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Fast Forward Presbyterians Move Closer to Israel Divestment
The Presbyterian Church USA moved a step closer to divesting from three multinational companies that do business in Israel and the West Bank. The executive committee of the 2.4 million member church voted Friday to pass a resolution endorsing a recommendation of divestment from Caterpillar, Motorola and Hewlett-Packard. The action followed a report released Sept….
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Fast Forward U.S. Welcomes Iran’s Decision To Accept Talks
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton welcomed Iran’s stated willingness to restart negotiations and called it an “important step.” In comments to reporters after a meeting Friday at the State Department with Catherine Ashton, the European Union policy chief, Clinton said any resumption of negotiations with Iran would require sustained effort. “We must be assured…
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Fast Forward Israeli Wounded in Bombing Returns Home
The Israeli diplomat’s wife wounded in a bomb attack in New Delhi returned to Israel. Israel Radio reported Friday afternoon that Tal Yehoshua-Koren returned to Israel in an ambulance plane, after her condition was judged improved enough to travel. Yehoshua-Koren, the wife of an Israeli Defense Ministry representative to India, woke for the first time…
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Fast Forward Le Pen Conviction for Holocaust Denial Upheld
A Paris court upheld an earlier decision against far-right former presidential candidate Jean-Marie Le Pen for “contesting” the Holocaust. On Thursday a Paris appeals court upheld a 2008 decision and said Le Pen was guilty of ” the contestation of crimes against humanity.” Le Pen was fined some 13,000 dollars and slapped with a three-month…
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Fast Forward Rare Snowstorm Bears Down on Jerusalem
Jerusalem is bracing for possible snowfall over the weekend. Forecasts of up to an inch of snowfall in Jerusalem on Saturday prompted Magen David Adom, the emergency service, to declare a snow alert for Israel’s capital city. Snow is also anticipated on Mount Hermon and other mountains peaks in the north. Temperatures are expected to…
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Fast Forward Bangkok Bomb Plot Targeted Israeli Staffers
Thailand’s police chief said bombs that exploded in the capital earlier in the week were meant to target Israelis. “I can tell you that the target was specific and aimed at Israeli diplomatic staff,” the national police chief, Gen. Prewpan Dhamapong, told a Thai television station late Wednesday, according to the Associated Press. An accidental…
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Fast Forward Palestinian Children Killed in West Bank Crash
At least eight Palestinian schoolchildren on a field trip were killed when a truck collided with their bus on a rain-soaked road in the West Bank. Dozens of elementary school age children on the bus headed from eastern Jerusalem for Ramallah were also injured. The students were taken to Palestinian hospitals in Ramallah and Israeli…
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Fast Forward Ex-National Security Chief Calls for Pollard Clemency
Robert McFarlane, who served as National Security Advisor under President Ronald Reagan, has called on President Obama to grant clemency to Jonathan Pollard. McFarlane wrote in a Feb. 9 letter to President Obama that an affidavit filled by then Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger, which is often cited as the reason for Pollard’s continued incarceration,…
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