By Michael Ordman NETANYA, Israel — What do Palestinian Arabs need Israel for? Last week the PLO Central Council decided to end security co-operation with Israel. So I decided to retrieve from my newsletter archives just a few of the hundreds of examples of news articles showing Israeli cooperation with Palestinian Arabs. Here are some […]
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Michael Ordman, Middle EastNetanyahu responds to criticism, says ‘security cannot be founded on delusions’ (JNS.org) As Israel’s March 17 election approaches, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu responded to the recent wave of criticism directed at him by Meir Dagan, the former head of the Mossad spy agency. In an interview with Israel Hayom published Thursday, Netanyahu said Israel’s security
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International, Middle East, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–An unimportant election? Yes, insofar as it is apparent from recent polls that the real work will come later. The leaders of the two large parties, neither of which may reach a quarter of the total Knesset, and nine smaller parties will make claims to the President. Then he’ll have a week
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East
NEW YORK (Press Release) – The head of the Israel Defense Forces Military Intelligence, Maj. Gen. Hertzi Halevi, told the Friends of the Israel Defense Forces (FIDF) annual National Gala in New York on Tuesday evening, March 10, that Israel must be “prepared” for new conflicts along its northern border with Syria, whose internal violence seems like
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TEL AVIV (WJC) — The exhibition ‘Tree of life – The Jews of Hungary, 1981-2004’ at Beit Hatfutsot in Tel Aviv displays a selection of 40 photographs taken by Andres Lacko. It reflect the changes in the lives of Hungarian Jews from the 1980s to the early 2000s. The exhibition blends past and present. Lacko’s
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Middle East, USAIsraeli Arab party’s official says Islamic State learned terror from Zionism (JNS.org) Raja Zaatra, a public relations official for the Joint Arab List political party in Israel, said the Islamic State terror group learned its actions from Zionism and refused to define Hamas as a terrorist organization. During a panel discussion about Israel’s upcoming March
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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — There was a modicum of tension before Israel’s Consul -General based in Los Angeles, David Siegel, spoke in the upstairs auditorium of the new Melvin Garb Hillel Center alongside the San Diego State University campus. After all, there were security precautions taken and Resa Levitt Kohn, head
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Donald H. Harrison, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USABy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — The partisan divide in Washington D.C. over Iran’s nuclear aspirations has been growing wider, and more bitter, as President Barack Obama, a Democrat, argues with the Republican-controlled Congress over whether any agreement between Iran and the Permanent Five members of the United Nations Security Council plus Germany—the so
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Donald H. Harrison, Middle East, USA
By Daniel Sokatch NEW YORK — Our support for liberal democracy, freedom of expression, and human and civil rights have made us a target for the far right in Israel. In this election season — when so many incumbents are running from their records — tarring NIF can serve as a convenient distraction. Several hardline
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Middle East, USANEW YORK (Press Release) – The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has strongly criticized President Barack Obama for appointing veteran anti-Israel diplomat, Robert Malley, as White House coordinator for the Middle East, North Africa, and the Gulf Region. Malley is an Israel-basher, an advocate of U.S. recognition of major, unreconstructed terrorist groups Hamas and Hizballah, and a proponent
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Middle East, USANEW YORK (Press Release) — The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) on Tuesday, March 10, called Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman’s comments about Israeli Arabs “divisive and unacceptable” and urged all candidates in Israel’s upcoming general election to avoid extremist rhetoric. In a campaign appearance on March 8, Minister Lieberman, who is head of the Yisrael Beiteinu Party, used
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TEL AVIV (Press Release) — Many mammals and some birds escape the winter by hibernating for three to nine months. This period of dormancy permits species which would otherwise perish from the cold and scarce food to survive to see another spring. The Middle East, with temperate winters, was until recently considered an unlikely host for
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationBy Anav Silverman JERUSALEM (Tazpit) — Two Israelis behind the Fansino app won first place at a prestigious smartphone app competition held in Barcelona last week. Haran Wolfovitz Yaffe and Omri Erez won the 2015 Mobile Premier Awards “Best App of the Year” at Spain’s Mobile World Congress, the largest cross-platform app showcase in the
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BEVERLY HILLS, California (Press Release) — More than 1,100 prominent Israeli-American community supporters and philanthropists from across the country raised $23.4 million at the Israeli-American Council (IAC)’S Seventh Annual Gala March 8 in Los Angeles. The gala, at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, marked the Israeli-American community’s achievements over the past year. The funds will go
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