By Daniel Sokatch NEW YORK –Israel was always meant to be both a Jewish homeland and a democracy. Its founders were driven by their experience as stateless Jews to guarantee equal rights for all of the state’s inhabitants in Israel’s Declaration of Independence. These same leaders pushed the international community to create new norms for […]
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WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) – Responding to news that the Obama Administration and its international partners had reached an agreement with Iran to implement the Joint Plan of Action signed in November 2013, Americans for Peace Now (APN) is calling on Congress to support President Obama’s diplomatic effort and is urging fellow American Jewish organizations
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Middle EastBy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM–There seems to be an ominous agreement between the government of Israel and the government of the Palestinian Authority about US Secretary of State John Kerry’s valiant efforts to bring about peace: nothing will come of it. Chairman Mahmoud Abbas has again stated that the Palestinians won’t recognize Israel as a
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JERUSALEM (WJC) – The United States should not return the Iraqi Jewish archive that is currently on loan to the US government to Baghdad, the archive’s chief rescuer urged on Monday. Harold Rhode, a retired Middle East analyst at the Office of the US Department of Defense who was instrumental in securing the Iraqi Jewish
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Middle EastBy Aryeh Savir JERUSALEM – Upon the news of the death of former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon the Arab world expressed glee, as he is perceived by them as the great Israeli butcher of the Arabs. Palestinian Media Watch exposed that Sharon was also attacked and scorned by Arab members of Knesset, who joined
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Middle EastBy Anav Silverman JERUSALEM–In a recent meeting with a popular delegation from Jerusalem at the presidential office in Ramallah, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas highlighted his current positions regarding the Washington-led peace negotiations. Speaking to an audience of hundreds of Palestinians this past Saturday, January 11, Abbas declared that Jerusalem is the capital of Palestine.
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Middle EastJERUSALEM (WJC)–Hundreds of Israeli and international dignitaries attended a state memorial ceremony for the late Ariel Sharon on Monday, remembering the former prime minister as a fearless warrior and bold leader who devoted his life to protecting his country’s security. US Vice President Joe Biden and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair headed the long
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Middle EastBy Aryeh Savir JERUSALEM (TNA)—Chief of Staff Benny Gantz and the IDF’s General staff have decided to name the new IDF training center in the Negev after former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, who during his career was both a minister of defense and a major general, an IDF spokesperson announced. The IDF is moving all
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Middle EastBy Shoshana Bryen JERUSALEM – Shortly after the 1982 Lebanon War, I was in Israel with three retired, high-ranking American General Officers, including the former Chief of the Defense Intelligence Agency, the former Commander, US Air Forces Europe; and the former Commander in Chief, US Army, Europe. We traveled across the north, into Lebanon and
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By Anav Silverman JERUSALEM — On Sunday, thousands gathered to pay their last respects to Israel’s eleventh prime minister and brilliant military strategist, Ariel Sharon, who passed away on Saturday after spending the last eight years of his life in a coma following a stroke in 2006. Sharon’s casket was placed in the Knesset in
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Middle EastBy Aryeh Savir Until his implementation of the disengagement from Gush Katif, Ariel Sharon was a revered leader of the residents of Judea and Samaria, the two areas popularly referred to in the American media as the “West Bank.” In the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, Sharon championed construction of Israeli communities in Judea and Samaria
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Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–There ain’t much that is new under the sun. Israelis, Diaspora Jews and others who are concerned with us should have ceased hoping years ago for the kind of peace that prevails between the US and Canada, or among the countries of Western Europe. Something like the US border with Mexico might
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NEW YORK — Israel’s Consulate General has compiled the comments of top Israeli and American political leaders on the death Saturday, Jan. 11, of former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon: U.S. President Barack Obama: “On behalf of the American people, Michelle and I send our deepest condolences to the family of former Israeli Prime Minister
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Middle EastBy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — Arik Sharon gave the media plenty of time to prepare his obituary – eight years and one week to be exact. For it was in early January 2006, while serving as Israel’s prime minister, that he had a stroke which rendered him unconscious until he died. And dying today,
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