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Fast Forward Author Quizzed for Helping Palestinians Into Israel
Author and translator Ilana Hammerman was questioned by the police for the third time this week on suspicion of bringing Palestinians into Israel without a permit. Last year, Hammerman began bringing Palestinian women and children on visits to Israel. It began as a private initiative to enable her Palestinian friends to enjoy experiences usually barred…
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Fast Forward Panetta Warns Iran Strike Bad for Economy
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta warned on the eve of talks with Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak that a strike on Iran could harm the world economy, saying the U.S. focus was on diplomatic pressure and sanctions. “There are going to be economic consequences to that (an Iran strike), that could impact not just on our…
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Fast Forward Israel Grabs West Bank Land for Kibbutz
Israel carried out a de facto annexation of Palestinian land northeast of the Jordan Valley and given it to Kibbutz Merav. Merav, part of the Religious Kibbutz Movement, is about seven kilometers northwest of the parcel. The route of the separation barrier in the area was changed so that the plot in question, about 1,500…
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Fast Forward Rabbi: Death Better Than Women Singing
Israel Defense Forces soldiers should choose death before they remain at army events which include women’s singing, a top settler religious leader said in an interview on Thursday. The comment made by Elyakim Levanon, the rabbi of the West Bank settlement of Elon Moreh, came after earlier this week, 19 reserve major generals sent a…
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Fast Forward Israel May Target Iran Web and Phones: Report
Israel intends to electronic warfare on Iranian civilian infrastructures in the event of a strike against the Islamic Republic’s nuclear facilities, The Daily Beast reported on Thursday, amid ongoing fallout from a damning report by the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog. Last week, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) released a report stating that Iran was…
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Fast Forward Palestinians Would Freeze Statehood for New Aid
The Palestinian Authority has offered the United States a deal, saying it would freeze all moves to achieve full membership for “Palestine” in various UN agencies until the end of January, a European diplomat said, while the United States and Israel would resume transferring it funds. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s special envoy Isaac Molho met…
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Fast Forward Human Rights Groups Fret About Funding Rules
Human rights organizations in Israel have begun searching for strategies that will allow them to cope with a bill that would limit their access to foreign funding. Some of the organizations are working directly with ministers and Knesset members in an attempt to thwart the bill or revise it. Others are assessing alternative arrangements that…
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Fast Forward Palestinians Wrangle Over New Government
Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad has been and remains PA President Mahmoud Abbas’ candidate for prime minister in a unity government with Hamas, Fatah parliament member Faisal Abu Shahla said on Wednesday. Abu Shahla added, however, that the matter will only be decided upon during Abbas meeting with Hamas leader Khaled Meshal in Cairo…
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