Former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, one of the many supporters of presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, criticized President Barack Obama in an interview with the Israel Hayom newspaper on the weekend. In the interview, Giuliani said he agreed with Trump”s stance that Obama shows weakness and warned that this weakness will lead to […]
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USAWhen she was growing up in St. Petersburg, Russia in the early 1990s, Lidiya Yankovskaya would see large demonstrations while on her way to her thrice-weekly chorus rehearsals. “I remember passing by a major square in the middle of the city where fascists would fly large swastika flags and hand out pamphlets that said ‘Kill
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International, USAA senior Trump advisor on Friday attacked one of America”s oldest Jewish newspapers, slamming its editor for declaring a 24-hour ban on Trump-related articles, or what has been dubbed a “Trumpatorium”. Jason Greenblatt, a long-time advisor to Donald Trump who has become one of the GOP presumptive nominee”s closest campaign aides, excoriated the left-leaning Jewish
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USAA few years ago, the Keren Kayemet LeIsrael (Jewish National Fund) introduced the world to a new and different Blue Box. You may remember the old ones: they were blue and white and had Keren Kayemet LeIsrael written on the front in Hebrew. The money you shoved into their slots was sent to the JNF,
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Middle EastPalestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Saturday backed away from his claim that rabbis had called to poison Palestinian water, saying he hadn’t intended to offend Jews, after Israel and Jewish groups said his statements were promoting blood libels and anti-Semitic tropes. “After it has become evident that the alleged statements by a rabbi on
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International, Middle East, USABy the year 2020, Louis Marinelli hopes to be the Alex Salmond of California. Salmond nearly led Scotland out of the United Kingdom in 2014 through an independence referendum, and Marinelli is attempting to have California split from the United States. His dream of seeing a free, independent California Republic was buoyed by Thursday’s shock
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USAIsrael and Britain”s relations will not change once Britain leaves the European Union (EU), British ambassador to Israel David Quarrey said on Friday. Speaking to Channel 2 News after UK residents voted to leave the EU in a referendum and Prime Minister David Cameron announced his resignation, Quarrey said, “The relationship between Britain and Israel
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International, Middle EastGermany’s foreign minister has urged the rest of the European Union not to fall into “depression and paralysis” following the U.K.’s decision to leave the continental bloc. Frank-Walter Steinmeier made the comments when arriving for a meeting of the six EU founder countries in Berlin on Saturday, the BBC reported. The six countries are Germany,
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InternationalNicola Sturgeon, Scotland’s First Minister, said today that Scotland will enter into “immediate discussions” with European Union member states in order to protect its membership of the bloc. Speaking in Edinburgh the day after the U.K. voted to leave the EU, Sturgeon said she would also establish an advisory panel of experts to advise her
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InternationalRoaming the nearly deserted slopes of the Trump Turnberry golf course, carved into the rugged west coast of South Ayrshire, Scotland, any remarks on the notorious boss remain elusive. “We’ve all been sworn to secrecy, I’m afraid,” replied an elderly receptionist at the club house. Farther into the dunes, enquiries to a groundskeeper laying fresh
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International, USABy Steve Kramer ALFE MENASHE, Israel — Pauline Kael, a renowned, late film critic for the liberal, weekly New Yorker, once said, “How could Nixon have won? Nobody I know voted for him,” referring to George McGovern’s loss to Richard Nixon in the 1972 presidential election. Many people in the United Kingdom (UK) and throughout the
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International, Middle East, Steve KramerWashington (dpa) – Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton says she wants to limit the impact of Britain’s departure from the European Union on the US economy. “Our first task has to be to make sure that the economic uncertainty created by these events does not hurt working families here in America,” she says in a
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International, USAPresumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump on Friday cheered the United Kingdom’s historic vote to exit the European Union. “They took back control of their country. It’s a great thing,” said Mr. Trump, who was in Scotland visiting one of his golf resorts. Mr. Trump, whose campaign shares many of the concerns – especially concerns
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International, USASen. Mark Kirk, R-Ill., who broke ranks earlier this month and announced he would not support Donald Trump as his own party’s nominee, became the first GOP incumbent to run an anti-Trump ad Friday. Kirk, who is considered one the most endangered Republican incumbents, dropped a 30-second ad titled “Even More,” which declares Trump “is
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