Iranian officials continue to verbally attack Israel and wish for its destruction. On Thursday, Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said they envisage a Jerusalem in 25 years from now when “no Israel would be present on the map,” Haaretz reported. The Iranian military organization made the remarks in a statement quoted by Iran’s Mehr news agency. The […]
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Middle EastA Palestinian family is suing the French company Exxelia Technologies for selling weapons parts to Israel. Ynet reports that the Shuheibar family from Gaza City filed the suit through the Ancile-avocats law firm and with help from the Christian organization ACAT. The lawyers claim that Exxelia is complicit in war crimes and manslaughter. According to
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International, Middle EastTen years since it was first created, the UN Human Rights Council is facing a stark moment of truth. The credibility of the world’s top human rights body, which was set up to ensure that it is able to effectively address human rights violations without being undermined by geopolitics and competing national interests, is being
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International, Middle EastRepublican presidential candidate Donald Trump on Thursday reiterated his support for Israel and said that, as President, he would “protect Israel 100 percent”. Trump’s comments, quoted by The Washington Free Beacon, came in response to a question by an anti-Israel man who attended his New Hampshire rally. The man took the microphone during the question-and-answer
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Middle East, USAPresumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has condemned the “heinous murder” of a 13-year-old Israeli girl stabbed to death in her sleep by a Palestinian terrorist Thursday. “I am shocked by the heinous murder of 13 year old Hallel Yaffa Ariel, who was attacked by a Palestinian terrorist while she was sleeping in her bedroom,”
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Middle East, USAThe U.S. accepted more than 2,300 Syrian refugees in June alone, sending the fiscal year total soaring past the 5,000 mark and putting the government on track to surpass President Obama’s goal of 10,000 by the end of September, but raising questions about screening out potential terrorists. June’s numbers set a monthly record for the
By Morton Klein and Daniel Mandel NEW YORK — One day not perhaps not far off, there will be another war between Israel and Hizballah, the Iranian terrorist proxy in Lebanon. One might assume that any future clash will be similar to past ones –– Israel struck by disruptive and occasionally lethal rocket attacks, and
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By Chana Miller PETACH TIKVAH, Israel – “Good morning” Simple words. We say them every day. Most people are hardly aware of the greeting by neighbors or fellow workers. But for a small group of women at Ezer Mizion, the words mean everything. They represent the Good Morning program, a visual art workshop for cancer
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationIDF adopts new mobile phone for transferring classified information (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) After more than a decade in which the Mountain Rose served as the secure operational mobile network of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), the Israeli military is poised to adopt a new device from Motorola that will allow the transfer of
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By Joe Spier CALGARY, Alberta, Canada— It is a short hour and a half plane ride by EL Al from Tel Aviv to Cairo as we, four Calgarians, in the year 2010, leave the Israel part of our trip and embark upon our Egyptian adventure. To sail down the Nile, the longest river in the
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International, Middle EastCanada has lodged a formal complaint with the Palestinian Authority over its chairman Mahmoud Abbas’s recent accusations against Israel, The National Post reported. The move came after Abbas alleged in a speech to the European Parliament in Brussels last week that Israeli rabbis had plotted to murder Palestinians by poisoning their wells. “Just a week
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International, Middle EastTurkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday night blasted the IHH organization which was behind the May 2010 flotilla to Gaza that sparked the crisis between Israel and Turkey. “Did you ask me before you set sail? Did you ask my permission,” Erdogan said at Wednesday’s iftar meal, according to Haaretz. The attack came after
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Middle EastIsrael”s Mission to the United Nations on Wednesday called for the return of United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) peacekeepers to the Israel-Syrian border in the Golan Heights, amid fears Iran and the ISIS terror group are looking to gain a foothold on the Syrian side of the prized strategic area. The UNDOF force, which
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Middle EastWASHINGTON — The Anti-Defamation League commended the Democratic National Convention’s draft party platform Wednesday for opposing the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel and supporting America’s commitment to Israel’s security and a negotiated two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. “The draft platform rightly frames a negotiated two state solution as in the interests
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