Stop pretending nothing happens in August
Jewish Journal
August 18, 2014
The month of beach vacations is also when World War I broke out, Hitler invaded Poland, and the U.S. bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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August 18, 2014
Autopsy shows Ferguson police shot Michael Brown 6 times
Jewish Journal
August 18, 2014
An unarmed black teenager whose killing by a white police officer has set off a week of protests and rioting in Ferguson, Missouri, was struck by at least six bullets, a lawyer for the deceased\’s family said on Monday.
WHAT IS REALLY HAPPENING IN THE MIDDLE EAST Part IV: The Mentality of Extreme Islamic Terror
Jewish Journal
August 18, 2014
No sign of Gaza talks breakthrough as cease-fire nears end
Jewish Journal
August 18, 2014
Talks in Cairo on ending the Gaza war showed no signs of a breakthrough on Monday, with Israel and the Palestinians entrenched in their demands hours before the expiry of a five-day cease-fire.
Seeing clearly in Tel Aviv
Jewish Journal
August 18, 2014
There is nothing unusual about sitting at Café Hemda on Ibn Gvirol Street in Tel Aviv and spotting your teenage son zip by on a bicycle.
Palestinians view Meshaal’s role during war as ‘positive’
Jewish Journal
August 18, 2014
Despite talk of popular pique at Khaled Meshaal because of his accumulated wealth and impetuous goading of Israel from the safe distance of 1,200 miles while the Gaza Strip suffered carnage and devastation, the Hamas leader-in-exile has nevertheless emerged from the month-long siege of Gaza with a solid majority of Gazans feeling he casts a “positive” image.
For Israelis in the western Negev, each day is ‘Russian Roulette’
Jared Sichel
August 18, 2014
Paya Amirov described her life as a game of “Russian Roulette”—she can’t know whether the next minute, hour, or day will be quiet or chaotic, with the ever-present possibility of needing to drop everything and run from scorching metal and shrapnel that falls from the sky.
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