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Fast Forward U.S. Military Chief Touts Plans for Iran Strike
U.S. Air Force Chief of Staff General Norton Schwartz said Wednesday that Washington has prepared military options to strike Iran’s nuclear sites should conflict erupt, Bloomberg reported. Just four days before Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s scheduled meeting with President Barack Obama in Washington, Schwartz told reporters that military options are being prepared in the event…
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Fast Forward Two Ramallah TV Stations Shuttered in Raid
Israeli officials shut down two Palestinian television stations in Ramallah early Wednesday morning, after the Israel Defense Forces said they were operating without a license on frequencies that could disrupt communications with planes taking off and landing at Ben-Gurion International Airport. One of the stations, Al Watan, was particularly popular in the area. IDF soldiers…
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Fast Forward Arab-Israeli Judge Refuses to Sing Anthem
Right-wing MKs slammed Supreme Court Justice Salim Joubran on Wednesday, after he refused to sing the national anthem at the retirement ceremony of Supreme Court President Dorit Beinisch. Joubran, the only Arab on the Supreme Court, did not explain why he did not sing “Hatikva” at the end of the ceremony with the rest of…
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Fast Forward Bibi May Ask Obama To Threaten Iran Strike
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is expected to publicly harden his line against Iran during a meeting with U.S. President Barack Obama in Washington on March 5, according to a senior Israeli official. Israel wants Obama to make further-reaching declarations than the vague assertion that “all options are on the table,” the official said. In particular,…
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Fast Forward U.S. Iran Policy Aimed at ‘Buying Time,’ Official Says
U.S. policy on Iran is aimed at “buying time and continuing to move this problem into the future, and if you can do that — strange things can happen in the interim,” Anthony Blinken, National Security Adviser to Vice President Biden and Deputy Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, said on Monday. Speaking…
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Fast Forward Israel Delays Open Skies Deal With Europe
Transportation Minister Yisrael Katz directed Israel’s Civil Aviation Authority on Monday not to sign an “open skies” agreement with the European Union until his office examines the potential effects such an agreement would have on Israeli airline companies. Talks on an “open skies” framework, which would replace a number of bilateral agreements with European countries…
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Fast Forward New West Bank Rail Line Planned
Israel Railways has prepared a major plan for providing train service throughout the West Bank to serve both Israelis and Palestinians. The plan, prepared at the request of Transportation Minister Yisrael Katz, calls for establishing 11 new rail lines, according to a map that Haaretz has obtained. Katz has on several occasions expressed his intention…
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Fast Forward WikiLeaks: Israel Hit Iran Last Year
The mega-leaks website, WikiLeaks, has partnered with the hackers cooperative Anonymous, to publish internal emails of the American strategic intelligence company Stratfor. In one of the hacked emails, Stratfor officials discuss information obtained from one of their sources who reports that Israeli commandos, in cooperation with Kurdish fighters, have destroyed Iranian nuclear installations. WikiLeaks founder,…
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