By Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — As much as I try to tell myself that Israel and the United States will make sure that Syria’s arsenal of chemical weapons won’t reach Hezbollah or any other terrorist organization and thus threaten Israel, nevertheless last Sunday I went to pick up our gas masks from the […]
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Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM –We hear from the anti-Israel rabble, as well as some highly placed politicians and professors that a pro-Israeli lobby is much too powerful and may even dictate things in Washington concerned with the Middle East. It ain’t that simple. No doubt that AIPAC is one of the most prominent
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastFormer IDF intelligence head: Iran has all necessary tools to produce bomb (JNS.org) Iran could have its first atomic bomb within four to six months if the regime in Tehran took the decision to go ahead and make a bomb, former IDF Director of Military Intelligence Amos Yadlin said on Monday. Speaking at a press
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InternationalBy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — References to peace with the Palestinians have returned to the rhetoric of Binyamin Netanyahu. During the election campaign he tended to talk about the threat from Iran and its stooges, not about opportunities for peace. But in his acceptance speech in response to the request by President Peres that
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Middle EastBy Christopher Ruddy NEW YORK–It’s a cold Friday night last December and I am at the reception desk to see former New York Mayor Ed Koch at New York Presbyterian Hospital. “Ed Koch please,” I ask the young African-American fellow serving as the receptionist. “You’re here to see Mayor Koch!” he says rather excitedly to
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USABy Evelyn Gordon SAN DIEGO — It was an election whose results stunned pundits both in Israel and abroad, a “wide and deep repudiation” of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, as some hastened to claim. And elections, as we know, have consequences. So are major changes expected in Israel’s foreign and defense policy? In a
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Middle EastBy Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — For all the thunder about the “missing” J Street speech Chuck Hagel gave in 2009, watching it was almost a letdown. There is simply no “smoking-gun” anti-Semitism or anti-Israelism there, aside from a single reference to some policies working to the “single issue benefit of certain groups.” OK, yes,
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Shoshana Bryen, USAwww.jns.org/news-briefs Fatah glorifies first female Palestinian suicide bomber on anniversary of her attack (JNS.org) On the 11th anniversary of the day she killed two Israelis and injured hundreds of others in a Jerusalem terror attack, Fatah called Wafa Idris—who according to Fatah was the first female Palestinian suicide bomber—a “beautiful flower,” Palestinian Media Watch
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InternationalBy Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — Israeli jets struck something Tuesday night; Wednesday’s guessing game was, “What was it?” First reports from Western news services said the Israeli Air Force hit a convoy of weapons moving west from Syria toward, or even in Lebanon. A Lebanese army source said nothing was hit there and a
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Middle East, Shoshana BryenBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–The Crusades that we read about in the books had, as their declared aim, liberation of the Holy Land, and especially the holy places in and near Jerusalem. The Jews had a part as victims. Christian hordes massacred them, most notably the communities along the Rhine, on their way to dealing with
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle Eastwww.jns.org/news-briefs Israeli officials: Air force would strike Syria ‘because red lines were crossed’ (JNS.org) Israel twice carried out airstrikes inside Syrian territory on Wednesday, the first airstrike allegedly destroying a convoy of trucks carrying anti-aircraft missiles destined for Hezbollah and the second destroying a “research institute” near Damascus , Israel Hayom reported, citing the Syrian
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InternationalBy David P. Goldman Synopsis: While it is relatively easy to find the right rhetoric for disengagement from Egypt, the fact of the matter is that the Obama administration has put all of its eggs in Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi’s basket. If the authority of the Morsi government were to fail, American planners
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Middle EastIsraeli jets reportedly hit target on Lebanon-Syria border (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) Israeli forces attacked a target on the Syrian-Lebanese border, a western diplomat and a security source told Reuters on Wednesday, at a time of growing concern in the Jewish state over the fate of Syrian chemical and conventional weapons. The sources, who declined
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InternationalBy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM –I suspect that one reason why Israel is so preoccupied with Yair Lapid is because he seems to be the only real winner in last week’s elections. A few others did hold their own, but many more lost heavily. Here’s a list. Binyamin Netanyahu, though still the likely prime minister,
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