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U.S-Israel rift may cool over Passover holiday

JERUSALEM–It’s too early to panic, I hope. President Obama returned to his sweeping demand that Israel stop construction in post-1967 neighborhoods of Jerusalem, extend the construction freeze in settlements outside of Jerusalem beyond the ten months agreed, and take other steps to bring the Palestinians to negotiations. Comments at a high tone have come from […]

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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USA

General Petraeus sets record straight on Israel

By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C.–Sometimes it takes a while for a story to come full circle.  Last week, we reported  on a ForeignPolicy.com blog that said American military officers in CENTCOM blamed U.S. relations with Israel for American weakness in the region. The ForeignPolicy blog went viral on the web, attracting other “authoritative” statements blaming

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Middle East, Shoshana Bryen, USA

Israeli victims of terror find support in San Diego

By Carine Chitayat and Iris Pearlman SAN DIEGO–The Adopt A Family Foundation (AAFF) is an organization which matches Israeli terror victim families with an American contact family. This program sets into motion an unprecedented partnership of Jewish souls.  This valuable contact enables the terror victim family to begin to rebuild their traumatized lives with added

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Middle East, USA

U.S.-Israel relations decline as Jerusalem apartment units climb

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–Things are not happy on the US-Israel front. Ha’aretz has taken the unusual step of putting a cartoon in the upper middle of its first page. It shows Bibi pushing a wheelbarrow full of construction material to his meeting with a scowling Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. There were two meetings in

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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USA

UK's expulsion of Israeli diplomat a domestic election ploy

By Lloyd Levy LONDON–This week, Britain  expelled an Israeli diplomat, because they suspect that Mossad used forged British passports to kill a Hamas terrorist in Dubai.  It needs to be pointed out that there is no definite evidence that Israel carried out the attack, and thus the issue was a very public way of attacking

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Lloyd Levy, Middle East, USA

Congressional candidate’s ode to Marine Corps reveals his core values

Once  A Marine by Nick Popaditch (with Mike Steere), Savas Beatie LLC, 2008, ISBN 13 978-1-932713-47-0; 293 pages, $25. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—This book has what might be considered an elliptical title: “Once A Marine…. (Always A Marine.)”   And even were this book solely  a glimpse into the proud Marine Corps and its

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Donald H. Harrison, USA

A blunt message for lawbreakers in the Arab-Israeli conflict

 By Bruce S. Ticker   PHILADELPHIA–Neither the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. nor Mahatma Gandhi whined when they were jailed. They knew they violated the local burg’s usually unjust laws; endured their punishment like adults; and never blamed the Jews.   Not so the 11 overgrown delinquents who disrupted Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren’s speech

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Middle East, USA