Several years ago, before the onset of the Arab Spring, the eminent historian Bernard Lewis suggested that Israel’s future in the Middle East was more secure than many assumed. In measurable ways, the nearer Arab and Muslim states were sinking into ever deeper political, social and economic dysfunction and despair, while Israel, for all its […]
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Middle EastPHILADELPHIA — GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump arrived in North Philadelphia on Friday as protesters gathered outside a church venue where he was to meet privately with African-American voters — stirring visible unwelcome for the GOP presidential nominee in the City of Brotherly Love. Trump arrived in an SUV with a police motorcade down Broad
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USAGary Johnson and Jill Stein are on the ballot in yet another state for the November presidential election, but a spot on the main stage in the presidential debates remains a long shot for the third-party candidates. Johnson, the Libertarian Party’s nominee, and Stein, nominated by the Green Party, qualified for the Oregon ballot before
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USAWHEN Brigitte Bardot revealed (almost) all in the 1956 movie And God Created Woman, she barely raised an eyebrow in France. After all, the country was home to innumerable nude statues that adorn parks everywhere. So much so that when I was at school in Paris, and asked to escort a visiting aunt around the
Dilma Rousseff will soon abandon Brazil’s beautiful presidential palace along with its luxury sports facilities and helicopter pad-but perhaps post-impeachment life won’t be so bad after all. Stripped of office by the Senate on Wednesday, Brazil’s first female president joined the ranks of nearly 12 million unemployed in Latin America’s biggest country. She’ll walk out
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InternationalDonald Trump’s latest campaign hire is David Bossie, the longtime president of Citizens United, the infamous conservative organization named in the 2010 Supreme Court ruling scaling back regulations on corporate financing of political messaging. Trump called Bossie “a friend of mine for many years,” according to the Washington Post. “Solid. Smart. Loves politics, knows how
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USARussian President Vladimir Putin denied culpability for the hacks of prominent Democrat organizations and called WikiLeaks dump of documents a public service, Bloomberg News reported Thursday. “There’s no need to distract the public’s attention from the essence of the problem by raising some minor issues connected with the search for who did it,” Putin said
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International, USAThis article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. We’ve heard a lot in recent weeks about the potential for Russian meddling in the presidential election. A lot of circumstantial evidence—and the fact that Russia has the means, motive and opportunity to conduct these attacks—suggests an important Russian role in the leaks
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International, USAPhilippine authorities on Saturday blamed a notorious group of Islamic militants for the bombing of a night market in President Rodrigo Duterte’s home town that killed at least 14 people. An improvised explosive device tore through the bustling market in the heart of Davao city and close to one of its top hotels just before
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InternationalA year after the image of three-year-old Alan Kurdi lying lifeless on a Turkish beach pushed the Syrian refugee crisis to the top of the international agenda, his grandfather makes an emotional plea for world leaders to end the war in Syria. In an exclusive interview with Newsweek, Sexo Seno Kurdi, speaking by phone from
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InternationalSpace Jews are an unfortunate science fiction trope that repackages a number of repulsive anti-semitic stereotypes, typically to vivify a conniving, mercantile race of aliens with easily recognized prejudicial characteristics. Between Watto, Gringotts goblins and South Park’s parodic Joozians, the Space Jew trope is potent and common enough that the name has come to stand
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USAInbar Tabib was born in Israel to a Yemenite/Persian family. Her father was disabled as a young child, and both her parents served as role models for coping with challenges. When she was 5, her family relocated to Chicago, where she spent the rest of her childhood. Although Inbar grew up in a traditional home
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Jewish Religion, Middle East, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, USAThe Supreme Court has issued a destruction order for ten buildings in the small town of Netiv Ha’avot, in Gush Etzion, overriding the policy of the state. Similarly the judges ordered the destruction of seven buildings which the state had already slated for eviction. In order to allow the residents to prepare, demolition orders will
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Middle EastDespite a formal rejection of the BDS movement in March by the University of California system, the University of California Los Angeles, one of most prestigious public colleges in the state, has empowered and enabled the anti-Israel movement, targeting those who challenge BDS and allied organizations. Efforts by campus BDS groups, bolstered by the University
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