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Haifa Chemicals employees protest in Tel Aviv against ammonia tank closure

Jobs on the line, workers’ and manufacturers’ unions join fray, slamming move made due to safety concerns in the bay city By Shoshanna Solomon Haifa Chemicals workers protesting ammonia tank closure in Tel Aviv (Courtesy: Tal Gimpel) Hundreds of Haifa Chemicals Ltd. workers protested in the streets of Tel Aviv Tuesday against the closing of […]

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Fight to isolate al-Raqqa high on Tillerson’s agenda in Turkey visit

Washington (dpa) – US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson will confer with Turkish leaders on Syria and a host of other issues central to relations between the United States and Turkey when Tillerson travels to Ankara later this week, State Department officials said Monday. Tillerson will meet with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan after arriving in

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Middle East, USA

Palestinian cause scores high on Arab summit agenda

By JT – Mar 28,2017 – Last updated at Mar 28,2017 DEAD SEA — Concerns over the regional situation and its impact on Arab people dominated Arab officials’ speeches at the opening session of Monday’s foreign ministers’ preparatory meeting. Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi, who received presidency from his Mauritanian counterpart Isselkou Ould Ahmed Izid Bih,

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International, Middle East

Chris Matthews compares Jared Kushner, Ivanka Trump to Uday and Qusay Hussein

MSNBC host Chris Matthews on Monday compared Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump’s prominent roles in the White House to the power wielded by the late Saddam Hussein’s two eldest sons during his reign in Iraq. “Do you think this bothers the country to have sort of a Romanov royal family running the place?” the “Hardball”

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Nikki Haley, personable, serious, and the undisputed star of AIPAC’s conference

‘That’s the next president’ said a man next to me, reflecting the adulation as Trump’s UN ambassador left the stage to the event’s biggest ovation by far By David Horovitz WASHINGTON — Fourteen minutes. That’s how long Nikki Haley, the US ambassador to the United Nations, spent in conversation with interviewer Dan Senor at AIPAC’s

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International, Middle East, USA

Menendez decries ‘white nationalist dog whistles’ are being blown from Trump White House

WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez took aim at President Donald Trump’s top White House aide as he criticized anti-Semitism before the annual Washington gathering of the leading pro-Israel lobby. Menendez pledged to use his position as a senior member of the Senate Finance Committee to call out the boycott, divestment, and sanctions movement directed

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Middle East, USA

Bedouin soldier: You don’t know anything about Israel

As anti-Israel – and increasingly, anti-Semitic – elements on college campuses have become more vocal, more active, and more provocative on college campuses around the US, pro-Israel activists are working to combat the hatred and misinformation found at so many institutions across the country. One recently demobilized IDF soldier decided to join the fight on

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Middle East Roundup: March 28, 2017

30 pastors witness lifesaving Israeli volunteer EMS methods in Jerusalem (JNS.org) A special delegation from the U.S. organized by Christians United for Israel (CUFI) traveled to Jerusalem last week and visited the headquarters of United Hatzalah, an Israeli volunteer-based emergency medical services (EMS) organization. According to a statement released by Hatzalah’s international spokesperson, the CUFI

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Op-Ed: Israel is good, not perfect

By Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — George Steiner, the celebrated literary critic and exponent of contemporary thought, describes himself as a proud, though non-practicing, Jew: “The highest nobility is to have belonged to a people that has never humiliated another people.” That makes him, in words spoken to the French journalist Laure Adler, “fundamentally anti-Zionist.” In

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Muslim Brotherhood listing as terror group delayed by Donald Trump

President Trump has – for the time being – put on the back burner an executive order designating the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization, according to U.S. officials close to a heated debate inside the administration over the status of the global Islamist movement. While the White House has declined to comment publicly, officials speaking

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International, Middle East, USA

President refuses pardon for convicted ex-prime minister Olmert

Rivlin says he can’t reconsider former premier’s jail term in light of his public standing as court already took that into account By Times of Israel staff Former prime minister Ehud Olmert leaves the Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court on February 10, 2016. (Ohad Zwigenberg/Pool) President Reuven Rivlin rejected a pardon request from former prime minister Ehud

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