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Fast Forward Avigdor Liberman Calls 2-State Supporters ‘Autistic’
Avigdor Liberman, Israel’s former foreign minister, called supporters of a two-state solution to the Israel-Palestinian conflict “autistic.” Liberman, who heads the right-wing Yisrael Beiteinu party, made his remarks Thursday in an interview with Israel Radio. “Anyone who thinks going back to the 1967 lines will solve the conflict is autistic,” Liberman said. Liberman, who declined…
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Fast Forward Jews Added to German Anti-Semitism Panel After Outcry
Two Jewish experts have been appointed belatedly to a government panel in Germany on anti-Semitism following protests by Jewish groups. On Wednesday, Germany’s Interior Ministry announced that it had named psychologist Marina Chernivsky and historian Andreas Nachama to the panel, whose mandate is to report regularly on anti-Semitism and efforts to combat it in Germany….
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Books Noam Chomsky and Bob Woodward on Osama Bin Laden Book List
The details on hundreds of letters, books, magazine articles, reports and other materials found in Al-Qaida founder Osama bin Laden’s secret compound in Pakistan were declassified and released by the Obama administration. Among the documents released, which were taken from bin Laden’s compound by Navy SEALS after it was seized in May 2011, is an…
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Fast Forward $1.8B Arms Sale to Israel Is Approved
The Obama administration approved the sale of $1.8 billion worth of munitions to Israel, including precision guidance devices and bunker-busting bombs. The sale announced Wednesday by the Defense Security Cooperation Agency includes 14,500 JDAMs, GPS-guided precision kits that attach to bombs. Also included are 50 BLU-113 bunker-busting bombs, which are capable of penetrating 20 feet…
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Fast Forward Israel Is No. 7 Best Country for Gays
Israel is the world’s seventh-best country for gay men, according to a poll of 115,000 gay men in 127 countries. The Gay Happiness Index, a collaboration of the gay dating network Planet Romeo and researchers from Germany’s Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, named Iceland the best country for gay men, followed in order by three…
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Fast Forward Orthodox Blur Faces and Erase First Names of Israel Ministers
Another group of women in powerful positions, another haredi Orthodox paper erasing them. Here we go again. After each new Israeli government is sworn in, its ministers pose for a group photo with the president. This year’s photo, taken yesterday, features Israel’s three women ministers in the middle row — Culture and Sport Minister Miri…
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Fast Forward 40 Rabbis Plan Shavuot Vigil for Detained Africans
More than 40 rabbis from all streams of Judaism will hold a prayer vigil and pre-Shavuot study session at the Holot detention center for African immigrants. The program, organized by leaders in Rabbis for Human Rights, and supported by the New Israel Fund, was scheduled for Wednesday outside the open-detention facility in the Negev Desert….
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Fast Forward British Teacher Convicted of Sexually Abusing Students
A former teacher at several Jewish schools in England was found guilty on sexual assault charges. Todros Grynhaus, 50, of Salford, reportedly faces a “substantial prison sentence,” according to Manchester Crown Court judge Timothy Holroyde. They are now adult women. The conviction comes after a two-week trial, and after an earlier trial ended in March…
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