Middle East

Some Israelis enjoy dust up between Turkey and Russia

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — The dust up between Vladimir Putin and President Erdogan of Turkey is warming at least a few Israeli hearts. It comes against the background of Erdogan’s strong tilt toward the Palestinians, especially the more radical Hamas faction. Prominent in our recent history with him is the effort of the Turkish

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International, Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USA

Women’s studies group votes boycott of Israel

By Richard L. Cravatts, PhD BOSTON — Seeming to give proof to Orwell’s observation that some ideas are so stupid they could only have been thought of by intellectuals, yet another academic association—this time the National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA)—has followed the lead of the American Studies Association, the American Anthropological Association, the Asian Studies

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Middle East, Richard L. Cravatts, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Media hides Israeli casualties

By Barry Shaw NETANYA, Israel — Israeli Jews are the invisible terror victims. Facts: The invisible victims of terror are Israeli Jews. The perpetrators of a Jewish genocide are Palestinian Arabs. The cause of their terror is to destroy Israel and kill Jews in the name of Palestinian liberation and Jihad. How do we prove these facts? As follows: Mahmoud Abbas, on

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Barry Shaw, Middle East

Arab merchants most hurt by continuing violence

By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — It always looks worse from the outside than the actual situation on the ground. Of course, wherever and whenever violent attacks occur there is mayhem, often with tragic consequences, but life in Israel goes on pretty much as normal everywhere else, though there is a noticeably greater police

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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Middle East

Bonobos make, use tools to find food, defend selves

By Ilan Yavelberg HAIFA, Israel — For the first time, a scientific study has observed bonobos (an analogous race to chimpanzees) making sophisticated use of ancient pre-agricultural tools in a manner similar to that which has hitherto been considered the prerogative of archaic pre-human hominins and other members of the Homo genus. Among other findings, a

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Middle East, The World We Share, USA

U.N. denounced for ritual castigation of Israel

By Kenneth Bandler NEW YORK —  The American Jewish Committee (AJC)  denounced the UN General Assembly’s adoption of resolutions singling out Israel for condemnation. The resolutions have become an annual exercise spanning decades, with too few nations, notably Canada, the United States, Micronesia, Marshall Islands, Nauru and Palau voting against them. “This annual UN ritual

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International, Middle East