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Fast Forward New Yorker Editor Slams Gingrich Remark
Republican candidate Newt Gingrich’s characterization of the Palestinians as an “invented” people is an “alarming attempt to diminish the Palestinian people and to diminish Palestinian history,” according to David Remnick, the Pulitzer Prize-winning editor of the prestigious New Yorker magazine. In a conversation with Haaretz, Remnick also took a dim view of the support that…
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Fast Forward Ambassador Vows Israel–Egypt Treaty Will Be Preserved
Israel’s new ambassador to Egypt, Yaakov Amitai, told reporters on Monday that he was “sure that the peace treaty between Egypt and Israel will be preserved.” Amitai also told reporters, “With god’s help, the Egyptian revolution will succeed.” Asked whether he was worried about the Muslim Brotherhood taking power in Egypt, Amitai said he want…
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Fast Forward Bibi Convenes Meeting After Settlers Vandalize Base
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called an emergency discussion with Israeli defense officials on Tuesday, following an attack by right-wing activists on an IDF base in the West Bank. “The situation is intolerable,” Netanyahu said at the opening of the discussion. “We must take care of these rioters with a firm hand. We will not tolerate…
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Fast Forward Israeli Task Force Could Enforce Gender Equality
The outcry over the disappearance of women from the public eye has reached the Knesset, where the Committee on the Status of Women will discuss the issue Tuesday morning and set up a task force to consider imposing sanctions against businesses that discriminate against women. Maj. Gen. Orna Barbivai, who heads the Israel Defense Forces…
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Fast Forward Facing Eviction, Settlers Vandalize IDF Base
Fifty settler youth entered a central West Bank military base early Tuesday morning, threw rocks, vandalized military vehicles, and caused general mayhem. The settlers were acting in response to a rumor that the IDF would act to evict West Bank settlement in accordance with a Supreme Court ruling August. The attack on a base near…
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Fast Forward Activists Seize Religious Sites on Jordan Border
Israel Defense Forces scrambled to the otherwise calm border with Jordan on Monday, after several right-wing activists took control of structures located near the border with Israel’s neighbor to the east. The incident began when about 25-30 activists reportedly seized abandoned churches near the Qasr al-Yahud holy site, the believed site of Jesus’ baptism, in…
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Fast Forward Bibi: Men and Women Must Remain Equal
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke out Monday against the recent attempts at excluding women from the public sphere on the part of the ultra-Orthodox, saying that “equality between men and women is absolute – that is how it has always been, and that is how it will continue.” Netanyahu, who along with President Shimon Peres…
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Fast Forward Israel’s New Egypt Ambassador Arrives in Cairo
Israel’s new ambassador to Egypt has arrived in Cairo on Monday, Egyptian airport officials told the Associated Press. The ambassador arrived in Cairo, three months after rioters ransacked the Israeli Embassy in the Egyptian capital. Yaakov Amitai, the new envoy, replaces Yitzhak Levanon, who was ambassador when the embassy was stormed during protests over the…
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