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Fast Forward Israeli Army Boss Vows To Hunt Terrorists
IDF Chief of Staff Benny Gantz warned Thursday that Israel will ultimately find any terrorist that tries to launch attacks on Israeli citizens or the Jewish people. “Whoever tries to test our power, from close or far, from Gaza or Sinai, or any other place, will face a clever and powerful army that is determined…
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Fast Forward Netanyahu Slams Gunter Grass for Poem
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday harshly condemned the poem published by German Nobel laureate Guenter Grass in which he said that Israel’s nuclear program, not Iran’s, is a threat to world peace. “His declarations are ignorant and shameful and every honest person in this world must condemn them,” Netanyahu said. In his poem, which…
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Fast Forward Abbas Accuses Bibi of Undermining Government
Haaretz has obtained a copy of a letter that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas intends to send to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after Passover, in which he accuses Netanyahu of undermining the Palestinian Authority. According to both Israeli and Palestinian sources, an envoy headed by Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad will deliver the letter, which…
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Fast Forward Minister Boasts of Boosting Settlement Funding
Israel’s Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz said in an interview with religious daily Makor Rishon that during his term, assistance to settlement in the West Bank and in the Golan rose significantly. Steinitz said that the assistance came because of his deep feeling “that in recent years settlements were discriminated against due to considerations stemming from…
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Fast Forward Activists Plan Pro-Palestinian Fly-In Protest
Hundreds of pro-Palestinian activists and their families plan to fly to Israel in mid-April to commemorate Land Day, a member of the event’s organizing committee told Haaretz. “On April 15, more than 1,000 activists with European and other passports intend to fly to Israel’s Ben-Gurion Airport for an event entitled ‘Welcome to Palestine,’” he said….
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Fast Forward Gunter Grass: Israel Is the Problem
German Nobel literature laureate Gunter Grass published a poem Wednesday in which he said that Israel’s nuclear program is a threat to world peace. In his poem, the 85-year-old author claims that Israel’s nuclear reactor – and not Iran’s – presents a threat to world peace. Grass’ poem calls for Germany to cease supplying Israel…
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Fast Forward Netanyahu, Fayyad To Meet Next Week
A Palestinian delegation headed by Prime Minister Salam Fayyad will arrive in Jerusalem next week to meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli sources confirmed on Wednesday. At the meeting, the delegation is expected to present Netanyahu with a letter from Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas addressing the stalled peace process. Abbas’ diplomatic adviser Nimar Hamad…
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Fast Forward Bibi: We Will Strike Those Who Threaten Us
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held a press conference on Tuesday to mark three years since his coalition took office. “We will attack those who threaten to attack us,” he said, referring not only to the Iranian threat but to the threats of rockets from the Gaza Strip. In its first three years, the government…
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