Motto of Hamas summer camps in Gaza: "The Generation of return"

19 June 2013 by eju team

Hamas is operating 700 camps in Gaza this summer, attended by approximately 100,000 children and teens. Their motto this year is "Generation of Return."

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'No alternative' to Palestinian state

18 June 2013by eju team

Former US president Bill Clinton said during a visit to Israel on Monday that he saw "no alternative" to a Palestinian state.

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ADL welcomes Obama’s UN envoy nomination

17 June 2013by eju team

 The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) led this week greetings from Jewish groups of US President Barack Obama’s nomination for its next envoy to the UN Wednesday, as National Director Abraham H. Foxman described the choice of former Atrocities Prevention Board chair Samantha Power as a sign of the US administration’s continuing “moral reserve and fierce pragmatism”.

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Motto of Hamas summer camps in Gaza: "The Generation of return"

19 June 2013by eju team

Hamas is operating 700 camps in Gaza this summer, attended by approximately 100,000 children and teens. Their motto this year is "Generation of Return."

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'No alternative' to Palestinian state

18 June 2013by eju team

Former US president Bill Clinton said during a visit to Israel on Monday that he saw "no alternative" to a Palestinian state.
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ADL welcomes Obama’s UN envoy nomination

17 June 2013by eju team

 The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) led this week greetings from Jewish groups of US President Barack Obama’s nomination for its next envoy to the UN Wednesday, as National Director Abraham H. Foxman described the choice of former Atrocities Prevention Board chair Samantha Power as a sign of the US administration’s continuing “moral reserve and fierce pragmatism”.

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USA: House passes bill to help Israel ‘remove threats'

Seal of the United States House of Representatives.

16 June 2013by eju team

The U.S. House of Representatives passed a defense authorization bill that would make it U.S. policy to take “all necessary steps” to ensure Israel is able to “remove existential threats,” among them nuclear facilities in Iran.

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Suspected SS officer found in Minnesota

Michael Karkoc, photographed in 1990, is suspected of leading a unit blamed for

16 June 2013by eju team

A man suspected of being a Ukrainian Nazi with links to murders during the Warsaw Uprising has been living in Minnesota for over 50 years.

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Hassan Rouhani wins Iran presidential election

Hassan Rouhani gained 50.71% of the people's votes.

16 June 2013by eju team

Reformist-backed cleric Hassan Rouhani has won Iran's presidential election, securing just over 50% of the vote and so avoiding the need for a run-off.

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In New York, 20,000 Orthodox protest against draft

New York City.

11 June 2013by eju team

Thousands of Charedim gathered in New York yesterday to protest against the Israeli government’s moves to force the Orthodox to join the army.

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US finds diary of Hitler aide Alfred Rosenberg

Alfred Rosenberg.

11 June 2013by eju team

Long-lost diary of Nazi Reich minister who was convicted at Nuremberg and hanged in 1946 includes details about German occupation of Soviet Union, plans for mass killings of Jews and other Eastern Europeans.

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U.N. says it can’t accept Russia’s offer of Golan troops

Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on June 7.

09 June 2013by eju team

The United Nations on Friday said it could not accept Russia's offer to replace peacekeepers from Austria in the Golan Heights because an agreement between Israel and Syria bars permanent members of the Security Council from the U.N. observer mission.

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Iranians meet Holocaust survivors, ‘embarassed by ignorance'

Fifteen young men and women of Iranian descent met with Holocaust survivors.

06 June 2013by eju team

Young people of Iranian descent living in UK listen to stories of Holocaust survivors, speak in turn about their childhoods, being educated to hate Israel. ‘We have no real way to influence Iranian government, but we can pass on stories we heard here,’ they say.

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