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Vart har allt mjöl tagit vägen: Den falska humanitära UNRWA-krisen

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Under den senaste månaden meddelade medlemmarna i underutskottet i Mellanösterns parlament att humanitärt bistånd inte når den palestinska befolkningen, särskilt i Gaza. Centret för politik för näringspolitisk forskning, CFNEPR, kontaktade de 44 länder som donerar...

Pondering in ‘Librarian’ where truth ends, fiction begins

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This story, set in Prague, Theresienstadt, Auschwitz, Hamburg, and Tel Aviv, is creative non-fiction. It appeared in Spanish in 2012 and was translated into English in 2017. The author found his subject by a...

Why we still need heroes like John McCain

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Anybody who pays attention to the sorts of things honored by contemporary popular culture knows that stories about heroism are passé. But why then do we still long for them? One example comes from...
Imran Khan, the current Prime Minister of Pakistan and former captain of the Pakistan cricket team. (Credit: Wikipedia)

A Jewish organization lobbies on behalf of Pakistan’s new anti-Semitic and pro-jihad prime minister

Imran Khan, the cricketer-turned-politician who is now Pakistan’s prime minister, is in a win-win situation. To his Pakistani audiences, Khan blames “the Jewish lobby,” the Jews, America, and Israel for the many ills that...
Israel children from the Gaza border region enjoy games, face-painting and balloon animals at a crisis-relief event in Jerusalem. Credit: JNF.

Kids get a ‘time out’ from the unrest near Gaza

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For five months now, since March 2018, Israeli communities bordering Gaza have sustained ongoing terrorism and arson from hundreds of rockets and incendiary devices, causing constant stress and chaos for the 50,000 people who...
A 2006 Israeli Independence Day celebration in Vilnius, Lithuania. Credit: Relationer.

Lithuania admits its citizens participated in murder of Jews during the Holocaust

The government of Lithuania has official accepted responsibility for the mass murders of Jews Lithuanian citizens carried out during the Holocaust, according to a document obtained by Israel Hayom. The document states that 95 percent...
U.S. President Donald Trump and Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas attend a joint press conference in the West Bank city of Bethlehem on May 23, 2017. Photo by Flash90.

Report: US to take Palestinian ‘right of return’ off the table

The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump is expected to soon unveil new policy that will cancel the Palestinians’ demand for “right of return” for its refugees and the refugees status of most of...
Fires in the Negev Desert in Israel as a result of arson terrorism from Palestinians in Gaza. July 2018. Photo by Tom Oren-Denenberg.

‘Israel will negotiate with Hamas only when there is complete calm’

Israel will only agree to engage in indirect negotiations with Hamas about easing the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip only when attacks on southern Israel, particularly the areas adjacent to Gaza, stop completely...
Navy forces of the Army of the Guardians of the Islamic Revolution commandos and missile boats in Great Prophet IX Maneuver in the general area of Strait of Hormuz, Persian Gulf. Source: Sayyed Shahab Odin Vajedi, Wikimedia Commons.

Reports of fighting between Iranian, Syrian forces for access to Mediterranean

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Despite years of cooperation and support for Syrian President Bashar Assad, pro-Iran Shi’ite militias have reportedly been fighting Syrian army forces on multiple occasions over the last two weeks, with fatalities and injuries on...
California Democratic candidate for Congress Ammar Campa-Najjar. Credit: Campa-Najjar via Twitter.

Grandson of 1972 Munich Olympics’ terrorist poised to win congressional seat

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With the indictment of U.S. Rep. Duncan Hunter, Democrat Ammar Campa-Najjar—a grandson of a Black September terrorist who killed 11 members of the Israeli athletic team at the 1972 Munich Summer Olympics—is likely to...