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Fast Forward Mahmoud Abbas’s Party Blames Paris Attacks on Israel in Cartoons
The Fatah party of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has suggested Israel is to blame for the terror attacks in Paris in Facebook cartoons. Cartoons blaming Israel for the attacks were published on the party’s official Facebook page, Palestinian Media Watch reported Monday, one day after an Op-Ed in the official PA daily said that…
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Fast Forward Sweden Says Palestinian Hopelessness Fuels Global Terror
Sweden’s foreign minister said that tackling extremists like the jihadists who struck in Paris required dealing with hopelessness of Palestinians and others in the Middle East. “To counteract the radicalization, we must return to the situation such as the one in the Middle East, in which, not at the least the Palestinians, see that there…
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Fast Forward Hungary Balks at West Bank Product Labelling
Hungary will not label separately products made in the West Bank of the Golan Heights, its foreign minister said. Péter Szijjártó, who is also Hungary’s trade minister, said on an overnight visit to Israel that the European Union’s guidelines for labeling goods that originate in Jewish settlements are “irrational” and does not contribute to solving…
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Fast Forward Rock Band Attacked in Paris Confirms Israel Gig
The American rock band Eagles of Death Metal has confirmed its intention to play in Israel this summer, in the wake of a deadly attack on its concert in Paris. Some 87 of the band’s fans, including three crew members, were killed in Friday’s Paris terror attacks, when gunmen entered the Bataclan theater during a…
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Fast Forward Pro-BDS Spanish Lawmaker Targets Jewish Festival
A far-left politician from the city of Cordoba in southern Spain said that a local Jewish music festival would need to be rethought if a motion she had submitted in favor of boycotting Israel passed. Amparo Pernichi, Cordoba’s alderwoman for landscape and infrastructure, linked Israel to the music festival during a news conference earlier this…
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Fast Forward 200 Gather at Paris Synagogue to Pray for Victims of Attacks
Some 200 people gathered under heavy guard at a Paris synagogue to remember the victims of the terrorist attacks in the French capital on Friday night. Led by the chief rabbi of France, Haim Korsia, leaders of French Jewry and Israel’s ambassador to France were among those who assembled at the Synagogue de la Victoire…
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Fast Forward Israel Demolishes West Bank Homes of Four Alleged Palestinian Terrorists
Israel demolished the West Bank homes of four Palestinians who allegedly killed three Israelis in two West Bank attacks. Troops razed the homes on Saturday morning, two days after Israel’s Supreme Court rejected appeals of the demolition orders, the Israel Defense Forces said in a statement issued Saturday. The court accepted one appeal because the…
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Fast Forward El Al Plane Carrying 300 Passengers Makes Emergency Landing in Montana
(JTA) — An El Al flight with nearly 300 people on board made an emergency landing in Billings, Montana. Warning lights showed that there was a fire in the right engine, the Billings Gazette reported Sunday. The passengers had to exit using a landing ladder, according to the newspaper, as the Boeing 777 was too…
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