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BRIEFS ty, their bravery and their courage,” Kulit said a Russian SA-17 was used, tion line no longer exists, while Israeli
sources say communications through
Shabtay said.
a medium-range advanced defense
the line have effectively stopped.
“I have no question about the abil-
missile complex used by the Russian
ity of women to be combat fighters.... Army. The system is operated directly “Russia has decided to end the
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When you have good people, you can by the Russian military. Israeli sources Israeli freedom of action over Syria,”
rather than products made there, Ben do anything.” (Judah Ari Gross, Times confirmed that the SA-17 was used for said Dr. Mordechai Kedar, a senior Is-
& Jerry’s is setting an alarming prec- of Israel) the first time against Israeli missiles, raeli expert. Moscow wants to portray
edent. raising fears that Israeli pilots could be Syria as a functioning country. “The
As reported in The Jerusalem Post, MORE ISRAELI MUSLIMS targeted as well. frequent Israeli air strikes on targets in
the boycott criteria already set by Ben ARE JOINING THE IDF For the majority of the conflict in Syria do not help to build the desired
& Jerry’s “would make any Israeli or While Israeli Muslims are exempt Syria, Israel and Russia have main- image.” (Arie Egozi, Breaking De-
foreign company that helps stock a from the draft, they may volunteer for tained a hotline that allowed the Israeli fense)
[West Bank] supermarket with those army service. The IDF reported that military to alert Russian forces of in-
products susceptible to boycotts.” Re- 606 Muslim Israelis joined the IDF in coming strikes. Generally, sources say, I RESIGNED FROM THE
gardless of where one sits on the po- 2020, compared to 489 in 2019 and Russia was given two to three minutes CUNY UNION BECAUSE
litical spectrum, Ben & Jerry’s has 436 in 2018. More than half went to of warning in order to remove their OF ITS ANTISEMITISM
crossed a line that repulses much of the combat units. personnel in the area, and in some cas- With deep regret, I recently resigned
mainstream Jewish community. The number joining the Bedou- es, missions were aborted over fears of from the Professional Staff Congress
We’ve seen this singling out of Is- in reconnaissance unit rose to 171 in striking Russian forces. However, Rus- of the City University of New York
rael over and over by groups that ig- 2020, compared to 84 in 2018. (Tal sian officials now say the deconflic- continued on next page
nore genocides and mass murders to Lev Ram, Jerusalem Post)
go after the world’s only Jewish state.
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