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Fast Forward Abbas Will Break Unity Agreement With Hamas If P.A. Can’t Operate in Gaza
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said he would break his government’s unity agreement with the Islamist Hamas if it does not allow the unity government to operate in Gaza. “We will not accept the situation with Hamas continuing as it is at the moment,” Abbas said late Saturday night in Cairo, where he is scheduled…
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Fast Forward Jewish Groups Launch Fair Trade Network, Support Communal Social Justice Efforts
A new partnership has launched to enable the purchase of kosher “fair trade” coffee, tea and chocolate while supporting Jewish communal efforts on human trafficking and worker justice. The Jewish Fair Trade Partnership allows individuals and Jewish institutions like synagogues to purchase fair trade products at wholesale prices while supporting Equal Exchange, Fair Trade Judaica…
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Fast Forward France Is Largest Source of Immigration to Israel in 2014
Reaching a 25-year high, immigration to Israel from France has become the largest single source of newcomers to Israel so far this year. Some 4,566 French immigrants arrived in Israel from January through Sept. 1, surpassing Russia, with 2,632 immigrants, and Ukraine, with 3,252 immigrants. The United States, whose Jewish population is more than 10…
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Fast Forward John Kerry Talks Peace Prospects With Israeli and Palestinian Leaders
John Kerry spoke with Israeli and Palestinian leaders about peace prospects in the Middle East. Kerry, the U.S. secretary of state, spoke on the phone with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday and met Wednesday with Saeb Erekat, the chief Palestinian negotiator. Kerry raised with Netanyahu the Obama administration’s call for Israel to reverse…
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Fast Forward French Comedian Investigated For Comments on James Foley Killing
French authorities have opened an investigation into a controversial comedian who mocked the killing of U.S. journalist James Foley and showed footage of it in a video. Dieudonne M’Bala M’Bala said that decapitation “symbolizes before anything progress, access to civilisation” in the video that appeared on the internet last month. The Paris prosector’s office said…
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Fast Forward Israel Quarantines Nigerian Tourist Feared Infected With Ebola
A Nigerian visiting Israel was quarantined in Jerusalem for fear she may have contracted the Ebola virus. The patient, a tourist who works as a nurse in Nigeria and arrived in Israel several days ago, was admitted to Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem with fever, Israel Radio reported on Friday. The hospital put the…
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Fast Forward Israel Plans 283 More Homes in West Bank Elkana Settlement
The Israel Land Authority published a tender for constructing 283 housing units in the West Bank settlement of Elkana. The announcement Thursday, advancing an expansion the Israeli government first approved in 2012, comes after international criticism, including from the United States, over Israel’s recent appropriation of approximately 1,000 acres in the West Bank. The publication…
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Fast Forward Watchdog: Britain Saw Record Levels of Anti-Semitism During Gaza War
Britain saw record levels of anti-Semitism during Israel’s war with Hamas in Gaza, a Jewish watchdog group said. In July 2014, the Community Security Trust, or CST, recorded 302 incidents — the highest ever monthly total documented by the group since it started monitoring anti-Semitism in the United Kingdom in 1984, CST wrote Thursday on…
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