Middle East

ZOA: Time to break off relations with Abbas

NEW YORK (Press Release)– The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has urged the Obama Administration and the Israeli government to terminate relations with Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah/Palestinian Authority (PA), following its conclusion of a reconciliation agreement with the Islamist terrorist organization Hamas, which controls Gaza. The State Department designates Hamas as a terrorist organization. Top Hamas official […]

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Blood pressure drug may fight epilepsy

BEER-SHEVA, Israel (Press Release) — A team of researchers from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU), UC Berkeley and Charité-Universitätsmedizin in Berlin, Germany, have determined that the blood-pressure drug losartan may also prevent cases of epilepsy that result from severe head trauma. According to a new paper published in the Annals of Neurology, the researchers found that

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education

AJC: Hamas- P.L.O pact is ‘game-changer’

NEW YORK (Press Release)- AJC Executive Director David Harris called the announcement of a Palestinian unity government “a game-changer that sabotages Secretary of State John Kerry’s valiant efforts to achieve an Israeli-Palestinian two-state accord.” The Fatah-led Palestinian Authority (PA) and Hamas sealed their latest effort at reconciliation in a pact to form a single, unified

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Middle East

OpEd: SDSU students reject a BDS resolution

By J.J. Surbeck SAN DIEGO —  After much finagling, the Student for Justice in Palestine had managed on Wednesday, April 23, to bring in front of the Associated Student (AS) Council an anti-Israel resolution targeting the usual US companies “supporting Israel’s war crimes against the Palestinians, and … bla-bla-bla.” One can admire the anti-Israel groups for

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Middle East, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education

P.A. – Hamas pact disappoints U.S. — Psaki

  WASHINGTON, D.C. (SDJW)– The United States government was “disappointed” in the announcement of a reconciliation between the Palestinian Authority and Hamas, State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said Wednesday, April 23. The official said the United States position remains that “any Palestinian government must unambiguosly and explicity commit to nonviolence, recognition of the state of

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Middle East, USA

Narratives recapture the chaos, pride of Six Day War

  The Lion’s Gate; On the Front Lines of the Six Day War by Steven Pressfield; Sentinel/ Penguin, (c) 2014. ISBN 978-1-59523-091-1, 430 pages including index and bibliography, $29.95. By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — ‘The Lion’s Gate’ is a fascinating attempt to present the events before and during the Six Day War of June 1967,

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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Jewish History, Middle East

APN welcomes Hamas-PLO pact

WASHINGTON, DC (Press Release) –  The Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) and Hamas on Wednesday, April 23,  ended a seven-year rift by reaching a historic reconciliation agreement. Americans for Peace Now welcomes the agreement. APN holds that unity between the Palestinian political factions and between the West Bank and Gaza is vital for empowering the Palestinian leadership

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Middle East, USA

Standard drugs for Huntington’s may be detrimental

TEL AVIV (Press Release)— People diagnosed with Huntington’s disease, most in their mid-thirties and forties, face a devastating prognosis: complete mental, physical, and behavioral decline within two decades. “Mutant” protein clusters, long blamed for the progression of the genetic disease, have been the primary focus of therapies in development by pharmaceutical companies. But according to

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education

Netanyahu: PA can have peace with Hamas or with Israel

JERUSALEM (Press Release) — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met  at his office Wednesday, April 23,  with Austrian Europe, Integration and Foreign Affairs Minister Sebastian Kurz. Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs reported on its website that, at the start of their meeting, PM Netanyahu said: “You’re coming at an important time. We’re trying to re-launch the negotiations with the Palestinians. Every

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Middle East

Tunisia now open to Israeli tourists

TUNIS (eturbonews.com) –The world became larger for tourists from Israel.  Against objections from around the Arabic world, Tunisian Prime Minister Mehdi Jomaa announced Wednesday that the security authorities in his country have approved the entry of Israeli tourists to Tunisia. Tunisia’s tourism industry had been suffering after the revolution in that country, and saying Shalom

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Middle East

Tool found that may have been used to build the Kotel

By Aryeh Savir JERUSALEM – The Israeli Antiquities Authority (IAA) has made an extraordinary archaeological finding: it has uncovered a Second Temple Era iron chisel, which may have served the builders of the Second Temple. Archaeologist Eli Shukrun, who heads the dig at the bottom of the Temple Mount near the Western Wall, stated that

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education