Month: April 2016

ed note–we post this not so much to underscore the intrigues currently taking place within the Trump campaign, nor to offer any theories vis a vis recent news stories discussing…

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INDIA EXPRESS – Congress on Wednesday demanded that the government retract the “disastrous” decision to sign the Logistics Support Agreement with the US, alleging that it would lead to “end…

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS TIME – The Kremlin has denied an Israeli newspaper report, which cited an unnamed source claiming that Russian forces in Syria fired at Israeli military aircraft. It also…

MONDOWEISS — There’s been a lot of Israel news in the primary process lately, and I’m going to play catchup on it here. First, this just in. Hillary Clinton is…

POLITICO – President Barack Obama is trying but failing to reassure foreign leaders convinced that Donald Trump will be the next president of the United States. They’re in full-boil panic.

Sabba – See Iranian Foreign Minister’s Washington Post Op-Ed below.

By Mohammad Javad Zarif WASHINGTON POST Nearly three years ago, the newly elected Iranian president called for constructive engagement on a momentous undertaking: resolving the nuclear crisis dividing Iran and…

All… except little sister israel.

ATLANTIC COUNCIL — On April 17, 2016 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared, “The time has come after 40 years for the international community to finally recognize that the Golan…

MONDOWEISS — We are privileged to get regular reports on Israeli human rights violations in the Hebron district of the occupation from Abulhadi Hantash, a cartographer for the Palestinian Authority.…

THE FORWARD — Pope Francis wished the Jewish community of Rome a happy Passover on Thursday and asked the chief rabbi to pray for him.

THE FORWARD — The first Latin American meeting of the Global Forum for Combatting Antisemitism will have for the first time a non-Jewish group as co-organizer.

THE FORWARD — The Democratic Republic of Congo is at a crossroads: Its next election, scheduled for the fall, could be the first open presidential race in 50 years. One…

REHMAT’S WORLD — American author and anti-racism activist Paul Kivel (his grandparents were Jewish immigrants from Poland and Russia) spoke at this weekend’s 2016 White Privilege Conference in Philadelphia. He…

AL JAZEERA — There is mounting evidence that Israeli ambulance crews are withholding treatment from Palestinians injured during a wave of attacks over the past six months, according to rights…

THE SAKER — As he does once a year, last week President Putin spend over three and a half hours answering 80 questions out of the 3+ million questions which…

AL MASDAR NEWS — Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov announced on Tuesday that the US refuses to work to identify and sort terrorists in Aleppo. He pointed out that…

RT — Islamic State has resorted to selling organs from injured fighters on the black market to raise much-needed funds due to the terror group’s desperate financial straits, according to…

THE DAILY MAIL — A former BBC executive has admitted downloading more than 150 indecent images of children in folders named ‘teens’ and ‘candids’ onto a hard drive. Mark Deitch,…

THE INDEPENDENT — Standards watchdogs will not investigate Prime Minister David Cameron over the off-shore controversy revealed by the Panama Papers data leak.

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Among those implicated are Prince Claus, the late husband of former queen Beatrix, the former finance minister and executive director of the international monetary fund Onno Rudding, and former Amsterdam…

FORT RUSS — Obama has arrived in Saudi Arabia. On Wednesday, he had talks with King Salman and his son, crown Prince Muhammad. And on Thursday, also in Riyadh, the…

Four members of the American Studies Association sue the body over its boycott of Israel, announced in 2013.

ALTERNET — On March 28th, a “Stop the Boycott” conference was held in Jerusalem. Afraid of the support for the Boycott-Divestment-Sanctions (BDS) movement against the Israeli occupation of Palestine, the…

ALTERNET — Good news, stoners who celebrate Pesach! Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky, whom the Times of Israel identifies as “the leading living ultra-Orthodox halachic authority,” has ruled that marijuana is kosher…

Sabba – There was a time when an anti-semite was someone who hated the jews. Many have offered a new and more accurate definition: it is someone whom the jews…

The United Kingdom and the US abstained from the vote.