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Is Trump’s Peace Plan a Plot, a Fantasy or an Exercise in Realism?

It’s not clear whether it will bail out Bibi or hurt Gantz, but imagining a future Middle East that accepts most of these terms is actually a practical idea By: Jonathan S. Tobin As far as many Israeli commentators are concerned, it’s all a plot to help Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and undermine the chances […]

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ABCs of Tu B’Shvat

The “new year for trees” has a special set of meaningful customs. By: Rabbi Shraga Simmons Tu B’Shvat appears in the Talmud (Rosh Hashanah 2a) as one of the four “new years” in the Jewish calendar: “Beit Hillel says that the ‘new year for the trees’ is the 15th of Shevat – Tu B’Shvat.” The […]

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Trump: US Will Not Lift Iran Sanctions for Negotiations

“No Thanks,” tweets President Donald Trump after Iran’s foreign minister tells a German newspaper that Tehran wants sanctions lifted ahead of any new nuclear negotiations. By: JNS President Donald Trump said on Saturday that any negotiations with Iran over its nuclear program would have to be conducted with U.S. sanctions in place. In an apparent […]

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NYT: Bolton Book Says Trump Held Up Ukraine Aid for Biden Investigation

Edited by: TJVNews.com President Trump’s lawyers continue their case in his impeachment trial, a yet-to-be-published memoir by John Bolton could blow up one of their major defenses. The New York Times reports that the former national security adviser writes Trump personally told him that he is withholding $391 million in military aid to Ukraine until […]

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Trump’s Lawyers Defend Him at Senate Impeachment Trial

By: Wayne Lee President Trump’s legal team gave opening statements Saturday in the Senate after House managers wrapped up three days of arguments in Trump’s historic impeachment trial. White House counsel Pat Cipollone began presenting Trump’s defense by declaring the Democratic House managers had failed to achieve their objective. “We don’t believe that they have […]

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Iran’s Khamenei: Corporations Will Go Public on Tehran Stock Exchange to Gain Access to Capital

By: Jim McClintock Iran’s “Supreme Leader” Ali Khamenei said last week that additional corporate entities under its control would go public on the Tehran Stock Exchange (TSE), enabling them to access capital more effectively. The move shows how primary regime-controlled businesses remain free to act in the face of the United States’ maximum pressure campaign. […]

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