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Fast Forward Bibi Clamps Down on Free Speech: Opposition
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government has set upon itself to limit free speech and declare war on Israel’s judicial system, Labor leader MK Shelly Yachimovich said on Sunday, adding that a wave of recent Likud bills was pushing Israel away from the democratic world. Yachimovich’s comment came after, earlier Sunday, the Ministerial Committee for Legislation…
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Fast Forward Israel Moves To Limit Funds for Rights Groups
A Knesset committee on Sunday approved two bills that would limit foreign funding for Israeli human rights organizations. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had already announced support for one of the bills, sponsored by two members of his Likud party – MKs Tzipi Hotovely and Ofir Akunis – which would cap foreign governments’ contributions to “political”…
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Fast Forward 10,000 Rally to Remember Yitzhak Rabin
Around 10,000 people gathered in Rabin Square in central Tel Aviv on Saturday evening for a memorial for the late Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, who was assassinated 16 years ago by a right-wing Jewish extremist. “Since the murder, many have stood over Rabin’s grave and sworn to continue his path,” former Meretz leader Yossi Sarid…
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Fast Forward Hezbollah Warns: War on Iran Would Spread
Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah warned Friday that an Israeli or U.S. strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities will lead to a regional war. “I’m not threatening, but anyone with sense can see that an Israeli-U.S. strike on Iran, or military involvement in Syria, will lead to a regional war,” Nasrallah said while speaking in Beirut’s southern…
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Fast Forward Council Deadlocked on Statehood Bid
A UN Security Council committee said on Friday it had failed to reach agreement over a Palestinian application for full membership in the United Nations, the Portuguese UN ambassador said. The decision by the council’s admissions committee brought the Palestinian Authority’s push for UN recognition of a Palestinian state in the West Bank and the…
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Fast Forward Israeli Troops Shoot Settler by Mistake
Israel Defense Forces shot and killed an Israeli early Friday in the southern Hebron region of the West Bank, when the man driving a vehicle did not notice a checkpoint and passed through without stopping. The soldiers involved in the incident said the shooting was accidental. Initial reports suggest that the incident, which took place…
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Fast Forward Little Chance of Iran Backing Down: Scholar
There isn’t any real chance of thwarting Iran’s nuclear program through escalated sanctions or negotiated compromise, an Iranian expert told Haaretz, days after the International Atomic Energy Agency published a report indicating that Tehran was seeking to develop nuclear weapons. Mehdi Khalaji, a senior fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, said that…
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Fast Forward Panetta: Iran Strike Would Have Consequences
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said Thursday that military action against Iran’s contentious nuclear program could have unintended consequences. Panetta said he agreed with earlier assessments that a strike would only set Iran’s nuclear program back by three years at most, adding that military action could fail to deter Iran and also have repercussions for other…
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