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http://tabletmag.com/audio/podcast_feature2245.mp3 El Ghriba Synagogue, Djerba Off the Tunisian coast, the small island of Djerba is home to a tight-knit community of Kohanic Jews. Only about 1,000...
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• Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu endorsed a two-state solution for the first time, but attached conditions that have left Palestinians unsatisfied, to say the least. [WP] • While generally...
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• Despite the recent revelation that Hezbollah was maintaining an arms cache in southern Lebanon, as well as a bunch of tough talk from both sides, Israel’s top general said that war is not imminent....
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A scene in Sacha Baron Cohen’s movie Brüno has landed the British-Jewish performer in hot water with the al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigade, the pro-Palestinian terrorist group. In the scene, the title...
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• A new study argues that al Qaeda has spurned Hamas’s desire for closer cooperation. The global jihadist network is concerned that Hamas’s jihadist intentions are not quite global enough. [Ynet] •...
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• Jordanian authorities arrested several suspects in connection with yesterday’s bombing of a convoy carrying Israeli diplomats from Amman to Israel (an assault in which no one was injured). Jordanian...
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Syrian President (which is to say, dictator) Bashar Assad has some thoughts on Israel for investigative journalist extraordinaire Seymour Hersh. The clearest stand he takes is that there will be no...
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According to White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, Vice President Biden did not, as some had alleged, tell Prime Minister Netanyahu that Israeli settlements endangered U.S. troops. But what about...
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• Ayman al-Zawahiri, Osama bin Laden’s number-two man, blames Arab leaders for “surrendering” to Israel in a new tape. [Haaretz] • What exactly are the U.N. soldiers in southern Lebanon supposed to do?...
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Whether you buy the official explanation, proffered yesterday by the Obama administration, that the two al Qaeda-planted bombs addressed to Chicago synagogues were in fact intended to blow up...
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• The top-ranking U.S. diplomat for the Mideast called on Syria to join against Iran and Hezbollah’s meddling in Lebanese affairs. [WP] • In what was also a sign of how far a once-great multicultural...
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• For the first time, an al-Qaeda affiliate released a video threat in Hebrew. It pledged revenge for yesterday’s assassination of two terrorists in Gaza. [JTA] • A judge ruled that local Muslims can...
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• Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl was murdered nine years ago by Al Qaeda affiliates, explicitly because he was Jewish. Today, more than a dozen suspects remain at large, thanks to our strong...
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• The Israeli commission concluded that the navy acted legally when it halted the Gaza-bound flotilla in international waters last May. [WP] • Two-day international talks over Iran’s nuclear program...
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• The United States is reviewing the billions of dollars in annual arms sales it makes to Arab countries now caught up in various forms of internal upheaval. [WSJ] • The Islamic Republic took great...
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• Longtime Al-Qaida number two Ayman al-Zawahiri is now formally in charge. He made his bones helping kill Anwar Sadat after the Egyptian leader signed the treaty with Israel. Read Lawrence Wright’s...
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• A Palestinian Authority budget crisis is threatening its ability to mount a planned U.N. statehood bid as well as raising the question in others’ minds of whether such a state is viable. [NYT] • A...
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• The U.S. Treasury Department has accused Iran of funneling money to Al Qaeda via Pakistan. Oh joy. [WP] • Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak will be visiting his home-away-from-home—the New...
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• The U.N. report on Syria finds unspeakable acts as well as a “pattern of human rights violations … which may amount to crimes against humanity.” It also names 1900 civilians who were killed by...
View ArticleWest 'Admits Defeat' In Brokering Syria Ceasefire as Assad War Continues
• The international community is getting ready to “admit defeat” in brokering a Syrian cease-fire. Presumably, after such an admittance, a more effective plan will follow. [WP] • President Abbas’...
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