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Fast Forward Ahead of ‘Land Day,’ Activists Descend on Lebanon
Dozens of international delegations comprising hundreds of pro-Palestinian activists began arriving in Lebanon on Wednesday, ahead of massive protests planned for Land Day, which commemorates the 1976 deaths of six Israeli Arabs protesting Israeli government land policies. Plans have been announced in the Arab world calling for protest marches up to the Israeli border. Haaretz…
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Fast Forward Livni Mulls Next Move, Following Loss to Mofaz
Tzipi Livni’s election headquarters was licking its wounds on Wednesday, following the defeat the outgoing Kadima chairperson suffered at the hands of rival Shaul Mofaz in the party’s primary the day before: Livni received 14, 516 votes, compared to Mofaz’s 23,987. An official at the party’s leadership pinned the landslide result on voting patterns among…
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Fast Forward Livni and Mofaz Face Off in Kadima Primary
The moment of truth has come for Kadima. On Tuesday morning at 10 A.M. around 200 polling stations opened across Israel and 95,000 party members went to choose Kadima’s leader for the next national elections. The primaries pit the party’s chairperson for the past three and a half years, Tzipi Livni, against MK Shaul Mofaz,…
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Fast Forward Eye on Streets, Bibi Hopes To Ease Price Hikes
On Sunday, gasoline prices are expected to rise by 2% and electricity rates are scheduled to go up 8.9%. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is trying to moderate these large price hikes, as he and other politicians are worried about a renewed outbreak of last summer’s protests. Netanyahu is seeking a last-second way to prevent, or…
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Fast Forward Barghouti Calls for New Popular Resistance
Former Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti, who is jailed in Israel, published an unusual message on Monday in which he called on the Palestinian public to launch a widespread resistance against Israel. Barghouti made the remarks ahead of Land Day on Friday, when thousands of people are expected to protest along Israel’s borders to mark the…
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Fast Forward Putin Is Planning June Visit to Israel
Russian President-elect Vladimir Putin wants to visit Israel in June, and has expressed interest in unveiling a monument in Netanya honoring Jewish Red Army soldiers who fought in World War II, a senior Israeli official told Haaretz on Monday. There have been no talks about specific arrangements because Putin has yet to be inaugurated, the…
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Fast Forward Valerie Jarrett: White House Wants Just Peace
President Barack Obama’s senior adviser Valerie Jarrett spoke to the J Street conference participants on Monday about the administration’s “commitment to a just and lasting peace”. Like Obama several times before, she acknowledged on the second day of the conference that some people were frustrated with the state of the peace process. “We have a…
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Fast Forward Migron Settlers Vow To Resist Relocation
Representatives of the West Bank outpost of Migron reacted harshly on Monday to a High Court of Justice decision invalidating agreements reached between settler representatives and the government, which would have delayed the demolition of the settlement. “The Israeli government encouraged us to come here and we are demanding from the prime minister that justice…
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