Middle East

U.S.-Israel relations decline as Jerusalem apartment units climb

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–Things are not happy on the US-Israel front. Ha’aretz has taken the unusual step of putting a cartoon in the upper middle of its first page. It shows Bibi pushing a wheelbarrow full of construction material to his meeting with a scowling Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. There were two meetings in […]

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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USA

UK's expulsion of Israeli diplomat a domestic election ploy

By Lloyd Levy LONDON–This week, Britain  expelled an Israeli diplomat, because they suspect that Mossad used forged British passports to kill a Hamas terrorist in Dubai.  It needs to be pointed out that there is no definite evidence that Israel carried out the attack, and thus the issue was a very public way of attacking

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Lloyd Levy, Middle East, USA

University of Haifa professor's book on emotional intelligence wins PROSE award

  HAIFA, Israel (Press Release)–What We Know About Emotional Intelligence, a book by Prof. Moshe Zeidner, Director of the Laboratory for Research in Personality, Emotions, and Individual Differences at the University of Haifa, with G. Matthews and R. Roberts, has received the PROSE Award for the most outstanding book in the category of Biomedicine and

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Middle East

A blunt message for lawbreakers in the Arab-Israeli conflict

 By Bruce S. Ticker   PHILADELPHIA–Neither the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. nor Mahatma Gandhi whined when they were jailed. They knew they violated the local burg’s usually unjust laws; endured their punishment like adults; and never blamed the Jews.   Not so the 11 overgrown delinquents who disrupted Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren’s speech

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Middle East, USA

The Folly of America Training the Palestinian Army

By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C.– Fairly authoritative sources have noted that Lt. Gen. Keith Dayton, the U.S. Army general responsible for training Abu Mazen’s Palestinian security force/army, has become increasingly marginalized by the Fatah government. Last summer his staff was reportedly no longer directly involved in training or planning and had been “expelled” from the

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Middle East, Shoshana Bryen, USA