Natasha Mozgovaya (Haaretz) and Haaretz Service
By Natasha Mozgovaya (Haaretz) and Haaretz Service
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Breaking News Anti-Circumcision Comic Books Called ‘Anti-Semitic’
The Anti-Defamation League on June 3 strongly condemned a comic book created by supporters of an anti-circumcision movement in San Francisco, saying it contained “grotesque anti-Semitic imagery and themes.” The “Monster Mohel” comic book is one of two titles in the “Foreskin Man” comic book series – which was created by the president of the…
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Breaking News Obama Endorses Two States Based on 1967 Borders
President Barack Obama said Thursday that the U.S. endorses the Palestinians’ demand for their future state to be based on the borders that existed before the 1967 Middle East war. “The borders of Israel and Palestine should be based on the 1967 lines with mutually agreed swaps, so that secure and recognized borders are established…
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Breaking News U.S.: New Settlement Construction Hurt Peace Efforts
Israel’s continued West Bank settlement construction runs counter efforts to resume Middle East peace negotiations, a statement by the U.S. State Department said on Sunday, a day after the government approved 500 new settlement housing units as a response to deadly Itamar attack. On Saturday, the ministerial committee on settlement affairs decided in a nighttime…
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Breaking News Bibi: Palestinians Must Recognize Israel as a Jewish State
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reiterated his demand that the Palestinians recognize Israel as a Jewish state, saying that only then they will be ready to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Army Radio reported Friday. Speaking at a meeting of worldwide Jewish leaders in Jerusalem on Friday, Netanyahu said that peace must be based on a mutual…
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Breaking News U.S.: Settlement Freeze Will Be Discussed During Upcoming Peace Talks
The possibility of extending, or ending Israel’s moratorium on West Bank settlement construction will be discussed within the context of upcoming direct Middle East peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians, a senior U.S. official said Monday. The comment by U.S. State Department spokesman Philip J. Crowley came after Palestinian officials had said in recent…
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Breaking News Pressure Builds Against Unilateral Declaration of Statehood
The Palestinian Authority is coming under increasing pressure from Israel and the international community to back down from its threat to unilaterally declare a state without first concluding a peace agreement with Israel. On Monday evening, The United States on Monday reaffirmed its support for the resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through negotiations, in…
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Breaking News Oren Ducks Question of J Street Conference Attendance
The October 25 conference in Washington D.C. of left-leaning lobby group J Street is just one week away, but Israel’s ambassador to the United States, Michael Oren, is still not saying whether he will attend or not. President Shimon Peres has written a welcoming letter to conference participants, J Street said, with his apologies for…
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Breaking News Katie Couric Confronts Ahmadinejad With Holocaust Photos
Hours before addressing the United Nations on Wednesday, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad gave an exclusive interview to CBS’s Katie Couric. During the course of the interview, the CBS anchorwoman accused the Iranian leader of denying the Holocaust, and showing him photographs of dead bodies of Jews killed by the Nazis during World War II. “You…
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