An Iranian military adviser has said that Iran could wipe out Israel “in less than eight minutes” if the order was given by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. “If the Supreme Leader’s orders [are] to be executed, with the abilities and the equipment at our disposal, we will raze the Zionist regime in less than […]
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Middle EastThe UK Labour Party has suspended a senior journalist from the party for writing about the anti-Semitism scandal rocking the left-wing party. In his column, Rod Liddle, an associate editor of The Spectator, remarked on the virulent anti-Semitic sentiments held by many Muslim Labour members in particular. He said that anti-Semiitsm is “absolutely endemic within
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International, Middle EastWASHINGTON — Three weeks after The New York Times Magazine published its profile of deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes, in which he describes creating an “echo chamber” of nongovernmental organizations, nuclear proliferation experts and journalists to sell the Iran nuclear deal, it was revealed a group he cited as disseminating the administration’s narrative had
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Middle East, USAOn July 2, thousands of Islamists, radical anti-Israel activists and members of the fringe anti-Zionist group Naturei Karta will once again march in downtown Toronto to for an end to the Jewish State amid frenzied chants of “Zionism is terrorism”, “down, down, Israel” and “Netanyahu you will see, Palestine will be free”. Jewish Defense League
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International, Middle EastBritish historian spurns Israeli prize on ‘political’ grounds (JNS.org) British feminist historian Catherine Hall of University College London declined an Israeli award, the lucrative Dan David Prize, for what she called “political” reasons. Hall did not attend the award ceremony at Tel Aviv University (TAU) on Sunday. TAU administers annual $1 million prizes, named
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Middle EastCoalition chairman MK David Biton (Likud) on Sunday addressed the proposed death penalty law for terrorists initiated by Yisrael Beytenu chairman Avigdor Liberman during coalition negotiations. “I think there needs to be a death penalty, not just for those who want to commit suicide, but those who want to carry out a deadly attack only
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Middle EastAt a press conference Sunday with the visiting French Prime Minister Manuel Valls, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu spoke about Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon’s (Likud) sudden resignation last Friday. Ya’alon announced Friday that he intends to return and contend for the leadership, after Netanyahu decided to give his post of Defense Minister to MK Avigdor Liberman
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Middle EastThe leftist American Jewish group J Street on Sunday issued a response to the revelation that it received more than half a million dollars to advocate for the Obama administration’s controversial nuclear deal with Iran. The expose, revealed by Associated Press, noted that the Ploughshares Fund was named in an explosive New York Times profile
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Middle East, USATel Aviv (dpa) – French Prime Minister Manuel Valls was in Israel Sunday, in a further push to convince the Israelis to accept international talks on their conflict with the Palestinians. Valls was scheduled to lunch with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem Monday, before travelling to the nearby West Bank for talks with
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International, Middle EastThe Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) on Sunday transferred two ancient relics from Pharaonic times to the Ambassador of Egypt. The two artifacts are Egyptian sarcophagi covers dating back to the period between the 10th-8th centuries and 16th-14th centuries BCE. The items had been illegally smuggled into Israel and were confiscated by the Israel
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Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — In both of Israel’s established political parties everyone seems angry at everyone else. It’s too early for predictions, but it’s like the first news of a major weather change heading in our direction. It may not get here, but if it does, watch out. It came about on account of
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastNEW YORK (Press Release)– World Jewish Congress President Ronald S. Lauder delivered remarks Sunday at the Jerusalem Post Annual Conference in New York, condemning the United Nations for its harmful anti-Semitic rhetoric, and for becoming little more than an anti-Israel political cartel. Lauder was joined by an array of Israeli ministers, Knesset members and officials,
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International, Middle East, USAConservative and big-money allies of Donald Trump are laying the groundwork for him to visit Israel this summer, an idea backed by Republican mega-donor Sheldon Adelson, The Guardian reported on Saturday. According to the report, the Jewish-American billionaire recently indicated in a meeting with the candidate that he would provide about $100 million to help
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Middle East, USAGilad Sharon, the son of former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and the brother of former Likud then Kadima MK Omri Sharon who was convicted of corruption in 2006 and jailed, has decided to join the Likud party – and says he may run for the Knesset. Sharon’s father Ariel Sharon – who died in 2014
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