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Jerry Gordon category.
Tuesday, 30 December 2014
The following is a JTA report issued this afternoon:
UN Security Council
Source: Getty Images
U.N. Security Council vote on Palestinian statehood resolution fails
NEW YORK (JTA) — A Palestinian-backed U.N. resolution setting a deadline for a peace deal with Israel failed
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Posted on 12/30/2014 5:38 PM by Jerry Gordon
Tuesday, 30 December 2014
Qatari Emir Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani at Gulf Cooperation Council summit Doha 12-9-14
Source: Associated Press
Yesterday, The Wall Street Journal published an intriguing analysis by Yaroslav Trofimov of the of Qatar’s apparent withdrawal from being a broker in the murky world of Middle East
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Posted on 12/30/2014 12:20 PM by Jerry Gordon
Monday, 29 December 2014
NPR Morning Edition host with President Obama
December 17, 2014
President Obama held a year end interview with NPR’s Morning Edition host Steve Inskeep on December 17, 2014 that aired today. During the interview Obama was questioned about possible normalization of relations with Iran. He coyly
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Posted on 12/29/2014 11:42 PM by Jerry Gordon
Monday, 29 December 2014
Source: Americans for Peace and Tolerance
At 10:03 PM Saturday, December 27, 2014 Americans for Peace and Tolerance (AP&T) sent an email containing a petition requesting the President of Brandeis University, Frederick Lawrence and the 29 university trustees, to protect the free speech rights
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Posted on 12/29/2014 8:52 PM by Jerry Gordon
Saturday, 27 December 2014
Posted on 12/27/2014 8:23 PM by Jerry Gordon
Saturday, 27 December 2014
(2004) (2014)
Michael Weiser, Esq We’ve seen this movie before. In October 2004, the satirical comedy-action movie Team America: World Police was released in theaters. The film, acted out through marionettes,
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Posted on 12/27/2014 6:19 PM by Michael Weiser, Esq.
Friday, 26 December 2014
Hayley Nagelberg
Hayley Nagelberg is a 17 year old Jewish activist who hails from New Jersey. Last week, she attended the 64th International Conference of United Synagogue Youth of the Conservative Movement held in Atlanta last week. She was there with 700 teen age members who came from congregations
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Posted on 12/26/2014 12:23 AM by Jerry Gordon
Wednesday, 24 December 2014
We wrote about the significant prospects of Israel’s development of offshore natural gas in the Levant Basin in the Eastern Mediterranean in a December 2011 NER article, Will Israel Win the Energy Prize in the Levant Basin?, We cautioned about the regulatory risks given recommendations of the
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Posted on 12/24/2014 10:38 AM by Jerry Gordon
Tuesday, 23 December 2014
Professor Raphi Israeli (ret.) Hebrew University
Islamic and East Asian History and
author, Islamikaze: Manifestations of Islamic Martyrology
Last week in the aftermath of the Islamikaze Jihad at Sydney’s Lindt Cafe, Raphael Israeli, Retired Hebrew University Professor of Islamic and East Asian
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Posted on 12/23/2014 3:49 PM by Jerry Gordon
Tuesday, 23 December 2014
"No Hatred, No violence, No Koran” sign at Pegida rally in Germany, Source: Al Jazeera Yermi Brenner
Geert Wilders, leader of the Freedom Party (PVV) in the Netherlands is being investigated for the second time in five years by Dutch prosecutors for alleged hate speech during his March 2014 local
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Posted on 12/23/2014 1:54 PM by Jerry Gordon
Thursday, 18 December 2014
Swiss Ambassador Paul Fivat
Source: EPA
If the EU court rulings on Hamas and the European Parliament vote on “in principal” recognition of a Palestinian state weren’t enough ‘gifts’ on Hanukkah for Israel, there was the third calumny. That was the approval of a declaration by the Geneva
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Posted on 12/18/2014 8:53 AM by Jerry Gordon
Wednesday, 17 December 2014
Yesterday, marked the beginning of the eight days of Hanukkah-the Jewish Festival of Lights . The holiday commemorates the Maccabees’ victory over their Syrian Greek oppressors who denied these ancient Jews their liberty and religious freedom. Following the recital of the braches (blessings)
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Posted on 12/17/2014 3:31 PM by Jerry Gordon
Tuesday, 16 December 2014
Lindt Café victims in Sydney Australia
Neither the late Katrina Dawson, 38, mother of three and a rising star in the Sydney bar or regular patrons thought anything out of the ordinary having a morning coffee at the Lindt Café in Martin Place, the heart of the city’s business financial district.
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Posted on 12/16/2014 6:48 AM by Jerry Gordon
Monday, 15 December 2014
Australian hostages in Lindt Cafe holding Islamist Shahada flag against window
Source AP/Channel 7
Here is the latest report from Fox News on the Islamist hostage taking at the Lindt Cafe in Martin Place in the heart of Sydney's business district, "Sydney siege: Police in contact with
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Posted on 12/15/2014 2:02 AM by Jerry Gordon
Monday, 8 December 2014
Hon Geert Wilders, leader of the Dutch Freedom Party (PVV)
March 19, 2014.
The words Orwellian, Kafkaesque appear inadequate to describe the trammeling of the Hon. Geert Wilders’ free speech by Dutch prosecutors at the Hague in The Netherlands. We write this with the imagery of the fictional
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Posted on 12/08/2014 11:02 AM by Jerry Gordon
Monday, 8 December 2014
Tsafrir Ronen z"l
1955 to 2008
In memory of Tsafrir Ronen
by Ted Belman
publisher of Israpundit
I recently posted an article by Mordechai Kedar about the work of Tsafrir Ronen titled the Killing Tsafrir Ronen again.
My friend Jerry Gordon who used to blog with me on Israpundit and
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Posted on 12/08/2014 2:51 AM by Jerry Gordon
Saturday, 6 December 2014
Posted on 12/06/2014 9:51 PM by Jerry Gordon
Saturday, 6 December 2014
Qatar’s Ambassador to Washington H.E. Mohammed Jaham Al-Kuwari is a veteran diplomat with 32 years of service to the small gas rich wealthy Arab state on a peninsula jutting into the Persian Gulf off Saudi Arabia. American educated at the University of Portland, Oregon with graduate work at the University
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Posted on 12/06/2014 12:51 AM by Jerry Gordon
Tuesday, 2 December 2014
French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius smiling during National Assembly Debate on Palestine Statehood resolution
December 2, 2014, Source AP.
In a majority vote today, the French National Assembly passed a resolution for symbolic recognition of Palestine statehood. This adds France to a list
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Posted on 12/02/2014 1:05 PM by Jerry Gordon
Monday, 1 December 2014
Dr. Harold Rhode
We interviewed Dr. Harold Rhode about his seminal role in rescuing the Babylonian Jewish archives in Baghdad in 2003. They were ultimately brought to Washington and through public and private resources restored by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). They were
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Posted on 12/01/2014 1:17 PM by Jerry Gordon