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Fast Forward Poll: Israel Support Among Americans at Record High
Support for Israel among Americans is at a near record high, a new poll showed. According to the Gallup Poll, 63 percent of Americans say their sympathies in the Middle East conflict are with Israel, while 15 percent side with the Palestinians. The rest favor both sides, neither side or have no opinion. Support for…
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Fast Forward Conservatives Create Group To Wage Campaign Against Obama’s Israel Policy
Conservatives launched a group to wage a campaign against President Obama’s Middle East policy and its supporters. The Emergency Committee for Israel’s Leadership, which will bring together neoconservative Republicans and evangelical Christians, will initiate the campaign with an attack ad against Rep. Joe Sestak (D-Pa.), the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania against the…
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Fast Forward Obama Nominates Orthodox Jew To Run OMB
President Obama nominated Jacob Lew, an Orthodox Jew, as director of the Office of Management and Budget. Lew, who held the top OMB post under President Clinton, is a deputy secretary of state for management and resources. He would succeed Peter Orszag, who also is Jewish. His current position parallels within the State Department the…
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Fast Forward Israel Razes Palestinian Home in East Jerusalem
Israel razed several buildings, including an inhabited Palestinian home, in eastern Jerusalem. Tuesday’s demolition, including the home in the Beit Hanina neighborhood, were the first in eastern Jerusalem in eight months. The inhabited house, home to a family of seven, was built without a city permit, Jerusalem municipality officials told Reuters. Four other uninhabited homes…
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Fast Forward Israel’s Flotilla Probe Finds Mistakes, Not Failures
High-level military officials made mistakes in their handling of the Israeli interception of a Gaza-bound flotilla, but there were “no failures,” an Israeli military investigation found. The official Defense Ministry internal investigation report by a committee headed by Maj.-Gen. (Res.) Giora Eiland, the former head of Israel’s National Security Council, was handed over Monday to…
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Fast Forward Jerusalem Named Africa/Mideast’s Best City
Jerusalem was voted the No. 1 Best City in Africa and the Middle East and Tel Aviv No. 3 by the readers of Travel+ Leisure magazine. Jerusalem reached the top spot for the first time since 2000. Tel Aviv, which was behind Cape Town, South Africa, made it to the top 3 for the first…
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Fast Forward Jewish Groups Oppose Holocaust Insurance Bill
Six Jewish organizations signed a letter calling on the U.S. Congress not to advance a bill that would reopen the Holocaust insurance assessment process. The American Jewish Committee, the Anti-Defamation League, B’nai B’rith International, the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, the World Jewish Congress and the World Jewish Restitution Organization condemned the Holocaust…
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Fast Forward Obama: Israel Won’t Surprise Me on Iran
President Obama said he is confident that Israel would not surprise him with an attack on Iran. “I think the relationship between Israel and the U.S. is sufficiently strong that neither of us try to surprise each other, but we try to coordinate on issues of mutual concern,” Obama said in an interview with Israel’s…
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