Egypt wants to host direct talks between Israel and the Palestinians in Cairo with the participation of senior Egyptian and Jordanian officials, officials told Haaretz late Sunday, following the visit of Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry to Israel. The goal of the talks will be to develop a package of confidence-building measures that would lead […]
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Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansksy JERUSALEM — Pity our American friends. And–given the importance of the US–pity the rest of us. Friends and family have to choose between Hillary and Donald, both of whom should be in retirement homes, neither close to anything important. If someone less well connected had fiddled with the email in the manner
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International, Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USA(AFP) The Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad targeted and killed US reporter Marie Colvin in February 2012 to stop her from covering government atrocities, according to a lawsuit filed in US court on Saturday. The Syrian military intercepted Colvin’s communications and unleashed a barrage of rocket fire on her in the besieged city of Homs,
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Middle East, USAA 21 minute audio file has surfaced online, in which the Hamza Bin Laden, the son of Al Qaeda founder Osama Bin Laden, threatened the U.S. for assassinating his father. According to Reuters, the file, entitled “We are All Osama,” features Hamza Bin Laden in a 21-minute speech threatening attacks on the U.S. and its
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International, Middle East, USASome one thousand Israelis marched in defiance Sunday, at a protest rally from the site of the deadly drive-by shooting which claimed the life of Rabbi Michael Mark 10 days ago, to his hometown of Otniel in Har Hevron. The demonstrators called on the government to act decisively to end the ongoing wave of Arab
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Middle EastThe Israel Prisons Service parole board is to meet next Wednesday to discuss a request for early release by disgraced former president Moshe Katsav, who is serving time for rape and other sexual abuses. Three months after his last parole bid was rejected, the president was scheduled to appear before the board on July 20
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Middle EastTel Aviv (dpa) – Israel is to host Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry on Sunday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced, in the first such visit in nearly a decade. Netanyahu said he would meet Shoukry twice, in the afternoon and evening. “I am pleased to announce that Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry will arrive today
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Middle EastZionist Union chairman MK Yitzhak Herzog said on Saturday that the Labor party primaries will be held in the second half of 2017. “The party’s Central Committee will convene in the coming weeks, and decide when the primaries for the party leadership will take place. If they decide I am not good enough to lead
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Middle EastThe US Democratic party’s slide toward an increasingly anti-Israel position, led by Senator Bernie Sanders, has been halted, at least temporarily. During a meeting of the Democratic party drafting committee Saturday, supporters of Senator Sanders proposed an amendment to the Democratic party platform which would urge an “end to occupation and illegal settlements,” in Judea
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Middle East, USAFormer Palestinian Authority Prime Minister and senior Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh denied on Friday reports that the Hamas regime in Gaza had opened negotiations with Israel over the return of the bodies of two IDF soldiers murdered in 2014. The bodies of Hadar Goldin and Oron Shaul, who were killed by Hamas terrorists in 2014,
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Middle EastA tunnel collapse in the Gaza Strip on Sunday killed a member of the terror group Islamic Jihad’s armed wing, it said, in the latest in a series of such incidents. The collapse occurred in the northern Gaza Strip, the Al-Quds Brigades said in a statement, without providing further details. It identified the terrorist killed
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Middle EastBy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM–Several aspiring politicians who’d like to replace Binyamin Netanyahu as prime minister are assuming/hoping that the present coalition won’t last its full term. Despite the recent addition of Avigdor Lieberman and his party in order to strengthen the government majority (from 61-59 to 66-54) things remain unstable. The issue over non-Orthodox
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Middle EastA defiant Iran declared on Saturday it will continue its ballistic missile program, even after UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon said that the missile tests are not in the spirit of the country’s landmark nuclear deal with world powers, The Associated Press reports. “Iran will strongly continue its missile program based on its own defense and
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International, Middle East, USAAn elderly Jewish couple in Morocco were murdered in their Casablanca home last week. The killer then dismembered their bodies and disposed of the parts in different areas across the city. According to Moroccan media, the couple’s gardener was arrested by police and has confessed to the crime, which he said he committed due to
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