Daily Archives: June 19, 2019
Moe Berg’s surprising double life
The Spy Behind Home Plate, a documentary on the life of Moe Berg by Aviva Kempner, opening June 28 at the Landmark Ken Theater, 4061 Adams Avenue, San Diego.
In baseball, an all-around player is one...
Mohamed Morsi and the dangerous lessons of the Arab Spring
His death, like much of his life, was in service to the Islamist cause he championed. By dropping dead in a courtroom where he was caged and silenced, Mohammed Morsi served to bring attention...
Interim ministers provoke controversy prior to second round of Israeli elections
Despite the dissolution of the 21st Israeli Knesset in late May after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu could not manage to get a coalition together, a caretaker government continues to administrate the country until...
What progress can be made in Bahrain without the Israelis and Palestinians?
As part of U.S. President Donald Trump’s push for movement on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the upcoming economic summit in Bahrain at the end of June promised to be the first step in the administration’s...
International Atomic Energy Agency recognizes Palestine as a country
The International Atomic Energy Agency signed an agreement recognizing Palestine as a country, as it joined the nuclear watchdog on Tuesday as an observer.
Although it isn’t a member, it is allowed to attend meetings,...
Egypt to pay $500 million fine for breaking gas deal with Israel
Egypt reached a settlement with Israel on Sunday to pay the Israel Electric Corporation $500 million over the next eight-and-a-half years after breaking an agreement to deliver natural gas to the Jewish state in...
Malaysian premier adds to anti-Semitic record, elicits chortling from Cambridge
Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad added to his anti-Semitic record on Sunday, eliciting laughter from the Cambridge Union—the more than 200-year-old debating and free speech society in Cambridge, England, and the largest society at...
New Zealand government site omits Israel from map
A New Zealand government website published a map that omitted Israel and instead showed “Palestine.”
The Fact Sheet page on the Immigration New Zealand website labeled East Jerusalem as “the designated capital of the State...
The threat of the new Shi’ite ‘Afghan alumni’
Iran has long experience organizing and operating armed militias to promote its interests. During the Bosnian war in the 1990s, thousands of Afghan “alumni” (Mujahideen) arrived in Bosnia to help the local Muslims.
One of...
Israeli fencer makes history with European championship win
Israeli fencer Yuval Freilich, 24, took the gold medal in the European Fencing Championships in Dusseldorf, Germany on Tuesday.
Yuval Freilich, ranked 40th in the world, beat out Italy’s Andrea Santarelli, rank 13, to take...