Israel’s defense minister said Monday that the United States has warned Israel against imposing Israeli sovereignty over the West Bank, saying that would lead to an “immediate crisis” with President Donald Trump administration. “We received a direct message — not an indirect message and not a hint — from the United States. Imposing Israeli sovereignty […]
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Middle East, USABy Debra DeLee WASHINGTON, D.C. — Americans for Peace Now strongly condemns new Israeli legislation adopted Monday by the Knesset, which would ban entry to Israel of foreign nationals who support or publicly engage in boycotts of either Israel or West Bank settlements. This new draconian law is a severe blow to Israeli democracy. It
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Middle East, USABy Morton A. Klein NEW YORK –The ZOA praises the FBI for its investigation and arrest of Juan M. Thompson, a fired former reporter for a left-wing online newspaper and hate-filled, pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel, anti-white, anti-Trump, pro-Bernie Sanders, anti-western society, anti-American, Communist, anti-police radical Islamist, for allegedly perpetrating at least eight of the recent bomb threats
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Middle East, USAAt event commemorating 25th anniversary of Buenos Aires embassy bombing, PM says Israel constantly thwarts attacks on Israeli missions abroad By Raphael Ahren Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at the Foreign Ministry on the 25th anniversary of the Buenos Aires embassy bombing, on March 6, 2017. (Koby Gideon/PMO) Iran is the source of the vast
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International, Middle EastThe White House unveiled a new version Monday of its executive order placing temporary restrictions on immigration from several Muslim-majority countries after the previous order was blocked by the courts. The new version is more narrow than the initial executive order issued in January, and also has one less country than the previous version. Iraq
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Middle East, USAThe attorney general of Washington state, whose case against President Donald Trump’s initial travel ban brought that plan to a halt, said Monday that his office is considering its “next legal steps” concerning the administration’s new travel order. “By rescinding his earlier executive order, President Trump makes one thing perfectly clear: His original travel ban
President Donald Trump announced Monday a new, revised executive order that would temporarily bar travel into the United States for people from six Muslim-majority countries. Heading into the week, White House adviser Kellyanne Conway said Iraq would be removed from the original ban, which included Iraq, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen. The latest
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International, Middle East, USAAs Trump administration officials on Monday laid out the details of the president’s revised executive order suspending travel to the U.S. from six Muslim-majority countries, one senior official insisted: “We want to stress at the outset, there was nothing wrong with that first executive order, itself.” Tacitly, however, the replacement order illustrates just how flawed
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International, Middle East, USASoldiers on arrest raid exchange fire with suspect, resulting in his death, wound two others; M-16 rifle, submachine gun found in home By Judah Ari Gross An M-16 rifle found in the home of a wanted Palestinian suspect, March 6, 2017, according to the IDF. (IDF) An alleged Palestinian terrorist was killed in an exchange
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Middle EastSherri Mandell In February 1969, Rasmeah Odeh murdered two Hebrew University students and injured nine other people. Leon Kaner was 21 and Edward Jaffe was 22 when they were murdered in a Jerusalem supermarket. Odeh set bombs in coffee cans that exploded in the grocery, killing the two young men and injuring nine other people.
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Middle East, USAIsraeli government votes to decriminalize recreational marijuana use (JNS.org) The Israeli government voted in favor of decriminalizing recreational marijuana use, joining several other European countries and U.S. states that have adopted similar measures. At Israel’s weekly cabinet meeting Sunday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said a team of experts had studied the issue and that “this
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Middle EastJERUSALEM (Press Release) — New York Governor Andrew Cuomo visited Jerusalem on Monday in an expression of solidarity with the Jewish community, accompanied by the Orthodox Union’s Executive Vice President Allen Fagin. Following a meeting with Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat, Cuomo announced the creation of a New York-Israel Commission, charged with assisting in the creation and
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Middle East, USATEL AVIV (Press Release) — A new Tel Aviv University study published in Child Development finds that the disruptive behavior of an individual child does not encourage similar behavior in their brothers and sisters. On the contrary, Dr. Ella Daniel of TAU’s Jaime and Joan Constantiner School of Education finds that siblings, predominantly older siblings,
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationNew York Governor Andrew Cuomo, who is on a visit to Israel, on Sunday proclaimed the first Sunday in June as “Shimon Peres Day” after Israel”s former Prime Minister and President, who passed away in September. “Shimon Peres was an asset to the world. He was one of the more gifted leaders that this world
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