Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas met with Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi in Cairo Saturday amidst reports of a new Egyptian peace initiative and French plans to hold a summit on renewing Israeli-Palestinian negotiations. The two discussed the Palestinian demand for a unified Arab front at the Paris summit on June 3, calling for an Israeli […]
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Middle EastA group of Israelis and Palestinians has teamed up in a movement calling for a European-style confederation between Israel and a future state of Palestine, that would allow citizens from both sides of the conflict to live in either country but retain their original nationality. The “Two States, One Homeland” movement — the Israeli side
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International, Middle EastIn an article published on Wednesday for the 16th anniversary of Israel’s withdrawal from southern Lebanon, the Lebanese paper Al-Safir detailed the deployment of the Hezbollah terrorist organization on the border – and revealed the Iran-proxy is digging tunnels into Israel. The article, which was translated and exposed by MEMRI (Middle East Media Research Institute),
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Middle EastNEW YORK (Press Release)–The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) is appalled by the fact that Democratic presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders (D–VT) has chosen for his slate of five delegates to the 15-person Democratic Party Platform drafting committee, three figures who are well known hostile critics and even relentless haters of Israel: the academic Cornel
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Middle East, USANEW YORK (Press Release)– The leadership of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations (COP) on Friday, May 27, denounced the World Health Organization adoption of a one sided resolution which falsely accuses Israel of actions which prevent proper medical care for Palestinians living in the West Bank and Gaza. The resolution was based
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By Ken Segel JERUSALEM — I was in Jerusalem on Thursday, May 26, when the fire there raged through numerous communities. A day later, the Jerusalem forest that was ablaze in flames is still smoldering in places, but the immediate danger has passed. Thankfully no one was injured. 10 homes were damaged but not destroyed. More
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Middle EastBy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — An old joke has it that when a rabbi who knew both countries was asked to describe the difference between Israel and America, he said: “In Israel they give me advice and ask me for money; in America they give me money and ask for advice.” It was an
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International, Middle East, USAIsrael intercepts Gaza-bound supplies for weapons manufacturing (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) Israeli security forces thwarted the smuggling of a Gaza-bound shipment of supplies used in projectile manufacturing, the Israeli Defense Ministry said Thursday. The shipment, intended for the Hamas terror group, was supposed to be smuggled into Gaza through the Kerem Shalom crossing. It was
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Middle EastBangladesh police Thursday on charged a senior opposition official with sedition for allegedly plotting against the state when he met an Israeli government adviser, an official said, according to AFP. The move comes as Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s government is stepping up a crackdown on political opponents in the Muslim-majority country, which is reeling from
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International, Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — There are about 6 million Jews in both Israel and in the US, about a million in Western Europe, 300,000 or so in Russia and elsewhere in Eastern Europe, and other centers ranging from 30,000 to a few hundred thousand in Canada, Latin America, and Australia. All told, leaving unaswered
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International, Middle East, USAAmericans who fear Muslim terrorists love Donald Trump, as do Americans who want to keep out illegal Mexican immigrants. Trade protectionists and foreign-policy isolationists also love Trump. These voting groups, all part of the Trump coalition and all marginalized by elites because of their stance would see themselves as vindicated and count themselves as winners
President Reuven Rivlin marked Jordan”s Independence Day on Thursday by speaking at a reception hosted in Tel Aviv by Jordanian Ambassador to Israel Walid Obeidat. Rivlin began by speaking in Arabic, sending his regards to the Jordanian King and Queen and all the citizens of Jordan – which the British established by fiat in 1946
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Middle EastIsrael’s friends in the Western Pacific: Micronesia The World Health Organization (WHO) called for an investigation into alleged abuses of “mental, physical and environmental health” rights by Israel, the only country singled out during the U.N. agency”s annual assembly in Geneva. The motion was co-sponsored by the Arab Group of States and the Palestinian delegation,
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International, Middle EastBy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – An upcoming panel at Ben-Gurion University in Beer Sheva is so controversial that members of the group Im Tirzu have reached out to this Jewish publication and presumably others to denounce it. At issue is a day-long seminar on “Whistleblowing Through The Ages and Today,” to be presented
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