Middle East Experience

A new exhibition at the cozy, ‘very Jerusalem’ Agripas 12 Gallery takes a yin-yang approach to life.
Source: Jerusalem Post
Full Article: 'Daedalus Enigma': A Jerusalem exhibition with a yin-yang view on life

“There is a better world out there – a world of salvation, a world of racial purity, a world of human rights, of cleanliness, and that the collective Jew stands between this world and utopia.”
Source: Jerusalem Post
Full Article: Einat Wilf: Israel’s existential battle is against the vilifying of the collective Jew

Protests across Turkey over the detention of Istanbul's mayor have swelled into the thousands for a third consecutive day, despite restrictions and bans on public demonstrations by some local authorities.
Source: Al Monitor
Full Article: Turkey: Protests spread, defy ban for day 3 over Imamoglu's arrest

When he arrived in the town of Masaoudiyeh in northern Lebanon earlier this month, fleeing massacres on Syria's Mediterranean coast, Dhulfiqar Ali had escaped death not once but twice.He is among thousands of Syrians who have fled across the border after armed groups descended on the Syrian coastal heartland of ousted president Bashar al-Assad's Alawite minority and killed hundreds of civilians, mostly Alawites."They didn't even speak Arabic... they knew only: 'Alawites, pigs, kill them'," Ali said of the gunmen.
Source: Al Monitor
Full Article: From Lebanon refuge, trauma scars Syria's minority Alawites

Israel launched air strikes on Hezbollah strongholds in Lebanon on Saturday after intercepting cross-border rocket fire, with Lebanese state media reporting a woman was killed.The Israeli army said three rockets were fired from Lebanon into northern Israel, setting off air raid sirens in the region for the first time since a November ceasefire between Israel and the Iran-backed Hezbollah.Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam warned the country risked being dragged into a "new war" after months of relative calm.
Source: Al Monitor
Full Article: One dead as Israel strikes Lebanon after cross-border rocket fire

Israel conducted deadly strikes on Lebanon Saturday in response to a rocket attack from across the border, as militant group Hezbollah denied responsibility for the launch.Lebanon's official National News Agency reported one girl among two killed in an Israeli strike on the southern town of Touline, during the largest escalation since a November 27 ceasefire.The Israeli army said six rockets, three of which were intercepted, were fired from Lebanon into northern Israel, setting off air raid sirens in the region for the first time since November.
Source: Al Monitor
Full Article: Girl among two dead as Israel strikes Lebanon after cross-border rocket fire

The group, of two 16-year-old and 17-year-old girls and a 16-year-old boy, were considering targeting a church, synagogue, or police station.
Source: Jerusalem Post
Full Article: Germany sentences three teenagers with planning ISIS-inspired terrorist attack

Witkoff describes Hamas as being unreasonable in refusing a bridge to a peace deal at the end of the first phase of talks.
Source: Jerusalem Post
Full Article: Unpacking Witkoff’s Tucker interview: What is the US's stance on Gaza?

Jeanne Kay Whitefeather, 63, was sentenced Wednesday to 215 years in prison and her 64-year-old husband Donald Lantz received a sentence of 160 years.
Source: Jerusalem Post
Full Article: Couple sentenced to multiple life sentences in prison after keeping adopted black kids as slaves

Do I need to know in real-time every time my son runs to a bomb shelter?
Source: Jerusalem Post
Full Article: Areas of Interest: A mother’s wartime dilemma