Gaza’s Palestinian residents angered by Hamas’s failure to address energy crisis (JNS.org) Residents of the Gaza Strip are angered by the failure of Hamas, the Palestinian terror group that governs their territory, to address the area’s severe energy crisis. Gaza’s recent power shortage has left residents with only three to four hours of electricity per […]
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Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Much ado about nothing “Sound and fury signifying nothing” Also relevant is Murray Edelman’s Symbolic Uses of Politics. The point of them all is that expressions or events that amount to little or nothing in a substantial or material way may move individuals to expressions of high emotion and extreme acts.
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USABy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – On both the local and national levels, I feel that someone ought to speak up for keeping calm. Yes, the Chargers have moved to Los Angeles after 56 years in this market place. For so many loyal fans, it is sad, disappointing, but hardly the end of the world. Relax
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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County, Sports & Competitions, USALondon (dpa) – Lord Snowdon, a royal portrait photographer and former husband of Queen Elizabeth II’s sister, died on Friday aged 86, his family and colleagues said. “Camera Press is very sad to announce the death of royal photographer Lord Snowdon, Antony Armstrong-Jones,” Snowdon’s photographic agency said on Twitter. Born Antony Armstrong-Jones, Snowdon was best
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International, Obituaries & memorialsThe Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus said on Saturday it will cease performances after 146 years in business, owing to what it said were declining tickets sales and high operating costs. “After much evaluation and deliberation, my family and I have made the difficult business decision that Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey
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The World We Share, USAThe head of the journalists’ association covering the White House said Sunday that the group will object to any move by the incoming administration to “shield” President Donald Trump from scrutiny, amid reports that Mr. Trump’s advisers are considering moving the press briefing room out of the West Wing of the White House. “The briefing
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USAIt would be easy to see the Trump-Obama transition as a mess for the president-elect. He continues to face criticism for his extraordinary breach of traditional financial disclosure norms, not only failing to release his taxes but making only the cursory moves toward separating himself from his businesses. Trump has had to contend with an
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USABy JT – Jan 15,2017 – Last updated at Jan 15,2017 AMMAN — A Royal Decree was issued on Sunday approving a reshuffle in Prime Minister Hani Mulki’s government. The Royal Decree, upon Mulki’s recommendation, included five new ministers and a new portfolio for a Cabinet member from Mulki’s first government. The ministers who joined
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Middle EastAmid new revelations about Arnon Mozes negotiating with Netanyahu to sideline some writers, Ron Yaron says staff would have quit en masse, but defends boss as still ‘utterly loyal’ By Times of Israel staff Editor-in-Chief of Israeli newspaper, Yediot Ahronot, Ron Yaron, speaks at the opening of a conference at the Jerusalem Convention Center, March
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Middle EastReince Priebus, the incoming White House chief of staff, called on President Obama to tell Democrats to stop trying to delegitimatize the election of President-elect Donald Trump. “President Obama could step up,” Mr. Priebus said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week.” Mr. Priebus said of the latest attack on Mr. Trump’s legitimacy form civil rights hero
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International, USAIn Donald Trump’s America, the jokes seem to write themselves. The president-elect gave “Saturday Night Live” writers a tall task this week: how to parody a press conference that already offered its own macabre humor, from “golden shower gate” to Trump’s plan to barely-not-really separate himself from his businesses to his insults directed at the
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International, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, Trivia, Humor & Satire, USAActivists from Lev HaOlam and other organizations arrived in Paris today to protest the anti-Israel conference that convenes there today. Cornelia, an activist for the organization who came specially from Holland with approximately 120 more Dutch people to Paris for the demonstration, told Arutz Sheva, “We are gathering here to stand up for the Nation
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International, Middle EastIsrael’s Foreign Ministry on Sunday held a ceremony welcoming a Torah scroll to its synagogue in Jerusalem’s government complex. Attending the ceremony were Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely (Likud) and Ashkenazic Chief Rabbi David Lau, senior officials in both the Religious Services and Foreign Ministries, and representatives from Romania’s Jewish community. The “new” Torah scroll
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International, Jewish History, Jewish Religion, Middle EastHe’s a former British spy, a man used to operating in the shadows. Now he is dramatically, and uncomfortably, in the spotlight. Christopher Steele has been identified in news reports as the author of a dossier suggesting that Russian officials had gathered compromising information about President-elect Donald Trump that could be used to blackmail him.
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