By Mark D. Zimmerman MELVILLE, New York — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is under multiple investigations that may lead to criminal charges. Echoing Donald Trump, Netanyahu has called the charges “fake news” and the investigations “a witch hunt.” What else has Netanyahu said in the past that seems to echo Donald Trump? A. “Will we […]
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Mark D. Zimmerman, Middle East, Trivia, Humor & Satire, USAMembers of the Jewish community in Monsey, New York are up in arms over the alleged mistreatment of a three-year-old haredi child who was reportedly thrown into the back of a police squad car after being left outside of his home. The incident occurred last Friday afternoon when the three-and-a-half-year-old boy returned home from summer
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USAKushner, Greenblatt and Powell are coming to ‘restart the peace process’ — even as the leaders of all sides face unprecedented crises of political legitimacy By Avi Issacharoff US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman (second left) and US President Donald Trump’s special envoys Jared Kushner (left) and Jason Greenblatt (second right) meet with Prime Minister
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Middle East, USAWASHINGTON — CIA Director Mike Pompeo said Sunday that President Donald Trump would consider it “unacceptable” for North Korea to possess a nuclear-armed ballistic missile capable of striking the United States — a development believed to be soon within Pyongyang’s reach. But the intelligence chief also said he saw no imminent threat of North Korea
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International, USAWASHINGTON — Religious and civil rights leaders called on President Donald Trump to fire White House advisers Steve Bannon and Sebastian Gorka, whose association with the white-supremacist “alt-right” movement has come under heightened scrutiny after Saturday’s violent clash in Charlottesville, Va. “Supporters of white supremacists, violent extremism, racial bigotry and neo-Nazis should not serve in
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USAANCHORAGE, Alaska—Alaska’s largest newspaper filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Saturday evening and new owners — an Alaska family that made its fortune hauling freight and tourists on the Yukon River and its tributaries, and a company that owns rural newspapers in the state — have been lined up. Alaska Dispatch News owner Alice Rogoff,
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By Eric George Tauber SAN DIEGO — “Jews will not replace us!” This was one of the slogans chanted by the Alt-Right in Charlottesville, VA yesterday. A more diverse group gathered in opposition to the blend of Neo-Nazis and White Supremacists at Emancipation Park. (As far as I can tell, the only difference between them
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Eric George Tauber, Jewish History, USAA video of a police officer beating a 25-year-old man, Richard Hubbard III, in Euclid, Ohio, for not heeding his orders has gone viral. Filmed by one of the witnesses, Lashaunda Malone, the video was posted on Facebook on Saturday morning. It had garnered more than 1 million views and was shared more than 25,000
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USADonald Trump’s new campaign ad hits out at the opposition, the media and career politicians in footage released on Sunday. The Donald J Trump For President Twitter account shared the video that also boasted about “the strongest military in decades” as well as the creation of “1 million jobs” in America. “Democrats obstructing, media attacking
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USAWashington (dpa) – Ivanka Trump took to Twitter on Sunday to denounce racism and right-wing extremism, a day after her father faced criticism for not directly condemning deadly white supremacist protests in Charlottesville, Virginia. “There should be no place in society for racism, white supremacy and neo-nazis,” Ivanka Trump wrote, calling on Americans to come
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USAStaff inside the White House are plotting to get rid of President Donald Trump, according to former communications director Anthony Scaramucci. Scaramucci, whose turn on the communications team lasted for less than two weeks, said in an interview with ABC News’ This Week the president needed to get “more loyalists in” to protect his position.
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USATehran (dpa) – The Iranian parliament on Sunday voted unanimously for a bill to increase the budget for its missile programme as well as the elite Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) militia. The proposed law is Tehran’s answer to the latest sanctions by the United States against Iran’s missile programme, state media reported. More than
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Middle East, USACurrent and former members of the administration may face questioning from Special Counsel Robert Mueller in the ongoing probe into Russia’s alleged intervention in the U.S. election. According to three people familiar with the topic, Mueller is seeking information from the White House about specific meetings and notes on such meetings, and wants to ask
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USAUS President Donald Trump’s condemnation of bigotry and hatred at a “Unite the Right” rally in Virginia that turned violent included white supremacists, the Ku Klux Klan and neo-Nazis, the White House insisted Sunday. “The president said very strongly in his statement yesterday that he condemns all forms of violence, bigotry and hatred. Of course
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