Middle East

Republican Jewish Coalition says Kaine no friend to Israel

By Fred Brown WASHINGTON, D.C. —   With the nomination of Tim Kaine for Vice President, the Democrat Party has made it their priority is to continue the same failed foreign policies of the Obama Administration. Whether it’s support for the Iran nuclear deal, to a lack of support for Israeli military funding, the Clinton-Kaine ticket threatens to widen the gap […]

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Middle East, USA

U.S. State Department blasts Israeli building program

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. State Department spokesman John Kirby on Wednesday, July 27, issued the following statement about Israeli construction activity in disputed territory. “We are deeply concerned by reports today that the Government of Israel has published tenders for 323 units in East Jerusalem settlements.  This follows Monday’s announcement of plans for 770 units

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Middle East, USA

Danny Glover: Clinton and Sanders united on Israel

PHILADELPHIA — One of Senator Bernie Sanders’s most prominent celebrity supporters has taken his call to rally behind Hillary Clinton for the sake of defeating her Republican challenger. Actor Danny Glover, who has starred in films like “Lethal Weapon,” “The Color Purple,” “Angels in the Outfield” and “The Royal Tenenbaums,” arrived to the Philadelphia Convention

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Middle East, USA

EU questions Israel’s «long-term intentions» as settlement progresses

Brussels (dpa) – The European Union on Tuesday called into question Israel’s intentions for the future, after progress was made on a controversial project to build 770 housing units in the East Jerusalem settlement of Gilo. The move comes despite the EU, the United Nations, the United States and Russia calling in early July for

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International, Middle East

Yaalon: Palestinians believe all of Israel is a ‘settlement’

Former Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon blasted Israel”s political establishment, Palestinian irredentism, and Israeli supporters of the land-for-peace formula on Wednesday in a speech at Bar Ilan University. The ex-Likud minister, who bolted the party after losing the Defense Ministry to Yisrael Beytenu Chief Avigdor Liberman, made a thinly-veiled jab at Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, railing

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Middle East

Israel’s new F-35 ‘Adir’ takes to the skies

On its maiden flight at US manufacturer Lockheed-Martin, Israel’s first F-35 Lightning II “Adir” (Hebrew for “Great One”) passed all tests, and is due to be delivered in December. A lighter version of the F-22, the F-35 Lightning II Adir has top-of-the-line stealth technology, highly sensitive sensors of every kind, and fuel-optimizing computer systems to

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Middle East, USA

Jewish Dems urged to reach out to Trump-wary Jewish Republicans

PHILADELPHIA – The Democratic National Committee rallied Jewish activists attending their party’s nominating convention in Philadelphia, telling them to reach out to Jewish conservatives who may have reservations about voting for Republican contender businessman Donald Trump. “We have all had our differences with Republican nominees, but here you have one who is so far from

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Middle East, USA

Defeating ISIS and ending Sunni-Shiite war in Iraq

By Alon Ben-Meir NEW YORK — Now that Iraqi forces, with the support of the international coalition, are gearing up to recapture Mosul — ISIS’s  last major stronghold in Iraq–the question that looms high is what will be the fate of the Iraqi Sunni community following ISIS’s inevitable defeat? I maintain that unless the political discussion begins

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Alon Ben-Meir, Middle East, USA