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Fast Forward Bibi: Iran’s Attacks Undermine World’s Stability
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Wednesday that Iran is destabilizing the world and urged the international community to condemn its terror acts against Israeli targets. The prime minister’s comments come a day after a botched terror attack in Thailand, which Israeli officials believe was meant to target Israel’s ambassador in Bangkok. The bombing followed an…
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Fast Forward Dennis Ross: Iran Sanctions Are Working
Dennis Ross, until recently U.S. President Barack Obama’s senior Middle East adviser, believes international sanctions against Iran are working. “The fact is [Iran’s] currency has devalued by half in the last six weeks,” said Ross, speaking to Haaretz in his office in the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, to which he returned after more…
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Fast Forward Israel Project: Latinos Are Hostile to Israel
Americans of Hispanic origin, the fastest-growing ethnic group in the United States, are relatively hostile towards Israel because they are ignorant about Middle East affairs and are influenced by traditional anti-Israeli Catholic views, according to the Israel advocacy group, The Israel Project (TIP). In a media briefing in New York to mark the resignation of…
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Fast Forward Barak Blames Iran for Bangkok Bombing
Defense Minister Ehud Barak said Tuesday that the attempted bombing in Bangkok proves that Iran and its proxies continue operating in the ways of terror. “Iran and Hezbollah are relentless terror elements who pose a danger to the stability of the region and the world,” Barak said in a statement, during a visit in Singapore….
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Fast Forward Extradition Contingent on Assurance of Kosher Food
An American hit-and-run driver who was finally found in Israel last year, after fleeing Florida over a decade ago, may not be extraditable because Florida does not allow its prisoners to receive kosher food. Jerusalem District Court Judge Ben-Tzion Greenberger on Sunday ruled that Lawrence Seth Wayne, who had been sentenced by a Florida court…
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Fast Forward India Witnesses Saw Biker Attach Bomb to Car
Witnesses in New Delhi say the bomb that moderately injured the wife of an Israeli diplomat on Monday was attached to her car by a man driving a motorcycle, India’s police chief told reporters. Tali Yehoshua-Koren, wife of the Defense Ministry’s representative to India, was taken to the American Hospital in the city after being…
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Fast Forward Palestinian Center Razed for Jerusalem Tourist Center
The Jerusalem District Planning and Construction Committee approved on Monday the construction of a new visitors’ center at the City of David National Park in Silwan. As part of this decision, Israel Nature and Parks Authority representatives this morning razed a complex built by Silwan residents that included a playground, community center and cafe. The…
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Fast Forward Netanyahu Blames Iran for Twin Terror Attacks
Iran is behind a car bomb attack on Israeli officials in India as well as a thwarted attack in Tbilisi, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday, adding that Israel would continue to act against the international terror Iran produces. Netanyahu’s comments came after a blast near Israel’s New Delhi embassy left the wife of…
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