Dan Williams
By Dan Williams
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Fast Forward How Smart Phones Fuel Israel Spiral of Violence
Surrounded by Israeli police, Israa Abed holds a knife in one hand and a cellphone in the other before shots ring out and she falls to the ground. The incident, filmed by passersby on their smartphones, has been viewed thousands of times since it was posted online last Friday, one of dozens of such videos…
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Fast Forward Israel Reopens Egypt Embassy — With Hiccups
Israel has opened its new Cairo embassy inside its ambassador’s residence, saying on Thursday that holdups in finding separate premises as is customary had encumbered an already challenging relationship with Egypt. Egypt was the first of a handful of Arab countries to recognize Israel, with a U.S.-sponsored 1979 peace accord but Egyptian attitudes to their…
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Fast Forward Benjamin Netanyahu Will Tell Britain To Stop Pressuring Israel
Europe should see Israel as a partner in confronting the “mediaevalism” of militant Islam rather than criticizing it for its policy towards the Palestinians, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said ahead of a visit to Britain on Wednesday. Speaking after meeting European Council President Donald Tusk and before flying to London for talks with David Cameron,…
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The Schmooze Portman’s Directorial Debut is a Bitter-Sweet Israeli Homecoming
(Reuters) – Oscar-winning actress Natalie Portman made her directorial debut with a film sympathetic to the Holocaust-haunted refugees who founded her native Israel, but she bristles at the idea that the portrayal might be patriotic. Instead, she considers “A Tale of Love and Darkness,” her screen adaptation of Israeli novelist Amos Oz’s grimy, erotic and…
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Fast Forward Israel’s Military Censor Calls for New Openness
Sima Vaknin-Gill may be Israel’s last chief military censor. And she makes no secret of welcoming that. After 10 years in a role that stirs frequent annoyance and occasional dread among journalists, Vaknin-Gill wants her office, which dates back to the country’s wartime founding, replaced with a streamlined civilian agency more in sync with contemporary…
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Fast Forward Jewish Woman Sought Redemption by Joining Anti-ISIS Fight
A Canadian-Israeli who was the first foreign woman to help the Kurds in their fight against Islamic State said on Monday that she had volunteered in an effort to “turn her life around” after being jailed in the United States for an international phone scam. Having spent eight months with Kurdish YGP guerrillas in Syria…
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Fast Forward Orange Boss Tells Benjamin Netanyahu He Will Deepen Israel Ties
The chief executive of French telecoms group Orange told Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday he profoundly regretted remarks he made last week which he said were misinterpreted to make it sound as if he supported a boycott of Israel. On a special visit to try to mend fences after the comments at a conference…
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Fast Forward Barack Obama Says Bibi’s Hard Line Leaves Scant Hope for Peace
President Barack Obama said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s hardline stance against a Palestinian state meant Israel had lost international credibility as a potential peacemaker. Obama also suggested that continued U.S. diplomatic defense for Israel at the United Nations over the Palestine dispute may be reviewed, while reaffirming U.S. support for Israeli security in a…
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