Israeli teen to serve 8 years in prison for killing Arab
Jewish Journal
July 12, 2012
Israeli teen was sentenced to prison for killing an Arab man in Jerusalem.
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Global March to Jerusalem could bring thousands of Arabs to Israel’s borders
Jewish Journal
March 27, 2012
If pro-Palestinian calls for a so-called Global March to Jerusalem are heeded, thousands of Arabs from the West Bank, Gaza, Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan and Syria could converge on Israel\’s borders.
Arabs, Israel to attend nuclear talks, Iran uncertain
Jewish Journal
November 17, 2011
Arab states and Israel plan to attend a rare round of talks next week on efforts to free the world of nuclear weapons but Iran has yet to say whether it will take part, diplomats said on Wednesday.
With border breaches, has the Arab Spring reached Israel?
Jewish Journal
May 16, 2011
If a single phrase could capture the sentiment that motivated thousands of Arabs to try to cross Israel’s borders on Sunday to “retake Palestine” from the Jews, it would be this: Yes, we can. That can-do attitude had toppled regimes in Egypt and Tunisia, and threatened dictators from Tripoli to Damascus. So why not apply it toward Israel? If Arab leaders weren’t willing to send their armies to storm the Zionist state, the Arab protesters figured, well then, they’d just do it themselves.
For Israel’s Arabs, sense of disenfranchisement as Israel marks 63rd birthday
Jewish Journal
May 9, 2011
In an elegant limestone building in a Jerusalem neighborhood that before 1948 was home to the city’s Palestinian elite, a group of Jewish and Arab Israeli academics recently tried to untangle one of Israel’s most complex and charged questions: the status of its Arab minority. “The discussion here is so important because we are trying to see if this is a zero-sum game or if it’s possible to find the way to coexistence,” said Anita Shapira, the Israeli historian and former dean of Tel Aviv University who presided over the symposium on the topic organized by the Israel Democracy Institute.
Prominent Israelis to unveil peace initiative
Jewish Journal
April 5, 2011
A group of leading Israelis, including former heads of the country\’s secret services and the military, will put forth a peace initiative, The New York Times reported. The authors of the two-page Israeli Peace Initiative hope the document, which they are calling a direct response to the Arab Peace Initiative offered by the Arab League in 2002 and revived in 2007, will generate popular support in Israel and influence the Israeli government, according to the Times.
Ahmadinejad: Arab world conflicts will lead to collapse of Zionist regime
Jewish Journal
April 4, 2011
The latest conflicts in the Arab world would eventually lead to the collapse of Israel, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Monday.
Yemen’s president: Israel planned, funded Arab uprisings
Jewish Journal
March 1, 2011
Yemen\’s president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, blamed Israel for planning and funding protests in several Arab states. \”There is an operations rooms in Tel Aviv with the aim of destabilizing the Arab world,\” Saleh reportedly said Tuesday during a speech at Sanaa University, adding that the operations room is \”run by the White House.\”
The dreadful ‘D’ words
Bishop Mary Ann Swenson and Dr. Nur Amersi
April 25, 2008
Divorce, dissolution, divestment: These are words that spell the end of a relationship and of what might have been — through time and patience — a meaningful and inspiring marriage.
Mideast Fighting Strains Fragile Interfaith Ties
Marc Ballon
August 3, 2006
Overall, though, Jewish-Muslim relations are strained, and tensions will likely worsen before getting better, predicts Rabbi John Rosove, senior rabbi at Temple Israel of Hollywood.
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