Middle East Experience

Swedish activist Greta Thunberg attended a climate change and pro-Palestinian rally in Milan on Friday, days after her criticism of Israel sparked a row over protests in Germany.More than 1,000 people, many of them teenagers, joined a peaceful march in the northern Italian city organised by Fridays For Future, the climate change movement Thunberg helped found.Wearing a keffiyeh, a traditional scarf symbolising the Palestinian struggle against Israel, Thunberg walked near the front of the procession as other protesters waved flags, held banners and danced to music.
Source: Al Monitor
Full Article: Thunberg leads pro-Palestinian, climate protest in Milan

If we make a habit of displaying undeserved grace and kindness to others, including those who have committed wrongs against us, then we are guaranteed to earn this same undeserved grace from God.
Source: Jerusalem Post
Full Article: Yom Kippur: Solidarity, compassion, and forgiveness

How do we reconcile the deeply personal journey of Yom Kippur with the overwhelming collective experiences of the past year?
Source: Jerusalem Post
Full Article: Yom Kippur 2024: Reconciling our personal journeys and collective experiences

We must find it in ourselves to connect with God and each other, whatever it takes.
Source: Jerusalem Post
Full Article: This Yom Kippur, we must jump the barricades and become a unified Jewish state

The rise in the minister’s chief of staff security level requires additional security personnel around Dorfman, and accompany him through the day and night.
Source: Jerusalem Post
Full Article: Ben-Gvir’s Chief of Staff Chanamel Dorfman raises security amid "Level Five" threats

Moscow and Tehran are strengthening ties, with economic cooperation growing, as tensions rise between Israel and Iran amid military threats.
Source: Jerusalem Post
Full Article: Moscow expands ties with Tehran, as Israel weighs retaliatory strike on Iran

Leaders from nine European countries around the Mediterranean Sea met in Cyprus Friday to discuss the wars in the Middle East, which they fear will fuel migration and threaten their own security.Heads of state or government from France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Greece, Cyprus, Malta, Slovenia and Croatia were joined by the king of Jordan, Abdullah II, for the one-day meeting in the Cypriot city of Paphos."Only a few miles away from Cyprus, we have a war. We have a difficult situation," the president of the island, Nikos Christodoulides, said as he opened the summit.
Source: Al Monitor
Full Article: European Mediterranean states discuss Middle East, migration

A new squadron of US F-15s arrived at an undisclosed base in the region this week as Washington works to stop Israel from escalating the fighting in a counterattack on Iran.
Source: Al Monitor
Full Article: US F-15s arrive in Middle East as Israel preps Iran retaliation

The Israeli cabinet adjourned hours before Yom Kippur without a decision on when and how to retaliate for Iran's recent missile barrage.
Source: Al Monitor
Full Article: Israel's cabinet remains uncertain about response to Iran attack

A US soldier who pleaded guilty to trying to provide information to the Islamic State group to help it attack American troops in the Middle East was sentenced to 14 years in prison on Friday.Cole Bridges, 24, pleaded guilty in June of last year to attempting to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization and attempting to murder US military service members.Bridges, a private first class from Ohio, was sentenced to 14 years in prison on Friday and 10 years of supervised release, the Justice Department said in a statement.
Source: Al Monitor
Full Article: Fourteen years in prison for US soldier who sought to aid IS