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Medical Community Demands End to Syria Hospital Attacks

August 27, 2016

Nearly two dozen doctors from around the world have penned an open letter to President Barack Obama, Prime Minister Theresa May, Chancellor Angela Merkel other heads of state calling for an immediate stop to attacks on medical facilities and health professionals in Syria. The letter, which includes the signatures of two Nobel Prize winners, comes […]

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Saudi Prince Says He Helped Trump

August 27, 2016

Donald Trump may like to criticize Hillary Clinton for her family’s acceptance of donations from foreign governments while serving as secretary of state but a Saudi prince is alleging that the Republican front-runner has taken foreign money himself to get out of tight binds. Prince Al-Waheed Bin Talal told Turkey’s Hurriyet newspaper that he has

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Abbas warned: Don’t let Hamas win local elections

August 27, 2016

Palestinian Authority (PA) chairman Mahmoud Abbas has been warned that Hamas is about to win local elections in Judea and Samaria in a landslide and urged to cancel them, Israel”s Channel 2 News reported Friday. But despite those warnings, Abbas is determined to go through with the elections, according to the report. The local elections

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Iran blasts Kerry for saying it supports rebels in Yemen

August 27, 2016

Iran on Friday denied American accusations it has delivered missiles to Yemeni rebels, retorting it was U.S. support for a Saudi-led coalition backing the government that had prolonged the conflict, AFP reported. Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said the comments by Secretary of State John Kerry on a visit to Saudi Arabia on Thursday were

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White House: Iran’s actions in the Gulf a cause for concern

August 27, 2016

Actions by Iranian vessels in several encounters with U.S. warships in the Gulf this week are cause for concern and increase risks of miscalculation, the White House said on Friday, according to Reuters. On Thursday, it was revealed that a U.S. Navy coastal patrol ship fired three warning shots at an Iranian ship that sailed

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NATO Must Act to Halt Turkey’s Fall Into Putin’s Arms

August 27, 2016

I was walking along a beach in northern Istanbul just recently, after the July 15 coup attempt, when I was jarred by a Cold War image. Wedged into the sandstone cliffs lining the beach were two abandoned gun emplacements, which silently spoke of how this golden stretch of sand was once part of NATO’s first

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Coalition crisis averted as Shabbat work on train lines limited

August 26, 2016

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu averted a brewing coalition crisis Friday morning, settling a government dispute over infrastructure work by Israel”s train system on Shabbat. The haredi parties, Shas and United Torah Judaism, had issued an ultimatum Thursday evening, demanding the Prime Minister restrict work by the state-owned rail company during the Jewish holy day. Giving

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Jewish Religion, Middle East

‘A Clinton victory will be the death of Israel’

August 26, 2016

Actress, comedian, and reality TV star Roseanne Barr blasted Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton this week, warning that a Clinton victory would “be the absolute death of Israel”. Barr, best known for her eponymously named sit-com Roseanne which ran from 1988 to 1997, was raised in a Jewish family in Salt Lake City Utah. A

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BDS advocates try to divide Diaspora Jews from Israel

August 26, 2016

By Barry Shaw NETANYA, Israel — In my book Fighting Hamas, BDS and Anti-Semitism I detail the discovery of a new strain of anti-Semitism that I noticed in Europe, namely the urge by haters to drive a wedge between the local Jew and the Jewish State. I wrote of several examples of the modern form of

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Bombing Hasakah

August 26, 2016

By Shoshana Bryen and Stephen Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — Last week, two Syrian government Su-24 airplanes bombed the Kurdish-held areas of the city of Hasakah. The attack was unexpected. The Kurds have operated semi-autonomously in Syria because their pressure on ISIS has been helpful to Damascus, and because the Kurdish agenda has been primarily regional

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Iran swarms torpedo boats against USS Nitze

August 26, 2016

By Shoshana Bryen and Stephen Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — The United States was humiliated this week when the USS Nitze came under simulated attack by four Iranian missile and torpedo-equipped speedboats in international waters. Despite American warnings, radio calls, flares and foghorns, two of the boats came within a few hundred yards of the Nitze.

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Middle East Roundup: August 26, 2016

August 26, 2016

Report: Egypt blocked UN endorsement of Quartet report (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) The American and European effort to have the U.N. adopt the recent Quartet report on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict was derailed by Egypt, the Walla news website reported Friday. Quoting Western diplomats, the report said the EU and the United States wanted the

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Haredi ultimatum: Our shabbat, or your coalition

August 25, 2016

The heads of the haredi parties, Ministers Arye Deri (Shas), Yaakov Litzman (UTJ), and MK Moshe Gafni (UTJ) sent an urgent letter to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Thursday evening, bearing an ultimatum: gives us our Shabbat, or we take your coalition. Haredi MKs have been in an uproar these past few days over the

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Jewish Religion, Middle East

Americans, Israelis living on borders of culture

August 25, 2016

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — We’re all on the borders of cultures. We express the condition by where we travel, with whom we deal, and how we deal with those who are different from ourselves. Staying close to home and minding our own business are conventional ways of dealing with strangers, some of whom may

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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USA

Medical Community Demands End to Syria Hospital Attacks

Saudi Prince Says He Helped Trump

Abbas warned: Don’t let Hamas win local elections

Iran blasts Kerry for saying it supports rebels in Yemen

White House: Iran’s actions in the Gulf a cause for concern

NATO Must Act to Halt Turkey’s Fall Into Putin’s Arms

Coalition crisis averted as Shabbat work on train lines limited

‘A Clinton victory will be the death of Israel’

BDS advocates try to divide Diaspora Jews from Israel

Bombing Hasakah

Iran swarms torpedo boats against USS Nitze

Middle East Roundup: August 26, 2016

Haredi ultimatum: Our shabbat, or your coalition

Americans, Israelis living on borders of culture

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