By Aryeh Savir JERUSALEM (TNA) –A disagreement about targeting the Hamas leaders broke out Tuesday night, July 29, during the Security Cabinet meeting, according to a report by Yisrael Hayom. Minister of Finance Yair Lapid demanded that the Hamas leaders, including Khaled Mashal and Ismail Haniyeh who are in Qatar, be targeted as part of
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Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Lots of questions Why Hamas attacked in the first place? Why it continues to attack, especially from within the time frame of the cease fire that it requested? Why has the US sided with the most radical of the Muslim governments? Why has the Israeli government dithered about escalating beyond
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastBy Aryeh Savir JERUSALEM (TNA) – Operation ‘Protective Edge’ is currently at a point where it is unclear if it will stop completely or if it will be broadened to other areas in Gaza. The IDF is demanding Israel’s political leadership reach a decision regarding the next steps of the ground offensive in the
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Middle EastBelgium recommends separate labeling of products from Judea and Samaria (JNS.org) The Belgian government is moving to recommend that retailers separately label goods produced by Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria. “It’s a non-binding advice to state on labels that products originating from occupied territories come from there,” a spokeswoman from the Belgian Economics Ministry
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International, Middle EastBy Morton A. Klein and Dr. Daniel Mandel NEW YORK — Has President Barack Obama ‘got Israel’s back’? When policy is compared to rhetoric, the answer is no. Thus, when Hamas, a terrorist organization which calls in its Charter for the worldwide murder of Jews, launched a new round of rocket assaults on Israel,
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Middle East, USA“If somebody was sending rockets into my house where my two daughters sleep at night, I’m going to do everything in my power to stop that. And I would expect Israelis to do the same thing.” —Barack Obama, Remarks in Sderot, New York Times, July 23, 2008 WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — The Republican Jewish
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Middle East, USAWASHINGTON, DC (Press Release) — Americans for Peace Now (APN) on Tuesday, July 29, repeated its call for an immediate ceasefire between Hamas and Israel. APN condemned the criticism coming from senior Israeli officials and Knesset members targeting Secretary of State Kerry and President Obama for their efforts to find a way to end the
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By Aryeh Savir JERUSALEM – The Danish, Swedish and Dutch ambassadors to Israel, as well as officials from the embassies of Britain, Belgium, Italy, Hungary, Austria and Germany took part on Monday (Jul. 28) in an urgent meeting of the Knesset Immigration, Absorption and Diaspora Affairs Committee on the situation of Jewish communities in Europe.
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International, Middle EastBy Aryeh Savir JERUSALEM (TNA) – Hamas’ propaganda machine has been working relentlessly to generate a depiction of the events that suits their objectives in their war on Israel. Using news, multimedia and social media, they have been presenting lies and a distorted account of the events to garner the populations support for their cause.
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By Anav Silverman TEL AVIV (TNA) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a statement at the Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv on Monday evening, July 28, sharing the grief of the families of IDF soldiers who have fallen in the war against Hamas and outlining Israel’s strategy to defeat Hamas. “There is no more
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Middle EastBy Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California — Yasser Arafat’s estate was worth almost one billion dollars by the time he had died.[1] It wasn’t because he was an enterprising capitalist. However, he did manage to take a substantial cut of money from the billions of dollars that the Western countries of Europe and
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Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi, Middle EastWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)–Clearly annoyed with anonymous sources in Israel who leaked details of a cease fire proposal that was rejected, State Department spokesman Jen Psaki told of the efforts of her boss, Secretary of State John Kerry, to achieve what she described as a “humanitarian” break in the fighting between Israel and Hamas. Here
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Middle East, USANEW YORK (Press Release) – The American Jewish Committee (AJC) is appalled by the anti-Semitic, threatening op-ed that renowned Spanish writer Antonio Gala wrote in El Mundo. “Shame on Antonio Gala and shame on El Mundo for publishing his anti-Semitic screed,” said Dina Siegal Vann, Director of AJC’s Latino and Latin American Institute. In his
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Middle EastBy Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Israeli Cabinet unanimously rejected the terms of a Gaza ceasefire proposed by Hamas front men Qatar and Turkey. Secretary of State Kerry expressed surprise and chagrin at the vote. The Israelis expressed surprise and chagrin at Kerry’s support for a document that offered Hamas “arrangements to secure the
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