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Fast Forward Lawmaker Apologizes for African ‘Cancer’ Remark
Israeli lawmaker Miri Regev, who came under fire last week after calling African migrants “a cancer” in Israeli society, apologized for the first time for her comments on Sunday, opting, however, to leave the migrants out of her apology. Regev’s controversial comments came during a violent rally staged by residents of Tel Aviv’s south –…
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Fast Forward No Iran Dispute Between U.S. and Israel: Official
“There are no gaps between the U.S. and Israel in anything related to talks between Iran and the six world powers over the future of Iran’s nuclear program,” a U.S. official told journalists during a briefing in Tel Aviv. The U.S. official, who is intimately acquainted with the P5 + 1 talks which took place…
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Fast Forward Hezbollah: No Fence Can Protect Israel
Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah spoke Friday during a ceremony marking 12 years since the Israeli disengagement from southern Lebanon, and warned that no fence that Israel erects will protect it. “The 2005 withdrawal was the final nail in the coffin of the Zionist ideology of expanding the borders of historic Israel,” Nasrallah said in a…
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Fast Forward U.S. Envoy Jets to Israel Over Iran Talks
Straight after P5 +1 talks over Iran’s nuclear program in Baghdad, the head of the U.S. negotiating team, Wendy Sherman, traveled to Israel to meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his advisers on Friday. Sherman will update Israeli officials on the talks in Baghdad, and on preparations for the third round of talks in…
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Fast Forward Charges Unlikely for Advocates of Killings
Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein is tending toward not prosecuting the author or endorsers of the controversial book “Torat Hamelech,” Haaretz has learned. The book, written in 2009 by Rabbi Yitzhak Shapira and Rabbi Yosef Elitzur, was endorsed by two other rabbis, Yitzhak Ginzburg and Dov Lior. The authors describe it as a discussion of Jewish…
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Fast Forward Netanyahu Condemns Anti-African Violence
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised on Thursday that his government would address the issue of African migrants in Israel, one day after a protest against them by residents of south Tel Aviv turned violent. “The infiltrator problem must be solved, and we will solve it,” Netanyahu said on Thursday afternoon, speaking at an event…
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Fast Forward Right-Wing Politicians Want Africans Detained
Following Wednesday’s violent protest against African migrants in Tel Aviv, Likud MK Danny Dannon called to remove African asylum seekers from population centers in Israel. Speaking to Haaretz, Dannon said that the immediate solution for calming the situation and for putting a stop to the violence requires the evacuation of the African migrants from south…
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Fast Forward Iran Makes 5-Point Proposal at Nuclear Talks
For three hours on Wednesday afternoon, representatives of six world powers and Iran sat in the official guest house of Baghdad’s secure “Green Zone” and discussed Iran’s nuclear program. At this point, there are still no signs of a breakthrough but the afternoon round of talks achieved some progress. After EU foreign policy chief Catherine…
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