The fighting in Aleppo between government and rebel forces saw the largest rebel assault so far, according to monitoring group the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, followed by suspected chemical attacks on Tuesday the BBC reported. On July 30 and 31, the rebels blew up a tunnel under regime forces stationed in the Ramousah district […]
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Middle EastTwo prominent American Jewish historians sparked controversy this week with a scathing opinion piece in the left-leaning Haaretz newspaper attacking Zionism and Jewish support for the State of Israel. The article, published on the paper”s online edition on Monday, was co-authored by Hasia Diner, Director of New York University”s American Jewish history center, and Marjorie
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Middle East, USAOn January 16, when Iran released four U.S. citizens who had been arrested and imprisoned in the country, the administration of President Barack Obama agreed to release seven Iranians either jailed in the U.S. or facing charges. But according to a report Tuesday, there could be more to the seemingly simple prisoner swap deal than
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Middle East, USAThe radical “Black Lives Matter” movement released a formal platform on Monday, singling out Israel for what it calls the “genocide” against Palestinian Arabs and “Israeli Apartheid”. BLM, which emerged in the summer of 2013 following the acquittal of George Zimmerman, a Hispanic man who shot and killed an African American teenager in self-defense, aims
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Middle East, USAAn entertainment company in Lebanon accidentally featured a photo appearing to praise an Israeli soldier, as part of an advertisement campaign coinciding with Lebanese Army Day, and quickly apologized profusely. The Virgin Megastore’s Lebanese service Ticketing Box Office removed the ad, showing an IDF soldier looking into binoculars accompanied by the text “Keep your eyes
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Middle EastShimon Peres is optimistic, which isn’t remarkable except that he also lives in Israel, home to one of the world’s most intractable conflicts. The 93-year-old former Israeli president and Nobel Peace Prize laureate has witnessed the many clashes with Palestinians and neighboring Arab countries from its inception. Though once a proponent of settlements who was
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Middle EastTwo years ago today, on August 3, 2014, the world watched in horror as ISIS massacred the Yazidi ethnic and religious minority on Mount Sinjar, slaughtering Yazidi men and abducting Yazidi women and girls as sex slaves. Far from being an isolated atrocity, Sinjar marks the beginning of ISIS’s genocide of Yazidis and the world’s
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International, Middle East, USAIn deciding whether to formally prohibit plane sales that already seem commercially infeasible, Washington should consider one question: if the Islamic Republic is going to shoot itself in the foot, why refuse it the gun? In the continuing debate about the proposed Boeing and Airbus plane sales to Iran, the focus has been on whether
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Middle East, USASpeaking at a rally in Virginia US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has laid out some more controversial foreign policy stances. The US will push for air and ground safe zones in Syria he said, but it won’t pay for them, instead the rich Gulf states would. The safe zone policy is controversial because it
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Middle East, USATeva inks biggest deal in Israeli pharmaceutical industry’s history (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) Israeli pharmaceutical giant Teva announced Tuesday that it has finalized its acquisition of Dublin-based Allergan’s Actavis Global Generics for $40.5 billion. This is the biggest acquisition deal in the Israeli pharmaceutical industry’s history. As part of the deal, Teva Pharmaceutical Industries acquired
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Middle EastSilent in the night, the regional “Yehuda” brigade successfully completed a broad-scale operation in the Kfar Dura region, as part of their efforts to track down the killers of Rabbi Michael Mark, and their accomplices. Around a month ago, Rabbi Mark was driving on Highway 60 when a terrorist shot at his car, killing him,
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Middle EastThe Islamic State is targeting the U.S. Army, putting out a hit list of 700 soldiers and ordering its terror army to “kill the dogs.” United Cyber Caliphate (UCC), the Islamic State’s 3-month-old hacking consortium, has posted a number of such lists. Analysts say most names appear to be publicly available and randomly chosen as
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Middle East, USALast night, Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked of the Jewish Home party gave a speech before the Knesset plenum, during which she called on the haredi sector to integrate into the journalism profession in Israel. She cited the call of the late Minister Uri Orbach z”l, who, back in 1987, had encouraged “the best [to go
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Middle EastMark Langfan, Chairman of Americans for a Safe Israel (AFSI), commented Tuesday on the case of Lenny, the 90-year old Jew who spontaneously apologized to the daughter of a top Palestinian terrorist for so-called “Islamophobia,” when he bumped into her and her daughters at a Boston bookstore. Lenny’s apology was featured in a viral post
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