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Fast Forward Venezuela to Provide Oil and Diesel Fuel to Palestinian Authority
The Palestinian Authority and Venezuela inked a deal in which the South American nation will provide the P.A. with oil and diesel fuel. Under the deal signed Friday in Caracas by P.A. President Mahmoud Abbas, the Venezuelan petroleum company PDVSA will send 240,000 barrels of oil and diesel to the P.A. No date was given…
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Fast Forward Israel Sending Aid to Serbia and Bosnia Flood Victims
Israel is sending aid to help rescue efforts in Serbia and Bosnia, where record floods have submerged cities and left more than two dozen dead and thousands homeless. Local media reported that Israel sent a first shipment of emergency aid this weekend including medicine, food, blankets and rain gear, and will soon send pumps. The…
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Fast Forward Polish MP Calls For End to Jewish World War II Property Restitution
Polish MP Slawomir Kopycinski called for the shuttering of the Regulatory Commission for Jewish Communities, a Polish body that restores property owned by Holocaust victims to its legal heirs. Kopycinski called the commission ”the fourth partition of Poland” in a Thursday press conference, alluding to previous partitions of the country in the 1700s and again…
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Fast Forward UCLA Anti-Divestment Students Face Conflict Claim Over Israel Trips
The University of California, Los Angeles student government held a hearing in response to a complaint leveled against two student council members over free trips they took to Israel. The UCLA chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine brought the complaint against the two former members of the Undergraduate Students Association Council that led to…
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Fast Forward Donald Sterling Threatens To Sue NBA Over Life Ban
Donald Sterling reportedly is threatening to sue the NBA for his life ban for making racist remarks in a private conversation. Sports Illustrated reported Thursday that Sterling’s lawyer, Maxwell Blecher, wrote the NBA to say that Sterling, who owns the Los Angeles Clippers, would not pay the $2.5 million fine imposed last month and that…
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Fast Forward New York City Taxi Driver Suspended for Nazi Armband
The New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission suspended a driver for a month for wearing a swastika armband. The Anti-Defamation League’s New York regional office, which brought the complaint against the cabbie, praised the suspension. “By openly displaying this hate symbol identified with Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party while operating a New York…
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Fast Forward Two IDF Soldiers Dismissed For Posting Refusal to Evacuate Settlements on Facebook
The Israel Defense Forces dismissed two soldiers after discovering that they pledged on Facebook to refuse orders to evacuate West Bank settlements. The incident comes days after the IDF evacuation of portions of three illegal Jewish outposts in the West Bank. The Facebook post that resulted in the soldiers’ dismisal was a photo of a…
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Fast Forward Israeli Men Have Fourth-Highest Life Expectancy, According to World Health Organization
Israeli men have the fourth-highest life expectancy of any nationality, according to recently released statistics from the World Health Organization. Israeli men born in 2012 can expect to live just more than 80 years, a figure that ranks behind only Iceland, Switzerland and Australia. Icelandic men born two years ago, according to the WHO’s World…
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