By J. Zel Lurie DELRAY BEACH, Florida–Why does the Israel Navy’s killing civilian protesters on the high seas remind me of the brutal actions of the British Navy in combating the ships of Aliya Bet in 1947? There is no comparison in quantity or quality between the two events but both won the battle and […]
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Jewish History, Middle EastBy J. Zel Lurie DELRAY BEACH, Florida — The Ministry of Interior of the State of Israel has struck again. It denied entry to Noam Chomsky, the world-famous 81-year-old Professor of Linguistics at MIT, who wanted to enter the West Bank, not Israel, from Jordan, Prof. Chomsky is a Zionist iconoclast and scholar of Hebrew
Israel’s high-handed Interior Ministry costs the country many friends Read More »
Middle EastBy J. Zel Lurie DELRAY BEACH, Florida — One might think Israel and the Arabs fought wars so that someone could be awarded a Nobel Peace Prize at its conclusion. Between 1950 and 1994, seven men received the Peace Prize for making peace in the Middle East. To this startling number Barack Obama might be
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Middle EastBy J. Zel Lurie DELRAY BEACH, Florida–I am not diplomatic when I discuss Israel and Palestine with rightist American Jews who support the settlements. The facts that they pick up from rightist propaganda are usually totally wrong. Nothing I say penetrates their one-track minds. They don’t believe my facts even though I present chapter and
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Middle East, USABy J. Zel Lurie DELRAY BEACH, Florida –The statement in my last column that Israel tripled the size of East Jerusalem when it reunited the city in 1967 was a serious understatement. Actually, the Israeli geographers, who, they thought, were drawing the frontier of a state and not just its capital city, enlarged the area
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By J. Zel Lurie DELRAY BEACH, Florida–Sometimes you live too long and know too much. I celebrated my 96th birthday last week so I was around when East Jerusalem and the West Bank of Jordan were conquered by Israel in 1967. I learned from an aide to Teddy Kollek what he and Moshe Dayan were
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Jewish History, Middle EastSAN DIEGO–The news and feature report of San Diego Jewish World has expanded remarkably thanks to news sharing agreements under the auspices of RepubHub and the San Diego Online News Association (SDONA). Here is a list of writers whose works appeared during July on San Diego Jewish World, along with the names of the originating publications and organizations. The
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Readers' StoriesAs a service to genealogists, our editor Donald H. Harrison is making available an index of articles that he has written since he began his journalism career in 1962. A typical index entry has the name of the author, name of the publication, the people whose names appear within the article, the date, and the
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Travel and FoodBy J.Zel Lurie DELRAY BEACH, Florida — Now that President Obama has come and gone, Israel’s new Knesset will get down to business.The question in my mind is will Yair Lapid, the new flag bearer of the middle class, succeed in his bold program or will he follow the example of his predecessors, Shinui and Kadima,
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