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Fast Forward Hebron Settlers Given 24-Hour Ultimatum To Leave
The IDF has issued an eviction order for settlers who took over a house in the Arab part of Hebron last week. According to the order, the settlers have until Tuesday at 3:00 PM to evacuate the house on their own will, after which “the authorities will act to restore the building to its previous…
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Fast Forward Popular Haredi News Site Suspected of Extortion
“This is going to be one of the biggest extortion scandals in the history of Israel,” a senior ultra-Orthodox figure told Haaretz Sunday, following the arrest of four directors of the popular Haredi website Behadrey Haredim. Police placed a gag order forbidding publication of any details of the affair, but revealed that more arrests are…
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Fast Forward Barghouti Placed in Solitary Over Uprising Call
Imprisoned Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti, who last week called on Palestinians to commence a popular uprising against Israel, has been placed in solitary confinement in Hadarim prison, and denied his rights to see visitors. Barghouti, who also called on Palestinians to put an immediate stop to negotiations with Israel, made the remarks before Land Day…
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Fast Forward Bibi: Israel Can’t Afford To Cut Taxes
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected calls to lower taxes and increase government spending on Sunday, saying that his government was using tax money to safeguard Israel’s security as well as its economy. “We need the taxes to buy more Iron Domes, to complete the fence’s construction, to pay for children’s free education, to pave…
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Fast Forward Jerusalem’s City of David Dogged by Politics
At the end of October 1995, just days before he was assassinated, Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin visited the upper part of the village of Silwan in East Jerusalem, accompanied by a large entourage. There, in the place also known as the City of David National Park, a big tent had been set up for the…
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Fast Forward Mossad Cuts Back on Iran Spy Efforts
A Time Magazine report revealed on Friday that Israeli intelligence services have scaled back their covert operations inside Iran. According to senior security officials who spoke to the magazine, operations have been reduced in areas such as high-profile missions, including assassinations and detonations at Iranian missile bases, as well as in recruiting spies inside the…
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Fast Forward Syria Conference Unlikely To Shake Assad Rule
The gathering of the “Friends of the Syrian People” in Istanbul, scheduled to open on Sunday, is the latest diplomatic move in a series of steps that have so far produced no real results. Representatives from over 70 countries – headed by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton but without delegates from Russia and China…
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Fast Forward Pro-Palestinian Politician Wins British By-Election
Pro-Palestinian politician George Galloway, won a landslide victory in the by-election for the Bradford West parliamentary seat in the U.K. on Thursday night. Galloway, a former Labour MP who was banished from the party after he called the Iraqi resistance to kill British soldiers in the country, celebrated his victory, tweeting to supporters, “Long live…
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