By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — This is not the time for anything close to a complete assessment of the agreement with Iran. Commentators can find points where Israel’s insistence might have shaped the final deal, but so far the tendency of Israeli officials and party leaders–not all of them right of center–is to complain that […]
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastBy Steve Kramer Eyal Zisser is Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and the Yona and Dina Ettinger Chair of Contemporary Middle Eastern History at Tel Aviv University (TAU). Professor Zisser recently spoke to the English Speaking Friends of TAU at their monthly lecture on the present situation in the Middle East, particularly in Syria.
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By Rabbi Ben Kamin ENCINITAS, California — A letter to President John F. Kennedy. Dear Mr. President, You are so omnipresent, fifty years after Dallas, so vividly alive for those of us who have any memory of you while you were here with us, that it doesn’t seem all that preposterous to send you
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Syracuse University suspends ties with Palestinian school, joining Brandeis (JNS.org) Syracuse University became the second school in a week to suspend its relationship with the Palestinian Al-Quds University in Jerusalem following a Nazi-style rally at Al-Quds, The Jerusalem Post reported. The school’s Institute for National Security and Counterterrorism halted ties with Al-Quds. “We are very
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InternationalBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Change may occur, but as mother used to say when I wanted something beyond the possible, “Don’t hold your breath.” Prominent in what does not appear to be changing are the gaps between Iran, Israel, and the more powerful of western countries. On the eve of meetings in Geneva that
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastJonathan Pollard enters 29th year in U.S. prison (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) On Thursday, Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard entered his 29th year in American prison. Pollard, now 59, was arrested in Washington on Nov. 21, 1985. He was later convicted of spying for Israel, and is the only person in U.S. history to receive a
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InternationalBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–Israel appears to be losing big time on the two issues topping its international agenda. Predictions are that the greater powers will reach an agreement with Iran that the Prime Minister has said time and again will be very bad, worse than no agreement, and making no meaningful contribution to ending Iran’s
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastAyatollah Ali Khamenei calls Israel ‘rabid dog’ (JNS.org) On the day negotiations on the Iran nuclear program were renewed in Geneva, Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei called Israel a “rabid dog.” “It came from the mouth of the rabid dog of the region—Israel—that Iran is a threat to the world! No, the fake regime
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InternationalNY Times features photo of perpetrator’s family for story on murder of IDF soldier (JNS.org) The New York Times was criticized by the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA) for its lead photo in coverage of a Palestinian terrorist’s murder of 19-year-old Israeli soldier Eden Atias. “CAMERA has urged New York
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InternationalBy Rabbi Ben Kamin ENCINITAS, California — Like anybody else old enough, I remember when President John F. Kennedy was slain, fifty years ago this Friday. Our tiny Hebrew day school suddenly sent us home just before two o’clock—exactly when we would have concluded our day with the weekly, all-classes welcoming of Sabbath. There would
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USAIran says new combat drone has range to reach Israel (JNS.org) Iranian Defense Minister Hossein Dehghan said his country’s new reconnaissance and combat drone, Fotros, has a range of 1,250 miles, meaning it could reach Israel from Iran. “This drone is able to carry out reconnaissance missions and carry air-to-surface rockets for combat operations,” Dehghan
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InternationalBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–Those who doubt that Israel is a normal country–along with everything that makes it abnormal–only have had to look and listen to the Hebrew media over the most recent few days. The bulk of the print and noise has not concerned Iran or Palestine, but a famous singer, his middle age relatives
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–The latest incident of violence to reach the headlines, which is not to say that it is the latest incident, involved the murder of a young soldier not yet finished with basic training, while on a bus returning from sick leave, . The even younger lad who stabbed him numerous times before
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastPalestinian Authority incitement complaint filed by Israel’s U.N. ambassador (JNS.org) The murders of three Israel Defense Forces soldiers and one reservist over the last two months has prompted Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Ron Prosor to file an official complaint on Palestinian Authority incitement to the U.N. Security Council. IDF Cpl. Eden Attias, 19,
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