By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — For more than a week, we’ve been rocked by commentary, partly in support, and sharply critical of a speech that the IDF Deputy Chief of Staff, Major General Yair Golan, made on the occasion of Holocaust Remembrance Day. The most complete version in English follows, taken from a report in […]
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastBy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Five candidates for U.S. Senate dramatically split on the issue of admitting Syrian refugees to the United States, with two Democrats pleading for compassion, two Republicans citing security concerns, and one Republican saying he has no problem with refugees but the total number of immigrants to this country
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Middle East, USAA convoy of Hezbollah terrorists and weapons was hit in an apparent Israeli airstrike in Lebanon, according to Arab media reports. The convoy was reportedly traveling through the village of Anjar, close to Lebanon’s border with Syria, when it was hit. Anjar is located in the Bekaa Valley region, a Hezbollah stronghold in Lebanon. Israel’s
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Middle EastWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — U.S. Representative Peter J. Roskam is warning American and European companies not to sell airplanes and other products to the Islamic Republic of Iran. Today, he took to the House floor to continue sounding the alarm bells over The Boeing Company’s ongoing negotiations with government-run airlines in Iran. Last week, he joined
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Middle East, USAFrance is gearing up security for the Cannes film festival set to kick off this week with bomb sweeps, hundreds of extra police and the help of a former Israeli general, as the country faces its highest-ever terror threat. The 69th Cannes Film Festival comes six months after Islamic State jihadists launched coordinated attacks in
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International, Middle East, Theatre, Film & BroadcastTwo elderly women were stabbed and moderately injured in a suspected terror attack at the Armon Hanatziv promenade in southern Jerusalem, police said Tuesday morning. Both women were rushed to a local hospital in moderate condition, the Magen David Adom rescue service said. An MDA spokesperson said the two were in their 80s,…
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Middle EastUS Secretary of State John Kerry waffled over whether the US would attend a conference May 30 in Paris to force talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA) Monday, shortly before a meeting with French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault. “Well, it depends on timing and when we do it,” he began. “We”re going to
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International, Middle East, USAOne of the most prominent leaders of the so-called Boycott Divestment and Sanctions Movement (BDS) against Israel – who ironically has been studying at Tel Aviv University for the past several years – has been denied travel documents by the Israeli interior ministry. Palestinian Arab Omar Barghouti was informed last month that the interior ministry
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Two Jewish residents of Jerusalem, one of them a minor, were arrested Sunday on suspicion of assaulting a bus driver for being Arab. The Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court extended their detention in police custody until Wednesday, Haaretz reported Monday. Only the adult suspect, Reuven Yosef Horowitz, 20, was named in the report. The suspects boarded on
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Looking to distinguish itself from the rest of Iraq and deepen ties with the Kurdish diaspora, the autonomous region of Kurdistan is courting religious minorities, including Jews. Some 300,000 Jews are descended from refugees who fled the region after the establishment of Israel in 1948. Today, most of them live in Israel, though a small
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Jewish History, Middle EastBy Kenneth Bandler NEW YORK — The American Jewish Committee (AJC) welcomed a detailed reaffirmation by Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton of her opposition to BDS, the boycott, sanctions and divestment movement that has targeted Israel. “I believe that BDS seeks to punish Israel and dictate how the Israelis and Palestinians should resolve the core issues
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International, Middle East, USANetanyahu and deputy IDF chief reconcile after divisive Holocaust remarks (JNS.org) Less than a week after Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Deputy Chief of Staff Maj. Gen. Yair Golan made controversial remarks in a Holocaust Remembrance Day speech that drew a rebuke from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the two shook hands on Monday during a
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Middle EastBy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — On the eve of Israel’s Independence Day I remind myself again that had there been no Israel, the Jewish people would by now been on its way to becoming like the Amish and Judaism would have been reduced to a museum item. But I’m painfully aware that independence came
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Middle EastA senior Iranian general on Monday announced that the country’s armed forces successfully tested a precision-guided, medium-range ballistic missile two weeks ago, the state-run Tasnim agency reported. “We test-fired a missile with a range of 2,000 kilometers and a margin of error of eight meters,” Brigadier General Ali Abdollahi was quoted as saying at a
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