By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — It’s not the same arithmetic taught at the Highland School in the 1940s. However, it’s a central component in the rules of the game that allow Arabs and Jews to manage alongside one another in the Middle East. And by extension, how the rest of the world can accommodate itself […]
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastBy Alon Ben-Meir NEW YORK — It has been ten years since Hamas defeated the Palestinian Authority in Gaza and assumed control over the territory. Today, the socio-economic conditions in Gaza are so horrendous that if nothing is done immediately, the whole area is bound to explode in the face of Hamas, Israel, and the
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Alon Ben-Meir, Middle EastLibya’s UN-backed Prime Minister Fayez al-Sarraj and and the divided country’s eastern commander General Khalifa Haftar agreed to a conditional ceasefire and elections at Paris talks on Tuesday. “We commit to a ceasefire and to refrain from any use of armed force for any purpose that does not strictly constitute counter-terrorism,” the rival leaders said
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Middle EastIn video posted to YouTube by Californian mosque, Sheikh Ammar Shahin prays for ‘liberation’ of Al-Aqsa Mosque By Times of Israel staff Sheikh Ammar Shahin speaking at the Islamic Center of Davis, California on July 21, 2017. (Screen capture: YouTube) An Egyptian-born American imam in his Friday sermon called on Allah to annihilate the Jews
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Middle East, USAThe Muslim committee administering a sensitive Jerusalem holy site announced Tuesday that a boycott of the shrine would continue despite Israel’s removal of controversial new security measures. “No entry into Al-Aqsa mosque until after an assessment by a Waqf technical committee and the return of the situation to how it was before the 14th of
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Middle East, USACairo (dpa) – Jordan reached a deal with Israel to question an Israeli security guard who had shot and killed an alleged attacker in Amman before he was allowed to leave the country, Jordanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Ayman Safadi said on Tuesday. The security guard at the Israeli embassy in Amman, who enjoyed diplomatic
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Middle EastA large Byzantine-era wine press uncovered in the Negev region is only the second of its kind to be found By Amanda Borschel-Dan Digging in the ancient 1,600-year-old wine press in Ramat Negev, summer 2017. (Tali Gini, Israel Antiquities Authority) While Israel is famous for greening the desert, a recent find of a 1,600-year-old wine
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Jewish History, Middle EastLGBT supporters are fighting back against the Islamic State militant group (ISIS) on the Syrian battlefield after three years of persecution in which their community suffered stonings, executions from rooftops and a deadly shooting at an LGBT nightclub in Orlando, Florida. A group of international volunteers fighting with Kurdish forces against ISIS in northern Syria
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Middle East, USAAn Israeli guard shot and killed two Jordanians late Sunday at an Israeli embassy compound in the Jordanian capital, Amman, after one of them lunged at him with a screwdriver, Israeli officials said Monday. The victims included a Jordanian carpenter and the owner of the building used by Israeli embassy staff who was hit by
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By Eva Trieger SAN DIEGO – A two-state solution to peace in the Middle East… Are there truly only two options: A truly Jewish democratic Israel or an occupying Israel? According to a self-described, “pro-Israeli” Jordanian Abe Haak, that is an erroneous assumption. Brought to San Diego by the StandWithUs organization, Haak said it
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By Jerry Klinger HAIFA, Israel — She was an American ship, largely American crewed and American funded. Every American on board the Exodus 1947 knew, if they were captured, they faced years in a British prison and the loss of their American citizenship. Yet, they went. They had to do what they had to, even
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Jerry Klinger, Jewish History, Middle EastTel Aviv (dpa) – A leading Israel opposition politician on Saturday defended the metal detectors newly installed at Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa mosque that have been the catalyst for violent clashes between Israeli police and Palestinian protestors. Three Israelis were stabbed to death in their home on Friday by a Palestinian man as tensions boiled over in
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Middle EastThe UN Security Council will hold closed-door talks on Monday about deadly Israeli-Palestinian unrest over new security measures at a highly sensitive Jerusalem holy site, diplomats said. The talks were announced as Israel sent extra troops into the occupied West Bank on Saturday and its police broke up a crowd of stone-throwing Palestinians in the
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International, Middle EastPresident Recep Tayyip Erdogan began on Sunday a key visit to the Gulf region aimed at defusing the standoff around Turkey’s ally Qatar, saying no one had an interest in prolonging the crisis. Erdogan arrived in Jeddah to meet the Saudi leadership before heading to Kuwait, and on Monday to Qatar for his first face-to-face
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