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Israel aims to bring clean water to the world

editor 24 April 2013

By Yossi Aloni.. Israel’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ambassador Ron Prosor told those gathered, “In just six decades, Israel has moved from harvesting apples to designing Apple computers; from planting trees in the desert to putting companies on the NASDAQ stock exchange. We are one of the only countries in the world that puts electric cars on the road, launches satellites into space, and wins Nobel Prizes for its scientists.” (more…)

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Israel hopes world doesn’t fall for Iran nuclear ploy

editor 8 April 2013

By Ryan Jones.. Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei has ordered that his nation’s nuclear program slow down a bit in order to remain under any “red lines” that might spark a harsh reaction by the international community. That according to US and Israeli officials cited by the Wall Street Journal this week. According to those officials, Khamenei wants to avoid any external distractions ahead of Iran’s presidential election in June, when he hopes to replace President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad with someone even more in line with the thinking of Iran’s Islamic overlords. (more…)

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UN sees Syrian war spilling into Israel

editor 6 April 2013

By Israel Today Staff.. It’s no longer only Israel that is concerned that the Syrian civil war could cross borders. Now UN officials, too, are warning that the bloody conflict might spill into the Jewish state sooner rather than later. ”The members of the [UN] Security Council expressed grave concern at all violations of the Disengagement of Forces Agreement” that created the demilitarized buffer zone between Israel and Syria following the Yom Kippur War in 1973. (more…)

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Prager University: The UN vs. Israel

editor 4 April 2013

By Anne Bayefsky.. There are a hundred and ninety three countries in the United Nations today. Of these one has been singled out as an especially egregious offender of the organization’s mandate to preserve and enhance human freedom and tolerance. Can you guess which it is? It has about seven million citizens of whom a fifth are Arab. The government is vibrantly democratic, its press wide open and religious freedom fully respected, women have equal rights and gays live openly. The answer is: Israel. (more…)

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WJC ANALYSIS – Obama in Israel: A new beginning?

editor 20 March 2013

By Pinhas Inbari.. President Obama is expected to make his first official presidential visit to Israel this week. It is widely assumed that the main issue the President will discuss with the Israeli government will be nuclear Iran. However, it is not known to what extent the Palestinian issue will be discussed, if at all. While the president is keeping the cards close to his chest, it is worth examining the past four years of the Obama administration in order to gage his perspective on the issue. (more…)

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Syrian rebels might target Israel next

editor 18 March 2013

By Ryan Jones.. Israeli army chief Gen. Benny Gantz on Monday (March 11, 2013) warned that the Syrian rebel groups that America and Europe are now helping to arm and train might turn their hostility toward Israel after ousting the regime of dictator Bashar Assad. (more…)

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Shabbat Shalom from Jerusalem – Chavez death, Kasim Hafeez, Passover, Rita in the UN

editor 17 March 2013
By Sheila Raviv.. Shabbat Shalom dear Friends!
Hugo Chavez is dead – another tyrant falls. His body will be paraded in the streets of Caracas today in a 7 hour long parade. Today in the inaptly named Human Rights Assembly, a minutes silence will be held for Hugo Chavez, violator of human rights. U.N. Watch criticized the United Nations saying that the Cuban-led ceremony was “excessive, uncustomary, and disrespectful of its own experts’ findings of gross and systematic human rights abuses committed by the Caracas government, and of testimony by Venezuelan victims whom UN Watch had brought before the Council.“

 

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UNRWA cancels Gaza marathon after Hamas bans women from taking part

editor 10 March 2013

The UN aid agency UNRWA has canceled a planned marathon in the Gaza strip following a ban on women runners imposed by the territory’s Hamas rulers. UNRWA, which assists Palestinian refugees and also sponsors and organizes the event, announced on Tuesday that plans for the April race have been scrapped. A statement from agency says that “this disappointing decision follows discussions with the authorities in Gaza who have insisted that no women should participate” in the marathon. (more…)

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Lauder calls Erdoğan remark ‘an insult to the Jewish people’

editor 9 March 2013

By WJC.. Ronald S. Lauder, president of the World Jewish Congress (WJC), expressed outrage at astatement made by Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan at a United Nations gathering last week at which he equated Zionism with racism, anti-Semitism andIslamophobia and called it “a crime against humanity.” Lauder said: “Mr. Erdoğan’s latest outburst against Israel is an insult not just to the Jewish state but to the entire Jewish people. Unfortunately, despite all the criticism of the past days, he has not had the decency to apologize.” (more…)

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Shabbat Shalom from Jerusalem- Obama Visit, Marathon, Kaz Hafeez, Miss Israel.

editor 2 March 2013
By Sheila Raviv.. Happy Saint David’s Day to all my Welsh friends. Cymru am Byth, and to those who don’t know what I am talking about – Croeso y Gymru and of course Saboth Dda. Shabbat Shalom. In case you thought I had gone crazy today is the Welsh National Day and the patron Saint is St David or Dewi Sant, who rose to the rank of Archbishop while on a visit to Jerusalem. (more…)
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