By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — One of my correspondents provoked this column with the following response to what I had written previously. “I read your article about who is Donald Trump. and it leaves me confused , for once America has a president that is for Israel and you want to pick him apart? The American people […]
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USABy Michael Dear, Professor Emeritus of City & Regional Planning, University of California, Berkeley. In 2002, I began traveling the entire length of the U.S.-Mexico border on both sides. From Pacific Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico, the border measures almost 2,000 miles. What distinguished my journey was that I began traveling well before the
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International, USAFirst daughter Ivanka Trump has made intermittent appearances at the White House since the start of President Donald Trump’s term. Although she doesn’t have an official role in administration, Ivanka Trump has been present at meetings with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, manufacturing executives and women business leaders. As many political analysts have noted, one
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USAWhen the history of our political era is written, who will stand out as the Republican who stood up to Donald Trump? “Saturday Night Live” says the identity of the “patriot who put country over party” is still very much in question. “SNL” took aim at what it sees as a spineless GOP in a
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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USAIt turns out House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi also met the Russian ambassador and then denied it, but she insisted Sunday that her situation is “completely different” from that of Attorney General Jeff Sessions. Ms. Pelosi found herself compared to Mr. Sessions after a 2010 photo making the rounds Friday showed her at a dinner
Obama-era ambassador, Dan Shapiro, announced as visiting fellow at Institute for National Security Studies By Alexander Fulbright Then US ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro seen at a fare-well session in the Knesset, on January 17, 2017. (Miriam Alster/Flash90) Former US ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro will join the Institute for National Security studies as a
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Middle East, USAIn college, Juan Thompson surrounded himself with Jewish friends and a Jewish girlfriend. He spent time with her family. He spoke favorably about Israel, not always a popular thing to do at Vassar College, a liberal arts school in New York state where some students have embraced the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement. But
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USAA few Democrats have called on a Democratic congressman to apologize for his crude joke last week about White House counselor Kellyanne Conway, but not House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi. Ms. Pelosi deflected questions posed by CNN’s Jake Tapper about tasteless comments made Wednesday at a Washington Press Club dinner by Rep. Cedric Richmond, Louisiana
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USADuring part of her time in an immigrant detention center in Colorado, Grisel Xahuentitla spent six hours a day passing out trays before meals, scrubbing toilets and scouring showers. She was participating in a voluntary work program that allows detainees to earn $1 a day to help with the upkeep of the center. “When you
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USAGuillermo Lasso barely survived the first round of Ecuador’s presidential election Feb. 19, as ruling party candidate Lenin Moreno came within a hair of winning outright. But now that the opposition has rallied around Lasso, a former banker, and the April 2 runoff looks like Moreno’s to lose. Quito-based Cedatos, which produces one of the
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International, USAPresident Obama’s former director of national intelligence denied there ever was a federal court order authorizing wiretapping of Donald Trump properties on a day when the chair of the House intelligence committee said it would heed the president’s call for a Congressional probe of his unsubstantiated surveillance claims. Trump has roiled Washington with his tweeted
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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Author and columnist Edwin Black is touring the United States, Australia, and other democracies to promote the creation of a Covenant of Democratic Nations to replace the United Nations, the latter of which he describes as being so heavily influenced by anti-democratic, authoritarian regimes as to have outlived
By Steve Kramer ALFE MENASHE, Israel — The Lies They Tell is the second Tuvia Tenenbom book that I’ve read, following the enlightening Catch the Jew!, which penetrates the bubble surrounding many Israelis and journalists. Tuvia (his irreverent style breeds a strange familiarity) is an expat Israeli who has lived in the United States, Germany
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Steve Kramer, USANew Delhi (dpa) – Indian Minister of External Affairs Sushma Swaraj expressed her sorrow on Sunday over the the shooting of a member of the Sikh community in the United States. Swaraj’s swift reaction on microblogging site Twitter comes amid rising concerns at a series of recent attacks targeting Indian community members in the US.
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