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Fast Forward Egypt Military Worried About Islamists
Sources in Egypt’s ruling Supreme Military Council are deeply concerned about the results of the first round of parliamentary elections, the Al-Hayat newspaper reported on Saturday. On Friday night, Al-Jazeera reported the Islamist bloc won 60 percent of the vote in the first round of Egypt’s parliamentary elections, marking an unprecedented achievement for the country’s…
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Fast Forward Fayyad Won’t Lead Palestinian Government
Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad said on Thursday that he would not serve as the prime minister of a Fatah-Hamas unity government, nor would he run for president. “I don’t intend to run for the presidency or anything else for that matter,” Fayyad said in an interview to Haaretz. “I cannot accept being an obstacle,…
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Fast Forward Al Qaeda: We Kidnapped American Aid Worker
Al Qaida claimed responsibility for the kidnapping of a Jewish American man who has gone missing Pakistan, the group’s leader said on Thursday, citing a lifting of Israel’s “siege” of the Gaza Strip as one condition toward securing the man’s release. In an audio recording issued on Islamist websites, Al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahri claimed that…
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Fast Forward Jerusalem Builds Key Road to Settlements
The city of Jerusalem began works two weeks ago on a road that will connect the capital’s northeastern neighborhoods to Jerusalem’s main traffic artery, Menachem Begin Boulevard, as part of a policy to stregthen bonds between neighborhoods across the Green Line and the rest of the city. The neighborhoods to be connected by the new…
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Fast Forward Foxman Blasts Anti-Democratic Laws in Israel
Anti-Defamation League chairman Abraham Foxman is urging right-wing Israeli legislators to come out against their colleagues who he believes are endangering Israel both “internally” and “externally” with their recent wave of anti-democratic proposals in Knesset. “There are many reasons why the recent spate of domestic legislation in Israel – regarding non-governmental organizations, the media, Israel…
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Fast Forward Many Israelis Think New Laws Undemocratic
Nearly half of the Israeli public believes that a recent series of bills raised in Knesset are endangering democracy in Israel, a recent Haaretz-Dialog poll found. The poll examined the public’s attitudes toward a series of bills recently discussed by the Knesset which critics say would undermine the Supreme Court, human rights organizations and freedom…
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Fast Forward Bibi Chides Livni Over Abbas Talks
The only Israeli body fit to negotiate with the Palestinian Authority is the elected government, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Opposition Leader Tzipi Livni on Thursday, a day after the Kadima chairman met with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. Speaking with Haaretz on Wednesday, Livni said of her meeting with Abbas in Amman that Israel could…
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News Nude Photos Leaked From Dead Sea Shoot
Close-up pictures from a massive nude photo shoot orchestrated by celebrated artist Spencer Tunick have reportedly leaked online in recent days, in what shoot organizers claim was done against their wishes. In September, 1,200 male and female volunteers participated in the mass nude photograph at the Dead Sea, including men and women ranging from 20…
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