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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
IDNS: Did a US Message to Iran Leave Israel Hanging? September 3, 2012 16:12 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. White House to Iran: We’ll oppose an Israeli attack if you don’t attack […]
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 […]
Today marks the second week of the 2012 Review Conference for the U.N.’s “Programme of Action to Prevent, Combat, and Eradicate the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All Its Aspects,” commonly known as the PoA. Unlike the U.N.’s Arms Trade Treaty (ATT), which collapsed for the time being in July, the […]
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 […]
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 […]
This election year, millions of Americans will donate to the political candidates and initiatives of their choice at the local, state, and federal levels. But for unionized workers, union dues come out of their paychecks and go to political causes—and they aren’t consulted on where that money will go. In July, The Wall Street Journal’s […]
