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Fast Forward Netanyahu Denounces Segregation of Women
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu condemned the forced removal of a female passenger from her bus seat by an ultra-Orthodox Jewish man on a public bus during a cabinet meeting, stating that Israel “must protect its public space, and maintain its openness and safety for all citizens.” Netanyahu openly denounced the exclusion of women from the…
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Fast Forward Lipstadt Blasts ‘Abuse’ of Holocaust by Politicians
Renowned Holocaust historian Deborah Lipstadt says that American and Israeli politicians who invoke the Holocaust for contemporary political purposes are engaging in “Holocaust abuse”, which is similar to “soft-core denial” of the Holocaust. “I think it is dangerous, just plain dangerous. It’s a distortion of what Israel is all about, what Zionism is all about,”…
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Fast Forward Israel Goes Gaga for Rare Geese
Mere days after the Hula Valley reservation was graced with a rare visit by a flock of singing swans, another aviary wonder has made its way to northern Israel, this time by the equally rare Bean Goose. The Bean Goose nests in northern Europe and Siberia and migrates to damp regions of Europe during the…
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Fast Forward Peres Calls Right-Wing Violence ‘Disaster’
Israel President Shimon Peres met on Thursday with settler leaders following the escalating violence by right-wing extremists. Among the leaders he met were Danny Dayan, the chairman of the Yesha Council of West Bank settlements, representatives of the pre-army religious program (Mechina) and rabbis. Earlier on Thursday, a mosque was torched in the West Bank…
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Fast Forward Clinton Calls Gingrich Comment Unhelpful
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Wednesday said Newt Gingrich’s comment that the Palestinians are an “invented people” was unhelpful to the peace process. Asked by PBS Newshour Executive Editor Jim Lehrer at an event on economic innovation whether Gingrich’s comment about the Palestinians being an “invented people” was helpful, Clinton replied: “No.” “I think…
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Fast Forward ‘Price Tag’ Activists Clash With Israeli Soldiers
Dozens of right-wing activists clashed with police officers in Jerusalem on Wednesday, amid attempts to arrest suspects linked to recent so-called price tag attacks. The rioters, some of whom reside in the capital’s Kiryat Moshe neighborhood after being forced to leave the West Bank settlement of Yitzhar, slashed the tires and smashed the windows of…
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Fast Forward No ‘Invention’! Gingrich Embraced Arafat
A few days after Republican presidential frontrunner Newt Gingrich thrust himself into controversy by declaring that the Palestinians are an “invented” people who want to destroy Israel , a picture of him emerged embracing former Palestinian Yasser Arafat in 1993, when Gingrich was House minority whip. The Huffington Post published the image on Tuesday, saying…
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Fast Forward Just One Minister Attends Meeting on Israeli Women
Israeli Education Minister Gideon Sa’ar was the only minister to attend a ministerial meeting Tuesday to discuss the increasing exclusion of women from the public sphere. The Ministerial Committee for the Advancement of the Status of Women in Israeli Society, headed by Minister of Culture Limor Livnat, was put in charge of organizing a task…
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