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- President Obama canceled a scheduled appearance before the Jewish federations' General Assembly.
- The Union for Reform Judaism passed a resolution urging equal services for Israeli Arabs.
- The International Atomic Energy Agency has evidence that Iran may have tested an advanced nuclear warhead design, according to a British newspaper.
- The United States vetoed an Israeli plan to attack a ship bearing weapons allegedly from Iran to Hezbollah, according to a report in an Arabic-language newspaper.
- The Obama administration expects to keep working with Mahmoud Abbas despite his planned resignation as Palestinian Authority president.
- Obama cancels GA appearance
- Reform endorse qual treatment for Israeli Arabs
- Iran may have tested secret nuclear warhead design
- Report: U.S. stopped Israeli attack on weapons ship
- U.S. sees Abbas in continuing role
- Groups blast UNGA Goldstone vote
- Israel delivers swine flu vaccines to Palestinian Authority
- Abbas announces he won’t run for re-election
- Mideast peace push cited in Obama Nobel
- Obama’s Nobel, Israel’s problem?
- Jews of color come together to explore identity
- FBI: Alleged spy wannabe asked for Israeli citizenship
- Family likely murdered by professional killer
- New signs that Ethiopian aliyah will resume
- U.S. appetite for Israeli food grows
- Female Orthodox scholars helping women talk about sex
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Posted in: Egyptian blames Jewish 'conspiracy' for UNESCO loss
09/24/09 03:08 PM
The last I heard, neither Israel nor the US were any longer filing any vocal protest against Hosny. It was just that Hosny was simply useless for most of the countries that contribute to UNESCO. They simply soberly assessed their interests and said they don't need that jerk.
Posted in: Cantor: Obama not 'true friend' of Israel
09/24/09 03:01 PM
Kol Ha-Kavod to Rep Cantor for speaking Truth to Power By the way, there will certainly be more Jewish Republicans in the next House of Representatives. I've just heard Sen Joe Lieberman is also thinking of reregistering, now that he's no longer on the Dem ticket, :-) Wouldn't that be nice?!
Posted in: White House: Official 'misspoke' on Goldstone report
09/24/09 02:46 PM
Ari, don't be silly. Of course the US vetoed every single piece of criticism because they considered it in its own right. When there was no Israel, remember, Franklin D Roosevelt didn't lift half a fingure to destroy the death camps or the railroads leading there. Why? Proportionally, the Jewish population in the US in the 30-40s was larger than it is now. So what gives? The reason US (and UK) did not intervene then was simply because they were not in competition. But after Germany was defeated, and Israel managed to defend itself, suddenly the US became interested in keeping Israel in the Western camp. So the more weakness Israel shows, the less intimidating it is, the less it is also an interesting ally.
Posted in: What's next for the Goldstone report?
09/21/09 04:18 PM
Well, well well, DRE again - hasn't changed in the last 70 years I remember quite well the times when Goebbels and Hitler were appealing to the good Jewish groupds to condemn the evil acts perpetrated by the rest of the Jewish-Cosmopolitan-Bolshevist whatever, evildoers. If you would read the "Stuermer" even then, those Germans were also very concerned for the fate of the Muslims in the League of Nations mandate.
Posted in: Syria to block Facebook over Golan
09/16/09 01:22 PM
There are 3 different areas: A) the eastern Kinneret coast, B) the western part of the Golan heights and C) the eastern part of the Golan heights, which all have different legal qualities. The eastern Kinneret coast (A) was part of the *Palestine* entity as far as 1947, but conquered by the Syrian aggressors in 1948. The Western Golan (B) was given away, illegally, in 1923, against the League of Nations mandate, to the Syrians. The Eastern Golan (C) was won over by Israel in a defensive war, 42 years ago. So part A is clearly not disputed since a *naked* right of conquest reliquished once some other country conquers the territory. For example, Florida was originally conquered by Spain, but then taken over by the Americans. Part B would be theoretically disputed, if the British had the right to give away territory. Which they didn't. Part C is right of conquest in a defensive war - it has the same legal status as the Russian claim to the formerly German Eastern East-Prussia, which the Russians won in 1945.
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