International

Hypocrisy in U.S. policy on fighting Muslim terrorists

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — One definition of a hypocrite is an individual who is guilty of faults more serious than those done by others that the hypocrite condemns as intolerable.   Evolving events in northwestern Africa invite another look at Barack Obama’s comment that Israelis–and especially Benyamin Netanyahu–do not know what is good for

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Ira Sharkansky, USA

Obama’s criticism may prove to Netanyahu’s benefit

By Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM–We were told that Israel’s prime minister tried to interfere in the US presidential elections last year by siding with Mitt Romney against the victorious Barack Obama. The latter has now returned the compliment by seemingly interfering in the Israeli elections. That’s the received and probably correct interpretation of the comments

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USA

Obama-Netanyahu gulf widens

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — U.S. President Barack Obama has been quoted as saying that  “Israel doesn’t know what its own best interests are.” This report about the President’s sentiments did not come directly from the President, but has been filtered through a journalist reporting what the President said to him, or what he heard

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Ira Sharkansky, USA

JNS news briefs: January 16, 2013

Livni: Obama’s remarks on Israel’s best interests ‘need to wake up every Israeli citizen’ (JNS.org) Reacting to the report that President Barack Obama repeatedly said “Israel doesn’t know what its own best interests are,” Tzipi Livni—chairwoman of Israel’s new Hatnuah party—said the remarks “need to wake up every Israeli citizen.” “One can love or not

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International

JNS news briefs: January 15, 2013

PA minister denies Jewish history of Western Wall and all of Jerusalem (JNS.org) The Palestinian Authority (PA) recently said that all of Jerusalem, including the Western Wall, has never been used as a place of worship throughout history by anyone besides Muslims “until the ominous Balfour Declaration was issued in 1917.” This directly contradicts a

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International

‘Politically correct’ West turns eyes from Islam’s excesses

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — There is news about another chapter in the Crusade of Western democracies against what they refuse to label as a problem of Islam. The French have taken on the task of attacking–from the air and with ground troops–a northern Mali “army” of assorted Islamic groups that have threatened to overtake

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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East