The Six-Day War, still
Rob Eshman
June 5, 2013
The Six-Day War began at 7:10 a.m. on June 5, 1967. By 10 a.m., it was clear Israel had already won.
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syria
U.N. peacekeepers held in Syria reach Israel, military spokeswoman says
Jewish Journal
March 11, 2013
U.N. peacekeepers held by rebels for three days in southern Syria and freed at the weekend crossed into Israel from neighboring Jordan on Monday, a military spokeswoman said.
Sixty-five found executed in Syria’s Aleppo, activists say
Jewish Journal
January 29, 2013
At least 65 people were found shot dead with their hands bound in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo on Tuesday in a \”new massacre\” in the near two-year revolt against President Bashar al-Assad, activists said.
AJC leaders meet with Jordan’s King Abdullah
Jewish Journal
January 28, 2013
Leaders of the American Jewish Committee in a meeting with Jordan\’s King Abdullah II in Amman discussed political and strategic developments in the Middle East.
Western troops in place to protect Jordan from Syrian spillover
Jewish Journal
October 15, 2012
Ahmed Thiabat sits on his balcony in Jordan overlooking the Syrian town of Tal Shehab just over the Syrian border. This once tranquil farmland has become a battleground for troops loyal to Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad and rebels fighting to unseat him.
Syrian refugees flood into Jordan, straining country’s resources
Jewish Journal
August 9, 2012
As the violence worsens in neighboring Syria, what began as a trickle of refugees into Jordan has turned into a flood. The United Nations estimates there are now 150,000 refugees in Jordan, and the Jordanian government, struggling with an economic crisis, has been hard-pressed to help them.
Israelis helping Syrian refugees in Jordan
Jewish Journal
July 13, 2012
Israelis from humanitarian groups are in Jordan are assisting Syrian refugees fleeing that country\’s uprising.
Warren Christopher, overseer of Mideast talks, dies
Jewish Journal
March 21, 2011
Warren Christopher, the U.S. Secretary of State whose intensive shuttling shepherded talks with Syria, Jordan and the Palestinians in the mid-1990s, has died. Christopher died March 18 at home in Los Angeles of complications from cancer. He was 85. As secretary of state under President Bill Clinton, Christopher traveled to the Middle East 18 times in an effort to bring peace to the region.
In the Mideast, Israel is the opium of the people
Jewish Journal
December 31, 2008
What else explains the collective amnesia on display?
Save the Dead Sea by restoring the Jordan River, not a canal to the Red Sea
Jewish Journal
August 3, 2008
The way to save the Dead Sea is by restoring freshwater flow from a rehabilitated Jordan River, not building an ecologically risky channel from the Red Sea
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