Middle East

Kerry wants Aleppo war crimes probe as UN votes on French peace plan

The UN Security Council looks set to vote on a draft resolution over the weekend that calls for an immediate ceasefire across Syria and safe passage for the delivery of humanitarian aid. FM #Lavrov holds joint press conference w/ French FM Jean-Marc #Ayrault in Moscow, #Russia https://t.co/q4ubGo4Suh pic.twitter.com/fCSG8rDcp1— Rus Embassy in RSA (@EmbassyofRussia) October 7,

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International, Middle East

Maj. Ohad Cohen Nov, killed in F-16 crash, is buried in hometown Mazor

*/]]> */]]> */]]> Friends and relatives gathered Friday in Moshav Mazor, east of Tel Aviv, to bury an Israeli Air Force pilot who was killed when his F16 fighter jet crash-landed Wednesday. Maj. Ohad Cohen Nov, 34, was killed as his two-seater fighter returned from a bombing run against Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip.

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Middle East

Intercepted at sea, women’s boat to Gaza docks quietly in Israel

A boat full of women activists which was headed for the Gaza Strip before being intercepted and commandeered by the Israeli Navy on Wednesday has docked at the Israeli port of Ashdod without incident. The activists were transferred to authorities “for further processing,” the Israeli military said in a statement late Wednesday. The boat carrying

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International, Middle East

The Berkeley Intifada

Close For a Palestinian insurgent supposedly determined to see Israel destroyed, Paul Hadweh looks remarkably like his fellow students at the University of California, Berkeley. I met the 22-year-old senior on the rooftop of a campus building, overlooking the expanse of San Francisco Bay, which glimmered in the pure light of late afternoon. He wore

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Jewish History, Middle East, USA

Keeping Arab – Israeli tensions in perspective

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — It isn’t easy summarizing the relationships between Jews and Arabs in Israel, or extending that to Israeli Jews and Palestinians of the West Bank and Gaza. Animosity is more apparent than accommodation in most summaries of Israeli and Palestinian history. Yet accommodation has been more apparent than bloodshed. There has been

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Middle East, USA

Prince Charles secretly visited grandmother’s grave while in Jerusalem

Britain’s heir to the throne, Prince Charles of Wales, quietly visited his grandmother’s grave at a Jerusalem convent on Friday following his attendance at the funeral of former president Shimon Peres. Charles stopped at the Mount of Olives’ Church of Mary Magdalene before heading back to the UK, where his paternal grandmother Princess Alice of

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International, Middle East

Jewish billionaire detained to testify against Netanyahu

Jewish billionaire Ronald Lauder, who has been considered for many years to be a personal friend of Prime Minister Netanyahu, was taken for police questioning after he participated in Peres’ funeral, Channel 2 reported. The Israeli police requested that Lauder testify against the Netanyahu family. According to the report, Lauder, who is the president of

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Middle East, USA

‘No one was spared’ – a former Iranian political prisoner on the 1988 massacre he narrowly escaped

When I heard Canadian-Iranian professor Homa Hoodfar was released from the notorious Evin prison and left Iran safely after months of incarceration, I was relieved, as I have a sense of what she went through. In 1981, my political dissent and human rights activities landed me in Iranian prison for 11 years – six of

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Middle East