This week is Israel Apartheid Week on campuses across the country. Some Jewish students have become inured to what has become a regular event; others are actively engaged in staging Peace Week — a grassroots initiative to counter anti-Israel propaganda with the simple message that Israel wants and has demonstrated its willingness to make sacrifices […]
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International, Middle East, USAPresident Obama pronounced the Iranian nuclear deal a “success” Friday as he met with leaders of the world’s major nuclear powers in Washington, amid bipartisan concern in Congress that the administration will allow Tehran to use the dollar in business transactions. “This deal has achieved a substantial success, and focused on the dangers of nuclear
The Palestinian Authority has joined the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) – and the United States should respond by cutting funds to the body, note senior researchers Brett Schaefer and Steven Groves in The Daily Signal. The PA officially became the 197th party to the UNFCCC on March 17, 2016, 90 days
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International, Middle EastIsraeli Navy trains in Red Sea with Islamic State threat in mind (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) The Israeli Navy conducted a major training exercise off the coast of Eilat in the Red Sea on Wednesday, simulating several possible scenarios that could unfold on the high seas. Some of the scenarios the navy wants to
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Middle EastJERUSALEM –Brussels International Airport remains closed a week after the attack, with pictures of extensive damage, and officials warning that the facility may remain closed “for months.” An article in The Economist laments the problems in airport check-in halls, entrances to the building, drop off points outside, and the greater problems in providing security
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastBy Steve Kramer ALFE MENASHE, Israel — “You will never hear me say, ‘The IDF is the most moral army in the world,’” declares Military Advocate General Maj. Gen. Danny Efroni. “I think that our army has good values, but some of this has to do with the fact that it investigates and examines suspected
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Middle East, Steve KramerBy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — Though the 15-20 minute five-times-a-week of television news broadcast that viewers in Israel get in English from the Israeli Broadcast Authority has deteriorated almost to the point of embarrassment, I still like to watch it, especially on Thursdays when Amotz Asa-el, one of the best informed and most sensible
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Middle East‘We cannot accept’ terrorism, Greek president says in Israel (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) Israeli President Reuven Rivlin hosted Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos for a meeting in Jerusalem on Wednesday. Before the meeting, during which Rivlin and Pavlopoulos discussed strengthening bilateral Israel-Greece ties, the two leaders toured the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial together. Rivlin called Pavlopoulos
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-50th in a Series- Exit 18, Mollison Avenue, El Cajon ~ Refugee Resettlement Program By Donald H. Harrison EL CAJON, California –With millions of refugees lingering in camps around the world, receiving refugee status in the United States is a difficult process – only a fraction of the refugees ever make it. And for those
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Donald H. Harrison, Middle East, San Diego County, Travel and Food, USABy Alon Ben-Meir NEW YORK–The horrific attacks in Brussels by terrorists affiliated with ISIS that claimed the lives of 35 people and injured more than 200 was all but inevitable. These attacks may well increase in frequency and intensity in many European cities where citizens travel freely and violent extremists among them can plot attacks
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Alon Ben-Meir, International, Middle East, USABy Michael Ordman NETANYA, Israel — I was prompted into writing my first blog of 2016 by yet another appalling report on the BBC World Service The Science Hour 27/3/16. Just after the Jewish festival of Purim, the Biased Broadcasting Corporation erased the name of Israel, Jews and Israeli companies from a program discussing the
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Michael Ordman, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationOff-duty Israeli security guards now allowed to carry weapons (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) A bill allowing off-duty security guards in Israel to carry weapons passed its final Knesset readings on Tuesday, with a vote of 21 lawmakers in favor of the measure and eight against it. The proposal, which aims to boost public safety amid
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Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Abu Ghraib was a prison in Iraq where sadistic US soldiers tormented and tortured Arab prisoners with no apparent purpose other than a gratification of what seemed like the Americans’ pathological desire to inflict humiliation, fright, and pain. Israel’s current brouhaha is not the same, except in the nature of
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East‘The time has come’ for official Israel-Indonesia relations, Netanyahu says (JNS.org) Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met on Monday in Jerusalem with a delegation of senior Indonesian journalists who visited Israel as guests of the Israeli Foreign Ministry. Israel and Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim nation, do not have formal diplomatic relations, but there
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