By 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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Jewish Religion, Middle EastJihadi group’s Egyptian affiliate says it fired missile that hit Negev greenhouse; Israel ramps up warnings of terror attack from the peninsula By Judah Ari Gross The remains of a rocket fired from Sinai that struck an Israeli greenhouse in the village of Yuval in the Eshkol region. (Israel Police) The Islamic State affiliate in
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Middle EastRachel Miller is grating horseradish in preparation for her Seder — the Passover meal — as Mizgin, her husband Adris, and their three children — ages 12, 9 and 5 — watch her work. The family are refugees from Syria and they’re spending the year living with Rachel and her husband in a Boston suburb.
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Middle East, USAIsrael closed its border with Egypt Monday and called on Israeli citizens to leave the Sinai peninsula over fears of an “imminent” terror attack on the eve of the Jewish Passover holiday. The Israeli government barred its citizens from crossing to Egypt via the Taba crossing—but nationals were allowed to return—just a day after the
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Middle EastAfter meeting with IDF soldiers on Sunday, Israeli President Reuven Rivlin visited the Western Galilee Medical Center in Nahariya, and met with the medical staff. Also present at the meeting were Health Ministry Director General Moshe Bar Siman Tov, and Galilee Medical Center General Director, Dr. Masad Barhoum. Since March 2013, more than 1,500 of
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationBOSTON (Press Release) – The American Jewish Committee-New England was dismayed to learn that the night before the Passover holiday, the Tufts Community Union Senate (Tufts Senate) approved a resolution calling for divestment from four companies doing business with Israel. The resolution was proposed only this past Thursday and brought to a vote at the
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USASen. John McCain, R-Ariz., said Sunday that the Trump’s administration is “partially to blame” for Syria’s chemical attack last week, which killed about 80 civilians and was apparently orchestrated by President Bashar al-Assad. “I think it probably was partially to blame,” McCain said on CBS’s “Face the Nation” Sunday. “And Secretary [of State Rex] Tillerson
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Middle East, USAPope Francis will visit Egypt as planned in late April despite two bomb blasts at Coptic Christian churches over the weekend that killed at least 44 people, a Vatican official said Monday. The Islamic State militant group (ISIS), whose affiliate Sinai Province is waging an insurgency against the Egyptian state, claimed the April 9 bombing
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