Gad Yaacobi (January 18, 1935 – August 27, 2007) was an Israeli Minister, Alignment Knesset member, and Israel Ambassador to the United Nations. [Wikipedia]
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Israel will have a less conditioned ally, and with this new administration, the political scene of the Middle East may be transformed. This will stop Iran from bragging and showing its strategy of military allies (proxy armies), and finally, it will bring peace. Shalom. [José Galicot]
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“The WJC has worked closely with the UN in the development of this Action Plan, and we value the genuine cooperation and willingness of Mr. Moratinos and his team to listen to the voices of Jewish communities worldwide. The inclusion of Jewish organizations in the process has been crucial in ensuring that the plan reflects the needs and concerns of those most affected by antisemitism.” [WJC]
Struggling against American xenophobia, racism, and antisemitism in the 1930s, Labor Secretary Frances Perkins—the first woman to serve in a President’s Cabinet – sought in several ways to spare German Jewish refugees from annihilation by Adolph Hitler’s Nazi Germany. [Donald H. Harrison]
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Antisemitism, Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, International, Jewish History, Staff and Bylined Contributors, USAThey return them to us broken but alive; it doesn’t matter, we will rebuild them. We have already done it before with the beating of the concentration camps; how many of them will we revive with love? [José Galicot]
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In its letter to President-Elect Trump and incoming administration designates, SCN cited the recent arrests of a Pakistani citizen trying to travel to the United States from Canada to undertake an attack on the Jewish community, a Mauritanian national who shot a member of the Jewish community on his way to synagogue in Chicago, and the arrest of an 18-year old Egyptian student at George Mason University who was planning an attack on the Jewish community, as well as the uncovered Iranian plot to assassinate American citizens, to include a journalist critical of the Iranian regime and President Trump. [Press Release]
The assassination attempt on Donald Trump was a historical event of major import. I approached the Connequenessing Township about placing a historical marker recognizing the terrible event. The assassination site is partially in their purview. JASHP was going to pay for it and fabricate it. The marker would be a gift to them, to be sited where they felt appropriate. [Jerry Klinger]
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Diana Golbi (January 16, 1992) is an Israeli-Russian actress and singer, the eighth winner of Kokhav Nolad, the Israeli version of Pop Idol. Golbi is the third female participant to win the show (following Ninet Tayeb on the first season and Roni Dalumi on the seventh season). [Wikipedia]
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Reactions came quickly to the announcement Wednesday that a ceasefire deal has been reached between Israel and Hamas to free some hostages from Gaza in return for the release of Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails. Here in alphabetical order, by organization, are those written statements sent to our news desk. [SDJW report]
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The Times and other publications frequently ignore important stories out of Israel or possible antisemitic acts in America. That leaves readers in various coverage areas ignorant of events. We are talking about regions with large Jewish populations that care about these matters. [Bruce S. Ticker]
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Shameless lackies of the Prez.
Repeating all the things he says.
To procure financial favors
For the loyalty he savors.
The man, whom they once had hated
Must be sated
With acts of their compliance. … {Laurie Baron]
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Lawrence Baron, Staff and Bylined Contributors, Trivia, Humor & Satire, USA
Facilitated by Qatar, Egypt, the current U.S. administration, and the incoming administration under President-elect Donald Trump, the ceasefire talks reflect a high-stakes international effort. Increased pressure and threats from Trump have influenced Hamas’s willingness to engage in negotiations after Hamas refused to negotiate in good faith forcing Qatar to pause its help last year. [Miriam Gershenson]
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Love affairs between Arabs and Jews seldom turn out well. In this debut novel by an Israeli Jewish writer, such an affair ends as badly as that between Shakespeare’s fictional Romeo and Juliet. [Donald H. Harrison]
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One could name many more peoples who were forced from their homes and livelihoods because of wars. But there’s only one group that, unlike all the others who made new homes for themselves, refused to build new lives for themselves, even to the point of having a unique UN Agency, UNRWA, which administers to them alone. Of course, this was all aided and abetted by Jew haters in the UN and Muslim Arabs, whose ultimate goal is Israel’s destruction.[Steve Kramer]
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