By Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — Prime Minister Netanyahu is in the air a lot nowadays. Soon after returning from Washington and the love-in with President Trump, he flew to Australia on an official visit. Shortly thereafter he went to Moscow to make sure that President Putin controls his clients in and around Syria not to […]
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Middle EastIsraeli diplomat Itamar Rabinovich, said the late Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin seemed “willing to go the distance” to make peace with Arabs. Photos by Robert Wiener Rabin’s eldest daughter, Dalia, said, “Israel has not become a more tolerant society” since her father’s death. Photos by Robert Wiener Princeton University professor and former American ambassador Daniel
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Middle East, USAWhile left-wing J Street says the ambassador-designate shows ‘breathtaking disdain for the vast majority of American Jews,’ the right-wing ZOA says he reflects ‘widely-held views of the American public’ By Eric Cortellessa David Friedman, nominated to be US Ambassador to Israel, testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 16, 2017, at his confirmation hearing
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Middle East, USAIf passed, new legislation would pay internet service providers from public coffers for every customer they convince to sign up to voluntary online filters By Times of Israel staff Likud parliament member Miki Zohar attends a Finance committee meeting, during a vote on the 2017-2018 state budget, at the Knesset in Jerusalem on December 19,
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Middle EastBy Barry Shaw NETANYA, Israel — When I visited Holland in 2015 to speak to Jewish and Christian audiences and to have private meetings with pro-Israel leaders I was told how Dutch Jews were increasingly fearful about speaking out or showing their support for Israel. Their main fears derived from the threatening atmosphere being stoked up
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International, Middle EastNEW YORK (Press Release) — Leaders of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations today called on United Nations Secretary General Guterres to publicly reject a UN Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) report unjustly accusing Israel of being “an apartheid regime that dominates the Palestinian people as a whole.” The report was co-authored
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Middle East, USAThe lone Jewish member of Iran”s parliament criticized Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu after he said that Iran today seeks the annihilation of the Jews, just as ancient Persia did in the Purim story. “Netanyahu is an insane vampire drowned in crimes from head to toe, and the recent remarks made by the racist Israeli prime
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Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Neither the Jews nor the Palestinians have been masters of their fate. Both are small nations, subject to forces much more powerful. But the grandchildren of miserable Jews who came to Israel in the 1940s and 1950s as refugees from the Holocaust and Muslim persecution have created a vibrant democracy, ranked
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastIn a massive cyber attack, Twitter accounts belonging to organisations like Amnesty International and UNICEF have been hacked, apparently by supporters of Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. A swastika and the words ‘Nazi Germany’ and ‘Nazi Holland’ in Turkish feature on hijacked Twitter handles, alongside the message “See you on April 16”. That is when
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International, Middle EastBy Alon Ben-Meir NEW YORK — Although Prime Minister Netanyahu is known for his focus on the Palestinian and Iranian threats to Israel’s national security, in recent months he has increasingly sounded the alarm over Iran in particular rather than the Palestinians. As the defeat of ISIS in both Iraq and Syria is all but
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Alon Ben-Meir, Middle EastKremlin officials and Russian lawmakers are denying published reports that Moscow has deployed a team of special forces and drones to a military base in Egypt near the Libyan border. The denials came Tuesday, following multiple reports that Russian military activity had been spotted near the Mediterranean coastal town of Sidi Baranni, 100 kilometers from
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International, Middle EastVia conferences and hierarchies of Muslim Brotherhood, Gaza-based Islamist terror group building global infrastructure to challenge PLO’s standing as Palestinians’ sole legitimate representative By Avi Issacharoff At the end of February, in Istanbul, the Palestinians Abroad Conference convened with the purported goal of promoting global support for the Palestinians. Its actual purpose was to bolster
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International, Middle EastBy Lt. Gen. Michael Barbero, USA (ret) WASHINGTON, D.C. — A year ago, West Point graduate and combat veteran Taylor Force was stabbed to death by a young Palestinian who also wounded 12 others in an attack on tourists in Israel. It is tragic and ironic that Taylor risked his life serving the United States
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Middle East, USADelegation of North-African Arab journalists calls Israel ‘Western and free’ (JNS.org) Following an invitation from Hassan Kaabiya, Israel’s deputy spokesman for Arab media, a group of six North African journalists and bloggers is visiting Israel this week as guests of the Israeli Foreign Ministry. During their trip, the Algerian and Tunisian journalists are meeting with
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