June 8, 2016 Marc Schulman Displayed with permission from Newsweek On Wednesday, thousands in Tel Aviv were enjoying the beautiful summer evening when gunmen opened fire on diners at the crowded Benedict eatery. Initial reports suggest the terrorists were using home-made machine guns and fired until they ran out of ammunition, killing and injuring nine. […]
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Middle EastThe trajectory the presidential contest took over the last week could be seen from the tone and content of the speeches that Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton gave Tuesday night — to Trump’s detriment. Trump insisted that his party’s voters could trust him to not let them down: He had to offer that reassurance after
NEW YORK — Now comes the hard part. Or maybe the harder part. Having made history as the first woman to lead a major party ticket, Hillary Clinton now enters a critical period of trying to cement her status in Democrats’ hearts and minds, not just with delegate math. To unite the party for a
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USA“We are stronger together.” That is the slogan Hillary Clinton’s campaign has adopted for their drive to elect the first female president in American history. In order to crash through that ultimate glass ceiling, however, the Clinton folks must convince Bernie Sanders and his die-hard supporters that getting together is a good idea. Sanders had
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USAWASHINGTON – The US House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly Tuesday evening to pass a resolution calling upon Germany to increase restitution support for Holocaust survivors in what one of the legislation’s sponsors described as a last chance to support the dwindling number of Nazi victims. The resolution, passed unanimously by a vote of 363-0 with
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International, Jewish History, USAWASHINGTON — At an event promoting his memoir Tuesday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said it was “stupid” for Donald Trump to single out a judge’s Mexican heritage and said the Republican presidential candidate should apologize and “get on script.” He did not, though, back away from supporting the New York real estate magnate. Instead,
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USAWashington (dpa) – US President Barack Obama has called Democratic candidates Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders as final state primaries were held. Obama congratulated Clinton on winning enough delegates to secure the nomination and called her campaign “historic” and an extension of her life-long fight for middle-class families and children. He praised Sanders for “for
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USATony Blair has said that left-wing Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn has no desire to win power, and accused him of standing by and allowing Syrians to be killed. In an extraordinary personal attack, Blair, who led the Labour Party until he stood down as prime minister in 2007, said in an interview with Bloomberg:
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International, USARepublican presidential candidate Donald Trump has estimated that his campaign will need $1.5 billion to compete against Hillary Clinton. Now the finance chair of the Republican Governors Association is predicting that Trump could fall well short of his goal. “Unless he’s willing to write a huge personal check, which is unlikely, I believe Trump will
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USATop Democrats, including some key Bernie Sanders supporters, want the Vermont senator to concede defeat to Hillary Clinton now that she has all but sewed up the party’s presidential nomination with forceful victories in delegate-rich California and New Jersey as well as two other states. But Sanders says his campaign will soldier on to the
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USAThe tiny robot looks like your average autonomous vacuum cleaner — just another little black box rolling on the floor, until you realize: this Roomba-like creature is packing heat. An Israeli company has created a small remote-controlled robot designed for law enforcement and military use that is capable of firing a pistol, specifically for use
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Middle EastControversial anti-Israel British politician George Galloway, who in the past declared his hometown an “Israeli-free zone”, bashed likely Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton on Tuesday, saying that presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump was the lesser of two evils. Galloway, who in the past has praised the Hamas terror group and accused Israel of arming Al
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International, Middle East, USASouth African archbishop and prominent anti-Israel campaigner Desmond Tutu has joined other activists in nominating imprisoned Palestinian arch-terrorist Marwan Barghouti for the Nobel Peace Prize. Tutu tabled the nomination in a letter to the Norwegian Nobel Committee on Monday – cited by Al Arabiya – in which he hailed the Fatah-Tanzim commander as a symbol
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International, Middle EastAfter meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Wednesday held a conference with the leaders of Moscow’s Jewish community where he spoke about Israeli activity in Syria. The event, which was held during Netanyahu’s official visit to Russia, was attended by around 100 community leaders and businessmen including Russian
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