New Tunisian constitution calls for the destruction of Israel

A referendum on a new constitution for Tunisia was said to have easily passed, and this has now officially ended the hopes of the Arab Spring, as it has demolished all democratic reforms and has given its president sweeping, dictatorial powers.It also calls for the destruction of Israel.In the preamble, it says:We, the Tunisian people, reaffirm our belonging to the Arab nation...

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Ladies Who Lurch (Daphne Anson)

Here’s the curious case of one of them. Born to non-Jewish parents in 1929, Lynne Reid Banks is a prominent British novelist, best-known for The L-Shaped Room (1960) which was made into a movie. Among her works are children’s novels set in Israel, where she worked on a kibbutz, and where she married an Anglo-Jewish sculptor, Chaim Stephenson, and had three sons....

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