By Catie Stewart As an organizer on college campuses for J Street U, I meet a lot of passionate students determined to stand up for a better future for Israelis and Palestinians alike. But I also see how much of the American Jewish and pro-Israel establishment places far-right, extremist voices and talking points at the […]
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International, Middle East, USACairo (dpa) – Bombings at two Coptic Christian churches in two Egyptian cities on Palm Sunday killed at least 36 people and left dozens wounded. The first bomb took place in the Mar Gerges Church in the Nile Delta city of Tanta, north of Cairo, leaving 25 dead and 78 injured, the Health Ministry said.
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Middle EastBy Barry Shaw NETANYA, Israel — The news in early April circled two attacks in Syria. One was the horrendous chemical weapons launched from Syrian warplanes. The world was sickened by the sight of dead and dying children and babies choking on the poison that descended on them from a threatening Syrian sky. The other
Russian officials have led the criticism against the U.S. decision to strike a Syrian airfield Thursday with cruise missiles despite admitting they received advance notice of the military attack. “Yes, this information was provided… via the existing channels,” Dmitry Peskov, spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin, told state news agency Itar-Tass. Peskov refused to comment
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International, Middle East, USAJake Tapper is calling out Ivanka Trump for her stance on the citizens of Syria following the United States’ retaliatory airstrike. After the horrific sarin gas attack against Syria’s citizens Tuesday, which killed over 100 and injured at least 300, the United States conducted a successful airstrike against Shayrat air base late Thursday evening. On
Britain’s foreign minister, Boris Johnson, canceled plans Saturday to visit Moscow, just hours before he was due to depart London, as tensions escalated between the U.S. and Russia over Syria. Russian leaders, who have dubbed as illegal the U.S. action to punish the government of President Bashar al-Assad for its use of chemical weapons, ramped
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International, Middle East, USABy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — Micha Goodman is one of the most interesting young scholars of Judaism in Israel today. His books on two seminal works of Medieval Jewish philosophy – Moses Maimonides’ Moreh Nevuchim and Yehuda Halevi’s Kuzari – have been best sellers in Israel, as has his third book on Deuteronomy, Moses’
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Middle EastOver 100 volunteers, police searching for Sivan Lavi whose 12-year-old died in a tragic accident two days ago By Times of Israel staff A picture of Sivan Lavi released by police on April 8, 2017. (Israel Police) Hundreds of volunteers and police were searching the Tel Aviv area for a woman who went missing Saturday,
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Middle EastA Syrian man who survived a Sarin gas attack that occurred in 2013 appeared on CNN with Brooke Baldwin Friday and praised President Donald Trump for striking a Syrian military airfield with Tomahawk missiles in response to a sarin gas attack, calling for him to take matters a step further against Bashar al-Assad. Kassem Eid’s
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Middle East, USATel Aviv – Israel planned to arrest former Palestinian President, the late Yasser Arafat, and deport him from the West Bank in 2002, a former high-ranking Israeli official revealed Friday. Former Israeli Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz said he and then Prime Minister Ariel Sharon had planned the arrest of Arafat under the “Operation of the
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Middle EastNew York/Washington (dpa) – The US ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley, warned that the United States could follow up a military strike on a Syrian airbase with further action, in an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council on Friday. The US fired dozens of missiles at a Syrian airbase suspected of being the
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International, Middle East, USABy Barry Shaw NETANYA, Israel — At Pesach, fifteen years ago, Netanya suffered what became known as the Passover Massacre when a Palestinian suicide bomber walked into the banqueting hall of the Park Hotel and blew himself up as citizens gathered for the Seder service which recalls the Jewish people’s liberation from cruelty and oppression
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Barry Shaw, Middle EastBy Dorothea Shefer-Vanson JERUSALEM — Over the years I have attended many performances of Handel’s Messiah, but no matter where it was performed (England, America, France, Israel) it was always sung in English. George Frederick Handel wrote the oratorio using the text devised by Charles Jennens, based on the King James Bible and the Book of Common Prayer.
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Middle East, Music, Dance, and Visual ArtsThere’s no chance Syrian President Bashar Assad ordered the chemical weapons attack that killed dozens of civilians on Tuesday, former Republican congressman and three-time White House hopeful Ron Paul insisted afterwards. Mr. Paul raised doubts over the Syrian government’s role in this week’s deadly chemical weapons attack during a Wednesday taping of his YouTube show,
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