Texas Sen. Ted Crus reacts to the first 2020 Democratic presidential debate on ‘Hannity.’
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Dozens of students from universities in Ramallah held a demonstration in the center of the city on Thursday in protest against the economic conference in Bahrain aimed at promoting economic peace and the Trump administration’s “Deal of the Century” to resolve the longstanding Israeli-Arab conflict.
The students called the American initiatives “a Western plot with Arab participation” while attacking Arab leaders for taking part in activities against the Palestinian cause.
The students also called for a resumption of an intifada in the streets and praised the activities of “resistance” that take place from time to time.
Read more at Arutz Sheva.
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Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammed Javad Zarif took to Twitter to rebuke claims made my Donald Trump on Wednesday about the likelihood of the two countries going to war.
“Sanctions aren’t alternatives to war,” Zarif said in a listicle addressed to the US President, “they ARE war.”
Zarif added that, unlike belief expressed by the White House, a “short war” between Washington and Tehran was an “illusion.”
Read more at i24NEWS.
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The lawyer for the family of Sarah Halimi — the 65-year-old French Jewish widow brutally murdered in her Paris apartment in April 2017 by an intruder shouting antisemitic slogans — expressed cautious optimism on Thursday that her accused killer, Kobili Traore, would go on trial for his crime, but stressed that there was no possibility of knowing that for sure.
For several months, the family’s legal team and the wider Jewish community have expressed grave concern that Traore, who was 27 at the time of the murder, would escape a criminal trial on mental health reasons. But in an interview with the French Jewish newspaper Actualité Juive published on Wednesday, lawyer Gilles-William Goldnadel said that the Paris prosecutor’s office had “never really left the correct path.”

Shiras Devorah was the place to be this past Wednesday night, June 27, as a massive crowd converged on the majestic building on Oak Street in Lakewood, NJ, for the highly-anticipated asifa held as part of the global “Connecting to Greatness” campaign to save Yeshiva Kiryas Melech of Bnei Brak, led by Rav Shlomo Kanievsky.
The campaign has been unlike any other of its kind in recent memory, drawing support and chizuk from communities across the American Torah world, with the encouragement of roshei yeshiva and rabbonim, heeding the call of Rav Chaim Kanievsky, who has expressed his brocha to those who assist his son, Rav Shlomo, in facing off the devastating financial crisis facing the yeshiva.

At the first of several expected Democratic primary debates for the 2020 presidential elections, issues pertaining to the Middle East took a backseat to domestic concerns.
The Iran deal was the only issue related to Israel or the U.S.-Israel relationship discussed at Wednesday’s debate. Other such matters, including anti-Semitism and Trump’s pro-Israel policies, such as moving the U.S. embassy in Israel to Jerusalem or recognizing Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights, were omitted.
Among the 10 Democrats on the debate stage on Wednesday night, when asked what is today’s greatest geopolitical threat, only Sen. Amy Klobuchar mentioned Iran.