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Fast Forward Peres at U.N.: Israel Ready To Enter Peace Negotiations With Syria
Israel is ready to enter peace negotiations with Syria “right away,” Shimon Peres told the United Nations General Assembly. In his address Monday in New York to the international body’s annual meeting – the Nation’s Millennium Development Goals summit – Peres also said he believed that a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is the…
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Fast Forward Netanyahu Hints That a Settlement Freeze is Unlikely
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and a top aide suggested that a compromise with the Palestinians on a settlement freeze is not in the offing. Netanyahu, along with top adviser Ron Dermer and Israel’s U.S. ambassador, Michael Oren, spoke Monday afternoon on a conference call with members of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish…
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Fast Forward Venezuelan Jews Meet With Chavez About Anti-Semitism in Media
Venezuelan Jewish leaders met with President Hugo Chavez to discuss the increase in anti-Semitic attacks in the state-run media. Representatives of the Venezuelan Confederation of Israelite Associations met Chavez Sept. 16 at the presidential palace in Caracas, where they presented him with many examples of anti-Semitic messages that appear in state-run and government-friendly media. The…
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Fast Forward Poll: Most Americans Would Oppose Joining Israel in Iran Strike
A majority of Americans would oppose joining Israel in a war should it strike Iran, a poll showed. The Chicago Council on Public Affairs poll, released Thursday, shows 56 percent of respondents answer “No, it shouldn’t” to the statement, “If Israel were to bomb Iran’s nuclear facilities, Iran were to retaliate against Israel, and the…
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Fast Forward NIF: Grantees Must Not Oppose Israel’s Jewish Character
Groups that work to “deny the right of the Jewish people to sovereign self-determination within Israel” will not be eligible for New Israel Fund moneys. In new guidelines issued to JTA on Thursday, the progressive pro-Israel olutfit, which has come under fire for funding groups that are sharply critical of Israel and that have promoted…
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Fast Forward U.S. Reportedly Pushes Israel for Settlement Freeze Extension
The Obama administration reportedly suggested that Israel extend its current settlement freeze for three months, which Israel appears to have rejected. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton made the suggestion Wednesday night during her meeting in Jerusalem with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, according to reports Thursday citing…
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Fast Forward The Right Waits for Netanyahu’s Move
Don’t expect a familiar American echo now that West Bank settlers are gearing up to fight the possible extension of Israel’s settlement freeze. Activists on the left and right in Israel usually get their allies in the American Jewish community to fight for the cause of the day with congressional lobbying and protests to Israeli…
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Fast Forward Rendell Dissociates From Firm That Called Peaceful Protests Terrorism
Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell terminated a contract with an Israeli-American agency that tracked peaceful protests and reported them as potential terrorist threats. Rendell said Tuesday that he was ?deeply embarrassed? by revelations of a $125,000 contract with the Philadelphia-based Institute of Terrorism Research and Response. The state?s Office of Homeland Security contracted the institute to…
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