By JT – Mar 05,2017 – Last updated at Mar 05,2017 AMMAN — His Majesty King Abdullah on Sunday discussed with a delegation of US Jewish leaders efforts to push forward the Middle East peace process and the latest regional developments. During the meeting, held at the Basman Palace, King Abdullah stressed the importance of […]
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Middle EastCologne (dpa) – A series of cancelled campaign rallies planned by Turkish politicians on German soil has incurred the wrath of Ankara, with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan accusing Germany on Sunday of “Nazi practices.” Officials in various German localities have called off planned events this week at which Turkish ministers were scheduled to rally support
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International, Middle EastObama-era ambassador, Dan Shapiro, announced as visiting fellow at Institute for National Security Studies By Alexander Fulbright Then US ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro seen at a fare-well session in the Knesset, on January 17, 2017. (Miriam Alster/Flash90) Former US ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro will join the Institute for National Security studies as a
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Middle East, USAIn recording, woman heard calling on Jewish state to not abandon her kin, but Jewish Agency casts doubt on her claims By Times of Israel staff Syrians walk along a damaged street in Aleppo’s Tareeq al-Bab neighbourhood on January 18, 2017, a month after government forces retook the northern Syrian city from rebel fighters. (AFP
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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Author and columnist Edwin Black is touring the United States, Australia, and other democracies to promote the creation of a Covenant of Democratic Nations to replace the United Nations, the latter of which he describes as being so heavily influenced by anti-democratic, authoritarian regimes as to have outlived
Attorney and former MK Taleb el-Sana, who also chairs the Committee for the Fight Against the Supreme Court’s Supervision of Israeli Arabs, claimed infighting and murders in the Arab community are a “clear and direct result” of the Israeli government’s policy of not involving itself in the Arab communities. El-Sana, who is a Bedouin, also
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Middle EastJERUSALEM (Press Release) — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced Saturday that he will work to remove a street sign in the northern Israeli-Arab village of Jatt that is named after Yasser Arafat, former Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization and President of the Palestinian Authority. The street name attracted public attention following the complaints of a group
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Middle EastJordan executed 15 people on Saturday, including 10 people convicted on terrorism charges in the largest mass execution in the country’s recent history, Reuters reports. Government spokesman Mohammad al Momani was quoted as having told state media those executed included one man who was convicted of an attack last year on an intelligence compound near
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Middle EastState media in Iran says the military has tested a Russian-made air defence system. Moscow suspended delivery of the system back in 2010 after objections from the US and Israel. But Russia ended up handing over the system last year, almost 10 years after the lucrative contract was first signed. Last year a landmark nuclear
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International, Middle EastAn official delegation from the United States Congress will arrive in Israel for a 24-hour visit on Saturday, in order to discuss the potential move of the American embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. The delegation is on behalf of the Subcommittee on National Security of the House of Representatives, and it is expected to
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Middle East, USAIn preparation for the upcoming holiday of Purim, the rabbis of the stringent Eida Haharedit group which rejects Zionism and any connection with the state, including refraining from voting or accepting National Insurance payments, called on haredi parents not to allow their children to dress up as soldiers or police officers. In their letter, they
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Middle EastTwelve people, including women and children, are being treated for possible exposure to chemical weapons agents in Mosul, where the Islamic State group is fighting off an offensive by US-backed Iraqi forces, an United Nations agency said on Saturday. The UN’s World Health Organization (WHO) said all 12 patients had been received since March 1
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Middle EastBy Dorothea Shefer-Vanson ABU GHOSH, Israel — On a sunny Saturday morning, Israel’s official day of rest (the country has not yet officially adopted the two-day weekend) I got into my car and drove to the nearby Arab village of Abu Ghosh. For the village, which is situated some fifteen kilometers outside Jerusalem, well within
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Middle EastA teenager who attacked a Jewish teacher in France with a machete a year ago was sentenced to seven years in jail on Thursday by a French juvenile court, Reuters reported, citing judicial sources. The 17-year-old was convicted at a closed-doors trial for slightly wounding the teacher, who was wearing a kippah while walking to
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