Humanitarian cease-fire derailed by rocket fire on Israel (JNS.org) Sirens sounded in southern Israel on Friday morning, August 1, just two hours after the 72-hour humanitarian cease-fire agreed to by Israel and Hamas went into effect. After the cease-fire collapsed and reports emerged that an Israeli soldier may have been kidnapped, heavy barrages of rockets
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International, Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Political analysis is best with moderation. Objectivity is not in the cards, insofar as information is partial and bound to be partisan. It helps to recognize differences in perspective. Extreme partisanship might win applause in some circles, but invites ridicule in others. Also important is to recognize sources of power,
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USABy Michael Sonduck SAN DIEGO — War is awful. It is terrifying. Innocent people are killed. The trauma inflicted on the soldiers, civilians, and children is worse than tragic, worse than deplorable. The ongoing violence in Gaza is no different; but this conflict brings an unprecedented real-time visual to the violence. Every minute of every
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Middle EastBy Isaac Yetiv, PhD LA JOLLA, California–Samuel Huntington correctly defined the bloody conflicts of our time as a “clash of civilizations.” But all “clashes” are not equal: there are the intra-Arab and intra-Muslim clashes and there are clashes where one side is a Western Democracy. What distinguishes between them is that the former’s actions and exactions, however cruel
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International, Middle East, USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)–Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and United States Secretary of State John Kerry announce that the United Nations Representative in Jerusalem, Special Coordinator Robert Serry, has received assurances that all parties have agreed to an unconditional humanitarian cease-fire in Gaza. This humanitarian cease-fire will commence at 8 am local time on Friday, August 1,
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Middle EastSAN DIEGO (Press Release)–Rabbi Michael Berk, who was traveling in Israel with an AIPAC delegation at the time of the Gaza War outbreak, will discuss his observations and experiences during a dinner meeting of Congregation Beth Israel’s Men’s Club, from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m., Wedneday, Aug. 20, at the congregation’s campus at 9001 Towne
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TEL AVIV (Press Release)—During the winter of 1944, the Nazis blocked food supplies to the western Netherlands, creating a period of widespread famine and devastation. The impact of starvation on expectant mothers produced one of the first known epigenetic “experiments” — changes resulting from external rather than genetic influences — which suggested that the body’s
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationBy Aryeh Savir JERUSALEM (TNA) — The IDF is continued on Thursday, July 31, to dismantle the terror tunnels in Gaza, while deepening its hold on the Gaza Strip. For the first time in the operation the IDF entered the Jabaliya refugee camp. Israel has reportedly stepped up its military strikes on Hamas targets as
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Middle EastPM: Israel will destroy Hamas terror tunnels ‘with or without’ cease-fire (JNS.org) The Israel Defense Forces is determined to destroy Hamas’s network of terror tunnels in Gaza “with or without a cease-fire,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday at an emergency cabinet meeting in Tel Aviv. “Using their tunnel capability, Hamas could have kidnapped and
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Middle EastBy Tammi Rossman-Benjamin/JNS.org Amid the current unrest in Israel and Gaza, Jews around the world have been targeted for attack. Virulently anti-Israel demonstrations and activities in cities across Europe and around the world have resulted in frightening anti-Jewish violence. Meanwhile, in the U.S. right now, school is out and students are safe. But there is little
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Jewish Religion, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)– Congressman Brad Sherman (D-California), the Ranking Member of the terrorism subcommittee of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, applauded the unanimous passage of H.R. 5041, the Naftali Fraenkel Rewards for Justice Act of 2014 in the House Foreign Affairs Committee on Wednesday, July 30. Sherman is the chief democratic cosponsor of this
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Middle East, USABy J. Zel Lurie DELRAY BEACH, Florida –Many weeks ago, J.J. Goldberg published a column in the Forward which accused Bibi Netanyahu of allowing the public to pray and agitate for 18 days for the return of the kidnapped boys while he knew that the boys had been murdered. According to Goldberg, the Israeli and
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Middle EastNEW YORK (Press Release)– The American Jewish Committee (AJC) is urging several Latin American countries to reconsider their decision to recall their ambassadors from Israel. “There simply is no rational reason for such a punitive action against the only truly democratic nation in the Middle East,” said AJC Executive Director David Harris. El Salvador today
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International, Middle EastBy Anav Silverman JERUSALEM (TNA) –For many husbands, fathers, sons and brothers currently serving in Operation Protective Edge, it’s been a long few days or even weeks stationed on the front lines or in battle. But for families back home it can feel like a lifetime- with many having gone for extended periods of time
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