Turkish PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Turkish Teacher Imprisoned for Likening Erdogan to Hitler

A Turkish school teacher was sentenced to one year in prison for likening Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan to Adolf Hitler, Anatolia news agency reported. The court found Oktay Zaif, who allegedly showed footage of speeches by Hitler and Erdogan during class, guilty of “politically aiming to distance military students from Prime Minister Erdogan and […]

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Democrats Eliminate ‘G-d’ from Platform

The Democrats’ election platform, which in 2008 spoke of people’s “G-d given potential,” has erased any mention of Him in the new platform document under the section “Moving American Forward.” Arutz Sheva previously reported that the 2012 platform also has dropped the item of Jerusalem from the platform, but if Jews felt slighted, they now […]

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Israeli Cabinet Meeting On Iran Dramatically Adjourns Over Media Leak

IDNS: Cabinet Meeting On Iran Dramatically Adjourns Over Media Leak September 5, 2012 13:38 by Pesach Benson Everything you need to know about today’s coverage of Israel and the Mideast. Join the Israel Daily News Stream on Facebook. Today’s Top Stories 1. Without any new acts of self-immolation, Palestinians across the West Bank protested the […]

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Clinton Defends Obama on Gutting of His Welfare Reform Law

Last night, former President Bill Clinton claimed that President Obama had not gutted welfare reform. Clinton proclaimed that Obama would actually strengthen welfare reform by urging states to increase the number of people moving “from welfare to work” by 20 percent. What is Obama really doing? In July, the Obama Administration illegally declared that it […]

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Border Security Alone Not Enough to Stem the Tide of Violence

The Texas Department of Agriculture has launched an online video campaign aimed to “shame” the federal government into enhancing U.S. border security. As part of the campaign, called “Texas Traffic—True Stories of Drug and Human Smuggling,” each week over the next four months the Department of Agriculture will release a video chronicling firsthand accounts by […]

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Secretary Clinton’s Asia Tour: Keep the Pressure on South China Sea

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is in the midst of a 10-day tour of the Asia-Pacific. Certainly there are many things to be discussed over the week-and-a-half visit, but high on the Secretary’s agenda should be the brewing conflict over the South China Sea and assertion of American interests there, including freedom of navigation, the […]

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U.S. Greatly Reduces Participation in Joint Drill with Israel; Expected Not to Assist if Israel Attacks Iran

Washington has greatly reduced the scale of U.S. participation in a massive joint military exercise with Israel, sources told TIME Magazine on Friday. The drill was postponed seven months ago just as concerns were brimming that Israel would launch a strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities. It was later rescheduled for late October. The officials told […]

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Diplomatic Spat After Iranian Translator Falsifies Morsi Speech

IDNS: Diplomatic Spat After Iranian Translator Falsifies Morsi Speech September 2, 2012 15:02 by Pesach Benson Everything you need to know about the weekend coverage of Israel and the Mideast. Join the Israel Daily News Stream on Facebook. Today’s Top Stories 1. Iran’s Persian translators deliberately mistranslated parts of Mohammed Morsi’s address to the Non-Aligned […]

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