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Fast Forward Government Wants 90-Day Reprieve on Illegal Outpost
The Israeli government plans to request that an Israeli Supreme Court order to dismantle part of a West Bank settlement be postponed for 90 days. The court has ordered that a neighborhood of the Beit El settlement, north of Jerusalem, be dismantled by May 1. The neighborhood, which contains five structures and is called Ulpana,…
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Fast Forward Biden Trumpets Obama’s Policies on Israel
Vice President Joe Biden said “no president since Harry Truman has done more for Israel’s security than Barack Obama.” Biden delivered an attack Thursday on the foreign policies of Mitt Romney, the likely GOP candidate for president, a day after a top Romney surrogate, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), had launched a broadside on Obama’s foreign…
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Fast Forward Panetta: I Hope Army Chief Is Right on Iran
Leon Panetta, the U.S. defense secretary, said he hoped Israel’s top soldier was “correct” in assessing that the Iranian regime was rational. “I would hope he’s correct and he knows something more that I do,” Panetta was quoted as saying Thursday by AFP, the French news service, during a visit to Chile. Lt. Gen. Benny…
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Fast Forward Toronto Woman Charged in Scam of Survivors Fund
A woman living in Toronto was charged in the United States with taking part in a scheme to steal from a Holocaust survivors’ fund. Documents obtained by the CBC, the state-owned broadcaster, show that the FBI alleges that Luba Kramrish was part of a conspiracy that falsified documents to claim money from a special fund…
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Fast Forward Barak: Iran Won’t Cave In to Pressure
Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak said chances that Iran will give in to pressure to stop its suspected nuclear program are low, and that the dangers of a nuclear Iran outweigh the dangers of action to stop it. Barak told an audience at Air Force House in Herzliya on Thursday, Israel’s Independence Day, that a…
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Fast Forward Medals of Freedom For Albright, Dylan and Karski
Madeleine Albright, Bob Dylan, Shimon Peres and Jan Karski will be among 13 recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom. The list was released Thursday. President Obama had previously announced that he was set to confer the medal on Peres, the Israeli president, and Karski, the late Polish resistance fighter who was among the first…
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Fast Forward Judge Won’t Drop Baltimore Shomrim Case
A Baltimore judge denied an alleged victim’s request to drop criminal charges against two Baltimore Jewish brothers accused of beating the black teen. “I been wanting to drop the charges all the time, I didn’t even want to go through [this],” Corey Ausby said on the stand Wednesday, according to the Baltimore Sun. “I feel…
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News Obama Returns Donation From Persian Scammer
The Obama campaign is returning the donation of a hedge fund manager who is accused of defrauding members of his Persian-Jewish community in Los Angeles. Shervin Neman, also known as Shervin Davatgarzadeh, gave the maximum $35,800 donation to the Obama campaign and another $30,800 to the Democratic National Committee. “With 1.8 million donors thus far,…
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