In what many see as a final defiant diplomatic move, US President Barack Obama has allowed a UN resolution condemning Israeli settlements, a move highlighting the stark deterioration of US-Israeli relations The US abstained from a UN Security Council vote on Friday allowing all remaining 15 members of the Council to pass the first UN
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International, Middle East, USATunisia arrested the nephew of the suspected Berlin truck attacker and two other jihadist suspects who are “connected” to Anis Amri, the interior ministry said Saturday, as German investigators continued their hunt for possible accomplices. A statement said the three suspects, aged between 18 and 27, were arrested on Friday and were members of a
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International, Middle EastUpdates: 22:53 Hijackers of Libyan plane surrender, detained The two hijackers of a Libyan internal flight have surrendered, searched and taken into custody at the Malta International Airport, Maltese Prime Minister Joseph Muscat said Friday on Twitter. All of the 109 passengers and seven crew members had been released unharmed earlier. The Libyan plane, flying
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International, Middle EastBy Sean Savage/JNS.org UNITED NATIONS, nEW yoRK — With the U.S. abstaining from Friday’s vote, rather than exercising its veto power, the United Nations Security Council adopted a resolution condemning Israeli settlement construction beyond the 1967 lines. The resolution was put forward Friday by four non-permanent Security Council members—New Zealand, Malaysia, Venezuela and Senegal—just a
By Susie Rosenbluth TheJewishVoiceAndOpinion.com ENGLEWOOD, New Jersey — The symbol of Jerusalem’s Third Temple and its implications for Messianic Times, including world peace, universal brotherhood, and the end goal of the Jewish mission, looms large in Jewish, Christian, and even some Muslim traditions. According to the Bible, both the First and Second Temples stood on
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Middle EastEgyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Thursday night spoke with U.S. President-Elect Donald Trump, Sisi’s office said, according to Reuters. The call came hours after the UN Security Council postponed indefinitely a vote on Egypt’s draft resolution denouncing Israeli “settlements”. “During the call they discussed regional affairs and developments in the Middle East and in
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Middle East, USAThe delay, perhaps indefinitely, of the UN Security Council vote on an Egyptian-sponsored resolution ordering Israel to cease all “settlement activity” does not mean that the struggle against anti-Israel resolutions at the UN intended to harm Jewish rights in Judea and Samaria is finished, according to Israel’s ambassador to the UN, Danny Danon. “We are
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International, Middle East, USAAnis Amri, the chief suspect in Monday’s truck attack on a Berlin Christmas market, has been shot dead by police in Milan. Italian Interior Minister Marco Minniti told a news conference on Friday morning that Amri was killed during a shootout with police at 3am. Amri opened fire during a routine check when he was
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International, Middle EastThe United States was planning to abstain from the vote at the UN Security Council on a resolution which would have called on Israel to halt “settlement building”, U.S.-based media outlets reported on Thursday. Several diplomatic sources told NBC News that the outgoing Obama administration had planned to abstain from the vote, which would have
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Middle East, USARussian President Vladimir Putin had an exceptionally successful year, with Moscow making geostrategic gains in Syria, Europe as well as the US in 2016. What a difference a year makes. Back in 2015, things weren’t looking particularly good for Russia. With the country suffering from falling oil prices and sanctions for the annexation of Crimea,
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International, Middle East, USABerlin (dpa) – The main suspect in the Berlin Christmas market truck attack was reportedly filmed eight hours after the deadly incident, at a mosque apparently frequented by Islamist extremists. Local broadcaster rbb late Thursday published CCTV images of 24-year-old Tunisian Anis Amri in front of the building in the Moabit area, four kilometres from
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Story by Donald H. Harrison; Photo by Shor M. Masori SAN DIEGO – There are four factoids about Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei that discreet Iranians never talk about, certainly not in public, according to Oded Brosh, a former analyst in Israel’s prime minister’s office who now is serving as a visiting professor at San Diego
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Donald H. Harrison, Middle East, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, Shor M. MasoriThe body of the missing Israeli woman in Berlin, Dalia Elyakim, not seen since the murderous truck terror attack in the Christmas market, was identified last night. The Israeli embassy in Germany is working in coordination with the family to transfer the body to Israel. Dalia”s husband, Rami, is hospitalized as a result of the
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International, Middle EastLess than a week following revelations that MK Basel Ghattas (Joint List) had provided material aid to jailed Hamas terrorists, police placed Ghattas under arrest, taking him into custody Thursday evening following the latest round of questioning. After initially denying the claims, Ghattas admitted to police on Tuesday that he had in fact smuggled cellular
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