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U.S. President Donald Trump listens as U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman addresses his remarks in the Oval Office at the announcement that Bahrain is joining the United Arab Emirates in normalizing relations with Israel. on Sept. 11, 2020. Credit: Official White House Photo by Tia Dufour.

Friedman on feat of Abraham Accords: ‘Gulf interests largely in line with those of...

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U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman detailed the negotiation process that led to the signing of the Abraham Accords, as well as talked about the future of other Arab countries expected to normalize relations...
Hannah and Giora Senesh (Szenes), 1924. Credit: National Library of Israel's Hannah Senesh Archival Collection.

Archival collection of Hannah Senesh comes to National Library of Israel

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In 1944, the Jewish, Hungarian-born paratrooper Hannah Senesh (Szenes) was parachuted into occupied Europe by the British in a desperate attempt to save Hungarian Jews from the Nazi death camps. Captured, tortured and executed...

Graphic Design Student Who Decorated Her Project with a Swastika to be Retrained at...

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In a course on the subject “Computer-aided Design,” at the Architecture Faculty of Buenos Aires University, a student presented her project as a vacuum cleaner in the shape of a war cannon with a swastika. Her colleagues...
Edvard Munch: The Human Mountain. Munch Museum, Oslo

AMERICAS“Living On Mountains”: Antecedents of a Dignified and Secure World Order

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“One must become accustomed to living on mountains, to seeing the wretched ephemeral chatter of politics and national egotism beneath one.”-Friedrich Nietzsche, Zarathustra During the dissembling Trump Era, perhaps more than ever before, Americans have had...
IRGC Brig. Gen. Ahmad Vahidi, who formerly served as Iran's Defense Minister and as commander of the IRGC's notorious Quds Force, is interviewed by Iran's Ofogh TV on Nov. 28, 2020. (MEMRI)

NPT commitments ‘meaningless’ if scientists, facilities unsafe, says senior IRGC commander

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Former Iranian defense minister Brig. Gen. Ahmad Vahidi said on Saturday that Iran’s commitment to the Non-Proliferation Treaty’s Additional Protocol is “meaningless” if its scientists and nuclear installations are not safe. “If we decide to...
Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) delivering a speech on Nov. 30, 2019, at the American Muslims for Palestine convention in Chicago. Credit: American Muslims for Palestine.

Tlaib retweets, then undoes, ‘from the river to the sea’ post

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Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) retweeted a post over the weekend that read “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” that was part of an “International Day of Solidarity” picture. https://twitter.com/Claire_Voltaire/status/1333212176346087429 The legislator undid...
Yahya Sinwar, leader of Hamas in the Gaza Strip, Feb. 24, 2017. Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90.

Hamas leader in Gaza tests positive for COVID-19

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The Hamas terror group said on Tuesday that its leader in the Gaza Strip, Yahya Sinwar, has tested positive with the coronavirus. The 58-year-old is “following the advice of health authorities and taking precautionary measures,”...
Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh. Credit: Tasnim News Agency via Wikiedmedia Commons.

Hezbollah Brigades: ‘Evil triangle’ of Israel, US, Saudi Arabia behind assassination

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Following the assassination of Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh on Nov. 27, the Hezbollah Brigades, an Iraqi Shi’ite militia loyal to Iran, released a statement in which it referred to the assassination as “a...
Israel's National Coronavirus Project Coordinator Nachman Ash at the Jerusalem Municipality on Nov. 22, 2020. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Israel’s coronavirus czar warns that country faces ‘state of emergency’

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Israel’s National Coronavirus Project Coordinator Nachman Ash said on Tuesday that the country’s rising COVID-19 morbidity represents a “state of emergency,” adding that his office would meet to discuss “immediate steps” to be recommended...

Love and War Divide Two Boyhood Best Friends

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Secrets of War (Oorlogsgeheimen) is a 2014 film set in the summer of 1943 in Southern Limburg, a Dutch village. The area is occupied by the Germans to mixed reactions from its residents. In the opening scene,...