Daily Archives: August 26, 2021
Israel joins world’s carbon-free bandwagon, but some wonder if it makes economic and scientific...
Israel’s government unanimously agreed on July 25 to adopt a low-carbon economy, “part of its commitment to the global effort” to reduce greenhouse gases. It’s the first time that Israel has set a national...
As nuclear diplomacy stalls, Israel places military option back on table
The statement on Wednesday by Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff, Lt. Gen. Aviv Kochavi, about intensifying efforts to prepare an Israeli military option against Iran’s nuclear program, will be closely analyzed in the Islamic Republic.
The...
Diversity shapes LA consulate’s efforts to combat anti-Semitism, show ‘true face of Israel’
The new mural on the wall of the Korean American Federation of Los Angeles building, unveiled on Aug. 23, contains the State of Israel’s logo at the bottom of the artwork. Rather than a...
Blinken reaffirms US commitment to two-state solution in meeting with Israeli leader
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met on Wednesday afternoon as part of Bennett’s first full day of his visit to the United States.
Bennett sought to initiate a...
PFLP-GC leader: Iran’s Soleimani supervised Palestinian weapons-development program
The former head of Iran’s Quds Force, Maj.-Gen. Qassem Soleimani, personally oversaw the development of Palestinian terror groups’ weapons- and rocket-manufacturing capabilities, according to Talal Naji, the leader of the Popular Front for the...
My Grandfather’s Controversial Life–or Mate Amargo
Eighty years ago, my grandfather wrote an order on August 22, 1941 to send all Jews and half-Jews from the region of Šiauliai to a ghetto in Žagarė, and within a few weeks the 2,000 Jews...
How Our Experience Of Time Changes As Modern Technology Changes
One notion that has been discussed lately by some in the news media with regard to the American withdrawal from Afghanistan has been how the Americans and the Taliban have such different conceptions of...