Middle East

U.N. peace keepers don’t live up to their name

By Morton A. Klein and Daniel Mandel NEW YORK — In recent days, a small fixture of Middle East ceasefire monitoring disintegrated, with scarcely anyone noticing. The United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF), the multinational force that had monitored the Israeli/Syrian ceasefire lines since 1974, disappeared as though it had never existed. Yet, in the view […]

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International, Middle East

AJC hails Obama’s challenge to Muslims

NEW YORK (Press Release) – AJC (American Jewish Committee) has praised President Obama’s call for Arab and Muslim countries to collectively address the sources of violent extremism raging across much of the Middle East and North Africa. “It is time for the world – especially Muslim communities – to explicitly, forcefully, and consistently reject the ideology of

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Middle East, USA

Rosh Hashanah interview with P.M. Netanyahu

By Shlomo Cesana, Gonen Ginat, and Amos Regev JERUSALEM (JNS.org) –In his office, next to photos of his wife and family, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu keeps a portrait of Theodor Herzl. “He was a prophet. A modern prophet,” Netanyahu says, further naming Zionist pioneer Ze’ev Jabotinsky, Israel’s first prime minister David Ben-Gurion, and Likud

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Middle East, USA

Health- wealth correlation high in U.S.

TEL AVIV (Press Release)— America’s Affordable Care Act — “Obamacare” — was signed into law in 2010 and promised the largest overhaul of the U.S. healthcare system since the 1960s. Designed to provide medical care to uninsured Americans, it has been widely decried as an unwarranted intrusion into the affairs of private businesses and individuals. However,

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education

Naddaf: Christians safest in Israel

By Anav Silverman GENEVA, Switzerland – In a speech to the United Nations Human Rights Council on Tuesday, Sept, 23, Father Gabriel Naddaf, an Israeli Arab Greek Orthodox priest from Nazareth, called attention to the plight of Christian minorities suffering under Muslim extremists in the Arab world. Speaking immediately after a panel discussion on the “Human Rights Situation in Palestine and

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International, Middle East

Thyroid ailment may cause congenital deafness

TEL AVIV (Press Release) — Fatigue, weight gain, chills, hair loss, anxiety, excessive perspiration — these symptoms are a few of the signs that the thyroid gland, which regulates the body’s heart rate and plays a crucial role in its metabolism, has gone haywire. Now, new research from Tel Aviv University points to an additional

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education

U.N prize slated for terrorist group

NEW YORK (Press Release)– The Israeli civil rights group, Shurat HaDin-Israel Law Center, has warned United Nations’ Secretary General Ban Ki-moon that awarding the UN Development Programme’s annual Equator Prize for 2014 to the Union of Agricultural Work Committee (“UAWC”), a Palestinian organization that is formally affiliated with the terrorist Popular Front for the Liberation of

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Middle East

U.S.-Israel Strategic Partnership Act hailed

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)–The American Jewish Committee (AJC) has hailed the unanimous U.S. Senate adoption of the United States-Israel Strategic Partnership Act (S. 2673). This important measure, co-sponsored by Senators Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and Roy Blunt (R-MO), recognizes Israel is a major U.S. strategic partner, and broadens the U.S.-Israel alliance by promoting greater cooperation on security,

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Middle East, USA