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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Middle East, USABy 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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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
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, Shoshana Bryen, Stephen D. Bryen, USAReport: 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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Middle EastThe 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 EastBy 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, USAObama refused to help Iranian opposition in 2009, book says (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) U.S. President Barack Obama decided not to support the Iranian opposition during the 2009 elections to protect secret negotiations he was holding with Tehran on its nuclear program, a recently published book alleges. The Iran Wars by Jay Solomon of The
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Middle EastThe United States on Tuesday called on Americans in the Gaza Strip to leave the coastal enclave “as soon as possible.” Palestinians militant and the Israeli military have not engaged in a conflict since the seven-week war that began in July 2014 and left more than 2,200 Palestinians and 70 Israelis dead but flare-ups have
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Middle East, USAThe US Vice President Joe Biden has voiced support for Turkey during the highest-level visit by a Western diplomat since the failed coup in mid-July. It comes as anti-Western sentiment has soared in the country: governments have been criticised for being slow in condemning the coup. Many Turks suspect the US was involved in some
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Middle East, USAIsraeli soldier hurt in Palestinian stabbing attack (JNS.org) An Israeli soldier was lightly hurt in a stabbing attack by a Palestinian terrorist near the Jewish community of Yitzhar in the Shomron Regional Council south of Nablus on Wednesday afternoon. According to the IDF, the attack began as a Palestinian vehicle was throwing rocks at
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Middle EastPalestinian Authority (PA) chairman Mahmoud Abbas, who also heads the Fatah movement, on Monday expressed support for Palestinian Arab terrorists serving sentences in Israeli prisons during a meeting of the Fatah Central Committee in Ramallah. A statement released at the end of the meeting said that Fatah seeks the release of all Palestinian prisoners, and
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Middle EastA top Tunisian singer and reality TV judge is under fire for appearing in a photograph alongside an Israeli soldier, AFP reported Tuesday. Saber Rebai, a performer known throughout the Arab world and a judge on the Arabic version of “The Voice”, said he was unaware the soldier was Israeli and rejected any acceptance of
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Middle EastYarden Gerbi, one of the two Israeli medalists from the Rio Olympics, has decided to auction off her name patch from the games in order to raise money for a children’s cancer ward. In a post on her Facebook page, Gerbi tells of the first time she pursued a similar initiative, and her personal motives
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