By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Are the Palestinians our enemies, or maybe only our adversaries? They’ve been trying to topple us from the 1920s, but we’re still here, and doing a lot better than they are. Remember the UN declaration that Zionism is racism? It caught on with the international rabble, but didn’t make a […]
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NEW YORK (Press Release) –The American Jewish Committee (AJC) denounced Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s application for International Criminal Court (ICC) membership as an unconscionable blow to the peace process. Abbas announced Wednesday, Dec. 31, at a Ramallah rally celebrating the 50th anniversary of his Fatah party that he had signed the Rome Statute, the ICC
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NEW YORK (Press Release)–The U.S. Area Elections Committee chair has found that there is no basis for the request made by the ZOA to disqualify the Hatikvah progressive Zionist slate, established for the upcoming World Zionist Congress elections in the United States. Ironically, the ZOA is attempting to delegitimize the ideological heirs of those who
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Middle East, USANEW YORK (Press Release) — The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) filed an objection/complaint on Monday, Dec. 29, with the election officials administering the upcoming World Zionist Congress election, to disqualify a group that misleadingly calls itself the “HaTikvah slate,” because the group Ameinu of the “HaTikvah slate” lobbies for international sanctions against Israeli leaders whose political positions
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Middle East, USAUNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (Press Release) –The United States, as well as Australia and five other countries, prevented the adoption of a UN Security Council resolution pushed by the Palestinian Authority and the Arab League. The measure “is not constructive, sets arbitrary deadlines and fails to account for Israel’s security needs,” the U.S. State Department said prior
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International, Middle East, USAHosting Christian leaders, Israeli president laments persecution of Mideast minorities (JNS.org) The persecution of Christians and other religious minorities in the Middle East is “a cause of great worry and pain,” Israeli President Reuven Rivlin said Tuesday upon his hosting of Israeli Christian leaders for a reception to mark the New Year. During 2014, arguably
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International, Middle East, USAHamas bans Gaza orphans from peace-building trip to Israel (JNS.org) The Palestinian terrorist group Hamas has barred a group of 37 orphans in Gaza from visiting Israel as part of a peace-building trip meant to heal wounds between the parties to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. According to trip organizers, the group, which included children ages 13-16,
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Middle East, USABy Joe Gandelman SAN DIEGO — Get ready for our already ugly and violent 21st century to be the century of soft targets for terrorists. The number of places where people feel safe will diminish as terrorists pick new venues to increase body counts — and grab more of that new and mainstream media publicity
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Joe Gandelman, Middle East, Travel and Food, USABy Jeremy Ben-Ami WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a victory for those seeking political limits on art and speech in communal institutions, Washington’s Jewish Community Center has fired the artistic director of the acclaimed Theater J. His ouster caps a successful campaign by a small group of activists to shutter the theater over the content of its
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By Caren Besner BOYNTON BEACH, Florida–Fratricide is an ugly word. It evokes the image of siblings in conflict with one another. The Old Testament is replete with stories of such disharmony, that serve both as a lesson in morality and a warning for future generations. The story of Cain and Abel, the enslavement of Joseph in
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Middle East, USABy Natasha Josefowitz, Ph.D LA JOLLA, California — It was October 1939—I was twelve years old. My parents, my brother and I were sitting in the basement of our Paris apartment building with gas masks on. We did this every night as the sirens screeched and German planes flew overhead threatening to gas us. We
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International, Natasha Josefowitz, USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) – Americans for Peace Now (APN) on Wednesday reiterated its call on the Obama administration to support French-led efforts to gain consensus around a United Nations Security Council laying out terms of reference and a timeline for Israeli-Palestinian, two-state negotiations. APN urged the Obama administration to reject efforts to delay such a resolution until
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International, Middle East, USANEW YORK (Press Release)— The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA)reiterates its call of last week for President Barack Obama to free Jonathan Pollard, after President Obama freed three convicted spies who spied for an enemy regime, Cuba, and now that he has also freed ten terrorists imprisoned at Guantanamo. The first of six, freed the previous week
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Middle East, USAAbbas: No U.N. resolution, no more cooperation with Israel (JNS.org) Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas threatened to break off ties with Israel if the Palestinian-drafted United Nations Security Council resolution demanding Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank by 2017 fails. Speaking to reporters in Algeria, Abbas said that the Palestinians are “determined to restore
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