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Fast Forward Peres Launches YouTube Channel
Israeli President Shimon Peres launched his own YouTube channel. Peres inaugurated his channel Tuesday afternoon alongside YouTube founder Chad Hurley, who made a special trip to Israel for the event. “Welcome to my YouTube channel,” the president’s YouTube greeting begins. “I am so glad to speak to you and no less, to listen to you….
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Fast Forward EU Ministers: Jerusalem Should Be Capital of Two States
European Union foreign ministers called for negotiations over the status of Jerusalem as a capital for two states. In a statement agreed upon Tuesday, the 27 ministers representing the member states of the European Union said, “If there is to be a genuine peace, a way must be found through negotiations to resolve the status…
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Fast Forward Edward Sanders, Carter Peace Adviser, Dies at 87
Edward Sanders, a national Jewish leader who played a key role in the 1979 Israel-Egypt peace treaty as senior Middle East adviser to President Jimmy Carter, has died. Sanders, who led the American Israel Public Affairs Committee and the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, died Monday at his Los Angeles home following…
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Fast Forward EU Convenes Over Swedish Proposal To Divide Jerusalem
The European Union is meeting in Brussels to discuss a Swedish proposal to divide Jerusalem and make east Jerusalem the Palestinian capital. Prior to Monday’s scheduled meeting, Israeli officials began pressuring EU foreign ministers to reject the plan. The resolution reportedly says that “Europe calls for an independent, democratic, contiguous and viable state of Palestine,…
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Fast Forward Jewish Boxer Salita Was Stopped 76 Seconds Into Fight
American Jewish boxer Dmitriy Salita was stopped 1:16 into his World Boxing Association light-welterweight championship bout. Champion Amir Khan, a Muslim of Pakistani descent, floored the unbeaten Salita twice Saturday night before the referee halted the match in Newcastle, England. Salita, who sported a Star of David on his trunks, also took a standing-eight count….
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Fast Forward L.A. Synagogue Shooting Possibly a Result of Organized Crime
The Los Angeles Police Department is investigating whether Israeli organized crime is connected to an attack at a local synagogue. The department initially listed the Oct. 30 shooting at the Adat Yeshurun Valley Sephardic Synagogue in North Hollywood, Calif., as a hate crime, but in recent weeks police been working on the theory that the…
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Fast Forward Goldstone Awarded Human Rights Prize
Richard Goldstone was honored with a human rights award. The South African judge, who led the commission that accused Israel and Hamas of committing war crimes and possibly crimes against humanity in last winter’s Gaza war, on Thursday won the Stockholm Human Rights Award, the French news agency AFP reported. The prize is awarded by…
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News ADL Under Fire For Study On Anti-Obama Extremists
Some conservatives are accusing the Anti-Defamation League of launching a partisan attack following its report asserting that a “current of anti-government hostility” has swept the United States in the year since Barack Obama was elected. The Jewish defense organization did not respond similarly to anti-Bush hatred during the previous eight years, the conservatives have argued,…
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