Hamas leader heading to Iran
Jewish Journal
January 31, 2012
Ismail Haniyeh, the prime minister of the Hamas-led government in the Gaza Strip, will visit Iran.
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IDF official: Nuclear Iran may curb Israeli border wars
Jewish Journal
January 17, 2012
A nuclear-armed Iran could deter Israel from going to war against Tehran\’s guerrilla allies in Lebanon and the Gaza Strip, a senior Israeli general said on Tuesday.
Report: Iran cuts Hamas funds over Syria
Jewish Journal
August 22, 2011
Iran reportedly has withdrawn some funding from Hamas over the Gaza terrorist group\’s refusal to hold rallies supporting Syrian President Bashar Assad.
WikiLeaks: Iran providing Hamas with smuggle-ready rockets, says IDF
Jewish Journal
April 15, 2011
Iran is manufacturing special missiles for Hamas that can be smuggled through tunnels into the Gaza Strip, according to the report of a conversation between Israel Defense Forces Deputy Chief of Staff Dan Harel and U.S. ambassador to Israel James Cunningham.
Senate letter urges Obama to keep talks going
Jewish Journal
September 21, 2010
A letter is circulating among U.S. senators urging President Obama to keep the Israelis and Palestinians at the negotiating table.
NATION/WORLD BRIEFS: Durban Changes, Iran Strategy, Clinton to Speak
Jewish Journal
April 16, 2009
The United States commended changes in the draft document for “Durban II” but said more was needed to entice it into joining the anti-racism conference.\n\nJewish groups had welcomed the U.S. decision earlier this year not to attend the event reviewing the original U.N. conference in Durban in 2001. The South Africa parley had devolved into an anti-Israel and anti-Jewish free-for-all, and the review conference April 20-24 in Geneva promised more of the same. Earlier versions of the “draft outcome document” singled out Israel and called for measures against “defamation of religion,” seen as a nod to Islamist extremists who seek to marginalize their critics.
‘We are fighting an Iranian proxy’: Q&A with Israeli Consul General Yaakov Dayan
Tom Tugend
January 7, 2009
\” . . . The media are a little more balanced than on previous occasions, but I can\’t say I\’m not upset when I see on the front page of the Los Angeles Times a photo of two dead Arab girls . . . \”
Israel facing grim threat assessment for 2009
Leslie Susser
November 26, 2008
Delivering a grim threat assessment for 2009, the Israeli National Security Council (NSC) said that Israel in 2009 may well find itself alone, facing Iran on the threshold of nuclear power, fighting rocket attacks on two fronts and without a Palestinian partner for a two-state solution.
It’s time for words to lead the peace process
Judea Pearl
November 20, 2008
Let us be frank: The current stalemate is ideological, not physical, and it hangs on two major contentions: \”historical right\” and \”justice,\” which must be wrestled with in words before we can expect any substantive movement on the ground.
‘When there’s life, there’s hate’: Q & A with ADL’s Abe Foxman
Jewish Journal
November 7, 2008
\” . . . Hatred has been around since Cain and Abel. I\’m not a philosopher; I\’m not a sociologist. I don\’t pretend to be. But they used to say, \’Where there\’s life, there\’s bugs.\’ When there\’s life, there\’s hate . . .\”
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