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Taking Nomination, Obama Vows Support for Israel
President Barack Obama, who on Thursday officially accepted the Democratic Party’s nomination for presidency, pledged in his speech to the Democratic convention to maintain his support for Israel and to counter Iran’s nuclear ambition. In a brief reference to Middle East issues in a speech which was otherwise focused on domestic affairs, Obama said that,…
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Democrats Lash Out at GOP on Israel
Democrats hit back hard at critics of President Barack Obama’s handling of relations with Israel Tuesday night, devoting a prime time slot on opening night of their convention to a full-throated appeal to Jewish voters. Former Florida Rep. Robert Wexler delivered the televised speech, and bitterly attacked Republican nominee Mitt Romney in an interview with…
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Recognizing Jewish Refugees From Arab World
Naim Reuven was only 8 when he left Baghdad more than 50 years ago, but he still remembers going with his father to catch fish in the Tigris River. His dad worked in a laundromat, a middle-class father of six and one of Iraq’s more than 100,000 Jews. Baghdad’s Jewish community suffered a pogrom in…
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Celebrating 25 Years of Koran in Yiddish
Members of a Muslim sect that translated parts of the Koran into Yiddish are marking 25 years since that translation was published. The president of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in Israel, Muhammad Sharif Odeh, said the group translated select parts of the Koran into Yiddish in order to present a different face of Islam. In…
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Larry Greenfield Gets Boot From JINSA: Sources
A prominent conservative Jewish think tank that focuses on security and defense issues has dumped its top executive officer after only three months on the job, several sources with ties to the group said. The Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs was already struggling with turmoil at the top when it chose Larry Greenfield, a…
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Israel’s Security Insiders Split on Iran
With the looming prospect of an Israeli unilateral strike against Iran, the national debate has seen an urgent onrush of warnings from past and present members of Israel’s usually taciturn national security establishment. That reflects a profound change in the country’s political culture, analysts say. And it presages further public questioning of future security decisions….
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Israel’s Establishment Speaks Out on Iran
Against Uzi Arad Former head of National Security Council, former director of research for the Mossad What he said and where Told Forward columnist J.J. Goldberg that Israel must work with Washington, not unilaterally, against Iranian nuclear threat in July 22 interview. What it means Believes Israel alone cannot stop Iran from achieving nuclear weapons…
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Laughs Aside, Junkets Raise Serious Issues
Belated revelations of the escapades of a group of congressmen in the Sea of Galilee last year have put a number of more serious issues in the spotlight. Comedians had a field day in the immediate aftermath of a report in Politico that Kansas Republican Kevin Yoder went swimming nude in the company of a…
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Palestinian Statehood Returns (Ho-Hum)
A second bid by the Palestinian Authority to have the United Nations recognize Palestinian statehood appears to be a case of “once more, but with less feeling.” The P.A., which provoked a furor in Israel last September when it pushed unsuccessfully for recognition as a state by the Security Council, will go to the body’s…
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South Africa-Israel Relations Freeze Over
This past week, South African-Israeli relations sunk to one of their lowest points since the “new” South Africa began in 1994. The only other incident that caused such a fuss was the 2010 Gaza flotilla debacle when Israeli Ambassador Dov Segev-Steinberg received a dressing-down from then-deputy minister of international relations, Sue van der Merwe, and…
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Sinai Chaos Threatens Peacekeeping Mission
Recent unrest and violence in Sinai are leaving more than 1,500 troops from the United States and other countries exposed as they seek to maintain a peacekeeping mission there that many experts now criticize as anachronistic. The troops’ presence in Sinai, mandated by the 1979 Camp David peace accords between Israel and Egypt, has served…
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