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Broadest Ever Human Rights Coalition

Courtesy Pam Geller

New York, NY -- Tawfik Hamid, a Muslim former terrorist once active in daily murder of innocents in Jemayah Islamiyyah, spoke out for human rights and against radical Islam at a mass rally in Manhattan's Times Square. Hamid was the most striking “celebrity get” in the substantial quilt of human rights groups coming together to refute radical Islamic terror. Read More...

Iran Afraid of Israel?

Iran Afraid of Israel - Courtesy UN Photo/Devra Berkowitz

UNITED NATIONS  (WUP) ....  “Iran is a peace-loving Nation and spares no effort toward achieving the world s stability and peace and a world free of nuclear weapons,” stated Mohammad Ali Hosseini the  Deputy Foreign Minister sof the Islamic Republic of Iran at a recent high-level UN meeting. It was the meeting of the  Preparatory Committee of the 2010 Non-Proliferation Treaty, where he also made sure to point out that Iran´s nuclear facilities are only for peaceful uses. Read More...

Statement on the Middle East by Israel’s Ambassador to the UN, Prof. Gabriela Shalev, at the Security Council

Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations, Prof. Gabriela Shalev. UN Photo/Paulo Filgueiras

Mr. President. I would like to acknowledge the presence of Under-Secretary-General Pascoe and thank him for his informative briefing. Mr. President, Members of the Security Council, Our region is passing through an important juncture that may determine the future of the Middle East for some time to come. There is much reason for optimism, but also cause for concern.
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Ephrayim Katzir (1916-2009), Israel's Fourth President from 1973 to 1978, Dies

Professor Ephrayim Katzir, born in 1916, Israel's 4th President between 1973 and 1978, past away in Jerusalem. Photo: Israel Sun

Professor Ephrayim Katzir - eminent scientist and the fourth President of the State of Israel - was born in Kiev in 1916 as Ephrayim Katchalski. Katzir, who Hebraicized his name when he became President, was what Israelis call "almost a Sabra"; his family immigrated to British-ruled Palestine when he was six years old, and he grew up in Jerusalem. Read More...

JCRC - Jewish Community Relations Council's 30th Annual Congressional Breakfast

Senator Kristen Gillibrand at JCRC.  Photo: Gloria Starr Kins

It was a pretty somber crowd at the Jewish Community Relations Council's 30th Annual Congressional Breakfast held at their offices and, by the sound of things being said lunch and dinner would not be bringing any happier news. After eleven US Congressmen and the two US Senators from New York finished speaking at the JCRC's Annual Congressional Breakfast to an overflow room of invited guests and media, there is, as the Ernest Thayer poem "Casey at the Bat" declared back in 1888, no joy in Mudville.
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