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Threats to cut Egypt assistance could impact Israel, U.S. influence in Mideast
Threats to cut Egypt assistance could impact Israel
In Israel, economic concerns mount, but unclear which party will benefit
By Mati Wagner Jewish Telegraphic Agency JERUSALEM (JTA) – “It’s the economy stupid” was how American political strategist James Carville once summed up the defining issue in U.S. presidential elections. But in Israel, besieged by enemy nations and locked into an ongoing conflict with the Palestinians, security has traditionally trumped all other political agendas. Until [ Read More...]
Israel Briefs
Gun is only way to fight Israel, Hamas head says JERUSALEM (JTA) — Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh said in Iran that armed resistance is the only way to fight against Israel. The “gun is our only response to the Zionist regime,” Haniyeh said Monday in Tehran, according to the semi-official Iranian Fars news agency. [ Read More...]
Is Hamas trying to change its stripes?
By Mati Wagner Jewish Telegraphic Agency JERUSALEM (JTA) — Is Hamas trying to change its stripes? Terrorist attacks against Israelis appear to be on pause, and rocket fire from Gaza is down significantly. The Hamas leader in Damascus, Khaled Meshaal, is trying to distance himself from the Assad regime and align Hamas with the forces [ Read More...]
After string of foiled plots, concerns mount over Iranian-backed terror
By Ron Kampeas Jewish Telegraphic Agency WASHINGTON (JTA) — When America’s top intelligence official said that Iran’s regime is considering attacks on U.S. soil, he cited a single incident and qualified the assessment with a “probably.” But intelligence and law enforcement experts say the Jan. 31 warning by the director of national intelligence, James Clapper, [ Read More...]
Ahead of March meetings, Israel and the U.S. close ranks on Iran
By Ron Kampeas Jewish Telegraphic Agency WASHINGTON (JTA) — It’s one of those coincidences too tempting to believe it is a coincidence. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is delivering a speech to AIPAC about what should happen next with Iran and likely meeting with President Obama to discuss Iran options on the same day that [ Read More...]
Controversy grows in Israel over extension of Tal Law granting haredim army exemptions
Controversy grows in Israel over extension of Tal Law
In Israel, composting and recycling programs in new ecology push
By Jessica Steinberg Jewish Telegraphic Agency JERUSALEM (JTA) — The still-new recycling center in the Givat Shaul neighborhood of Jerusalem is fairly quiet on a crisp winter afternoon. Several people drive in to drop off their recycling — from old printers and batteries to aluminum pans, plastic containers and cardboard — in bins clearly labeled [ Read More...]
For YU students, close-up looks at social issues in Israel
By Ronen Shnidman JointMedia News Service In a year of upheaval for both the American and Israeli Jewish communities, 2011 saw Occupy Wall Street and the tent protests on Tel Aviv’s Rothschild Boulevard pushing social issues to the forefront of discussion in the media and at the family dinner table. From Jan. 15 to Jan. [ Read More...]
On Israel, think tank adopts a more cautious approach, even as anger at critic lingers
By Ron Kampeas Jewish Telegraphic Agency WASHINGTON (JTA) — In one corner was the Center for American Progress, arguably Washington’s leading liberal think tank. In the other was Josh Block, a pugnacious former spokesman for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, who has aggressively argued that CAP has an Israel problem. Nearly two months after [ Read More...]
