Dan Williams
By Dan Williams
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Fast Forward Donald Trump Set for Bibi Meeting as Controversy Swirls
Israeli politicians of all persuasions called on Wednesday for a planned visit by U.S. Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump to be blocked over his call for a ban on Muslims entering the United States, which has raised an international outcry. [ID: ] A government official, however, confirmed that a meeting between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu…
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Fast Forward 2 Israelis Convicted in Revenge Murder of Palestinian Teen
Two Jewish minors were found guilty on Monday of the 2014 murder of a Palestinian teenager in Jerusalem, but the Israeli court held off on formally convicting a third man accused of orchestrating the crime, pending a psychological review. Prosecutors said the three had confessed to abducting, bludgeoning, strangling and burning Mohammed Abu Khudair, 16,…
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Fast Forward Israeli Military Urges Netanyahu To Shift Strategy on Palestinians
Military commanders and the Netanyahu government sparred over the right strategy to end two months of stabbings, shootings and car-based attacks on Thursday as Israeli troops killed two Palestinians involved in violence in the occupied West Bank. The violence, much of it carried out spontaneously by young Palestinians, has killed 19 Israelis and an American…
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Fast Forward Benjamin Netanyahu Orders No Celebration of Jonathan Pollard’s Release
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has instructed Israeli officials to keep low-key about Friday’s scheduled release by the United States of Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard, a cabinet minister said. The former U.S. Navy analyst’s espionage for Israel in the 1980s remains a strain on ties with Washington and his parole terms dictate that he stay in…
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Fast Forward Ban on Islamic Movement Sparks Israeli Arab Backlash
In outlawing its most strident Islamist group, Israel risks angering its largely quiescent Arab citizens as it confronts a wave of Palestinian violence powered by religious and political tensions. The relative popularity of the northern branch of the Islamic Movement, banned by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s security cabinet on Tuesday, has troubled Israel as it…
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Fast Forward Israel Now Neutral on Ousting Syria’s Bashar al-Assad
Israel is no longer taking a public position on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s prospects of staying in power, its defense minister said on Tuesday, citing the opposing goals of the United States and Russia as they intervene in the civil war. Seeing enemies on all sides of the insurgency that erupted in the neighboring Arab…
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Fast Forward Israel Wants ‘Modest’ Funerals Only for Slain Palestinians
(Reuters) – Israel is refusing to return the bodies of Palestinians killed during a month-old surge of violence unless the Palestinian side agrees to keep their funerals “modest,” the Israeli defense minister said on Sunday. In the latest incidents, a Palestinian tried to stab an Israeli soldier during disturbances near Hebron, in the occupied West…
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Fast Forward Arab Israeli Daredevil Paraglides Over Golan Into Syria
With a propeller on his back and suspended from a parachute, a 23-year-old Arab Israeli may have blindsided Israeli surveillance by sheer audacity when he buzzed across the fortified northern frontier into Syria at the weekend. The identity of the man, described by a relative as an enthusiast of extreme sports and a moderately pious…
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