By Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — The Palestinians know, of course, that they cannot defeat Israel and that the rest of the world, including their Muslim coreligionists, won’t come to their aid. In order to keep the myth alive that the Jews are colonialist imposters who’ve grabbed Palestinian land – without any historic or moral […]
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International, Middle EastPolice have arrested three Jewish youths over the past few weeks on suspicion of attacking an Arab worker near the Jerusalem Even Sapir neighborhood. A police investigation revealed that the three met the Arab worker as he was riding to work on a donkey about a month ago. The youths allegedly teased and harassed the
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Middle EastIstanbul (dpa) – A suicide bomber targeted a funeral on Saturday in a mostly Shiite neighbourhood of northern Baghdad, killing at least 34 people and injuring more than 35, al-Sumaria television reported. The Islamic State claimed the attack, the radical Sunni extremist group’s Amaq news agency said. The blast in the Shaab area of the
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Middle EastIsrael”s UN Ambassador, Danny Danon, on Friday blasted leftist organizations Peace Now and B”Tselem for taking part in a UN Security Council meeting on Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria. The members of the Security Council had convened the special meeting, entitled “Illegal Israeli Settlements: Obstacles to Peace and the Two-State Solution” and initiated by
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International, Middle EastIslamic State group supporters ambushed Egypt’s security forces at a checkpoint Friday, killing 12 law enforcement officials and injuring eight others in the North Sinai province, Reuters reported. It was the first major attack in the central Sinai area, signaling that the militant group also known as ISIS may be extending its reach in Egypt.
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Middle EastSyria”s President, Bashar Al-Assad, claimed on Thursday that there is “no contradiction” between Israel and jihadist groups such as the Islamic State (ISIS). Assad was speaking in an interview with the Russian newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda and was responding to a question regarding Israel and ISIS. “For me, it”s a very strange thing,” the interviewer said,
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Middle EastNewly appointed UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told FRANCE 24 Saturday that resolving Syria’s five-and-a-half-year civil war would be his top priority. This war “became not only a tragedy for the Syrian people, but a big threat for the stability of the region, and a threat to the security of everybody everywhere”, the former UN high
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International, Middle EastThe Islamic State group has crushed a rebellion plot in its stronghold city of Mosul in Iraq, Reuters reported Friday. The conspiracy was reportedly lead by one of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s own aides, who along with 57 others, were executed for treason. The accused were drowned and their bodies dumped in a
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Middle EastBy Joe Spier CALGARY, Alberta, Canada — At 10 o’clock in the morning on April 16, 2007 sirens sounded all over Israel and the country came to a standstill, people stopped what they were doing, pulled over in their cars and stood in remembrance. It was Yom Hashoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, the day to remember
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By Toby Klein Greenwald EFRAT, Israel — In Becoming a Soulful Educator, by Rabbi Aryeh Ben David, every chapter has “aha” moments and statements that you will want to frame and hang on your wall, and he is liberal in attributing ideas to those who have inspired him – Rav Avraham Yitzhak Kook, Peter Palmer,
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, Toby Klein GreenwaldBy Barry Shaw NETANYA, Israel — UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization voted on 13th October against the very principles that it was created. UNESCO was founded in 1945 after World War Two to establish humanity’s moral and intellectual solidarity. It says it strives to build networks among nations to enable this
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International, Jewish History, Middle East, USAAnother woman murdered in Lod leaves campaigners arguing over how to classify such deaths, to prevent dismissing them as an ‘Arab problem’ By Melanie Lidman Dua’a Abu Sharkh had been looking forward to September 23, 2016, for months. After an ugly separation from her husband, Abu Sharkh had lost custody of her four children, aged
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Middle EastLooking to boost tourism, 200-passenger luxury liner to offer short jaunts between Israeli cities By Jessica Steinberg Inaugurating the new pleasure cruise ship line between Acre and Haifa, launched by the Ministry of Tourism, and which will run twice a day, seven days a week (Courtesy Itamar Grinberg) Looking for the perfect cruise? There’s no
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Middle East, Travel and FoodIsrael suspended cooperation with UNESCO on Friday after the UN cultural organisation adopted two resolutions on annexed east Jerusalem ahead of a final vote next week. In a letter sent to UNESCO Director General Irina Bokova, Education Minister Naftali Bennett accused the body of ignoring “thousands of years of Jewish ties to Jerusalem” and aiding
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