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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By Aryeh Savir After eight years of a comatose state and after deterioration in his health this past month, Former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon finally passed away on Shabbat, January 11th, 2014, at the age of 85. Hi adopted son, Roni Schayak made the announcement. Ariel Sharon, also known as Arik, was born as Ariel Scheinermann, (February 26th 1928).
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WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — Americans for Peace Now (APN) joins its Israeli sister organization, Israel’s Peace Now movement, in strongly criticizing the government of Israel’s issuing new tenders for 1,877 new housing units in settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. APN’s President and CEO Debra DeLee said: “Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and
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Middle EastBy Aryeh Savir Renewed talk of territory exchanges between Israel and a future Palestinian state as part of a peace agreement, a proposition championed by Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, has left many Arabs who have Israeli citizenship worried about losing their status as citizens of Israel. According to the Israeli daily Ma’ariv, Israel has proposed to the
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