It’s not unusual for Saudi Arabia and Iran to spit vitriol at each other. But relations have now plummeted to a new low: Saudi Arabia’s top cleric has ruled that Iran’s leaders are simply not Muslim. Iran has said Saudi Arabia cannot be trusted with custodianship of the Holy Places of Islam. These are more
“You’re not Muslims!” Iran and Saudi Arabia in new war of words. Read More »
Middle EastCorrection: 7th paragraph should read…As he does so, Amar pulls open the car door… A dramatic video published Wednesday shows the moment that the mayor of a northern Galilee town shot and killed an assailant during a violent confrontation in a parking lot Monday. Salman Amar, the head of the town of Julis, is accused
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Middle EastBy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — The East European Jewish ghetto is said to have had only one criterion for evaluating world events: Gut far di Yidn oder shlecht far di Yidn? Is it good for the Jews or is it bad for the Jews? Israel is determined to be as far away from the
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Middle EastIsraeli energy minister courting top foreign energy firms (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) Israel is courting foreign investors ahead of a planned natural gas and oil explorations tender the Energy Ministry plans to issue in November, Israel Hayom learned Wednesday. Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz is currently visiting London, meeting with dozens of energy and financial services
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Middle EastBy Alon Ben-Meir NEW YORK–Israel’s continued settlement activity—whether retroactively approving ‘unauthorized’ outposts or advancing plans for new units as was recently announced—represents yet another nail in the coffin of the peace process. The settlements have become nothing but Israel’s self-entrapment, threatening its very existence. Prime Minister Netanyahu and his coalition partners, however, are not concerned
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Alon Ben-Meir, Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — The police chief got himself into trouble with a comment about police officers being more likely to stop Ethiopians than other Israelis. He said it was natural, given the suspicions of the police on the street, and the well known information that recent immigrants, the world over, are more likely
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Middle East, Obituaries & memorialsWASHINGTON — Anti-Israel activism on college campuses in the US is shifting away from efforts to push for a boycott of the Jewish state to more dramatic displays of anti-Israel sentiment, such as disruption of events, a report released Tuesday shows. However, the annual report by the Israel on Campus Coalition, reviewing the 2015-16 academic
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA[video:2018925] Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu met Wednesday afternoon with Dutch journalists during his visit to the Dutch parliament in The Hague. Most of the press conference was dedicated to questions regarding the Israeli-Arab conflict and the refusal of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to recognize Israel as a Jewish state. “Their problem is not
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International, Middle EastSeveral Egyptian lawmakers want a member of parliament to be referred to that body’s ethics panel after his assertion that the country should continue the practice of female genital mutilation (FGM) because half the Egyptian men “are impotent.” According to the Al-Mesryoon website, the politicans want Elhamy Agina to be referred to the panel for
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Middle EastKnesset Member Ahmed Tibi of the Joint Arab List recently visited terrorist mastermind Marwan Barghouti in the Hadarim prison. Voice of Israel correspondent Gal Berger reports that Barghouti told Tibi that he supports holding local elections in the PA-controlled territories, and added that these local elections must lead to general parliamentary and presidential elections. The
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Middle EastWill Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority (PA) chairman Mahmoud Abbas meet? Both leaders said on Tuesday they were willing to meet to relaunch peace efforts, but no date was set and they traded blame for stalled talks. Netanyahu, speaking at The Hague with Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, stressed again he was willing
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Middle EastThe High Court issued an interim order this afternoon (Tuesday) barring the Prime Minister from intervening to prevent railroad work on Shabbat. Only the Labor Minister can make that decision, the courts decided. The order stated that the Prime Minister had issued a directive to the Israeli Railway Authority instructing them not to work on
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Middle EastRepublican nominee Donald Trump said Monday that if he is not elected as the U.S. president Israel would cease to exist as a country because of the Iranian nuclear deal. Trump told labor leaders in Cleveland on Monday, according to The Columbus Dispatch that the deal to slow down Iran’s nuclear programme in return for
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