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Fast Forward Ahmadinejad to U.S.: You Must Choose Between Israel and Iran
The United States must choose between Israel and Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said. The Iranian president made his remarks Wednesday during a speech in Turkey, the official state Islamic Republic News Agency reported. Ahmadinejad called on Obama to make a big decision about which country he will support. “The support of both Israel and Iran can’t…
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Fast Forward Senator Lieberman: Fort Hood Incident Could Be Terror Attack
U.S. Sen. Joseph Lieberman said the attack at Fort Hood could have been a terrorist attack. Lieberman (I-Conn.), chairman of the Senate’s Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee, told Fox News Sunday that reports indicate that alleged shooter Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, a U.S. Army psychiatrist of Palestinian descent, was a “self-radicalized, home-grown terrorist.” Lieberman…
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Fast Forward At GA, Bibi Calls for Resumption of Peace Talks With Palestinians
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called for the immediate resumption of peace talks with the Palestinians. “Let us seize the moment to reach an historic agreement; let us begin talks immediately,” Netanyahu said, appealing to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in his speech Monday in Washington to the Jewish Federations of North America. Netanyahu repeatedly…
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Fast Forward Hezbollah Pressures School Into Dropping ‘Anne Frank’
Hezbollah pressured a private school in Beirut to drop from its curriculum a textbook containing excerpts of “The Diary of Anne Frank.” The English-language school, which asked not to be identified, caved to pressure after Hezbollah’s Al-Manar television station ran a segment railing against the school for including the posthumously published Holocaust memoir in its…
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Fast Forward Obama, Bibi To Meet
President Obama and Benjamin Netanyahu will meet the same day as the Israeli prime minister addresses the Jewish federations’ General Assembly. Obama and Netanyahu will meet Monday in Washington, a White House official said Sunday, a day before Obama attends a memorial service at Fort Hood, Texas, for the 13 people gunned down at the…
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Fast Forward Obama Cancels GA Appearance, Following Fort Hood Massacre
President Obama canceled a scheduled appearance before the Jewish federations’ General Assembly. A statement Saturday night from the Jewish Federations of North America said Obama explained he had to change his plans to attend a memorial service in Fort Hood, Texas for the 13 people gunned down at the U.S. Army base there on Thursday….
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Fast Forward Jewish Groups Blast U.N. for Goldstone Endorsement
U.S. Jewish groups blasted the U.N. General Assembly for its endorsement of the Goldstone report on last winter’s Gaza war. Statements by the American Jewish Committee, B’nai B’rith International and the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations urged the U.N. apparatus to ignore the non-binding resolution Thursday of the General Assembly, which recommends…
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Fast Forward Abbas: I Will Not Run for Reelection
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas announced he would not run for reelection. In a live televised speech Thursday evening from his headquarters in Ramallah, Abbas said he would not run in the elections he has called for January. In response, a Hamas spokesman said Abbas’ decision not to seek reelection was a rebuke to his…
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