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• The UN Abstention

  • By Bernd Wollschlaeger
  • On January 1, 2017
  Posted In Uncategorized

  LETTER TO EDITOR                                                   Sunday, January 1, 2017 Regarding your December 29th editorial “Obama widens rift with Israel. Why now?” The fact that the United States abstained from a vote condemning Israel’s settlements in the West Bank is not unprecedented. Other US administrations have regularly abstained from or supported UN resolutions against Israeli actions. During Ronald […]

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• Israel and the Olympic Games

  • By Bernd Wollschlaeger
  • On August 12, 2016
  Posted In Israel

  As an Israeli I am proud that Israeli judoka Or Sasson won a bronze medal in Rio. This was Israel’s second bronze in Rio, after Yarden Gerbi won third place in the women’s judo 63 kg weight class. Sadly, the Olympic Spirit whose intent is  “to build a peaceful and better world in the Olympic […]

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