Israel Must be Wary of Two-faced Jordan

Photo Credit: UN Photo/Kim Haughton King of Jordan Addresses General Assembly {Originally posted to the JNS website} The Kingdom of Jordan canceled a component of its 1994 peace treaty last month with Israel. It evicted Israeli farmers from two tracts of contested land in the Jordan River Valley. The minor stretches of land—Naharaim in the […]

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Germany Designates Hezbollah a Terrorist Organization

Photo Credit: Kobi Richter / TPS Hezbollah logo After months of debate, Germany’s parliament has decided to designate Hezbollah a terror organization and ban all of the group’s activities in Germany. Germany had previously distinguished between Hezbollah’s military wing, which was banned, and its political wing, which was not. Advertisement ‘); _avp.push({ tagid: article_top_ad_tagid, alias: […]

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‘A Dangerous Individual’ – Israel ‘Confused’ by Ukraine Court Reinstating Diplomat Who Blamed Jews for WWII

Photo Credit: Hillel Maeir / TPS Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko visits the Knesset on Dec. 23 2015. Israel’s Ambassador to Ukraine expressed his “confusion” over a Ukrainian court’s decision to reinstate a diplomat who had been dismissed over anti-Semitic and neo-fascist comments he had posted on his Facebook page. Vasyl Marushchynets had been serving as […]

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Israeli Backpacker Loses Appeal in Russia, 7.5 Year Sentence Stands

Photo Credit: Avi Ohayon / GPO Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shakes hands with Russia’s President Vladimir Putin A Russian court on Thursday rejected Israeli-American Naama Issachar’s appeal of her seven-and-a-half-year prison sentence for a minor drug offense. Twenty-six-year-old Issachar was arrested on April 9 at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport, where she had stopped for a connecting […]

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