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Fast Forward Obama at AIPAC: Iran Diplomacy Still on Table
President Barack Obama said on Sunday that the entire world has an interest in preventing Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons, and that all options remain on the table to keep Iran from going nuclear. “We all prefer to resolve this issue diplomatically,” Obama said in an address at the pro-Israel lobby group AIPAC’s policy conference…
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Fast Forward Political Chess Pushes Obama Into Hawkish Line
The president should have built a credible threat of military action and made it very clear that the United States of America is willing, in the final analysis, if necessary, to take military action to keep Iran from having a nuclear weapon.” This, according to most Israeli sources, is the essence of the position that…
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Fast Forward Israel Set To Raise Age of Marriage to 18
The Knesset is expected to vote this week on two bills that would raise the legal age of marriage in Israel by a year to 18. The proposals’ sponsors say the aim is to prevent the forced marriage of girls, particularly in the Arab and ultra-Orthodox communities, before they have graduated from high school and…
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Fast Forward Peres: Israel Will Defend Itself Against Iran Threat
President Shimon Peres will meet with President Barack Obama in the U.S. capital on Sunday. Peres will also tell delegates of pro-Israel lobby AIPAC that Israel is not rushing into a war, but will defend itself if it has to. Ahead of his meeting with the American leader, Peres will deliver a speech to AIPAC…
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Fast Forward Many Non-Haredi Evade Israel Army Service
Many of the participants in the Israeli army’s flagship program for drafting yeshiva students are not in fact ultra-Orthodox, a Haaretz investigation has found. In the public debate over efforts to draft yeshiva students, the Israel Defense Forces’ Shahar program is frequently cited as a model for how they can be integrated into the army…
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Fast Forward Stronger Support on Right Wing for Settlements
A document released by a rightist organization indicates a 50% rise in support for settlement building among right-wing Knesset members. Produced by the NGO Mattot Arim, the survey rates MKs and cabinet ministers according to the aid they provided to the settlement movement and to the “national camp” as a whole. The report encourages and…
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Fast Forward Chief Rabbi: Most Russian Jews Backing Putin
Most of Russia’s Jews will likely vote for Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in Sunday’s presidential elections, according to that country’s chief rabbi. “Maybe if there were a more serious choice of candidates they would vote for someone else. But I haven’t yet met a single Jew who is voting for [Russian tycoon Mikhail] Prokhorov, for…
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Fast Forward Israel’s Peres Hails Obama as a ‘Great President’
Israeli President Shimon Peres said that US President Barack Obama is “a great president and a great friend of Israel,” on Thursday. Peres said that the security cooperation between the US and Israel is “the best we’ve ever had” and that he has “the highest respect” for Obama for overseeing this relationship. In an hour-long…
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