ON THIS DAY - FEBRUARY 11 1986: Natan Sharansky is Freed and Flies to Israel....1979: Ayatollah Khomeini in Defacto Charge in Iran....2019: Ilhan Omar re AIPAC "It's all about the Benjamins Baby"....2008: Rep Tom Lantos Dies

#OnThisDay - FEB 11

40 Years ago - 1986: Natan #Sharansky is Freed and Flies to Israel

2019: Reactions to Congresswoman’s #IlhanOmar comment re #AIPAC "It's all about the Benjamins Baby

+Personal note: Marking 50 years of a "Special Relationship" michaellewisonline.substack.com/p/marking-50...

Avital Sharansky, wife of Russian Dissident Anatoly Sharansky, at Soviet Jewry rally, Dag Hammarskjold Plaza 1983 © Mason Resnick

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#OnThisDay- March 14-15...1978: Start of Operation Litani....1993: PM Yitzhak #Rabin & President #Clinton meet at the White House....1994: Rabin at #AIPAC and then meets President Clinton...1977: #Sharansky Arrested...1937: Anti-Nazi Rally at Madison Square Garden open.substack.com/pub/onthisda...

Sharansky: I was shocked to hear Trump say Zelensky started the war Sharansky wrote that he could only imagine what the political prisoners and dissidents in Russian jails are feeling today.

#Sharansky: I was shocked to hear #Trump say #Zelensky started the war.
Sharansky wrote that he could only imagine what the political prisoners and dissidents in Russian jails are feeling today. www.jpost.com/internationa... #Ukraine #RussianInvasion

ON THIS DAY - FEBRUARY 11 1986: Natan Sharansky is Freed and Flies to Israel....1979: Ayatollah Khomeini in Defacto Charge in Iran....2019: Ilhan Omar re AIPAC "It's all about the Benjamins Baby"....2008: Rep Tom Lantos Dies

#OnThisDay Feb 11...1986: Natan #Sharansky Freed by Russia/flies to #Israel...1979: Ayatollah #Khomeini in Defacto Charge in Iran...2019: #IlhanOmar re #AIPAC "It's all about the Benjamins Baby" (Feb 10)...2008: Rep #TomLantos Dies…1990: #Mandela Freed open.substack.com/pub/onthisda... #SovietJews

#OnThisDay in 1987: "The Rally for Soviet Jewry on the Washington DC Mall" - A bipartisan, multi-faith demonstration by some 250,000 people. A moment of unity! Rally Video: www.c-span.org/video/?454-1... #FreeSovietJewry #AmericanJews #SovietJewry #FreedomSunday #Sharansky #WashingtonDC #Jews