By Sara Schoonmaker SAN DIEGO — The world cannot afford a nuclear Iran. Accordingly, StandWithUs (SWU) San Diego and dozens of community partners have scheduled a “Stop Iran Now” at a rally on Sunday, July 26 from 2-4 p.m.. It will be held at Balboa Park in a prime location of Park Boulevard and Presidents […]
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Middle East, San Diego County, USAIsrael Goes Nuclear By Michael Ordman NETANYA, Israel — In contrast to Iran’s destructive ambitions and manipulative nuclear activities, Israelis are working from the microscopic to the atomic level, in order to develop vital medical treatments and life-enhancing technology. Israeli scientists are working with international organizations to eradicate cancer at the cellular level. One Israeli
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Michael Ordman, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationNetanyahu reiterates opposition to Iran deal upon visit of Italian PM (JNS.org) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reiterated his staunch opposition to the recently signed Iran nuclear deal during a Knesset session held in honor of visiting Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi on Wednesday. “Iran, which strives to export the Khomeiniist revolution throughout the world,
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Middle East, USABy Dow Marmur JERUSALEM–It’s not the first time that Israel is at odds with the United States over an appropriate response to the nuclear ambitions of a hostile state in the region. Sharing the anger of people across the globe in the wake of Israel’s destruction of Iraq’s nuclear reactor in June 1981, President Reagan
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Middle East, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — It’s the essence of healthy politics. The status of balance derives from the ever presence of competition. There have always been individuals, groups, political parties, and governmental entities (nations, localities, governmental agencies) that want more at the expense of someone else. If it’s always been, it’s likely to always be.
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USABy Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. –Perhaps you think the war is over. Perhaps you think that if Iran becomes a “friend” of the United States and the possibility of an American-led war against the Islamic Republic recedes, the need for a militarily capable ally such as Israel also recedes. Maybe the U.S. doesn’t want to
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Middle East, Shoshana Bryen, USABurgas bombing victims, including 5 Israelis, remembered 3 years later (JNS.org) A memorial ceremony was held Monday at Burgas Airport in Bulgaria to mark the three-year anniversary of the terrorist bombing there, in which five Israeli tourists and a Bulgarian bus driver were killed. A still-unidentified perpetrator set off a bomb on a bus parked
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International, Middle East, USAHamas terror cell arrested over deadly Shvut Rachel shooting attack (JNS.org) Israel’s Shin Bet security agency revealed Sunday that its officers have uncovered a Hamas terror cell suspected of carrying out a drive-by shooting near the Judea and Samaria community of Shvut Rachel last month. Malachi Moshe Rosenfeld, 26, was critically injured in the shooting
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Middle East, USABy Dorothea Shefer-Vanson DOMEYROT, France — Taking a few weeks off from our usual routine and our home in Israel, ‘retiring from retirement,’ means changing the pace at which we live, shifting to a different location and moving to an area where tranquility prevails. It has by now become our custom to spend the summer months
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, International, Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Village councils in the West Bank, and Sharon’s alliance with the Christians of Lebanon represented Israeli efforts to play in the politics of neighbors. One was a failure, and the other a disaster. Israel sought to create village councils in the West Bank during the 1970s and 1980s as its
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East-Last in a four-part series- By Steve Kramer ALFE MENASHE, Israel — This is the third and last review of wannabes vying for the Republican nomination for president in 2016. There are so many declared candidates that both Fox and CNN will only allow ten to appear in their initial debates. The two presidential candidates
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Middle East, Steve Kramer, USABy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — Professor Avi Shlaim of Oxford is often described as a “revisionist” historian of modern Israel, where he had lived and where he served in its armed forces. In his comprehensive and important book, The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World, he writes about the late Prime Minister Yitzchak Rabin:
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Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — It’s been a few days, and the dust hasn’t settled. Israeli shrill, in Hebrew and other languages, has been prominent in the media here and elsewhere, along with efforts at varying hues to calm our fears. Headlines in Israel Hayom about as expected An agreement to shame the world It doesn’t obligate
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USABy Edwin Black WASHINGTON–When the last plaintive shofar blast echoed through the Washington D.C. Convention Center of the Christians United for Israel (CUFI) Policy Conference extravaganza of support for Israel, July 13–14, 2015, it was not the record attendance of 5,000 fired-up pro-Israel Christians that marked a turning point for the 10-year old group. Nor
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Edwin Black, Middle East, USA