The Ugly Truth

I24NEWS The Israeli military may ease its stringent ban on the consumption of light drugs, even as the Israeli Police is also weighing a similar policy change. The daily Haaretz…

HAARETZ An American-born lone soldier serving in the Israel Defense Forces was sentenced to military jail for eating a non-kosher sandwich during training, according to an Israel Radio report. After…

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Ed-note (Sabba) – The article mentions that (greek speaking) Cyprus is a big holiday destination for jews. That may be so (or not) – but Cyprus is first and foremost…

ed note–remember, not only if she promises to ‘do right’ by the American people or look out for the best interests of Americans, but rather, only if she throws her…

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After Ramadi fiasco, talk grows of U.S. boots on the ground in Iraq. continue reading

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Is Judaism an inseparable part of Israeli culture, and does everyone have the right to decide what their own Jewishness would look like? ed note–our apologies to the reader for…

ed note (Tony)…Hmm….”citing huge pressure put on his country” and “the pressure amounted to a national security threat”……. I wonder if that “pressure” was from a red-headed, freckle-faced Irishman named…

The director of interfaith engagement at Northwestern University claims she endured racist comments after being denied a soda. continue reading

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JERUSALEM POST The israeli organization IsraAID will be sending a team to help relief efforts in Texas, where massive flooding has killed at least 21 people and spurred evacuations. “IsraAID…

JERUSALEM POST London - An observant jewish woman was awarded £16,000 by an employment tribunal after successfully challenging a company that refused to consider her job application after she said…

Clarity and truth are the keys to explaining the justice of Israel’s cause. ed note–as we have explained here numerous times, the ENTIRE ‘Jewish State’ project is rooted 1000% in…

ed note–as much as some of us would like to take comfort in the (mistaken) notion that this group of hooligans represents a certain ‘neighborhood’ within American society that has…

Variety of intoxicants and hallucinogens were an integral part of culture and ritual for the Philistines, as well as other peoples in the area. ed note–for obvious reasons, anything coming…

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/30/opinion/the-algerian-exception.html?_r=0

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/israels-naftali-bennett-i-dont-believe-in-giving-up-our-land/2015/05/29/0817d096-04f7-11e5-bc72-f3e16bf50bb6_story.html

JERUSALEM POST Potential presidential candidate in 2016, Jeb Bush told reporters on Saturday that he believes the US embassy in Tel Aviv should be moved to Jerusalem, according to CNN.…

JERUSALEM POST Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely told visiting German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Sunday that Israel expects Germany to lead the fight against the labeling of products manufactured…

Ed-note (Sabba): For Noël Godin, this “burlesque terror attack has been a great success”.

Ed-note (Sabba) – Among the blacklisted is France’s sayanim in chief Bernard-Henri Levy, the self-named “philosopher” and self appointed “French” Foreign Minister.

http://rt.com/op-edge/263057-jerusalem-palestinian-trade-conflict/

“France does not have a say on the international scene to be able to influence a nuclear deal between Tehran and the world power: “France does not play any determining…

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http://rt.com/news/263549-isis-war-saudi-arabia/

YNET Concerning data released by the Israel Prison Service this week show an astronomic rate of Israeli Ethiopian teenagers who are jailed at the Ofek detention center in the Sharon…

YNET As California continues into another summer of drought, Israeli aide to the world's seventh largest economy is finally becoming reality after years of negotiations and agreements with local water…

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