Articles by: JewishNews-Ben

Paradigm shift on a two-state solution

Paradigm shift on a two-state solution

Op-ed: Promoting Jordan as the Arab Palestinian state is consistent with international law and would resolve the problem of national self-determination both for Arabs living… Read More ›

PA official rejects ‘insane’ demand to stop paying terrorists

PA official rejects ‘insane’ demand to stop paying terrorists

Abbas aide says request to ‘resolve’ policy of issuing stipends to attackers’ families akin to ‘asking Israel to stop paying its soldiers’   A senior Palestinian… Read More ›

Group of ultra-Orthodox Jews marks Independence Day by burning Israeli flag

Group of ultra-Orthodox Jews marks Independence Day by burning Israeli flag

TV footage shows men and boys from Jerusalem’s Mea Shearim neighborhood watching as flag waved back and forth in bonfire   As Israelis all over… Read More ›

Miami – Staunch Israel Supporter Rep. Ros-Lehtinen, 1st Cuban-American In Congress, To Retire

Miami – Staunch Israel Supporter Rep. Ros-Lehtinen, 1st Cuban-American In Congress, To Retire

  Miami –  U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen of Florida, the first Cuban-American elected to Congress, is retiring at the end of her term next year,… Read More ›

McCain: US should consider preemptive North Korea strike as ‘very last option’

McCain: US should consider preemptive North Korea strike as ‘very last option’

  Washington – Sen. John McCain says President Donald Trump should consider a preemptive strike on North Korea if the country is able to deliver… Read More ›

After meeting German FM, B’Tselem calls on world to punish Israel

After meeting German FM, B’Tselem calls on world to punish Israel

Netanyahu defends decision to snub Berlin’s top diplomat Sigmar Gabriel over his meetings with leftwing advocacy groups   German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel met with… Read More ›

PM hosts Holocaust survivors who will light memorial torches

PM hosts Holocaust survivors who will light memorial torches

Benjamin Netanyahu receives the six survivors who will light the ceremonial torches in memory of the six million Jews murdered on Holocaust Memorial Day. ‘You… Read More ›

Russian chief rabbi: France’s Jews should leave if Le Pen wins

Russian chief rabbi: France’s Jews should leave if Le Pen wins

At Limmud FSU gathering near Moscow, Berel Lazar warns the French are ‘heading toward radicalization’   Russian Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar called on French Jews… Read More ›

Swiss Foreign Minister Under Fire for Pro-Hamas Policies

Swiss Foreign Minister Under Fire for Pro-Hamas Policies

Swiss Foreign Minister Didier Burkhalter is widely considered as unfriendly toward Israel.   Switzerland’s Foreign Minister Didier Burkhalter’s meetings with the Jihadist organization Hamas have… Read More ›

Barghouti explains hunger strike in New York Times Op-ed

Barghouti explains hunger strike in New York Times Op-ed

In a scathing Op-ed for the New York Times, Marwan Barghouti outlines the ‘abuses’ and ‘colonial’ occupation Israel conducts against Palestinians as reasons for engaging… Read More ›

Turkish opposition calls to annul referendum results

Turkish opposition calls to annul referendum results

Republican People’s Party says irregularities in voting process require Erdogan victory be overturned; leaders set to extend nation’s state of emergency   Turkey’s main opposition… Read More ›

Like father, like daughter: Marine Le Pen is an anti-Semite too

Like father, like daughter: Marine Le Pen is an anti-Semite too

Op-ed: The radical left and the radical right in Europe have something in common—hatred and racism. Even when the leaders of far-right parties disassociate themselves… Read More ›

Iran’s Ahmadinejad to run for president

Iran’s Ahmadinejad to run for president

In surprise move, the former president and staunch self-declared archnemesis of Israel, filed his bid to run in May’s presidential elections, discarding a recommendation from… Read More ›

UN Security Council will vote Wednesday on Syria gas attack probe: US

UN Security Council will vote Wednesday on Syria gas attack probe: US

Russia expected to veto US-British-French resolution demanding Assad regime cooperate in inquiry into deadly April 4 bombing   UNNITED NATIONS – The UN Security Council… Read More ›

Israel weighs treating Syrian kids hurt in gas attack

Israel weighs treating Syrian kids hurt in gas attack

Some ministers back idea, but defense chief Avigdor Liberman said to oppose it because of complications in coordinating rescue   Thhe high-level security cabinet on… Read More ›

Berlin – Russian Naval Activity In Europe Exceeds Cold War Levels: U.S. Admiral

Berlin – Russian Naval Activity In Europe Exceeds Cold War Levels: U.S. Admiral

  Berlin – Recent Russian naval activity in Europe exceeds levels seen during the Cold War, a top U.S. and NATO military officer said, voicing… Read More ›

Syria: Israel is ‘main beneficiary’ of accusations against Assad

Syria: Israel is ‘main beneficiary’ of accusations against Assad

Syria’s foreign minister Walid Moallem categorically denied his government used chemical weapons in the attack this week in Idlib province, echoing the claims of Syria’s… Read More ›

For Trump, an overnight evolution on Syria

For Trump, an overnight evolution on Syria

Analysis: US president has long argued against deeper American involvement in the civil war; then, with Thursday strike, appears to change tack   PAALM BEACH,… Read More ›

After new restrictions, settlers lower hopes for Trump era

After new restrictions, settlers lower hopes for Trump era

Pro-settlement supporters voice mixture of frustration and cautious optimism following new construction guidelines   JTA — In response to new curbs on West Bank construction,… Read More ›

Los Angeles, CA – Feathers Fly As Pillow War Overtakes Downtown Los Angeles

Los Angeles, CA – Feathers Fly As Pillow War Overtakes Downtown Los Angeles

  Los Angeles, CA – The feathers were flying in downtown Los Angeles. Hundreds of people traded soft blows in LA’s Pershing Square in a… Read More ›