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Daily Archives: February 14, 2019

U.S. President Donald Trump chairing the U.N. Security Council meeting on Sept. 26, 2018. Credit: Screenshot.

Israel rejects official visit UN Security Council to assess lands for future Palestinian state

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Israel has rejected a request by the U.N. Security Council to come to Israel and assess lands the Palestinians demand be given to them for a Palestinian state, according to a report by Ynet. Equitorial Guinea’s...
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo addresses “The Ministerial Conference to Promote a Future of Peace and Security in the Middle East” in Warsaw on Feb. 14, 2019. Credit: Amos Ben-Gershom/GPO.

Pompeo to Netanyahu: No stability, no Mideast peace ‘without confronting Iran’

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U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Thursday that there cannot be Middle East peace without combating Iran. “You can’t achieve stability in the Middle East without confronting Iran,” Pompeo said to reporters alongside...
Natan Kellermann, a leading researcher on transgenerational trauma and the Holocaust. Credit: Jewish Family Service of Los Angeles.

Bosnia required to return stolen World War II Jewish property before joining EU

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The European Parliament set clear conditions this week for Bosnia and Herzegovina to start on the path to membership in the European Union: the enactment of legislation to regulate the restitution of property stolen...
Young women arrive at Ben-Gurion International Airport after a Nefesh B’Nefesh group aliyah flight, October 2018. Credit: Jonny Finkel Photography.

Nefesh B’Nefesh to host six ‘aliyah’ events across North America in March

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Nefesh B’Nefesh will host multiple aliyahevents across North America next month enabling prospective new immigrants to Israel (olim) to be as prepared as possible. The March events are co-hosted by Nefesh B’Nefesh, Israel’s Ministry of Aliyah...
A 1940 transit visa issued by consul Chiune Sugihara, the Japanese “Oskar Schindler,” in Lithuania. The holder was Czech and used his Czechoslovakian passport, issued to him in 1938. He managed to escape to Poland in 1939 and travel from there to Lithuania. In 1940, he received the visa for travel via Siberia and Japan to Surinam. Source: Wikipedia.

Son of Japanese Holocaust hero discovers father’s memorial destroyed by Beit Shemesh apartments

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The Jewish National Fund was left scrambling to apologize to the son of a former Japanese diplomat who saved the lives of approximately 6,000 Jews during the Holocaust, after a memorial grove of trees...
Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas (right), Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (third from left) and Russian President Vladimir Putin at the opening of Moscow's Cathedral Mosque on Sept. 23, 2015. Credit: Kremlin Photo/Wikimedia Commons.

Abbas proves once again that he is not a partner for peace

The Palestinians are hoping to keep the United States from presenting its Middle East peace plan. To this end, Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas has embarked on a tour of Arab states, to try to keep...

Iranian children at rallies: ‘Death to America! Death to Israel! Death to England!’

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A February 11, 2019 report on Kerman TV (Iran) showed Iranian children participating in rallies marking the 40th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution. Various children told the reporter that they respond to the call...
U.S. President Donald Trump with Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia Mohammed bin Salman during their meeting on March 14, 2017, at the White House in Washington, D.C. Credit: Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead.

Trump’s dangerous diplomatic gambit

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This week’s Warsaw summit was supposed to be about rallying the world against the threat that Iran poses to international peace. But given the complete lack of interest on the part of either America’s...
Dan Coats , U.S. director of national intelligence, testifies in front of the Senate Intelligence Committee about Iranian nuclear activity, Jan. 29, 2019.

The American intelligence threat assessment on Iran’s nuclear program

When presenting the American Intelligence Community annual threat assessment to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence on Jan. 29, Dan Coats, director of National Intelligence, referred to Iran’s nuclear program. Some of his statements...

Jaafar Al-Husseini, porte-parole des Brigades du Hezbollah irakien : Les forces américaines en Irak...

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Lors d’une interview accordée à la chaîne Mayadeen (Liban) le 3 février 2019, Jaafar Al-Husseini, porte-parole des Brigades du Hezbollah irakien, a déclaré que le président américain Trump avait « habitué le monde à...