Netanyahu. The families of the hostages say he hasnt made their release a priority. They say that the governments strategy of trying to put Military Pressure on hamas to negotiate has failed. Now, the main hope is for a dealfor more captives to be freed. Any kind of deal would see the release of hostages in return for Palestinian Prisoners who are being held in israeli jails. Now, on sunday, as we mark the six anniversary of this conflict, hamas says it is sending a delegation to cairo for a ceasefire talks that have been mediated by egypt and qatar. The head of the cia is expected to be there, and these are difficult talks. We still dont know whether major obstacles have been resolved. Meanwhile, a hamas delegation is expected to attend ceasefire talks in cairo on sunday, following an invitation extended by egyptian mediators. Others expected there, include Us Central Intelligence Agency director bill burns and qatars foreign minister. Israels war cabinet is reportedly set to discuss
Stormed southern israel from gaza, and more than 100 israelis remain in captivity. People are urging their government to reach a deal with hamas for hostages to be freed, and they also want their Prime Minister to go. He should resign after what happened six months ago. The war start and hamas and everything. He claims that he wants to go to a war and make Hamas Go Away and bring all the hostages home, back home. For one israeli family, the hope is over. Elad katzir, kidnapped from kibbutz nir oz, his body returned from gaza today. The Israeli Military says he was murdered in captivity by the islamichhad group injanuary. And that Special Forces recovered his body in khan younis overnight. During the attack in october, his father was killed. His mother was abducted, but later released. In a facebook post, his sister blamed the Israeli Government for his death, saying, he could have been brought back alive if there had been a deal with hamas and said the israeli leadership was cowardly.
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Today we consider how the United States should confront the full range of threats that iran poses to our National Security and poses to the security of our regional allies and partners and ill give you my view of this, but i believe that president obamas flawed nuclear deal was a gamble, a gamble that iran would choose to become a responsible actor, a country focused on prosperity for its people and security along its borders, and unfortunately and predictedly, the tehran regime clearly sees itself as a movement, one that uses ideology and violence to destabilize its neighbors, to threaten others, mainly the United States and israel. That is why we still hear death to israel, death to the United States. Israel is a one bomb country. Thats why we hear this. In iraq and syria, irans revolutionary guards have taken advantage of the fight against isis and theyre using their shock troops and militia to brutalize syrians and to seize much of the territory. As isis loses ground the risk is re
Thank you to the rabbi for that remarkable introduction. I have to say that the subject of my lecture not only concerns a historic event, but actually put my academic career in jeopardy. In 1982, i was a young faculty member at the Hebrew Union College Jewish Institute of religion in cincinnati, and i was invited to deliver a talk before the institutions board of overseers. This was an important rite of passage for a new faculty member. And i was determined to prove myself. Since 1982 coincided with the 120th anniversary of ulysses s. Grants general orders number 11 expelling jews as a class from his war zone, i decided to take that infamous 1862 order as my subject. Grants order was the most notorious official act of antisemitism in American History. It is really the only time that jews as a class had been expelled from anywhere in the united states. And around 1982, new information concerning that order had become available from the association that published ulysses s. Grants papers