richards | June 22, 2015
Judaism is not a race Judaism is not a race because Jews do not share one common ancestry. For instance, Ashkenazi Jews and Sephardic Jews are both "Jewish." However, whereas Ashkenazi Jews often hail from Europe, Sephardic Jews often hail from the Middle East. People of many different races have become Jewish over the centuries
simmons | June 21, 2015
Anne Frank,in full Annelies Marie Frank (born June 12, 1929,Frankfurt am Main, Germanydied February/March 1945,Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, near Hannover),young Jewish girl whose diary of her familys two years in hiding during the German occupation of the Netherlands became a classic of war literature.
simmons | June 21, 2015
anti-Semitism,hostility toward or discrimination against Jews as a religious or racial group. The term anti-Semitism was coined in 1879 by the German agitator Wilhelm Marr to designate the anti-Jewish campaigns under way in central Europe at that time
simmons | June 21, 2015
A year after the war that devastated the Gaza Strip, Israel is apparently helping Qatar which does not have official diplomatic relations with Israel partner with the Islamist movement and longstanding enemy Hamas to rebuild the the territory. "Life is full of contradictions and strange things, Yossi Kuperwasser, former head of research for Israel's military intelligence, told NPRwhen commenting on Israel's recent move to allow Qatar to channel its reconstruction aid through Hamas, which is a US-designated terrorist group. Israel has always tried to isolate Hamas and has accused Qatar of financing the Islamist movement.
simmons | June 21, 2015
By Jews for Justice in the Middle East Published in Berkeley, CA, 2001 Jews for Justice has made this excellent resource available to people around the world. We have converted their booklet to a more easily copied format. Download it! As the periodic bloodshed continues in the Middle East, the search for an equitable solution must come to grips with the root cause of the conflict
admin | June 20, 2015
The Israeli early warning station on Mount Hermon, above the cloud line on the Golan Heights.
admin | June 19, 2015
Likud - (Hebrew) -The amalgam of right-wing and center Zionist parties that is the successor to the revisionist Herut party and the Gahal party. Following is a portion of the platform of the Likud (apparently from 1999). Manifestly, much has changed since then.
admin | June 19, 2015
Alternate titles: arakat al-Muqwamah al-Islmiyyah; Islamic Resistance Movement ams,acronym of arakat al-Muqwamah al-Islmiyyah, English Islamic Resistance Movement, militant Palestinian Islamic movement in the West Bank and Gaza Strip that is dedicated to the destruction of Israel and the creation of an Islamic state in Palestine. Founded in 1987, ams opposed the 1993 peace accords between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). From the late 1970s, Islamic activists connected with the pan-Islamic Muslim Brotherhood established a network of charities, clinics, and schools and became active in the territories (the Gaza Strip and West Bank) occupied by Israel after the 1967 Six-Day War
admin | June 19, 2015
Investment and Insurance Products: 2015 SunTrust Banks, Inc. SunTrust Bank is an Equal Housing Lender. Member FDIC
simmons | June 19, 2015
It must have come as a great shock to the so-called international community that in June 2015 the so-called refugees, the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip protested that the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) was giving resources they deserved to other Palestinians. The Gaza Palestinians demanded of UNRWA that it not cut the funds allocated to them, nor transfer those resources to the Palestinians who remained in the Yarmouk refugee camp in south Damascus, despite the fact 150,000 had fled the camp because of the Syrian War They also demanded that the international community, implicitly the U.S. and the EU, provide extra funding for their needs
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