Smugglers are forcing unaccompanied child refugees to sell their bodies in exchange for money to aid their traveling through Europe, a new report from Harvard University has claimed. There is a “growing epidemic of sexual exploitation and abuse of migrant children in Greece,” say the report’s co-authors, Dr Vasileia Digidiki and Professor Jacqueline Bhabha, at […]
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Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — We’re a long way from understanding the man who our American friends chose as their President, and just as long from being able to guess what he’ll do next. It’s both drama and mystery. We outsiders may lack some of the details about American politics. Americans who think they understand their
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USAIn the West Bank, coexistence program Roots makes for an improbable gathering of teens from Gush Etzion and nearby village Al Khader By Brett Kline The teenagers gather around their instructor Bruce as they begin their photography lesson. The group of 13 to 15-year olds, equal parts Jewish Israelis from local settlements and local Palestinians
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Middle EastBy Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — British exchange student Hannah Bladon was stabbed to death on a Jerusalem light rail train last Friday. Her murderer was identified as an East Jerusalem resident who had previously been convicted of molesting his daughter and had tried to commit suicide. Failing at that, he apparently opted for
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Jewish History, Middle East, USANEW YORK (Press Release)– ZOA President Morton A. Klein released the following statement: The Zionist Organization of America praises President Trump and Attorney General Sessions’ Department of Justice (DOJ) for bringing murder charges and issuing arrest warrants on Thursday (April 13), against two Palestinian Arab terrorists from the areas controlled by the Palestinian Authority (PA),
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Middle East, USA‘Duchifat-2,’ a joint venture by dozens of pupils from around the country, will study the lower thermosphere By Stuart Winer Participating high school students hold up the Duchifat-2 nanosatellite that was launched into space from the Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral, Florida, April 18, 2017. (Israel Space Agency/Roi Greenberg) A tiny satellite built by Israeli
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USASEDE BOQER, Israel (Press Release)– Researchers from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) have developed novel ultrafiltration membranes that significantly improve the virus-removal process from treated municipal wastewater used for drinking in water-scarce cities. Current membrane filtration methods require intensive energy to adequately remove pathogenic viruses without
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationThe hunger strike now being held by jailed terrorists comes with various ramifications, starting with the expected rioting on Palestinian streets and possibly beyond, and extending to the question of the Israeli government”s ability to stand up to this sort of struggle. Among other things, a hunger strike like this leads to the question of
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Jewish Religion, Middle EastTel Aviv (dpa) – Israel must not yield to demands being made by more than 1,000 “shameless” Palestinian prisoners on an indefinite hunger strike, top Israeli lawmaker Tzachi Hanegbi said on Tuesday. “This is a gang of shameless guys, of merciless murderers,” Hanegbi told Israel Radio. Calling their demands baseless, Hanegbi argued that the strike
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Middle EastPrime minister says calling terrorist jailed for murder a ‘parliamentarian and leader’ is like calling ‘Assad a pediatrician’ By Times of Israel staff Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara attend the Jewish Moroccan celebration of Mimouna, in Hadera on April 17, 2017. (Ido Erez/POOL) Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday slammed The New
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Middle EastDefense Minister Avigdor Liberman (Yisrael Beytenu) addressed this afternoon, Tuesday, the hunger strike being held by imprisoned terrorists. “In everything pertaining to the hunger-striking terrorists in Israeli prisons, I suggest adopting the approach of Margaret Thatcher,” Liberman said. A former Prime Minister of Britain, Thatcher had, during her tenure, taken a firm stance against hunger
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Middle EastBrussels (dpa) – Turkish authorities should investigate possible voting irregularities that have been flagged by international observers, the European Commission said Tuesday, while one observer cited up to 2.5 million allegedly faulty referendum ballots. On Sunday, a narrow majority of just more than 51 per cent supported granting greater powers to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan
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International, Middle EastUN: Allies knew of Jewish Holocaust years earlier than previously known (JNS.org) Newly released United Nations documents reveal that the Allied powers knew about the Jewish Holocaust carried out by Hitler’s Nazi regime at least two-and-a-half years earlier than previously thought. As early as December 1942, the United States, the United Kingdom and the former
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Middle EastOp-Ed: Publishing an opinion piece full of invented horror stories, the Times neglected to tell its readers that the author is a murderer, convicted on multiple counts in a civilian court By Yair Lapid The thing which stands out most – and is most infuriating – about the opinion piece published by Marwan Barghouti in
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