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Category Archives: Israel & Middle East
“A staggering series of events took Mosab Hassan Yousef from the home of the terror group’s co-founder, to a decade as a Shin Bet agent, to speaking on behalf of Magen David Adom”
TIMES OF ISRAEL ‘Just trying to save lives’: 5 surreal days in Florida with the ‘Son of Hamas’ by David Horovitz December 17, 2018 …Actually, his transformation was far more than crazy, way beyond improbable. “Collaborating with Israel is worse … Continue reading
The honor crime of choosing Judaism over Islam
ELDER OF ZIYON Arabs upset at latest “normalization” as a a Jew raised as a Palestinian marries a Jewish woman December 23, 2018 Israel’s Channel 20 has the story of Daniel Dabash, who grew up in the Arab village of … Continue reading
Posted in Islam, Israel & Middle East, Jewish
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Atlantic “Jewish peace camp” writer observes Bibi was right: “The Middle East is not democratizing. And this means any peace Israel makes will be made with strongmen, and must be guaranteed by them, in a region the West no longer controls”
THE ATLANTIC Bibi Was Right: The arc of history has bent toward authoritarianism by Ben Judah December 18, 2018 …Taking my lead from the late David Landau, the former editor in chief of the newspaper Haaretz, I believed that unless … Continue reading
“According to the terms of the understanding, Russia will continue to give Israel the freedom to strike Hezbollah and Iranian targets and weaponry that threaten the “balance of power” in Syria”
ISRAEL HAYOM (by agreement with JNS) Israel, Jordan, Saudi Arabia join forces against Iran by Daniel Siryoti, Yoni Hersch, Ariel Kahana, Eldad Beck, Erez Linn and Israel Hayom Staff December 21, 2018 The Russian forces currently in Syria will take … Continue reading
Posted in Islam, Israel & Middle East
Tagged Hezbollah, Jordan, Lebanon, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Syria
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“On its face, Trump’s announcement that he is pulling US forces out of Syria seems like an unfriendly act toward Israel. But it isn’t”
JERUSALEM POST Trump’s decision to pull forces out of Syria has upsides by Caroline Glick December 21, 2018 …By leaving Syria, the US is abandoning Obama’s pro-Iranian policy once and for all. Further indication that this is part of a … Continue reading
Posted in Islam, Israel & Middle East, Politics
Tagged Donald Trump, Hezbollah, Lebanon, Syria, Trump
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“Any Israeli woman of child-bearing age who is struggling to conceive, Arab or Jew, is eligible for nearly full state funding of in-vitro fertilization treatment”
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR Israel booms with babies as developed world’s birthrates plummet. Here’s why. by Dina Kraft December 14, 2018 …The importance of having children is a focus in Israel as it is in most parts of the world, but … Continue reading
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“That one never reads media coverage of Palestinian polls suggests that its findings are reliably inconvenient”
FREE BEACON If You Like the Peace Process, Please Don’t Read Polls of Palestinians by Noah Pollak December 20, 2018 There is one thing that Palestine obsessives never seem obsessed with: the opinions of Palestinians. There’s no mystery here—asking what … Continue reading
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Tagged Palestinian Authority, Palestinians
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Miracles and Faith in the Face of Terrorism: Father and Grandfather Speaks
FACEBOOK Words from Chaim Silberstein father of terror victim Shira Ish-Ran December 18, 2018 I would like to share with you my reflections on the tremendously tumultuous period that my family and I experienced this past week. It was marked … Continue reading
Posted in Israel & Middle East, Jewish
Tagged Amichai Ish-Ran, Chaim Silberstein, Shira Ish-Ran
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“Trump’s Syria pullout was last straw for Mattis; others may quit Pentagon”
TIMES OF ISRAEL Departing Mattis said to cancel Israel trip, as Israel feels ‘betrayed’ on Syria by Staff December 21, 2018 US Defense Secretary James Mattis has cancelled a trip to Israel planned for next week after submitting his resignation … Continue reading
Posted in Islam, Israel & Middle East, Politics
Tagged Benjamin Netanyahu, Donald Trump, Hezbollah, Iran, Jim Mattis, Syria
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“The US didn’t have a massive troop presence, but it still managed to keep Tehran’s weapons from the Iraq-Syria border region; now even Netanyahu can’t hide his disappointment”
TIMES OF ISRAEL Trump pullout from Syria leaves Israel alone to battle Iran’s likely resurgence by Raphael Ahren December 19, 2018 The US administration’s planned complete withdrawal from Syria is bad news for Israel both militarily and diplomatically, experts said … Continue reading
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