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Fast Forward Palestinian Authority is Not About to Collapse, Says Mahmoud Abbas
JERUSALEM — The Palestinian Authority is not going to collapse, despite reports to the contrary, PA President Mahmoud Abbas said. “The Palestinian Authority exists and it is here. It will be followed by a Palestinian state. The Palestinian Authority is one of our achievements and we won’t give it up,” Abbas said Wednesday night from…
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Fast Forward Fallen Israeli Soldiers Can Be Buried Without Religious Rites
Israeli soldiers killed in the line of duty may now be buried in a military cemetery without a religious ceremony. Last week’s ruling by the legal adviser to the Defense Department came in response to a request this summer by the religious pluralism organization Hiddush, which called on the defense minister and chief of staff…
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Fast Forward Tunisian Jews Demand Soccer Official Be Disciplned For Anti-Semitic Slur
Tunisian Jews called on their government to discipline the president of a soccer club who is accused of making an anti-Semitic slur against a Jewish referee. Last week, the Jewish Community of Tunisia, or CJT, published its call and condemnation of Lotfi Abdennadher, head of the main soccer club in the city of Sfax, on…
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Fast Forward In BDS Defeat, Spain Compensates Israeli University for Boycott Exclusion
Spain compensated an Israeli university in the amount of $107,000 in damages for its exclusion from a scientific competition for political reasons. The central government transferred the money earlier this month as per a recent decision on the matter by the Spanish Council of State, according to a statement published Wednesday by ACOM, a pro-Israel…
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Fast Forward Israeli Company Cuts Ties With France’s Orange Amid BDS Row
An Israeli communications company will end its relationship with French telecommunications giant Orange next month, following a BDS controversy. The severing of 17 years of ties comes eight months after Orange CEO Stephan Richard said at a news conference in Cairo that his company would abandon its Israeli affiliate Partner “tomorrow morning” if not for…
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Fast Forward Arab-Israeli Businessman Offers $10K Reward To Find Tel Aviv Gunman
An Arab-Israeli merchant is offering a $10,000 cash reward for information that helps in the capture of an Arab-Israeli fugitive suspected of killing three people in two Tel Aviv shooting attacks. Mazen Qaq, head of the merchants’ committee in Jerusalem’s Old City and a resident of eastern Jerusalem, announced the reward on Tuesday for information…
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Fast Forward Euro Human Rights Court Orders Russia To Pay Jailed Jewish Activist
The European Court of Human Rights ordered the Russian government to pay $35,000 to a Jewish activist from Moscow whom authorities illegally imprisoned at a demonstration. The ruling on Jan. 5 by the court in Strasbourg, France relates to the arrest on May 6, 2012 of Evgeny Frumkin, a 53-year-old Muscovite organizer of many rallies…
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Fast Forward Donald Trump Campaign Poster Defaced With Hitler Graffiti
A Donald Trump campaign poster on a Florida building owned by a Jewish woman was defaced to make the front running GOP candidate look like Adolf Hitler. The poster in the window of a vacant storefront in Jacksonville reads: “We want Donald Trump! Republican Candidate For President.” The words were altered overnight Tuesday with spray…
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