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Fast Forward Israel Denies CIA Impersonation Report
A senior Israeli government official has called “absolute nonsense” a report in Foreign Policy that Mossad agents posed as CIA officers in order to recruit members of a Pakistani terror group to carry out assassinations and attacks against the regime in Iran. Quoting U.S. intelligence memos, Foreign Policy’s Mark Perry reported that the Mossad operation…
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Fast Forward Israel Warns of Terror Threat in Thailand
Israel’s Counter-Terrorism Bureau warned Israeli citizens on Friday to stay away from Thailand’s capital, following the arrest of a Hezbollah militant suspected of planning a terrorist attack in the city. Thailand’s Deputy Prime Minister Chalerm Yumbumrung said earlier on Friday that “a Lebanese suspect from the Hezbollah group has been taken into custody by Thai…
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Fast Forward Obama Warns Iran Against Closing Straits
President Barack Obama used secret channels to warn Iran against closing the Strait of Hormuz, the New York Times reported on Friday, amid recent tensions over the possible closing of the strategic waterway. Earlier this week, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said that the U.S. would act if Iran were to develop a nuclear weapon or…
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Fast Forward Israel Demolishes Three Settler Outposts
The Israeli Defense Forces demolished the illegal West Bank outpost Mitzpe Avichai near Kiryat Arba, in the early hours of Thursday morning. The outpost was established in 2007 in memory of Avichai Levy, who was shot by a terrorist that year. The same settlement was already evicted twice before in the past. The outpost has…
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Fast Forward Israel Sees Spike in Organ Donation
Israel had 117 kidney transplants from living donors over the past year, 64 percent more than in 2010, according to the National Transplant Center’s annual report. In August 2010 living donors began receiving compensation of several thousand shekels, which may have contributed to the increase. Compensation to living donors covers 40 days of lost wages…
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Fast Forward IDF: Iran Stepping Up Efforts To Save Assad Regime
Iran and Hezbollah are strengthening their efforts to ensure the survival of the Bashar Assad regime in Syria, Military Intelligence Chief Major General Aviv Kochavi said on Wednesday. “They are providing [Assad] with knowledge, weapons and other means and recently with active involvement,” Kochavi said. Kochavi also said that the face of the Middle East…
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Fast Forward Police Will Probe Racism Claims by Ethiopians
Police have opened an investigation into suspected incitement to racism on the part of local homeowners’ committees in Kiryat Malakhi that allegedly refused to rent apartments to members of the Ethiopian immigrant community. In a letter sent by Attorney General Yehudah Weinstein to Minister Limor Livnat, Weinstein wrote that a police investigation into the alleged…
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Fast Forward Ron Paul Greets Anti-Zionist Jew
U.S. Congressman and Republican presidential hopeful Ron Paul found himself in the eye of a potential controversy on Tuesday, following a brief encounter with a leading member of the anti-Zionist Haredi sect Neturei Karta. According to the Jewish Chronicle, Paul met Rabbi Yisroel Dovid Weiss, a one-time attendee of conference by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad…
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