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Brig. Gen. (res.) Yitzhak Pundak is celebrating his hundredth birthday. Pundak was the commander of the 53rd Battalion of the Givati Brigade in the War of Independence and went on to supervise the establishment of the Armored Corps. He was also Ambassador in Tanzania and a founder of Arad. In an interview on IDF
The searing tragedy is that the two-state solution may presage for the Jewish people another Final Solution. In 1920, Great Britain was given the responsibility by the League of Nations to oversee the Mandate over the geographical territory known as Palestine with the express intention of reconstituting within its territory a Jewish National Home.
Ethiopia’s parliament on Thursday approved the Nile River Cooperative Framework Agreement, replacing all colonial-era deals that granted Egypt and Sudan the majority of water rights to the world’s longest river, Egyptian daily al-Yawm al-Sabea reported. The parliament unanimously ratified the agreement, which is strongly opposed by Egypt and Sudan. The move comes amid
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan issued a "last warning" for thousands of protesters occupying a park in central Istanbul on Thursday, saying government patience has come to an end. "Our patience is at an end. I am making my warning for the last time. I say to the mothers and fathers please take
Six Afghani policemen were found shot at their checkpoint in the country’s south and two other policemen were missing, raising suspicions they killed their comrades, an official said Thursday. District chief Nayamatullah Samim said that the policemen’s bodies were discovered in the shelter near their checkpoint Wednesday night in Musa Qala district of Helmand
The United States is considering what steps it can take in order to help the Syrian opposition, Secretary of State John Kerry said on Wednesday. "We have said that we will do everything we can, that we are able to do, to help the opposition achieve that goal and to reach a point where
Iran has in recent weeks broken into tens of thousands of accounts on Google's Gmail e-mail service, the search engine company announced Thursday. The motive is not clear, but Google said it had clear evidence that Iran was behind the data theft. Most of the victims were Iranians, or user Farsi in their accounts,
Some members of the U.S. Congress are calling into question aid to Cairo, after a court there sentenced to jail 16 Americans who work for non-governmental organizations based in Egypt. The NGOs were convicted of using foreign aid to foment unrest. Leaders from four of the organizations testified to a House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee
The execution of a 15 year old coffee vendor in the streets of Aleppo earlier this week has sparked rage among residents and galvanized moderate Syrian rebels to condemn the radical Islamist factions that have taken over the city. Muhhamad Qatta' was first beaten and tortured, and then shot to death publicly in front
