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Fast Forward Israel Insists Right Wing Settler Leader Still Pick as Brazil Envoy
Israel is denying reports that it plans to withdraw a former settler leader as its proposed ambassador to Brazil. For six months, Brazil has refused to accept the appointment of the ambassador, Dani Dayan. Dayan, who lives in a Jewish settlement in the West Bank, is a past leader of the Yesha Council, the umbrella…
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Fast Forward Jordan King Says Solving Palestinian Crisis Needed To Defeat ISIS
The Islamic State cannot be defeated until the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is resolved, Jordan’s king said. Speaking Friday at the Munich Security Conference, an international gathering of foreign and defense policy leaders held in Germany, King Abdullah II said, “Left unresolved, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict will become a religious conflict of a global dimension,” according to the…
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Fast Forward Senate Pleads With Iran for Robert Levinson Help
The U.S. Senate unanimously approved a resolution urging Iran to fulfill its pledge to help find Robert Levinson, a Jewish American who went missing in Iran in 2007. Five Americans were released last month in a prisoner exchange with Iran timed to mark the launch of the implementation of the sanctions relief for nuclear rollback…
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Fast Forward White House Pushes Back on West Bank Language in Anti-BDS Bill
The Obama administration said it does not support the portion of a new trade law that requires actions against entities that boycott goods manufactured in lands the United States does not recognize as belonging to Israel. “As with any bipartisan compromise legislation, there are provisions in this bill that we do not support, including a…
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Fast Forward Ukraine Threatens To Scrap Uman Pilgrimage in Crimea Spat
Following an Israeli minister’s meeting with the governor of an area which Russia annexed from Ukraine, Kiev threatened to tighten visa requirements for tourists from the Jewish state. Ukraine made this threat in a letter sent this week by its ambassador to Tel Aviv to Israel’s foreign ministry, the Segodnya Daily reported Thursday, following the…
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Fast Forward Pakistan Foils Plot To Free Daniel Pearl Killer
Pakistan’s military said it had foiled a prison break bid aimed at freeing a British-born terrorist awaiting execution for the 2002 murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl. Three terror groups — Al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi and Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan — were working together on the plot to spring death-row inmate Ahmed Omar…
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Fast Forward Sanders and Clinton Clash Over Iran at Dem Debate
Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton sharply differed over whether to establish diplomatic relations with Iran. Meeting in Milwaukee Thursday night for the latest debate in the race for the Democratic presidential nod, Sanders, the Independent senator from Vermont and Clinton, the former secretary of state, drew pronounced distinctions on Iran policy. Sanders avoided using the…
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Fast Forward Dutch Store Promotes Israeli Settlement Products to Protest Labeling Laws
A store owned by Dutch Christian Zionists advertised to its customers products from Israeli settlements to protest an E.U. requirement that they be labeled separately. The Israel Products Center in Nijkerk, a town situated 20 miles east of the Dutch capital, advertised the products in question specifically in a letter dated Feb. 10 by Pieter…
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