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Fast Forward Donald Trump: A Nuclear Saudi Arabia May Be Inevitable
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump said nuclear proliferation, including in Saudi Arabia, may be inevitable. Speaking Tuesday on CNN, Trump said he opposed nuclear weapons proliferation, but it may be inevitable, in part because of the nuclear deal reached last year between Iran and six major powers led by the United States….
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Fast Forward Rabbi Marc Schneier Urges Bibi To Strike Peace Deal With Saudis
(JTA) — New York Rabbi Marc Schneier two weeks ago met with Bahrain King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa in the country’s capital city of Manama. A day earlier, the Gulf Cooperation Council, a six-state body composed of Bahrain and its neighbors, had adopted a Bahraini-sponsored resolution declaring Hezbollah, the Lebanese militant group committed to…
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Opinion Is Saudi-Iran Crisis a Wake-Up Call for Iran Deal Backers?
(JTA) — Just months after the conclusion of a nuclear deal with Iran that the Obama administration hoped would help defuse a volatile region, the Middle East seems ready to spiral out of control. Protests have erupted across the region this week in the wake of Saudi Arabia’s execution of a leading Shia cleric. In…
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News Jewish Lawyer Seeks Answers for 9/11 Victims
Jerry Goldman, a Jewish attorney from Philadelphia who represents the families of men and women killed in the September 11, 2001 attacks, never expected to meet with a top Al Qaeda terrorist convicted in connection with that attack, and at the terrorist’s own request. But that’s what happened when Goldman met Zacarias Moussaoui, known as…
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Opinion Why Raif Badawi Matters to the Jews
On January 9, Raif Badawi, a young Saudi man who is a self-declared “liberal,” was brought in front of a mosque in Jeddah and lashed 50 times with a cane. This is only the first part of the excruciating sentence he received: 1,000 lashes altogether and 10 years in prison. His crime? Using the Internet…
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Opinion After Abdullah: What’s Next for Saudi Arabia?
King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, who died January 23 at age 90, leaves behind a legacy of monumental proportions for his kingdom, the region and the global economy. For that reason, his death leaves a cloud of uncertainty over all three realms. He leaves the country in the hands of an elderly successor, his half-brother…
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Opinion How King Abdullah Set Stage for Saudi Reforms — and Opening to Israel
Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud passed away on January 22 leaving a legacy of cautious, gradual reform in his own country and a key strategic relationship with the United States that, during his reign, at times was stretched almost to the breaking point. He also left his mark on the strategic landscape…
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