Tel Aviv, June 18 – The current crop of FIFA World Cup teams competing for the championship trophy has Israelis split on which of the many Jew-hating countries in the tournament deserves their support. Thirty-two teams will vie over the ...
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By MK Hanin Zoabi I know I’ve done part of my job by denying that the kidnappers of the three missing Israeli boys should be called terrorists. The question is whether that goes far enough: should I only make excuses ...
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New York, June 16 – To ensure the proper response to the kidnapping by Palestinians of three Israeli teenagers last week, Human Rights Watch has hired a team of crickets, which will chirp at regular intervals to highlight the lack ...
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Washington, DC, June 16 – US President Barack Obama called Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu today to ask them to hold off on measures to secure the release of three Israeli teenagers kidnapped by Palestinians ...
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Gaza City, Gaza Strip, June 15 – The owner of a confectionery in this Palestinian coastal city is unsure whether he should be distributing fudge to express joy over the three Israeli teenagers taken hostage by Hamas, or whether the ...
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Washington, DC, June 14 – Officials at the State Department restated their intention to recognize and maintain dealings with the Palestinian unity government despite the kidnapping yesterday morning of three Israeli teenagers by Palestinians, explaining that by nature, the lives ...
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Mosul, Iraq, June 13 – Islamist militants stormed into the second-largest city in Iraq this week, sending the government’s troops fleeing or into hiding and surprising the West with the discovery that national borders imposed by European diplomats in 1920 ...
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Jerusalem, June 11 – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas reacted to the election of Reuven Rivlin as President of Israel by taking exception to the latter’s vegetarian sensibilities, rather than to his views on the desirability of annexing parts of the ...
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Mecca, Saudi Arabia, June 11 – Leading figures at the madrassas and other repositories of Islamic learning across the Middle East and North Africa have recently begun examining the hypothetical notion of assigning actual worth to individual human existence. Such ...
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By Ismail Haniyeh You hear all sorts of ridiculous arguments when it comes to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Passions run high, and in service of what they perceive to be a noble cause, some partisans do a disservice to history. It’s ...
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