Category Archives: Israel & Middle East

New York Times takes note of increasing numbers of Democrats abandoning Israel

NEW YORK TIMES A New Wave of Democrats Tests the Party’s Blanket Support for Israel by Catie Edmondson Oct. 7, 2018 …A [not insubstantial] cluster of activist Democrats — most of them young, most of them cruising toward House seats … Continue reading

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“The horrific incident took place at the attacker’s and the three victims’ place of employment in the large Barkan Industrial Park, one of the few commercial centers to employ both thousands of Israelis and thousands of Palestinians, and a working example of coexistence”

JNS Barkan terror attack attempts to ‘sabotage the normalization’ of local Jews and Arabs by Josh Hasten October 8, 2018 Just as shocking as the execution-style murders of Kim Levengrond Yehezkel, a 29-year-old mother of an infant, and Ziv Hajbi, … Continue reading

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“Governments around the world are quietly turning to YAMAM, Israel’s special police force, for help with their most intractable security problems”

VANITY FAIR “We Try to Learn Every Terrorist Attack”: Inside the Top-Secret Israeli Anti-Terrorism Operation That’s Changing the Game by Adam Ciralsky November 2018 On a spring evening in late April, I traveled to a fortified compound in the Ayalon … Continue reading

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“Until about 15 years ago, spinal surgery was a lot like grasping in the dark”

THE TOWER Eye on the Spine by Avi Jorisch October 2, 2018 Medtronic, an Irish-American medical device company, announced last Friday that it was purchasing Israel’s Mazor Robotics for a hefty $1.64 billion, the biggest exit ever for an Israeli biotech company. Mazor’s … Continue reading

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“It is clear why those groups that support the destruction of the State of Israel are afraid of Canary Mission”

FORWARD Canary Mission Protects Jews. It Should Be Thanked, Not Criticized by Yisrael Rosenberg October 5, 2018 A recent exposé in these pages disclosed that Canary Mission, a website that collects the anti-Semitic and anti-Israel statement of activists, received funding from … Continue reading

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#Corbyn: “A disturbing glimpse at the U.K. Labor Party’s leader — and his dark Jew-hating world”

JERUSALEM POST Oren extends ‘invitation’ for British Jews to make Aliyah if Corbyn elected by Jeremy Sharon October 4, 2018 Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister’s Office MK Michael Oren (Kulanu) has called for Israel to prepare “the warmest invitation” … Continue reading

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DC’s “PLO Mission has been operating illegally since 1987. Subsequent administrations, however, allowed it to stay open anyway for political and diplomatic reasons”

JNS Despite outcry, shuttered PLO Mission did not aid peace process while contravening U.S. law by Israel Kasnett October 5, 2018 After months of speculation over what steps the Trump administration would take against the Palestinian Liberation Organization Mission in … Continue reading

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#Syria “If Russian missiles (presumably operated by Russian military personnel) begin to shoot at Israeli aircraft, the Israelis will undoubtedly attack”

NATIONAL POST Putin may not want a fight with Israel, but he may get it by David J. Bercuson October 5, 2018 Syrian president Bashar Al-Assad can sleep a little better these days now that Russia has completed delivery of … Continue reading

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#IranAction Group “Whatever you might say about the president and his rhetoric, the people running this file know what they’re doing”

BLOOMBERG The Iran Action Group Puts Muscle Behind Trump’s Iran Bluster by Nick Wadhams and Javier Blas October 4, 2018 During a press conference at the United Nations General Assembly on Sept. 26, President Trump made clear how he feels … Continue reading

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Why has the #NewYorkTimes purged all online references to #AriFuld murder?

ALGEMEINER New York Times Now Finds Ari Fuld’s Death Not Fit for Website Either by Ira Stoll October 4, 2018 …In an article for The Algemeiner last month, I wrote that a search for “Ari Fuld” on the Times website turned up “a wire-service report by Reuters and another by the Associated … Continue reading

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