By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — He says that he wants to settle things between Israel and Palestine. His initial venture outside the US, to the Middle East, may indicate the importance that he assigns to it. There was also a business deal with the Saudis, that will bring more work to American industries. Along the […]
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USAResidents in uproar in face of politicians’ refusal to resign Roseland council members David Jacobs and Thomas Tsilionis sit side by side at a May 16 council meeting. Photos by Robert Wiener Claudia Reis, a Roseland citizen pushing for the councilmen’s resignations, told Tsilionis, “We deserve leaders who don’t use the most racially-charged word in
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USABritish police said terrorist attacks in London late Saturday inflicted multiple casualties, with a vehicle running down pedestrians on London Bridge and people being stabbed nearby. Reuters reported at least one person dead. As the attacks unfolded, President Trump said on Twitter that the violence underscores the need for U.S. courts to uphold his travel
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International, USAUri Pilichowski “My parents, teachers and community lied to me. They didn’t tell me the truth about Israelis and the Palestinians.” This is a scene repeating itself all too often on college campuses across the United States. Students we’ve spent years educating and invested tens of thousands of dollars in are arriving on college campuses
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USAPORTLAND, Ore.—Many Portlanders thought little could shock them more than the fatally stabbing of two men on a train for defending teens against anti-Muslim and racist taunts. But after last week’s attack, in which 35-year-old Jeremy Joseph Christian is accused of killing two men by slashing their throats, police released details of a new element
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USAWASHINGTON—When President Donald Trump announced Thursday that he was withdrawing from the Paris climate agreement, he never said whether he believed in the science of global warming or if he still considers it a hoax, as he has said in the past. At least one of his aides, Nikki Haley, the U.S. ambassador to the
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The World We Share, USAFirst daughter Ivanka Trump was named “America’s most powerful Jewish woman” in an article published by CNN on Friday, but the subsequent reaction suggests the opinion is hardly widely held. CNN drew fire for publishing a headline Friday declaring Ms. Trump to be “America’s most powerful Jewish woman,” provoking an avalanche of negative reactions and
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USASen. Al Franken says it’s time for Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party to “move on” from her presidential election loss and learn how to better reach voters. “I love Hillary. I think she was very prepared to be president of the United States,” the Minnesota Democrat told Yahoo’s Katie Couric in an interview Thursday.
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USAGreenblatt said to have met with architects of 2014 Allen Plan, opposed by Netanyahu and Ya’alon, which was to address Israeli defense concerns over a Palestinian state By Times of Israel staff Assistant to the President and Special Representative for International Negotiations, Jason Greenblatt (l) meets Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Prime Minister’s Office
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Middle East, USARep. Nancy Pelosi said Thursday that President Trump was “dishonoring” God and questioned whether his grandchildren will even be able to breathe air after his announcement a day earlier that he would withdraw from the Paris climate accord. “How is he ever going to explain to his grandchildren what he did to the air they
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The World We Share, USADuring a Friday morning press conference in Los Angeles, comedian Kathy Griffin stood in front of reporters to try and make sense of the backlash against a photograph she posted earlier in the week. Griffin posed with a bloody dummy head that looked like President Donald Trump. In the ensuing days, members of the first
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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USAWASHINGTON — President Donald Trump pulled the United States out of the Paris climate agreement Thursday, delivering a blow to worldwide environmentalists, major European powers — and daughter Ivanka. In the process, Trump also revealed that his controversial chief strategist, Steve Bannon, who appeared to have fallen out of favor in recent months, has regained
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The World We Share, USAZehut party chairman and former Likud MK Moshe Feiglin blasted Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu Thursday, blaming him for President Trump”s decision earlier Thursday to leave the US Embassy in Israel at its present location in Tel Aviv. While President Trump had pledged in 2016 to move the American embassy from Tel Aviv to the Israeli
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Middle East, USAThe first “Shimon Peres Day” will be held as part of the annual Parade for the State of Israel on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan this coming Sunday, June 4. This year’s parade will be dedicated to the memory of the late Israeli President and Prime Minister. New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo had announced that
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