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Daily Archives: June 24, 2019

U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman. Credit: U.S. Embassy Tel Aviv

Letter to the The Hon. David Friedman, US Ambassador to Israel

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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...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with the Secretary of the Russian National Security Council, Nikolai Patrushev, at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on June 24, 2019. Credit: Haim Zach/GPO.

Netanyahu meets with Russian National Security Council secretary, applauds cooperation

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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...
U.S. President Donald Trump signs an executive order on June 24, 2019, targeting Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Credit: Screenshot.

Trump signs executive order imposing ‘hard-hitting’ sanctions on Iran

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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...
More than a dozen players from the 2019 Super Bowl Champion New England Patriots in Israel as part of the program “Touchdown in Israel III,” the third installment of a VIP trip to Israel for NFL players organized by Patriots chairman and CEO Robert Kraft. Credit: Josh Hasten.

Touchdown! NFL, Patriots, Kraft score friends and followers in Israel

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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 Hassan Rouhani during a visit to Semnan Province, Iran, on April, 17, 2016. Credit: Mohammad Reza Meysami via Wikimedia Commons.

Iranian president blames US for tensions, accuses America of ‘economic terrorism’

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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...
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.). Credit: Flickr.

Ocasio-Cortez rejects Auschwitz tour with Holocaust survivor

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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...
A memorial stone at the site of an old Jewish synagogue in the French city of Strasbourg was vandalized, following the Feb. 19, 2019 discovery of swastikas on 80 gravestones in a Jewish cemetery in the village of Quatzenheim, also near the border with Germany, March 2019. Credit: EJP.

Jewish graves vandalized in South Africa

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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...
The Arab League flag. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Arab states pledge $100 million per month to Palestinians

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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...
U.S. President Donald Trump. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Implicit Threats of Violence. The American President’s “Trump Card”

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"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

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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...