GranDuc/shutterstock.com The Iranian arms ship that was captured by the Israel Navy in March was unloaded in Eilat, and revealed 40 M-302 long-range missiles, as well as 181 22-millimeter mortar shells and 400,000 7.62 bullets. The ship was brought to Israeli territory after [the] elite Navy unit Sheyetet raided it some 1,500 kilometers [932 mi]
Continue Reading »Could Trans-Dniester follow in the footsteps of Crimea?www.wikipedia.org/Serhio Recently the world watched as Crimea broke away from the Ukraine and was formally annexed to Russia. Nations gave lip service to the defense of Ukraine’s sovereignty over the territory but when it came down to it, Russian actions trumped Western rhetoric. Was this a unique case
Continue Reading »Ariel “Arik” Sharon February 26, 1928–January 11, 2014 Earlier this year, Ariel Sharon lost the last fight of his life. Bridges for Peace would like to take this opportunity to offer condolences to the people of Israel in the loss of a man who, in many ways, embodied the history of the modern State of
Continue Reading »Secretary Kerry An open letter by a group of Israeli rabbis spoke out against US Secretary of State John Kerry’s efforts to reinvigorate the stalled Israeli–Palestinian peace process. The group calls itself SOS Israel and the Committee to Save the Land and People of Israel. Their open letter, which almost sounds like Israel’s prophets of
Continue Reading »The Bulgarian town, Bansko, where the Nazi souvenirs were found An Israeli traveling in Bulgaria was shocked to find mugs carrying the picture of Adolf Hitler and decorated with swastikas in a souvenir shop in a ski resort. She later realized the shop was not [the] only one carrying the Nazi paraphernalia, and found similar
Continue Reading »A screenshot of the Iranian documentary, “Nightmare of Vultures.” Iranian television aired a documentary called the “Nightmare of Vultures,” which included a chilling computer simulation of an attack on Israeli targets. The broadcast, which was aired just before the Friday Muslim prayers, shows an Iranian response to an attack from Israel. Targets included the Israel
Continue Reading »{image_1}The Anti-Defamation League has come out against an anti-Semitic Christmas broadcast from Romania. Director Abe Foxman says, “This pastoral scene of Romanian carolers singing perverse, bigoted and vicious anti-Semitic lyrics utterly shocks the conscience.” He continued, “Something is wrong in a society where virulent anti-Semitism masquerading as Christmas cheer could appear on public television and no one blinks. It is a throwback reminiscent of the anti-Semitism that pervaded Romania prior to and during the war, which led to the death of tens of thousands of Jews in the Holocaust.”
Continue Reading »{image_1}When the world powers met in Geneva, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took the opportunity to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin. In Netanyahu’s address to Putin, Israel’s PM said, “For us, for Israel, the biggest threat against us and against global security is Iran's effort to arm itself with nuclear weapons. Both of our countries have a common goal: we do not want to see Iran with nuclear weapons. Israel's approach is that the international community needs to insist on its positions as expressed in UN Security Council resolutions, i.e. to halt all enrichment, to remove all enriched material, to dismantle the centrifuges and to stop building the facility in Arak.
Continue Reading »{image_1}Syrian women are systematically raped and abused as a means of exacting psychological pressure on their families—“pressuring their male relatives to surrender”—according to a report by a Europe-based rights organization. The report by the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network describes the abuses as a “deliberate tactic to defeat the other party from a symbolic and psychological perspective, making women desirable targets as the conflict rages on.”
Continue Reading »{image_1}Syria is a chaotic mess that could be coming to a country near you. Or at least that’s what has Russian President Vladimir Putin concerned.
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