At least 239 migrants, believed to be from West Africa, have died in two shipwrecks off Libya, a spokesman for the United Nations migration agency, said on Thursday. One group of migrants, including about 20 women and six children, set off in a rubber dinghy from Libya around 3 am on Wednesday, but their boat
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International, Middle EastSpeaking at an international forum last week, Russian President Vladimir Putin praised Israel”s anti-terror efforts, suggesting the United States could learn much from the Jewish state. In an address to the Valdai International Discussion Club, the Russian leader offered a critique of American foreign policy, particularly with regards to the Middle East and the spread
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International, Middle East, USAThe State Department on Wednesday issued a scathing condemnation of Israel after it issued building permits for 181 new homes in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Gilo, located in the southern part of the city. Jerusalem spokeswoman Brachie Sprung said plans in Gilo were first approved in 2012 and that Wednesday’s approvals were for “technical details
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Middle East, USADonald Trump would ask the Justice Department to investigate the intimidation of pro-Israel and Jewish students on American college campuses if elected president, according to a report by the Algemeiner news site. “Colleges are generally being far too lenient in allowing the pro-Palestinian community to deprive those in the pro-Israel camp of their First Amendment
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Middle East, USAIf love means never having to say you are sorry, then the renewed push for the U.K. to “atone” for the 1917 Balfour Declaration is yet another reminder of the bad blood between Israelis and Palestinians—and of how elusive peace remains. Today, on 99th anniversary of the letter, which endorsed “the establishment in Palestine of
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International, Jewish History, Middle EastNovember 1, 2016: Siamak Morsadegh, “the number one Jew” in Iran, was recently sent to Paris as a part of the delegation led by Alaeddin Boroujerdi, Chairman of the Iranian Parliament’s Foreign Policy and National Security Committee. Boroujerdi introduced Morsadegh as the only Jewish MP of Iran and said that he was honored by his
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International, Middle EastThe gruesome death of a fishmonger in Morocco last week has triggered the country’s largest protests in years, stirring memories of the death of a Tunisian vendor in 2010 which is often regarded as the spark that set the Arab Spring in motion. Thousands of Moroccans took to the streets in a northern city on
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Middle EastSANTA CRUZ, California — More than 175 faculty members and 47 religious, civil rights, education and research organizations representing thousands of concerned students, parents and alumni on Tuesday Nov. 1, wrote to the top official at the University of California, UC President Janet Napolitano, demanding she stop faculty from using the classroom as a pulpit
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USABy Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — When I came to live in Israel fifty years ago, and even before that on my occasional visits to the country, my father equipped me with a typewritten list of names and addresses of relatives. I dutifully visited most of them, and so I got to know the numerous
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, International, Jewish History, Middle East, Travel and FoodLebanon’s new president vows to retake ‘Israeli-occupied’ land (JNS.org) The Lebanese parliament elected Michael Aoun as its president Monday, ending a two-and-half-year vacuum that threatened to destabilize the highly sectarian country. Aoun, 81, is a retired general from the Lebanese Civil War and a polarizing figure whose Christian political party, the Free Patriotic Movement, is
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Middle EastAfter a two-and-a-half year vacancy, the position of Lebanese head of state was finally filled Monday when veteran politician and former general Michel Aoun was elected president by parliament. An octogenarian former general, Aoun has long eyed the presidency, a position that must be filled by a Maronite Christian under Lebanon’s confessional political system. With
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Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — We don’t live in a world of clear contrasts, whether we call them blacks and whites, or good and evil. Israel’s relations with its neighbors have evolved over the course of 70 years to something that is far more subtle and nuanced than what is expressed by intense nationalists or
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastThis article was originally published by International Business Times. On my first morning in Tel Aviv, I happened upon the Albi Cafe, infamous as a hub for left-wing activism. I wanted to speak to both Palestinian and Israeli women about feminist cooperation, and whether it is possible to work together to challenge male violence and
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Middle EastSandra Solomon was looking ‘for money and fame’ and she ‘found it with the Zionists,’ her kin say By Dov Lieber Sandra Solomon, a Palestinian woman who converted to Christianity and advocates for Israel. (Screenshot) The niece of a top official in the Palestinian Fatah party who was a close confidant of the late PA
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