commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards on Thursday threatened that any future war in the region will result in the annihilation of Israel. “It is a proven claim that today we say any new war will lead to the eradication of the Zionist regime,” Ali Jafari told Iranian reporters in Tehran according
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Middle EastBy TOI staff Health Minister Yaakov Litzman on Friday informed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that he is stepping down after the government signed a deal for ongoing infrastructure work on rail lines to continue this Shabbat. The government is now trying to reach a deal whereby Litzman, who leads the Hasidic faction within the ultra-Orthodox
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Middle EastSyria’s main opposition has again ruled out a role for President Bashar al-Assad in any UN-backed peace deal. The alliance made clear its stance at a meeting in the Saudi capital, Riyadh ahead of the next round of peace talks in Geneva. There had been widespread speculation it may soften its stance because of Assad’s
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Middle EastAt least 235 people were killed and scores more injured when gunmen stormed a mosque in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, setting off explosives and firing on worshippers during Friday prayers, authorities said. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the assault in the town of Bir Abd, about 25 miles from the North Sinai provincial
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Middle EastSaudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has denounced Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as the “new Hitler of the Middle East”, as tensions simmer between the regional rivals. Saudi Arabia and its arch-rival Iran have traded a bitter war of words after a missile fired from Yemen was intercepted near Riyadh airport on November
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Middle EastBy Barry Shaw On December 11, 1917, General Edmund Allenby’s forces officially liberated Jerusalem. Actually, a Jerusalem delegation, led by the mayor, surrendered the city to a pair of British army cooks on December 8. Thus began a comical farce of who received the surrender of the Holy City. The Turkish army and their German
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Barry Shaw, International, Jewish History, Middle EastThe intelligence that President Donald Trump leaked to top Russian officials in an Oval Office meeting in May concerned a highly sensitive Israeli special forces mission, it has been revealed. The operation, which took place in February 2017, involved commandos infiltrating an area under the control of the Islamic State militant group (ISIS), to place
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Middle East, USAIranian warships are set to leave the waters of the Persian Gulf to sail across the world and tour another gulf—the one that lies between the U.S. and Mexico. At a time when Iran is looking to expand and modernize its military in the face of what is seen as a growing U.S. threat, its
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International, Middle East, USAA Kuwaiti writer recently said that Israel was an independent and legitimate sovereign state and that there was no occupation, but rather “a people returning to its promised land.” The writer, Abdullah Al-Hadlaq, made the comments in an interview which was broadcast by the Kuwaiti Alrai TV channel on November 19 and translated by the
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Middle EastThe president of Rutgers University in New Jersey has come under fire after he publicly defended several professors accused of anti-Semitism, and appeared to disparage a Jewish media outlet which helped publicized the professors” behavior. Over the past few weeks, an American-Jewish media outlet, The Algemeiner, published a series of articles publicizing blatant examples of
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USAThe President of Palestine, Mahmoud Abbas, refused a call from President Donald Trump’s senior adviser, Jared Kushner, this week, after the U.S. threatened to close the Palestine Liberation Organization’s office in Washington, D.C., according to Israeli media reports. Kushner had been working to broker peace talks between Palestine and Israel. Abbas’s move comes after he
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