Daily Archives: December 16, 2019
Newly renewed, will UNRWA act in accordance with UN values?
Now that the UN General Assembly has granted a new lease on life to UNRWA, Will leading UNRWA donor nations – Germany, Japan, Canada, the UK, Belgium, Holland, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Italy, France...
MOPA displays works of Jewish photographers
The works of past and present Jewish photographers are on display at the Museum of Photographic Arts in Balboa Park.
There are seven works by Bern Schwartz in Talking With a Friend: Portraits by Bern Schwartz and a single...
Jews and the impeachment process
Like most Americans, I followed the completely partisan House Judiciary Committee vote on impeachment of President Donald Trump. None of the members of the San Diego delegation sit on the Judiciary Committee, so I...
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Israel’s dysfunctional electorate?
“Nec audiendi qui solent dicere, Vox populi, vox Dei, quum tumultuositas vulgi semper insaniae proxima sit (‘And those people should not be listened to who keep saying the voice of the people is the voice...
President Trump’s executive order on anti-Semitism
U.S. President Donald Trump’s signing of an executive order on Dec. 11, 2019, applying Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act to Jewish Americans, is arguably the most significant single presidential action protecting...
Boris Johnson’s government will pass anti-BDS law, says British official
Boris Johnson’s new Conservative government aims to pass a law making it illegal for public bodies to take part in the anti-Israel BDS movement, a senior British official said on Sunday.
Speaking at the International...
Is it time for Israel to codify its national security strategy?
After decades in which the Israeli government has lacked a formal, written national security strategy, the time has come for future decision-makers to be equipped with such guidelines, the co-author of a new strategy...
Pro-BDS activists in Madrid assault joint delegation of Arabs, Jews from West Bank
Members of the BDS movement attempted to attack a joint delegation of prominent Arab and Jewish residents of the West Bank last week in Madrid.
The delegation was in Spain on Dec. 10 to meet...
Netanyahu Likud challenger Gideon Sa’ar: Two-state solution is an ‘illusion’
The two-state solution is an “illusion” that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has perpetuated, Likud Knesset member and Netanyahu rival Gideon Sa’ar said on Sunday.
Speaking at a conference in Jerusalem, Sa’ar said, “Throughout the...
Terror tunnels pose a ‘major threat,’ warns senior IDF official
Infiltration tunnels are a serious threat and will play a major part in the next armed conflict on Israel’s northern and southern borders, a senior Israeli military official said on Sunday.
Furthermore, said Israel Defense...