The Guardian 21 August, 2024 Event Hezbollah has launched more than 50 rockets and a swarm of drones towards northern Israel, hitting a number of homes in the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights and wounding one person. The strikes on Wednesday by the Lebanese militant group came the day after the US secretary of state, Antony [...]
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Don’t Normalize the Political Violence in Gaza
Photo: Mohammed Abed/AFP via Getty Images The unspeakable violence currently unfolding in Gaza is confronting the Jewish community with the most critical moral challenge of our lifetime. In August 2014, the Jewish festival of Tisha B’Av arrived as Israel was waging a military onslaught on Gaza that would eventually kill 2,251 Palestinians, 1,462 of whom [...]
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Netanyahu defies Biden over Palestinian state
BBC, January 22, 2024 Event Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has again rejected the idea of creating a Palestinian state. His comments came hours after a phone call with US President Joe Biden after which the US leader indicated Mr Netanyahu may still accept the idea. Mr Netanyahu's remarks appeared to deepen a public divide [...]
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Netanyahu rejects US calls to scale back Gaza offensive
The Times, January 19, 2024 Event Tensions between Israel and the US burst into the open yesterday when Binyamin Netanyahu angrily rejected American calls to scale back its offensive in Gaza and plan for a postwar Palestinian state. The Israeli prime minister used a TV news conference to accuse the US of trying to “coerce” [...]
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US-Israel relations the coolest for decades
The Conversation, August 11, 2023 Event For most of Israel’s 75-year history, its closest ally has been the United States, prepared to use its UN security council veto and invariably willing to encourage military collaboration as well as providing plenty of direct aid. But that relationship is highly stressed at present, mainly down to the Netanyahu government’s [...]
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More than seven anti-Semitic incidents in the U.S.A. per day
The Anti-Semitism Worldwide Report 2021 and the Anti-Defamation League report about anti-Semitism show the rise of hate against Jews.
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Miscalculation as high as it was in August 1914 No one outside of Serbia expected war
On the domestic political side, neither the United States nor Russia are as stable or predictable as they were in the Cold War and Putin, in all his cocksureness, pushed his country into a conflict none foresaw.
Immanuel Verbondskind - עמנואל קאָווענאַנט קינד 