Somaliland already operates as a de facto state. So why is Israel’s recognition of it so controversial?
Several countries have accused Israel of undermining international norms
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Fast Forward Israel becomes first country to recognize Somaliland, drawing condemnation from Egypt, Turkey and Somalia
Sen. Ted Cruz has encouraged the United States to recognize Somaliland as well
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Fast Forward Candidate For Keith Ellison’s Congress Seat Called Israel ‘Apartheid Regime’
(JTA) — A Somali-American candidate for Congress in Minnesota has rejected accusations that a 2012 tweet accusing Israel of “evil doings” amounts to anti-Semitism. Ilhan Omar, now a state representative, responded to recent criticism of the tweet by calling the Jewish state “the apartheid Israeli regime.” Omar, who is among several Muslim women in the U.S….
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Community Our Modern Chieftain King
The biblical King David was a poet, musician, and conqueror, but we remember him primarily as a warrior. Indeed, all of David’s most notable exploits were martial: his duel with Goliath, his conquest of Jerusalem, his enlargement of the Kingdom of Israel — he even enabled his affair with Bathsheba by sending her husband, Uriah,…
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The Schmooze Ben Stiller And Arab Facebook Star Team Up To Feed Somalia
TEL AVIV (JTA) — Arab Israeli Facebook star Nuseir Yassin wants you to help him “steal a plane.” It’s for a good cause. In a video Thursday, he laid out a plan to get Turkish Airlines to fly food to Somalia, where over 6 million people need are at risk of starvation. Joined by Ben Stiller and…
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Opinion #147NotJustaNumber in Kenya
It is simplistic and even dangerous to compare terrorist atrocities, creating false equivalencies that ignore context and historical trends. Relatively speaking, the dozen deaths at the Paris offices of Charlie Hebdo and the murder of four Jews in the kosher supermarket earlier this year were horrifying and impactful not because of the number, but because…
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Fast Forward Hirsi Ali May Convert to Judaism
Controversial Islam critic Ayaan Hirsi Ali said that she had previously tried to convert to Judaism and suggested that she might attempt to do so again in the future. At a gathering hosted by Israeli Consul General of New York Ido Aharoni last Thursday, Ali told the crowd that “One day I hope to convert…
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Culture What Do the Kenya Mall Terrorists and Naughty Jewish Children Have in Common
David Bell writes to inquire: “At present, the Arabic-named ‘al-Shabab’ — an organization composed of young Somalian Muslim fanatics intent on murder and mayhem — is very much in the news. The Hebrew word shovav denotes a mischievous child worlds apart from such murderous thugs. And yet the Hebrew and Arabic words have in common…
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