Shimon 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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Middle East, USAFormer Israeli president Shimon Peres appeared to criticize Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, saying that carrying out his isolationist foreign policy vision would be “a very great mistake.” In an interview with Bloomberg quoted by JTA, Peres did not refer to the Republican presidential nominee by name. But when asked about Trump”s statements on foreign
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Middle East, USASyria’s war-torn city of Aleppo has been ravaged by intense fighting in recent days as rebels seek to ease a government siege and cut off the regime’s access route into the rest of the northern province. Footage has emerged of the bombing of a hospital in the city by regime forces, who have struck the
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Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — What has caused the mess we’re in? Who knows? First problem: each of us defines the mess in a different way. Is it Islam, Obama, Hillary, Donald, Bibi, overpopulation, or global warming? Maybe it’s the Jews or the Palestinians. Some think that if one or the other, or both were
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International, Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USATel Aviv serves as Israel’s most culturally diverse location and the Middle East’s most LGBT-friendly city, a place where every year thousands descend for the Pride march on the Mediterranean coast. But the city will now be left without an exclusive hotspot for this community after its last gay bar closed its doors Saturday. Evita,
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Middle EastHapoel Jerusalem formally announced Monday that center Amar’e Stoudemire has agreed to a two-year contract with the Israeli League team. Stoudemire, who retired from the NBA after spending this past season with the Miami Heat, is a part-owner of Hapoel Jerusalem. In a first-person piece for The Players’ Tribune website, Stoudemire, 33, wrote of stepping
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