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Daily Archives: August 9, 2018

Facebook's founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Social media and the hate-speech slippery slope

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Someone I know once told me that if his elderly mother ever wound up on Facebook, it would mean one of two possible things had happened: Either the social-media giant had become passé or...
Members of the Ezzedeen Al-Qassam Brigades attend the funeral of six Ezzedeen Al-Qassam Brigades fighters at a cemetery in Deir Al Balah refugee camp, central Gaza Strip, May 6, 2018. Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90

Hamas is taking the region to the brink of war

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The security escalation in southern Israel and the Gaza Strip over the last 24 hours shows that Hamas is prepared to take the region to the brink of war, and that it believes it...
The annual International Hot Air Balloon Festival, held at the Besor National Park in the Negev Desert in southern Israel, on Aug. 11, 2017. Photo by Hadas Parush/Flash90.

Annual hot-air balloon festival in Negev cancelled due to Gaza rocket fire

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A yearly hot-air balloon festival scheduled to take place in the Besor National Park in the Negev Desert was cancelled on Thursday, following a barrage of rockets into Israel from Gaza overnight on Wednesday. The...
An Israeli police officer examines where a mortar shell from Gaza hit a construction site in the southern Israeli city of Sderot, near the border with Gaza on Aug. 9, 2018. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Barrage of Gaza rockets continue, with Beersheva hit for first time since 2014

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The barrage of rockets from the Gaza Strip continued on Thursday, with Beersheva—the largest city in southern Israel—being targeted for the first time since “Operation Protective Edge” in 2014. The mayor of Beersheva, Ruvik Danilovich,...
The site where a mortar shell from a Gaza-launched rocket hit a house in southern Israel near the border, on Aug. 9, 2018. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Hamas launches almost 200 rockets into Israel, thousands of Israelis run for cover

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Some 180 rockets were lobbed at Israel from Wednesday night through Thursday, obliterating discussion of a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in Gaza. Residents of the coastal city of Ashkelon also scrambled to bomb shelters—a...
European Union flags in front of the European Commission building in Brussels. Credit: Amio Cajander via Wikimedia Commons.

Yielding to pressure, EU to stop funding NGO targeting Israeli right

The European Union will stop funding the Freedom Protection Council, the Prime Minister’s Office said on Tuesday. The move marked an important achievement for Israel in its effort to reduce the scope of foreign-funded...
From the Oval Office, U.S. President Barack Obama speaks on the phone with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Sept. 27, 2013. Credit: Pete Souza/White House.

Watchdog group sues U.S. government to obtain records of BDS groups under Obama administration

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A conservative watchdog group has filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the State Department, Department of Homeland Security and Department of Defense over Obama-era records pertaining to anti-Israel BDS groups. Judicial Watch...

באָריס קאַרלאָװ / עלאַברעק

אַ לידער - זאַמלונג פון אַ דיכטער בן דיכטער - הגם דער נאָמען, מיט װעלכן ער שרײַבט אונטער זײַנע לידער, איז - א פּסעװדאָנים, אָדער ריכטיקער: אַן אויס - געבאָרגטער, װאָס איז ענלעך צו...

Si Teniyan Una Madre Judiya….

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En la foto madres judiyas de la kehila de Istanbul. “La Senyora Silva Filiba la madre de muestra komunitad. Una grande amiga ke todos apresian, kerensioza, kolaboratrisa, inovatrisa, su rolo es desde Sara, Rivka, Rahel...

Sur les ondes télévisées du Hamas, le juge Omar Nofal de Gaza exalte les...

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Voir les extraits vidéo sur MEMRI TV Interviewé par la chaîne télévisée Al-Aqsa du Hamas, cheikh Omar Nofal, juge à la cour d’appel de la charia à Gaza, a loué les six vertus du martyre....