By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — There is a lot that is hidden from view, but what we can see is not promising. The US Secretary of State and other ranking officials are overlooking the considerable Russian investment in Bashar al-Assad, and demanding that Putin et al abandon their ally and work with the US in […]
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International, Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USAPresident Donald Trump likes to live in the lap of luxury, and he’s not going to let presidential tasks like launching 59 Tomahawk missiles into Syria disrupt the decadent lifestyle to which he’s become accustomed. In a new interview with Fox Business, Trump described the Palm Beach scene from which he authorized the airstrike last
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International, Middle East, USAAlan Dershowitz, a famed Harvard law professor and progressive in good standing, lashed out at activists and Democratic Party officials who are trying to make political hay out of White House press secretary Sean Spicer’s . Spicer created a firestorm at the daily briefing Tuesday when he said even Hitler never sunk so low as
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International, Middle East, USAHead of the Palestinian Federation in Chile barred over alleged efforts to promote boycott of Jewish state By Times of Israel staff The Allenby Bridge border crossing between Jordan and Israel (Shay Levy/Flash90) A Chilean Palestinian BDS activist was barred from entering the West Bank on Monday, weeks after the Knesset passed a bill allowing
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International, Middle EastOpposition MK Tamar Zandberg (Meretz) on Wednesday announced she would fight the law forbidding public showing of chametz (leavened products) during the Pesach (Passover) holiday. The new proposal would cancel the existing law and allow the public display of chametz during Pesach. It will be proposed immediately following the end of the holiday. Zandberg claims
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Jewish Religion, Middle EastWhen former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad put his name forward as a candidate in the country’s May 19 presidential election, it surprised observers both inside and outside the Islamic Republic. Not least because Iran’s highest religious figure, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, had discouraged Ahmadinejad from running. Hassan Rouhani, Iran’s current leader and the reformist
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Middle EastAfter bringing down News of the World for cell phone hacking, Mark Lewis is intent on combating anti-Semitism — even as he travels to Israel to fight his multiple sclerosis By Jenni Frazer LONDON — You really wouldn’t want to be on the wrong side of media and libel lawyer Mark Lewis. For a good
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International, Middle EastBy Alon Ben-Meir NEW YORK — President Trump’s unexpected attack on Syria’s Shayrat airbase in response to President Assad’s sarin gas attack on his own citizens has changed the dynamic of Syria’s civil war and potentially its eventual outcome. Trump’s attack sent a clear message not only to Assad, but to Russia and Iran, who
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Alon Ben-Meir, International, Middle East, USAIsraeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman said he would “not be surprised” if Iranian President Hassan Rouhani was assassinated in the country’s upcoming presidential election next month, in an interview published Monday. In comments made to Israel’s Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper, Lieberman appeared to allege that—like the proxy groups that Tehran backs in the Middle East, such
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Middle EastPresident Donald Trump’s daughter Ivanka Trump played a major role in his decision to launch an airstrike on a Syrian air base last week, in response to a chemical weapons attack by Syrian President Bashar Assad, Eric Trump said in an interview published Monday. After the Syrian president’s regime allegedly launched a chemical attack on
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Middle East, USARussian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday warned of future chemical weapons “provocations” in Syria to frame President Bashar al-Assad, just as Washington’s top diplomat arrived for talks in Moscow. “We have information from various sources that such provocations — I cannot call them otherwise — are being prepared in other regions of Syria, including in
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International, Middle East, USAWASHINGTON — The Trump administration continues to defend itself against accusations that it was hypocritical to conduct an airstrike on behalf of Syrian children while standing behind its proposed temporary travel ban against six Muslim-Majority countries, including Syria. White House press secretary Sean Spicer said Tuesday that the use of chemical weapons by the Syrian
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Middle East, USABATH, ENGLAND (SDJW) — Students at the University of Bath in England and at the University of British Columbia in Canada have rejected anti- Israel resolutions calling for boycott, divestment and sanctions against the Jewish State. StandWithUs UK, reacting to a Bath Student Union vote of 249 in favor and 343 opposed, commented: “This BDS
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International, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationIn event at Holot detention facility, participants draw parallels between Jews’ escape from bondage in Egypt and modern day asylum-seekers By Luke Tress In a barren corner of the Negev desert, near the Egyptian border, dozens of young Israelis and African asylum-seekers danced to a drum beat, shielding their eyes from the blinding dust whipping
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