The first time I saw the horrific newsreels of the liberation of the concentration camps, showing mountains of skeletons piled up and skulls staring out of empty eye sockets, was in 1959.
The invitation by Speaker of the House John Boehner to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to address a joint session of Congress on the question of Iran is a crude interference in Israeli election politics.
The U.N. agency in charge of aiding Palestinians will run out of money by the end of January to repair homes in Gaza damaged in the 2014 war with Israel, worsening an already dire humanitarian situation, an agency spokesman said on Thursday.
The leader of the fast-growing German anti-Muslim movement PEGIDA resigned on Wednesday after a photo of him posing as Hitler, and reports that he called refugees \”scumbags,\” prompted prosecutors to investigate him for inciting hatred.
President Barack Obama will not meet Israel\’s prime minister when he visits Washington in March, the White House said on Thursday, after being blindsided by the Republicans\’ invitation to Benjamin Netanyahu to address the U.S. Congress on Iran.
Israel Police arrested a Palestinian man wielding a knife in an Israeli city, one day after another Palestinian man who had crossed illegally into Israel stabbed passengers on a Tel Aviv bus.
A letter purported to be from Mohammed Deif, the leader of Hamas\’s armed wing, on Thursday appealed to the Lebanese Hezbollah group to unite with Hamas in battling Israel.
The death of a prosecutor investigating the bombing of a Jewish community center was not a suicide, as was initially reported, Argentine President Cristina Fernandez said on Thursday.
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