By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — NATO’s snub of Israel — a “major non-NATO ally” and member of NATO’s Mediterranean Dialogue — in its Chicago summit this weekend was simply waved away. “Israel is neither a participant in ISAF nor in KFOR (Afghanistan and Kosovo missions),” said NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen. Israel didn’t […]
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Middle East, Shoshana BryenBy Alan M. Dershowitz CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts — The world well knows of Israel’s military prowess in protecting its citizens against threats of terrorism and the even greater threat of a nuclear armed Iran. If one were to put the word “Israel” on a Rorschach test, the association, for most people would be to “conflict,” “wars,”
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Middle EastJERUSALEM (Press Release)–An Israel Government work placement program integrating high flying diaspora graduates to key ministries and departments is marking its first five years. The Israel Government Fellows, (IGF) established in 2007 has placed over 100 graduates from the Diaspora in professional work placements in key Israeli ministries and departments with several going on to
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Middle EastBy Yaakov Lappin WASHINGTON, D.C. — Since the shock announcement last week of the formation of a national unity government in Israel, there has been much speculation over what caused Kadima Party leader Shaul Mofaz to join forces with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s governing Likud Party. The coalition government was formed just a few days
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By J. Zel Lurie DELRAY BEACH, Florida –A few years ago a veteran Labor member of the Knesset, who had lost her seat in the debacle of Labor in the ’09 elections, told me: “Netanyahu can’t make any peace moves so long as his father is alive.” I thought she was jesting until last week. Perhaps
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Middle East
By David Bedein JERUSALEM — On Holocaust Remembrance Day, people in Israel stand in silence to recall the victims murdered by the Nazis and their allies. Tragically, the Palestinian Authority’s curriculum and media still carry the legacy of Haj Amin Al Husseini, the former Mufti of Jerusalem and leader of the Palestinian Arab community, who forged
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Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — This column is immodest, and is likely to provoke condemnation. It makes an appropriate nod in the direction of Jonathan Swift’s classic of a slightly different name. It also fits within my concern for politics, and the plight of Americans, old enough to vote and do other things, who are not
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Ira Sharkansky, USABy Matthew RJ Brodsky WASHINGTON, D.C. — With the Syrian uprising now past its one-year anniversary, it’s long past time to take stock of the carnage. More than 7,000 people have been killed to date by the Assad regime, as it has unleashed war on its own people. The spark that lit the fire was
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(From the Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs) By Joel Fishman I The Delegitimization Process and the Boycott: Background and Context The purpose of delegitimization on the international level is to isolate an intended victim from the community of nations as a prelude to bringing about its downfall or even destruction. This process denies the victim
By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — In early 2011, President Obama announced that the United States would sign the U.N. Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Now the U.N. wants us to give Mt. Rushmore to the Indians. James Anaya, U.N. special rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples, spent twelve days in the
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Shoshana Bryen, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — The country once riled (and still so in some localities) on the subject of alcohol and which has pursued a war against drugs since the 1970s is now beginning a presidential campaign with same-sex marriages as a central issue. Its difficult to decide between ridicule and laughter, sadness and tears
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By Rabbi Ben Kamin SAN DIEGO — When I closed my eyes to sleep last night, I reflected about President Obama’s thoughtful affirmation concerning the legal right of any two people to declare a marriage between them. I confess that while never opposing anybody’s right to marry anybody else, the long-standing, Jewish oligarchic tradition that
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USABy Gabriel Max Scheinmann WASHINGTON, D.C– After initially omitting funding for Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense system from its budget request, the Obama administration is now backing Congressional efforts to vastly increase funding for the successful system. The House Armed Services Strategic Forces subcommittee has voted to allocate $680 million, which would allow Israel to
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Middle East-SDJW staff report- SAN DIEGO — The decision by President Barack Obama to throw his support behind same-sex marriages in the United States has prompted comment pro and con from various Jewish groups. The Orthodox Union pronounced itself “disappointed by (Wednesday, May 9)’s statement by President Obama endorsing legal recognition of same sex marriage. Jewish law is
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