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If the US Were Like the Palestinian Controlled Territories…
12 hours ago
by Eric
Today’s announcement that Fatah has given itself an indefinite mandate to rule has me thinking. This kind of action would not be accepted most places in the world. What if it were like that in the United States? I thought I would give you something to think about. Imagine waking up in the morning an ...
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Winning battle for public opinion not the same as winning the real battle
15 hours ago
by dhharrison
By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–”How many troops has the Pope?” If you are old enough to remember that question, you know that the answer is somewhere between “None,” and “Not too many.” The modern equivalent is, “How many troops has world public opinion?” Same answer, to the great sorrow of the Palesti ...
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Abbas copies Syria in making unreasonable demands
16 hours ago
by dhharrison
By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–Will someone out there tell Mahmoud Abbas that he is the supplicant and not one who can make pre-emptive demands. Not that I expect the message to get through or to produce results, but it is appropriate for someone to say that he is on the border of irrelevance, and is t ...
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Is that a new Prime Minister in Israel?
17 hours ago
by dhharrison
By Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM–When we left Israel last May, the country had a Prime Minister known for his right-wing intransigent views. To support him he had several even bigger hawks in his cabinet, including as Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, the leader of a party consisting largely of anti- ...
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U.S May Support Unilateral Palestinian State at U.N
1 day ago
by Eric
Reader Elizabeth passed on an interesting article from World Net Daily about Palestinian attempts to gain US support in declaring a new state unilaterally. The Palestinian Authority has been putting out feelers on what responses would be should they bring a resolution to the UN Security Counsel decl ...
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Ismail Haniyeh says Hamas will not compromise with Israel
1 day ago
by dhharrison
GAZA CITY (WJC)–Tens of thousands of Palestinians turned out in the Gaza Strip to celebrate the 22nd anniversary of the founding of the Islamist terrorist movement Hamas. Ismail Haniyeh, the leader of Hamas in Gaza, said his organization would not recognize Israel and would not stop fighting against ...
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London court issues, then cancels arrest warrant for Tzipi Livni
1 day ago
by dhharrison
LONDON (WJC)–Israel officials have strongly criticized an arrest warrant issued by a British magistrates court against the former Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni over her role during the Gaza war earlier this year. “The current situation has become intolerable, it is time that it change,” Israe ...
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Israeli goalie cursed by crowd in Spanish soccer match
1 day ago
by dhharrison
PAMPLOMA, Spain (WJC)—The first-division Spanish soccer Club Atlético Osasuna is facing disciplinary action after the referee at the team’s recent game against Real Mallorca, Alfonso Álvarez, reported that home fans had subjected Mallorca’s Israeli goalkeeper Dudu Aouate to anti-Semitic abuse. Accor ...
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Rabbi attacked in Vienna following menorah lighting
1 day ago
by dhharrison
VIENNA (WJC)–Moments after presiding over a public Chanukah menorah lighting in central Vienna’s Stephansplatz Square on Saturday evening, Dov Gruzman, a rabbi of the Chabad Lubavitch movement, had to be evacuated by ambulance after being attacked by a Palestinian man, who bit his finger. Gruzman, w ...
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