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Daily Archives: October 16, 2018

By Roland Godefroy [GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html) or CC BY 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0)], from Wikimedia Commons

How Everyone Got Played by the Khashoggi Disappearance

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The mystery of the ex-Saudi editor and writer Jamal Khashoggi's presumed disappearance from the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul two weeks ago seems to be deepen with each passing day. The gruesome picture of the writer...
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2-State solution still the only one practicable

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I maintain that regardless of the political, strategic, demographic, and regional vicissitudes, the two-state option remains the only viably sustainable solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict; the one-state solution is simply a non-starter. I also...
A cardiologist at Hadassah Hospital cares for a Palestinian baby.

Israel 25 years after Oslo: Why Israelis shy from victory

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Middle East Quarterly. One day, imagine, a U.S. president tells an Israeli prime minister: “Palestinian extremism damages American security. We need you to end it by achieving victory over the Palestinians. Do what it...
The controversial flyer comparing U.S. President Donald Trump to Nazi leader Adolf Hitler. Credit: Israel Hayom.

Local groups condemn Dallas politician’s comparison of Trump to Hitler

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Jews in Dallas have condemned Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price for sending out a “highly inappropriate and offensive” political flyer comparing U.S. President Donald Trump to genocidal Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, the Dallas Morning...
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison. Credit: Prime Minister's Office via Twitter.

Australian Jewish leader says embassy move to Jerusalem would ‘right a longstanding injustice’

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Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced on Tuesday that he would consider moving the country’s embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, which would mark a major shift in policy in support of...
American actress Marilyn Monroe’s personal prayer book will ve auctioned for sale on Nov. 12, 2018. Source: J Greenstein & Co.

American actress Marilyn Monroe’s personal prayer book up for auction

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A Jewish prayer book belonging to American actress Marilyn Monroe has been put up for sale by a New York auction house. Monroe converted to Judaism in 1956, prior to marrying Jewish-American playwright Arthur Miller....
Hollywood actress Natalie Portman and Israeli actor Gilad Kahana seen in Jerusalem's Nachlaot neighborhood, filming a movie based on Israeli author Amos Oz's book, “A Tale of Love and Darkness,” February 2014. Photo by Hadas Parush/Flash 90.

Knesset passes law to redistribute government funding to non-left films

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A new law approved in the Knesset on Monday will enable the office of the Minister of Culture and Sport to decide the amount of government subsidies that Israeli films receive, which will be...
BBC Studios. Photo: ©Stacey Harris.

BBC refuses to cover deadly terror attacks in Israel

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The Israel Security Agency’s report on terror attacks (Hebrew) during September 2018 shows that throughout the month a total of 204 incidents took place: 70 in Judea and Samaria, 10 in Jerusalem and 124 in the...
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

‘Washington Post’: Failed Paris attack raises fear in Europe that Iran is planning more...

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The failed terror attack earlier this year in Paris has “sparked growing anxiety” in numerous European countries, the United States, and Israel, that Iran is increasing its intelligence activities abroad in preparation for more “audacious”...
A slide that was part of a presentation at the University of Michigan comparing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Hitler, captured by student Alexa Smith. "These images come from the playbook of Hitler and Goebbels," said Smith. "They invoke the most classical––and most genocidal––anti-Semitic conspiracy theories." Credit: Alexa Smith.

Michigan lecture comparing Netanyahu to Hitler included odious anti-Semitic image

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A lecture at the University of Michigan several weeks ago that consisted of a slide comparing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Adolf Hitler included another anti-Semitic image, JNS has learned. Student Alexa Smith captured the images...