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On the surface of things, the United States and Israel seem perfect allies. U.S. President Harry Truman acknowledged the modern state of Israel the same day it was created in 1948. The United States gives Israel $3.1 billion annually. In a region of the world that very generally does...
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#Hanukkah, also known as the festival of lights, is an eight-day Jewish holiday that commemorates the Jewish uprising in the second century B.C. against the Greek-Syrian kingdom. Today marks the eighth day of Hanukkah when the last candle will be lit on the menorah...
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The General Secretary of United Nations (UN) Ban Ki-Moon collaborated in secret with Israel and the United States to weaken the effects of a Board of Inquiry’s report accusing Israel of human rights violations in Gaza in Dec. 2008 – Jan. 2009. Wikileaks released documents on Friday that revealed that...
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New York, July 18, 2014–The Committee to Protect Journalists is alarmed by Israeli airstrikes on buildings housing media outlets in Gaza that injured at least three journalists. The strikes came as Israel engages in a ground offensive in the Gaza Strip. “The Israel Defense Forces know where media outlets are located...
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CNN has removed correspondent Diana Magnay from covering the Israeli-Palestinian conflict after she tweeted that Israelis who were cheering the bombing of Gaza, and who had allegedly threatened her, were “scum.” “After being threatened and harassed before and during a liveshot, Diana reacted angrily on Twitter,” a CNN spokeswoman...
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CNN International Correspondent Diana Magnay was reporting live from the Israel-Gaza border Thursday night when Israelis gathered behind her started cheering as they watched missiles fall into the Gaza Strip. “It is an astonishing, macabre and awful thing to watch this display of fire in the air,” she told CNN’s Wolf...
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon ordered the Israel Defense Forces to launch a ground incursion in the Gaza Strip Thursday night, in order to “damage the underground tunnel terrors constructed in Gaza leading into Israeli territory.” Earlier, Israel resumed airstrikes on the Gaza Strip at...
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Talk of equivalencies in death tolls or ideas of vengeance are misapplied in the Israel-Hamas fight, where the two sides play by very different rules. The tit-for-tat dance of irreconcilable animus between Israel and Hamas—the democratically elected terrorist group that controls Gaza—continues with 365 rockets having been launched against the...
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Avionët e njëpasnjëshëm luftarak Izraelitë në mënyrë të pamëshirshme kanë goditur Rripin e Gazës të enjten në mëngjes, duke shkaktuar një numër në rritje të viktimave civile. Këshilli i Sigurimit i Kombeve të Bashkuara është takuar urgjentisht mbi spiralen vdekjeprurëse të konfrontimit të Izraelit me Hamasin. Presidenti palestinez Mahmud...