In an interview with Channel 10 on Friday, UNESCO chairman Michael Verbes said, “I am aware of the connection between Israel and Jerusalem, and I will never deny it. Jerusalem’s Old City and its walls are a UNESCO world heritage site since 1982, and have been recorded as being holy to three religions. This is
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Jewish History, Middle EastDefending his speech to Security Council, Hagai El-Ad says control over West Bank ‘isn’t an internal Israeli issue, but a major international issue’ By Raoul Wootliff B’Tselem director Hagai El-Ad. (Screen capture: YouTube) The head of human rights group B’Tselem hit back Sunday at criticism over his decision to speak out against Israeli settlement policy
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International, Middle EastThe prophesied “apocalyptic battle” for Dabiq did not come to fruition as Turkey-backed Syrian rebels rout ISIL from the village The ISIL stronghold near the Turkish border in northern Syria has been recaptured after a short offensive which began on Saturday. “The Daesh myth of their great battle in Dabiq is finished,” Ahmed Osman, head
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Middle EastUS Secretary of State John Kerry was trying to build momentum behind a new drive to end the Syrian civil war Sunday after high-level talks with Russia and the country’s neighbours. Kerry was due to fly to London to brief Washington’s European allies after “brainstorming” talks in Lausanne with the main players in Syria’s bloody
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International, Middle East, USAPugnacious Toronto reporter and unabashed Zionist Sue-Ann Levy takes no prisoners in her new book, ‘Underdog: Confessions of a Right-Wing Gay Jewish Muckraker’ By Robert Sarner TORONTO — When speaking of her three beloved dachshunds, veteran Toronto journalist Sue-Ann Levy describes them as “feisty.” It’s an attribute her many fans and detractors would readily associate
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International, Middle EastDespite a widespread government crackdown on dissent, some Egyptians are resorting to drastic measures to express their desperation over the food shortages and double-digit inflation that have made many of life’s necessities hard to come by. Nearly six years ago, a frustrated and destitute Tunisian street vendor, Mohamed Bouazizi, set himself ablaze, sparking a series
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Middle EastUS Secretary of State says summit was ‘candid and constructive,’ with more talks scheduled for coming days By AP and AFP L to R: Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, US Secretary of State John Kerry, and Saudi Arabia Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir take part in a meeting on Syria, in Lausanne, on October 15, 2016.
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International, Middle East, USABy 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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