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An adroit lobbying campaign has cracked open the bountiful Israeli market for U.S.-grown pistachios. It took many years, false starts and dead ends, all in the shadow of the fraught relationship between the United States and Iran. Diplomats and politicians got involved, at the highest levels. The solution itself is a bit of bank shot. And yet, it’s a [...]

“Better Use Durex” is the slogan on one t-shirt centered over a cartoon image of a dead Palestinian infant worn proudly by Israeli infantrymen in Tel Aviv. The latest trend in t-shirts, baseball caps and hooded sweaters manufactured at the Adiv fabric-printing shop in south Tel Aviv, according to the Israeli daily paper Haaretz, are images of “dead babies, [...]

Since the end of the „Cast Lead“ operation, a 22-day Israeli military offensive on the Gaza Strip, violence between Israel and minor Gaza militant groups, mainly radical Islamic Jihad (Holy War), has escalated.
With the increase of violence, in which dozens of rockets have been fired from Gaza at southern Israeli, outgoing Israeli Prime Min [...]

Anti-Israel protesters have clashed with police outside a Davis cup match played in Malmo in southern Sweden. The game between Sweden and Israel is being played without an audience because the police could not guarantee the security of the players.

About 100 masked protesters tried to storm the arena in Malmo on Saturday afternoon, throwing rocks and fire [...]

In the wake of the devastating earthquake of 1927, the early Zionist pioneers were quick to come to the aid of the local Arab community, regardless of the political schism between the two camps. Millionaire Nathan Straus sent an unsolicited $5,000 to the residents of Nablus, where scores of homes had been levelled, while the impoverished Jews of Tel Aviv imm [...]

Miklos Gruner, 15, was deported from Hungary to Auschwitz-Birkenau in May 1944, with his mother, father as well as a younger and an elder brother. He says that his mother and his younger brother were immediately killed after their arrival in the camp. Then he, his elder brother and their father had an inmate number tattooed on their arms and were sent to perfor [...]

A NEW ISRAELI CONNECTION to the tragic events of Sept. 11, 2001 has recently been unveiled. Buried in a New York Times story on Feb. 19 was the eye-opening revelation that a Lebanese Muslim Arab who has been taken into custody by the Lebanon—which has accused him of being a spy for some 25 years for Israeli intelligence —just happens to be a cousin of one of the Mus [...]

The recent attacks on Gaza vividly demonstrate why we need to reevaluate military Aid to Israel. During the Bush Administration a memorandum was signed to provide Israel with $30 billion dollars of military aid to be disbursed over the next 10 years. Each year this estimated $3 billion dollars of American taxpayer money goes unaccounted for. Without a doub [...]

A comprehensive arms embargo must be placed on Israel, Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups in the aftermath of the conflict in Gaza and southern Israel, Amnesty International said Monday. The rights group said it had found evidence that Israel and Hamas had both used weapons supplied from overseas to carry out attacks on civilians, accusing both side [...]

Iran’s Minister of Industry and Mines said that unity among Islamic countries and taking common stances against the Zionist regime would thwart the Zionist plots against the Islamic world. In a meeting with Emir of Qatar Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani here on Monday Ali Akbar Mehrabian by appreciating Qatar stances on Gaza issue said that expansion of t [...]