Daily Archives: June 24, 2019
Letter to the The Hon. David Friedman, US Ambassador to Israel
June 23, 2019
The Hon. David Friedman, US Ambassador to Israel
Dear Ambassador Friedman:
Greetings.
I write to you as the director of a news agency and research center which has provided intense coverage of the nascent Palestinian...
Netanyahu meets with Russian National Security Council secretary, applauds cooperation
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with Russian National Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev on Monday in Jerusalem as the former applauded security cooperation between Jerusalem and Moscow, including in countering the Iranian regional...
Trump signs executive order imposing ‘hard-hitting’ sanctions on Iran
U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday to enact sanctions targeting Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and his office.
Trump said Khamenei has been “responsible for the hostile conduct of the...
Touchdown! NFL, Patriots, Kraft score friends and followers in Israel
As he was coaching young Israeli high school players during an American football in Israel (AFI) scrimmage game at the Kraft Family Sports Campus this past Friday morning in Jerusalem—and with six New England...
Iranian president blames US for tensions, accuses America of ‘economic terrorism’
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani blamed the United States for mounting pressure in the Middle East and around the world on Sunday, as tensions between the two countries raised concerns that military conflict could be...
Ocasio-Cortez rejects Auschwitz tour with Holocaust survivor
U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) rejected an invitation on Sunday to tour Auschwitz with a Holocaust survivor.
The organization From the Depths, whose president, 93-year-old Edward Mosberg, is a Holocaust survivor, invited her to see...
Jewish graves vandalized in South Africa
The Jewish community in Strand, South Africa, filed a police complaint recently after four gravestones in the local Jewish cemetery were vandalized. Last week, two other Jewish cemeteries in the same district of Western...
Arab states pledge $100 million per month to Palestinians
Arab finance ministers met at the Arab League in Cairo, Egypt on Sunday and pledged $100 million dollars a month to the Palestinians. The move comes just ahead of the U.S.-sponsored meeting scheduled to...
Implicit Threats of Violence. The American President’s “Trump Card”
"Whoever can conquer the street will one day conquer the state, for every form of power politics and any dictatorship-run state has its roots in the street."
Joseph Goebbels, Third Reich Minister of Propaganda
“I have...
Real gun laws are needed in America today
Twenty years after the Columbine massacre and thousands of murders later, Isiaka Meite was shot to death in Southwest Philly Sunday night, June 16, and two days later a Trump appointee urged a “let...