Foreign affairs experts are warning that the diplomatic upheavals caused by US President Obama’s conduct on the UN vote are not necessarily his last word on Israel. At the cabinet meeting yesterday the experts on foreign affairs presented a scenario in which Obama could even on his last day in office cause harm to Israel. […]
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Middle East, USAFatah’s official Facebook page posted a picture of “Palestine” last week. The picture includes the entirety of Israel painted in the colors of the PLO flag, being used to stab the word “settlement,” Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) reported. The text above the image reads “#Palestine will defeat the settlement.” After the UN Security Council unanimously
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Middle EastLeading Dutch politician Geert Wilders has criticized US president Barack Obama for not vetoing the Security Council resolution against Israel on Friday and advised Israel to ignore the UN resolution. Wilders, the founder and leader of the Dutch Freedom Party, who has dominated Dutch polls during the year of 2016, wrote on his Facebook page:”Obama
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International, Middle EastThe “Working and Studying Youth” movement and the Dror Israel Movement announced on Sunday the launch of Operation Human Warmth, aimed at collecting winter supplies to help Syrian children and women. The “Working and Studying Youth” movement (Noar Haoved Vehalomed) was founded in 1924, and holds the same beliefs as the “original” Zionists who founded
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Middle EastIsrael’s Ambassador to Ukraine, Eli Belotserkovsky, was summoned to the Foreign Ministry in Kiev following Israel’s decision to cancel the visit of Ukrainian Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman to Israel. Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu made the decision to cancel the visit of his counterpart as part of his policy of showing the nations which voted for
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International, Middle EastFormer Arkansas governor and presidential candidate Mike Huckabee, a supporter of US President-elect Donald Trump, will be headlining the upcoming “US-Israel Business Alliance” mission to Israel, led by the Orthodox Jewish Chamber of Commerce and its Executive Public Policy Committee – Dr. Joseph Frager, Odiliya Yakubuv, Dr. Paul Brody, and Duvi Honig- along with a
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Middle East, USAThe Hamas terrorist organization condemned a special candle lighting event in Bahrain in which Jews and Arabs danced together while lighting a Hanukkah menorah. Hamas called the dancing of Jews and Muslims together a “shameful spectacle”. The terrorist organization called on Bahrain to “put a complete end to any normalization of relations with the Zionist
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Middle Eastby jdledell From The Moderate Voice BASKING RIDGE, New Jersey — By now everyone has probably heard about the screams from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the Trump team over the UN condemnation, with U.S. abstention, of the Israeli settlements in the West Bank. The U.S abstention was a first for the Obama Administration
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Middle EastOn the feast of St Stephen, the first Christian martyr, Pope Francis paid tribute to Christians in the Middle East who have clung to their faith during persecution by Islamist militants. His message on Monday was heard by thousands in St Peter’s Square “Today we want to think of those who suffer persecution and to
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International, Middle EastMinister of the Environment and Jerusalem Affairs, Zeev Elkin (Likud) spoke with Arutz Sheva about the recent anti-Israel resolution in the UN that was not vetoed by the US. Elkin was asked how he relates to the criticism leveled against the prime minister that his conduct has isolated Israel in the world. Elkin said, “I
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International, Middle EastVideo of rabbis and kaffiyeh-clad Muslims dancing to Hasidic songs in Arab monarchy goes viral By Times of Israel staff The small Muslim monarchy of Bahrain hosted a ceremony to celebrate the first night of Hanukkah, and the resulting video of kaffiyeh-wearing sheikhs dancing with Orthodox Jews to Hasidic music has been going viral on
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Jewish Religion, Middle EastProfessor Simha Goldin took part on Sunday in the inauguration of a special memorial in memory of his son Hadar at the Amit School of Science in Kfar Batya in western Raanana. “Bringing back the body of an IDF soldier is not just a family concern. It”s a concern for the nation,” said Goldin. The
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Middle EastBy Steve Kramer ALFE MENASHE, Israel — Wake up! President Obama showed his true colors last week when he instructed US Ambassador Samantha Power to abstain on a Security Council resolution indicting Israel for building houses for Jews in the Jewish homeland, including in Jerusalem, the Jewish capital for 3,000 years. (Even the Western Wall
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International, Middle East, Steve KramerBy Lloyd Levy LONDON, England — The recent UN resolution 2334 will go down in Jewish history as one of the seemingly interminable attempts to destroy the Jews. That the United States should be complicit in the establishment of the resolution, as many people think, is disgraceful. Just as disgraceful is the fact that the
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