Lapid: Sanders ‘quoted Hamas lies without checking’
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Middle East, USAMiddle East
Turkey- Israel amity pact nears
Turkey’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Friday said “progress” had been made in the reconciliation talks with Israel and maintained that a deal to restore diplomatic relations between the two countries would be finalized “very soon.” Turkey and Israel held a fresh round of talks Thursday in London in an effort to normalize ties after
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Middle East1,300 Ethiopians to immigrate to Israel
After Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu relented on Thursday to their protest by agreeing to have 1,300 Ethiopian Jews brought home to Israel this year, Likud MKs Avraham Neguise and David Amsalem celebrated the approaching aliyah. The two MKs refused to vote with the coalition in protest since early March, when Netanyahu’s office canceled the
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International, Middle EastMiddle East Roundup: April 8, 2016
Zionist Union MK under fire for saying Palestinian stabber ‘not a terrorist’ (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) Member of Knesset (MK) Zouheir Bahloul (Zionist Union) drew sharp criticism, including from his own party, for saying Thursday that a Palestinian who recently launched a stabbing attack against Israel Defense Forces soldiers in Hebron was “not a
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Middle EastSFSU protesters crash Barkat speech
Dozens of pro-Palestinian protesters, calling for the liberation of Palestine “from the river to the sea,” disrupted a lecture being delivered by Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat at San Francisco State University on Wednesday. Carrying Palestinian flags, they called for the continuation of the current wave of violence and an end to Israel’s occupation of Palestinian
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USAAJC asks Sanders to recant statement about Israel
NEW YORK (Press Release)– The American Jewish Committee (AJC ) today acknowledged the correction by Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, D-VT, of his statement that “over 10,000 innocent people were killed in Gaza” in 2014. At the same time, it called on the Senator to clarify his charge that Israel’s self-defensive response to deadly
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Middle East, USA100 years after Sykes- Picot pact, Mideast still in chaos
By J. Zel Lurie DELRAY BEACH, Florida — Israel, at the moment, is suffering a crisis, a sharp division between the people, the majority of whom are Sephardic or Oriental, and the right wing government, which is mostly Ashkenazic. The country is in turmoil over the execution of a wounded would-be terrorist, lying helpless on the
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Middle EastArabs riot as Jews make pilgrimage to Joseph’s Tomb
Muslim rioters attacked a group of dozens of Jewish worshipers at the tomb of the Biblical Jewish patriarch Joseph in Shechem, during a pilgrimage to the site. Israeli Border Police forces and IDF Kfir Brigade soldiers accompanied 20 busloads of Jewish worshipers to the holy site last night. Under the Oslo Accords and other agreements
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Jewish Religion, Middle EastA visit to AMIA and a speech in behalf of Shimon Peres
(Editor’s Note: Yoni Peres recently stood-in for his father, former Israeli President Shimon Peres, at an awards ceremony sponsored by the TAEDA Foundation in Buenos Aires, Argentina. In this series of articles he shares his impressions of Buenos Aires and the ceremony that brought him there.) Second in a Series By Yoni Peres BUENOS AIRES,
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International, Middle East, Travel and FoodThe peril of not listening to Iran
By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — Supporters of President Obama’s Iran deal (JCPOA) are starting to worry — but that is because they believed him when his lips moved. They heard “snapback sanctions” and pretended those were an actual “thing.” They are not, and never were. They heard Treasury Secretary Jack Lew say
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Middle East, Shoshana Bryen, USAMiddle East Roundup: April 7, 2016
Anonymous claims to hack 55 Israeli websites in annual #OpIsrael (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) The computer hacking collective that calls itself Anonymous claimed that it attacked at least 55 Israeli websites on Thursday, including some belonging to the government, the Knesset, and the Israel Defense Forces. The hackers publicized the addresses of the websites,
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Middle EastAn open letter to leaders of P.A., Hamas
Dear President Abbas, Mr. Meshal, and Prime Minister Haniyeh, I am writing this open letter to you because I believe that it’s time for you to take a hard look at the dismal reality to which your people have been subjected for nearly seven decades, especially since 1967. It is time to reconsider your
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Alon Ben-Meir, Middle EastJerusalem’s ethnic mix can be dangerous or beneficial
By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — One of Jerusalem’s benefits is the opportunity for Jews from different backgrounds, and Arabs, to converse and come to understand what one another brings to the encounter. Some would say that Jerusalem’s ethnic and religious mixture is dangerous, and it can be. It was part of the downside when this
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