By JT – Mar 20,2017 – Last updated at Mar 20,2017 AMMAN — HRH Prince Hassan today celebrates his 70th birthday. Prince Hassan has engaged in many events, fixtures and engagements over the last year. At the centre of all of these has been his enduring commitment to the betterment of the lives of the […]
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Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — There’s an unpleasant lesson in the enthusiastic homecoming provided to Ahmad Daqamseh, the Jordanian soldier who served a 20 year sentence for killing young Israeli girls at the “Island of Peace” on the Israeli-Jordanian border, and another unpleasant lesson in Dagamseh’s comments that Israel is a rotten place that must
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastA Lebanese TV news anchor drew the ire of the Hezbollah terrorist organization over the weekend, after she tweeted that Israel ought to carry out a targeted assassination of the group”s leader, Hassan Nasrallah. Maria Maalouf, who has a history of antagonizing the Shiite terror group, wrote a pair of tweets on Saturday, lamenting Nasrallah”s
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Middle EastThe terrorist who killed US citizen Ezra Schwartz, as well as an Israel citizen and a resident of the Palestinian Authority, in a terrorist attack at the Etzion Junction in November 2015, received four life sentences Sunday. The sentence was given by the Ofer military court. Mohammed Abdel Basset al-Kharoub shot and killed Schwartz, an
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Middle EastThe Supreme Coordination Committee in Ramallah called on the various terrorist organizations to unite in “national unity” against Israel. The Supreme Coordination Committee consists of representatives of various terrorist organizations. Following a meeting involving the leaders of various terror organizations, the Committee published a notice expressing support for a “national plan” which would include escalation
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Middle EastPalestine Liberation Organization (PLO) Executive Committee member Hanan Ashrawi on Saturday blasted the UN for removing the Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) report that accused Israel of imposing an apartheid regime on Palestinian Arabs. “Instead of succumbing to political blackmail or allowing itself to be censured or intimidated by external parties, the
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International, Middle EastIDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eizenkot warned Sunday that the Hezbollah terror organization in Lebanon was preparing for its next major attack on Israel, and that war with the fundamentalist Shiite group was only a matter of time. “The coming war will have an address – the Lebanese government,” said Eizenkot. “Hezbollah is violating UN
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Middle EastRabbanit Naomi Shapira, mother of 11 and well-known in the religious-Zionist community for her classes on Jewish marriage and sanctity, donated a kidney last week to a mother of three, Ilanit. The latter had been waiting three years for a donor. Mrs. Shapira, wife of Yeshivat Ramat Gan dean Rabbi Yehoshua Shapira, said she became
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationJust days after posters accusing Jews of benefiting from “Jewish Privilege” were discovered on the University of Illinois at Chicago campus, Jewish students say yet another wave of anti-Semitic materials has been found on school grounds. Last week, posters accusing Jews of economically dominating the United States were found plastered around campus. “ENDING WHITE PRIVILEGE…
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Jewish History, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USAGUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba — Lawyers for the man accused of orchestrating the USS Cole bombing have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene in the military tribunal at Guantanamo using accounts of the captive’s CIA torture drawn from declassified documents and an interrogator’s recent memoirs. The petition with hundreds of pages of supporting
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International, Middle East, USAThe San Francisco-based Koret Foundation has granted the Diaspora Museum 10 million dollars, the largest donation the museum has received from an American foundation in its 40-year history. The donation will serve to expand the International School for Jewish Nation studies at the museum, to be named after the foundation. The expansion of the school
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International, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USATel Aviv (dpa) – Threats to call new elections swirled Sunday in Israel amid coalition infighting, with the long-delayed establishment of a new public broadcaster at the centre, according to local media. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has reportedly threatened to call fresh elections if Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon insists on going through with the
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Middle EastIDF says warning system not triggered by incoming missile, a day after two projectiles were launched from the Strip By Times of Israel staff Israeli children run to a bomb shelter during a Color Red alarm warning of incoming rockets from the Gaza Strip, January 8, 2009. (Anna Kaplan/ Flash90) Rocket sirens sounded Sunday in
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Middle EastTurkey has accused Germany of supporting a US based cleric it blames for last year’s coup. President Erdogan’s spokesman Ibrahim Kalin said doubts raised by Germany’s spy agency, the BND, that Fethullah Gulen was behind the failed uprising were proof of Berlin’s support Ankara also said on Sunday that Turkish ministers could plan another rally
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