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New Israeli law would penalize those who support boycott of Israel

July 12, 2011

By Ira Sharkansky Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM –The Knesset passed a law against those who would promote a boycott on Israel or its settlements. The anti-boycott movement began as an action against performers who refused to appear in the cultural center of Ariel, one of the large towns located over the 1967 borders. The Knesset vote […]

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Some reasons for Palestinians torpedoing peace chances

July 10, 2011

By Ira Sharkansky Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — It is common to assign responsibility to Israel, or more narrowly the present government, or even more narrowly to Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu for the failure of the Israel-Palestine peace process. I’d prefer to put more responsibility on the nature of Palestinian institutions, and the international arrangements that

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Ambassador has preference for SPAM and Diet Mountain Dew

July 8, 2011

WASHINGTON, D.C (Press Release)– Following are remarks by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at the swearing-in ceremony for Dan Shapiro as the new American ambassador to Israel. SECRETARY CLINTON: Thank you all very much. It is such a pleasure to welcome you here to the Benjamin Franklin Room for this very happy and

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Rabbi shares impressions of his latest Jerusalem visit

July 8, 2011

By Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal JERUSALEM — Having visited Jerusalem so many times, I did not think I would have anything new to share with you this week. But Israel is full of surprises. In the Holy City I saw something I have never seen before: Israeli pedestrians obeying the walk-don’t walk signals.Until now pedestrians crossed

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Turkey and Israel ponder U.N. report on 2010 Flotilla

July 7, 2011

[Note: AFP reports that a French yacht carrying 12 pro-Palestinian activists hoping to run the Israeli blockade on Gaza was on Thursday blocked in Crete by the Greek coast guard when it stopped to refuel.] By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — The United Nations is preparing to release its report on the 2010 Gaza flotilla

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Greece plays hero’s role in flotilla drama

July 5, 2011

By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. –With extraordinary economic problems and its public in a very bad mood, the Government of Greece seemed an unlikely hero in the saga of the Hamas-organized flotillas. But Greece is, indeed, the hero. While several countries – including the United States – denounced the idea of boats breaking legal Israeli-Egyptian

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First ‘hippies’ were kibbutzniks of early 20th century

July 5, 2011

By Dov Hartuv KIBBUTZ NAHAL OZ, Israel — At the beginning of the twentieth century the whole of Europe was in a state of flux. New ideas and new ideals were making themselves felt and the youth were bent on changing the old and ringing in the new. All doctrines and philosophies were the rage

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Lebanese tribunal may set off new round of civil strife

July 4, 2011

By Barry Rubin HERZLIYA, Israel — Years of waiting–though leaks have been plentiful–have just about ended with the word from the international tribunal that four Hizballah officials, including the group’s deputy military commander Mustafa Badreddine were involved in killing Lebanon’s former prime minister Rafiq Hariri in February 2005. Yet Hizballah is now the leading force

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StandWithUs urges cancellation of Gaza Flotilla

July 4, 2011

LOS ANGELES (Press Release) — Thirty-four Americans and four crew members are in Athens set to sail on the American-flagged ship The Audacity of Hope. The ship is part of the “Freedom Flotilla II,” an international flotilla organized to violate Israel’s naval blockade of the Gaza Strip, allegedly to deliver humanitarian aid. StandWithUs, an international

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Voting is stressful, Israeli study shows

July 4, 2011

HAIFA (Press Release)–Now there is proof: Voting in elections is stressful, even to a point that it causes hormonal changes among voters. This new study, conducted by scholars from the University of Haifa and Ben-Gurion University in Israel, has found that the level of cortisol – a hormone released when a person is under pressure

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Split deepens between Egypt’s religious establishment and Muslim Brotherhood

July 3, 2011

By Barry Rubin HERZLIYA , Israel — In a major new development an Islamic force has arisen to challenge the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood and support a more moderate regime in that country. This is a surprising opponent but the only one that could be of significance: al-Azhar University. Why is Egypt’s Islamic establishment taking on

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Solving refugee problem a must for Mideast peace

July 3, 2011

By Isaac Yetiv, PhD LA JOLLA, California–In the last 65 years, a dozen U.S. presidents, Democrats and Republicans and more than a dozen Israeli Prime Ministers from the Left and from the Right repeatedly offered substantive concessions to the Arabs in order to reach a modus vivendi for a peaceful coexistence of Arabs and Jews

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Quartet seeks deescalation of Gaza tension

July 2, 2011

NEW YORK (Press Release)–The following is the text of a statement released by the Middle East Quartet (United States, United Nations, European Union and Russia) in New York on July 2, 2011: “The Quartet remains concerned about the unsustainable conditions facing the civilian population in Gaza but notes that efforts have improved conditions over the

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3 GOP congressman criticize U.S. contacts with Muslim Brotherhood

July 2, 2011

WASHINGTON D.C. (Press Release) –Following remarks made by Secretary of State Hilary Clinton that the Obama Administration is now pursuing a policy of “limited contacts” with Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood, Rep. Trent Franks (AZ-02), a member of the House Committee on Armed Services, Friday denounced this policy of engaging an “extremely violent Islamic fundamentalist group” saying:

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New Israeli law would penalize those who support boycott of Israel

Some reasons for Palestinians torpedoing peace chances

Ambassador has preference for SPAM and Diet Mountain Dew

Rabbi shares impressions of his latest Jerusalem visit

Turkey and Israel ponder U.N. report on 2010 Flotilla

Greece plays hero’s role in flotilla drama

First ‘hippies’ were kibbutzniks of early 20th century

Lebanese tribunal may set off new round of civil strife

StandWithUs urges cancellation of Gaza Flotilla

Voting is stressful, Israeli study shows

Split deepens between Egypt’s religious establishment and Muslim Brotherhood

Solving refugee problem a must for Mideast peace

Quartet seeks deescalation of Gaza tension

3 GOP congressman criticize U.S. contacts with Muslim Brotherhood

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