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After a warm impromptu welcome from Israel’s ambassador to the U.S. Ron Dermer, Steve Bannon may have found another Israeli defender. Moti Kahana, an Israeli-American businessman who has spent the past five years working on humanitarian relief for Syrian refugees, is willing to vouch for the former Breitbart chief, who, according to Kahana, not only…
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Opinion Why This Russian Jew Thinks Donald Trump Is Absolutely Right About Russia
This piece is part of a series about the issues in the 2016 presidential election. Until I watched second Presidential Debate, I didn’t like anything about Donald Trump. I am not a Republican. I believe in universal healthcare and I don’t think it’s a great idea to build a wall on the Mexican border. But…
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Opinion Donald Trump’s Plan for Immigrants Should Scare The Hell Out of Jews
This piece is part of a series about the issues in the 2016 presidential election. Donald Trump opened his presidential campaign by calling the United States “a dumping ground for everybody else’s problems.” He famously proclaimed that Mexico is not sending “their best” across the border, that Mexican immigrants are drug dealers, criminals and rapists….
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Opinion The Middle East: A Daunting Challenge for Hillary Clinton — or Donald Trump
This piece is part of a series about the issues in the 2016 presidential election. The next President has an enormous mess to clean up. Eight years of President Obama’s utopian rationalism has resulted in a sense of global unraveling — both of geostrategic stability and of American interests — and nowhere has it been…
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Opinion Trump’s Policy On Syrian Refugees Reflects America At Its Most Pathological
*This piece is part of a series about the issues in the 2016 presidential election.** With the number of people killed in Syria climbing toward 500,000, almost 5 million people have left their homes in search of safety. Under the Obama administration, the U.S. has accepted 10,000 Syrian refugees. Hillary Clinton has said she would…
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Israel News Israeli Spy Eli Cohen Was Hanged by Syria in 1965. Why Is the Video Surfacing Now?
Video footage that apparently shows the execution of Israeli spy Eli Cohen in Syria in 1965 has surfaced online, giving a fuller picture of the mystery-shrouded moments just before and after the secret agent’s death more than half a century ago. The black-and-white video was posted without much explanation on the Facebook page “Syrian Art…
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Opinion What Talking to a Syrian Refugee Taught Me About Palestinian Anti-Normalization
I met Shirin, a refugee from a village near Aleppo, Syria, while I was on assignment in Berlin. Her husband was killed in the fighting; over a year ago, together with her two teenage daughters, she fled to Turkey, then across the sea to Greece, then trekked across Europe to shelter in Berlin. Shirin is…
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Breaking News Israel Strikes Target in Syria Following Mortar Fire on Golan
Israeli fighter jets struck Syria in retaliation for mortar fire that landed in Israeli-controlled areas of the Golan Heights. The Israel Defense Forces said in a statement Monday that its Air Force had “successfully targeted the source of the fire in Syria.” It was not known whether the Israeli airstrike caused any damage or casualties….
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