Barak Ravid (Haaretz)
By Barak Ravid (Haaretz)
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Fast Forward Bibi: Retaliation for Terror Attacks Just Beginning
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Friday that the targeted killing of the Popular Resistance Committee heads was only the beginning of Israel’s response to the attacks in South Israel Thursday that left eight Israelis dead and over twenty wounded. Netanyahu made his statement while visiting soldiers who had been wounded in the attacks at…
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Fast Forward Bibi: Israel Won’t Apologize for Flotilla Raid
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has informed U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that Israel will not apologize for the 2010 Gaza flotilla raid in which nine Turkish pro-Palestinian activists died. Speaking with Clinton via telephone on Tuesday, Netanayhu said that Israel does not intend to adopt an outline to restore its relationship with Turkey. An…
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Fast Forward Statehood Bid Will Damage U.S. Ties With Palestinians
Cooperation between the U.S. and the Palestinian Authority will be harmed if the PA goes through with its plan to seek United Nations recognition of a Palestinian state at the UN General Assembly session in September, a senior Western diplomat told Israeli journalists on Wednesday during a briefing in Tel Aviv. “If the PA will…
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Fast Forward Netanyahu Appoints Panel, Vows To Make Changes
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to ease the economic burden on Israeli citizens as he was presented Monday with the list of experts who will comprise a panel to engage in dialogue with representatives of the popular protests currently sweeping Israel. The team will appoint 14 permanent members, five of whom are academics from the…
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Fast Forward Palestinians Must Have State, Erekat Says
Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat vigorously condemned both Israel and the United States during a briefing to over 90 Palestinian envoys in Istanbul on Sunday, saying the Oslo process was on the verge of failure. Erekat said that if the United States continued to stymie the Palestinian efforts to get a state recognized by the…
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Fast Forward Palestinians Plan ‘Masssive’ Push for Recognition
The Palestinian Authority is planning a massive diplomatic campaign to gain recognition of statehood from both the United Nations as well as individual countries, Palestinian chief negotiator Saeb Erekat said on Sunday, according to a report by Ma’an News Agency. Erekat explained that the PA had a two-prong goal: “First gaining recognition of a Palestinian…
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Fast Forward In New Peace Push, Quartet Backs Obama’s 1967 Formula
The foreign ministers of the Middle East Quartet will be meeting today in Washington and are expected to release a statement endorsing U.S. President Barack Obama’s May 19th speech on the Middle East, which called for negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians on the borders of a future state based on pre-1967 lines with agreed-upon…
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Fast Forward UN Criticizes Israel for Its ‘Nakba Day’ Actions
A new report of United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is highly critical of Israel for its handling of incidents on the border with Lebanon on May 15 — Nakba Day. It concludes that the Israeli soldiers used disproportionate force against Lebanese demonstrators, which resulted in seven deaths. In Israel there is great anger at…
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