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Ukrainian, Russian Newspapers Differ in Accounts of November Ramstein Contact Group Session on Aid to Ukraine; Bulgarian Newspaper Reports Türkiye’s Disregard for Russia Sanctions, November 2023
In her November 22, 2023, article for the weekly Ukrainian Russian-language socio-political journal and daily news internet resource, Fokus, Darya Denisova stressed U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin’s provocative challenge to the West to continue its “unwavering” financial aid to Ukraine to ensure that Russian President Vladimir Putin’s revanchist schemes never come to fruition. At…
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Israel-Hamas Conflict: Germany Warned to Expect Consequences of Supporting Israel; Undercurrent of Radical Islam Simmers, early December 2023
Senior reporter for the German-language newspaper, Welt am Sonntag (The World on Sunday), Per Hinrichs, on December 1, 2023, wrote an opinion piece, “Risk of Attack: Islamism has finally come to our everyday lives.” Hinrich’s article was spurred by news that local police had foiled an attack planned by two ‘Islamists’ targeting a Christmas market;…
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Israel Fears Hezbollah More Than Hamas And This Is The Reason – The Ominous Forecast Of An Israeli Commander, early November 2023
This post is a straight translation from the Greek language internet news site, Newsbeast. The article was written by Panagiotis Flokis and carries a date of 10 November 2023. Israel is proclaiming that it “will cause Hamas to disappear from the face of the earth” after the bloody attack of October 7, however, its greatest…
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Organization of Turkic States Looks To Strengthen Mutual Security; Azerbaijan Discusses Military Cooperation with Pakistan, early/mid-November 2023
The internet site of the Azerbaijan newspaper, Yeni (New) Azərbaycan, in its November 3, 2023, Azerbaijani language edition, reported that at the 10th Organization of Turkic States (TDT) summit of heads-of-state recently held in Astana, Kazakhstan, the President of Kazakhstan, Kasım-Jomart Tokayev, called for member states [Translator note: Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Türkiye, and Uzbekistan] to…
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Russian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Accuses U.S. of Withholding Intelligence Yet Supplying Arms to Israel Prior to Hamas Attack, mid-October 2023
The Turkish newspaper, Cumhuriyet, reported on its Turkish language internet site on October 14, 2023, the answers of Russian MFA spokesperson, Mariya Zakharova, to the questions of Turkish journalist, Esra Karahindiba. The Q&A, which centered around the unfolding Israel-Hamas conflict, its impact on the Russia-Ukraine conflict, and the effect of attempts to mediate peace negotiations…
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Russian Foreign Ministry Blames U.S. for Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Russia’s Special Military Operation against Ukraine, mid-October 2023
During Russian news agency TASS’s joint workshop with the International Journalists Council in Moscow, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson, Maria Zakharova, met with Turkish journalists, during which she answered the questions of Turkish journalist Esra Karahindiba. Karahindiba’s interview with Zakharova was reported in the online version of the Turkish newspaper, Cumhuriyet, on October 14, 2023. The…
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אבן העזר ואבן’ם לזכרון The Stone of Help and Stones of Remembrance: Bringing to Mind Yahwah’s Help and Goodness
Putting the Hebrew words first in the title is meant to illustrate how these two well-known phrases appear in the Hebrew text of the Old Testament. As many of you who read this post will know, Hebrew writing goes from right to left, which means that אבן העזר is the Hebrew phrase translated as ‘stone…
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Remembering Victims of National Socialism: 34 New Memorial Stones Laid in Magdeburg
This article was posted on June 8, 2022, to the internet version of the Magdeburg, Germany, newspaper Volkstimme [Translator note: The People’s Voice]. The original German-language article, written by Stefan Harter, describes an event sponsored by the Memorial Stones [Translator note: the word ‘stolperstein’ means literally, ‘stumbling block/stone.’ I have based my translation on the…
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Greece And Israel: Discovering Commonalities Through Facing A Common Adversary
The Russian-language newspaper, Каскад/Cascade, published in Baltimore, Maryland, on February 16, 2023, featured an article on its internet site entitled, Greece – Where There Is Everything. Everything, according to the author, includes the Jewish presence in Greece, and specifically, in Thessaloniki/Salonica. Within its eclectic content that ranges from the dilatorious effects of the pandemic and…
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Putin Uses Victory Day Speech To Laud “Participants” in the Ukraine SMO, 9 May 2023
Russian President, Vladimir Putin, on May 9, 2023, spoke at the military parade in Moscow on Red Square to commemorate the 78th anniversary of the Red Army’s victory over Nazi Germany on that day in 1945. Using the May 9 celebration as a springboard, Putin in his 10-minute speech brought to the fore the “Special…