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Fast Forward German Parliament Demands an End to Gaza Blockade
Germany’s Parliament has passed a cross-party motion demanding that Israel end its blockade of the Gaza Strip. In a joint motion passed Thursday evening, five mainstream parties said the isolation of Gaza was not in Israel’s security interests. The text also decried weapons smuggling into Gaza and rocket attacks against Israel, and said they, too,…
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Fast Forward J Street PAC Doles Out Money to Midterm Candidates
J Street’s political action committee has raised $650,000 so far for this year’s elections and is backing a slate of 61 candidates, including 10 Jewish lawmakers. A statement Thursday from the dovish pro-Israel lobby’s PAC said that it expected to raise $1 million this cycle. In its first election cycle, in 2008, J Street backed…
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Fast Forward J Street PACS Doles Out Money to Midterm Candidates
J Street’s political action committee has raised $650,000 so far for this year’s elections and is backing a slate of 61 candidates, including 10 Jewish lawmakers. A statement Thursday from the dovish pro-Israel lobby’s PAC said that it expected to raise $1 million this cycle. In its first election cycle, in 2008, J Street backed…
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Fast Forward Obama Signs Into Law Enhanced Iran Sanctions
President Obama signed enhanced Iran sanctions into law. Obama invited representatives of a number of pro-Israel groups as well as the Congressional leadership of both parties to witness the signing Thursday evening of sanctions that target third parties that deal with Iran’s energy and finance sectors, as well as human rights abusers. “For years, the…
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Fast Forward Israeli, Turkish Ministers Meet
An Israeli Cabinet minister met with Turkey’s foreign minister in Brussels to improve relations between the two countries, according to Israeli and Turkish reports. The meeting Wednesday between Industry, Trade and Labor Minister Benjamin Ben-Eliezer and Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, which was supposed to be secret, was first disclosed in a report Wednesday night…
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Fast Forward Bibi Sets Out For New Meeting With Obama, Hoping for Better Luck Now
The joke making the rounds in Jerusalem ahead of next week’s Netanyahu-Obama summit: Time to bone up on geology. Michael Oren, Israel’s ambassador to the United States, told reporters this week that he was misheard when he was quoted as telling Israeli diplomats that a “tectonic rift” was emerging between Israel and the United States….
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Fast Forward Kagan Defends Her Admiration for Barak
U.S. Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan said her admiration for a former Israeli chief justice was rooted in her Jewishness and admiration for Israel. Kagan, the U.S. solicitor general tapped by President Obama for the high court, has come under fire from conservatives for a speech she gave welcoming Aharon Barak when she was dean…
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Fast Forward Robert Byrd Criticized Israel But Never Cut Funding
Robert Byrd, the longest-serving U.S. senator who criticized Israel but refrained from using his considerable power to cut its funding, has died. Obituaries for Byrd, 92, a West Virginia Democrat, focused on the bookends to his 51-year career: His membership for several years before his election in the racist Ku Klux Klan and his unsuccessful…
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