LGBT 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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Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — The Temple Mount, Friday prayers, metal detectors, and the incitement of Muslim religious and political leaders were as exciting and worrying as we’ve seen for some time. Commentators and prominent officials were adding to the noise, with competing assessments of how we’ve gotten here, who was responsible, and what should
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East
Story by Donald H. Harrison; photo by Shor M. Masori SAN DIEGO – Miriam Libicki, whose graphic memoir about life as a clerk in the Israel Defense Forces was on sale at the annual Comic-Con Convention, has been plunging into issues of personal identity: hers and those of Russian-born friends. She grew up in Ohio
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, Middle East, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Shor M. MasoriJERUSALEM (Press Release) – On Friday night United Hatzalah volunteer EMS personnel left their families at their dinner tables and ran into, not away from, a terror attack that took place right next to their homes. Doron Mah Tov lives in the town of Halamish and was the first medical responder at the scene of the heinous
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Middle EastBy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — Tensions between Palestinians and Israel have been building up for some time now. The confrontation could have come, and may still come, in the South along the Gaza border, As Hamas that rules Gaza is losing ground, partly because of closer relations between Israel and the Gulf States, it
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Middle EastTel Aviv (dpa) – A brother of the Palestinian man who stabbed to death three Israelis has been arrested after a raid on his home, according to Israeli and Palestinian media reports on Saturday. The 20-year-old Palestinian forced his way into a home in the West Bank settlement of Neve Tsuf, north-west of Ramallah, and
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Middle EastAt the Lions Gate where a deadly attack on July 14 prompted the latest escalation, Palestinians insist metal detectors are part of an Israeli Temple Mount power grab, to be resisted at all cost By Dov Lieber As if they were in a mosque, thousands of men and women sitting along the walls of the
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Middle EastCongress has reached a final deal on new Russia sanctions legislation, leaders announced Saturday, clearing the path for final approval of legislation that would codify penalties imposed by the Obama administration and would require President Trump to seek approval from Capitol Hill should he want to lift the sanctions. The bill has been stalled for
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