Daily Archives: November 27, 2018
US increases pressure on Iran, warns other players not to impede sanctions
The U.S. Treasury Department sanctioned nine targets last week related to an illicit oil network between Iran and Russia.
“We are acting against a complex scheme Iran and Russia have used to bolster the Assad regime...
Visiting Chadian president announces country to renew diplomatic ties with Israel
Visiting Chadian President Idriss Déby has announced he plans to renew diplomatic relations with Israel in the coming weeks.
In an interview with i24News, Déby stressed the move did not mean Chad would ignore the...
Israel and U.S. share Hanukkah stamp design
By now, many people have noticed that on sale at the U.S. Post Office is this year’s Hanukkah stamp, which features a papercut version of the 9-branched menorah (one arm being the shamash) set...
The US “Defeat” of ISIS: An Improbable Victory
Rabbi Eleazar quoted Rabbi Hanina, who said: "Scholars build the structure of peace in the world." (The Babylonian Talmud, Order Zera'im, Tractate Berakoth, IX)
On several occasions, US President Donald Trump has proudly announced the "defeat"...
Former Georgian president calls candidate’s Israeli aide ‘dirty Jew’
Georgia’s former President Mikheil Saakashvili has come under fire for anti-Semitic comments he made about the ruling Georgian Dream party’s Israeli political strategist Moshe Klughaft last week.
Klughaft, who is known for employing smear campaigns,...
The future of Sino-Israeli relations: Optimism or caution?
When China’s Vice President Wang Qishan visited Israel on Oct. 22-25, 2018, on his Middle East tour, there was a lot of media attention, not only surrounding his visit but also on the growing...
CAIR official calls for the end of the “Jewish nation”
Hussam Ayloush, a senior Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) official, in a tweet on Sunday called for the Jewish state to be “terminated.”
“Iran’s regime calling Israel a ‘cancerous tumor’ is like the pot calling the kettle...
Israel, Cyprus, Greece and Italy reach agreement on longest underwater gas pipeline
Israel, Cyprus, Greece and Italy have reached an agreement on the world’s longest underwater gas pipeline, estimated to cost nearly $7 billion, the financial website Globes reported on Sunday.
After signing a memorandum of understanding late last year, the...
Tragedy and resolve: 10 years after Mumbai terror
Ten years ago, on a cold, overcast Friday morning in Brooklyn, N.Y., reporters filled the lobby of the Jewish Children’s Museum for a hastily arranged press conference. The previous 48 tense, unsettling hours had jumped...
Simon Wiesenthal Center Demands Citibank Stop Underwriting Roger Waters’ Anti-Semitic Mexico Tour
Al respecto preguntamos al Dr. Gelblung sobre esto y contestó que esperamos que Citibank Central intervenga dado que es intolerable que alguien le pague a Waters por su fanatismo antisemita.
The Simon Wiesenthal Center is...