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Fast Forward GOP Calls for One Israel ‘For All People’
The Republican National Committee adopted a resolution calling for “a united Israel governed under one law for all people.” The resolution passed last week at an RNC conference in New Orleans. Some liberal bloggers suggested that it effectively called for a single state in Israel and the West Bank, with citizenship rights extended to all….
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Fast Forward Obama Touts Support From Israelis in New Video
President Obama’s reelection campaign unveiled a video featuring testimonials from Israeli leaders a day after he raised $500,000 from Jewish donors. The video, e-blasted Friday to Jewish supporters by David Axelrod, a top campaign official, intersperses speeches by Obama to Jewish audiences and at the United Nations with testimonials culled from news broadcasts. Among those…
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Fast Forward Nuclear Watchdogs Returning to Iran
Renewed contacts with Iran will be aimed at substantiating suspicions that it is developing a nuclear weapons, the top nuclear watchdog said. “What we know suggests the development of nuclear weapons,” Yukia Amano, the director of the U.N.’s International Atomic Energy Agency, said Thursday in an interview with Financial Times Deutschland, translated and reported by…
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Fast Forward Cubans Say They Want To Resolve Gross Issue
Jailed American Jewish contractor Alan Gross visited Cuba at least five times in one year to set up wireless Internet connections, according to a report citing leaked court documents. The report Thursday by The Associated Press comes two days after Juan Lamigueiro of the Cuban interests section in Washington posted a letter on the Cuban…
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Fast Forward Bibi Denies Calling Haaretz and Times ‘Enemies’
The Israeli Prime Minister’s Office denied that Benjamin Netanyahu told the editor of The Jerusalem Post that Israel’s two greatest enemies are The New York Times and Haaretz. On Wednesday, the editor, Steve Linde, addressing a conference in Tel Aviv of the Women’s International Zionist Organization, said that Netanyahu made the remark to him about…
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Fast Forward White House: No ‘Direct Talks’ in Iran Letter
The Obama administration said an Iranian lawmaker had mischaracterized its message warning against blocking the Strait of Iran and reiterating its commitment to dialogue. Ali Mothari, was quoted by The Associated Press Wednesday as saying that “In the letter, Obama called for direct talks with Iran.” The AP said Motahari described the first part of…
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Fast Forward Bibi Calls Times and Haaretz ‘Main Enemies’
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel’s two greatest enemies are The New York Times and Haaretz, the editor of The Jerusalem Post said in a speech. Steve Linde, addressing a conference in Tel Aviv of the Women’s International Zionist Organization, said Wednesday that Netanyahu made the remark to him about the newspapers at a…
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Fast Forward British Museum Pressed To Drop Study Tied to Ahava
British scientists and filmmakers have called on the Natural History Museum in London to pull out of a study because of its collaboration with the Israeli company Ahava, which operates in the West Bank. Ahava/Dead Sea Laboratories, which manufactures cosmetics from mud excavated from the banks of the Dead Sea, is located in Mitzpe Shalem….
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