By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—When a U.S. Marine Corps detachment from the USS Cyane marched from the shore of San Diego Bay to the plaza in Old Town San Diego on July 29, 1846 and raised the American flag without serious challenge, thus ending Mexican control over this city, someone must have thought, ‘Wait […]
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Donald H. Harrison, USABy Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — The UNIFIL political officer, meeting with the JINSA Flag & General Officer delegation on the Israel-Lebanese border, mentioned a “donors’ conference” in Beirut dealing with the issue of providing arms, funding and training to the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF). She mentioned anti-tank missiles. When asked against whose tanks the
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Shoshana Bryen, USABy Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — It could not have been more explicit. Standing next to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in Washington, Israel’s Defense Minister Ehud Barak said if the situation in Lebanon flares into warfare as it did in 2006, Israel would not just blame Hezbollah. “The main responsibility lies with the
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Middle East, Shoshana Bryen, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–It is not starting well. One commentator described the talks between Israel and the Palestinians as “beginning on the left foot.” Another called them a “farce.” Several estimated their chances of success as “close to zero,” and attributed their plight to American bumbling. Neither the Israeli Prime Minister nor the Palestinian President
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USANEW YORK (Press Release)–The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) on Wednesday called on investors and banks not to buy or hold the “Pars Oil and Gas Company Participation Bonds” currently being offered by Bank Mellat of Iran. “Buyers of these bonds are funding Iran’s nuclear weapons program, terrorism, and the repression of the Iranian people by putting money in
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By Carol Davis SAN DIEGO—There is something magical about seeing Tovah Feldshuh playing Golda Meir in her one-woman show, Golda’s Balcony by William Gibson now playing at the Old Globe Theatre in Balboa Park through May 30th. From the moment she walks on to the stage, to the time she takes her last of many
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Carol Davis, Middle East, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)–J Street Executive Director Jeremy Ben-Ami on Monday welcomed the launch of indirect talks between Israel and the Palestinians, scheduled to begin on Wednesday. His statement follows: J Street welcomes the launch of Israeli-Palestinian proximity talks. While the start of talks is a step in the right direction, those committed to ending
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Middle East, USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)–The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) on Monday praised the countries whose delegates walked out on Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s speech at a United Nations conference after he accused the U.S., Israel and an unspecified European country of threatening Iran with nuclear weapons. The Iranian president was delivering remarks to the Non-Proliferation Treaty
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Middle East, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–The wet dream of the Palestinians is that someone else will solve their problems by forcing Israel to do what is right. They are told time and again by their leaders that it is only they who have suffered, and only they whose claims are just. To their own harm, much of
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—There are many automotive museums around the world, interpreting their missions in a variety of fashions. Some collect, wanting to obtain representative automobiles of every make, nationality, or year. Others love to show the marriages of art and technology, form and function, and marketing and self-perceptions all shaping people’s
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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–Here we go again. Maybe. The stage is set for the beginning of indirect talks between Israel and the abbreviated Palestine National Authority (West Bank without Gaza). The Arab League has provided its endorsement. Palestinian leaders carried that decision on the basis of “assurances” received from the Americans. They are warning
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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—Probably no event has seared into the consciousness of the Japanese-American community more painfully than their forced relocation from their homes on the West Coast of the United States to internment camps in the interior of the country during World War II. This is the central portion of
By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–You want to look at a conundrum? (a problem without a solution) Immigration reform is a good example. A NYT article describes efforts at producing some kind of amnesty along with “tougher enforcement.” http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/01/us/politics/01immig.html?hp Can any country control its borders, and also preserve its morality? Tougher enforcement will mean random deportations while
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Middle East, USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)– President Barack Obama on Friday declared May 2010 as Jewish American History Month. His proclamation read: “In 1883, the Jewish American poet Emma Lazarus composed a sonnet, entitled ‘The New Colossus,’ to help raise funds for erecting the Statue of Liberty. Twenty years later, a plaque was affixed to the completed
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