Natasha Mozgovaya (Haaretz)
By Natasha Mozgovaya (Haaretz)
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Fast Forward U.S. Unhappy About New East Jerusalem Housing
The United States said Tuesday it is “deeply concerned” by Israel’s approval of new housing construction in East Jerusalem. The State Department said in a statement that such “unilateral actions work against efforts to resume direct negotiations and contradict the logic of a reasonable and necessary agreement between the parties.” The department also said it…
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Fast Forward Israeli Artists Bring Tent City Protest to Washington
A group of Israeli artists has organized their own tent protest outside the White House in Washington, in a show of solidarity with the social protests that have swept Israel in recent weeks. The protesters traveled from New York to pitch up their tent, joining the groups of protesters that regularly congregate around the White…
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Fast Forward Poll: Majority of U.S. Jews Favor Peace Based on ’67 Boundaries
A J Street poll published Thursday shows that 57% of U.S. Jews back a Middle East peace plan based on 1967 borders with mutually agreed-upon land swaps, while 43% opposed such a move. According to the poll, 83% of the American Jews support a U.S.-brokered solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, while 70% want the administration…
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Fast Forward Erekat: No Contradiction Between Statehood Declaration and Peace Process
Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat attended a meeting with U.S. officials at the U.S. State Department Wednesday, at which U.S. officials were expected to push the PA negotiator to accept American terms for an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement. At the meeting with Erekat were Acting Middle East Envoy David Hale and diplomat Dennis Ross. Following their meeting,…
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Fast Forward Bibi Says Israel Has Every Right To Block Flotilla
Israel is fully entitled to try to stop an upcoming flotilla bound for the Gaza Strip in an attempt to break Israel’s naval blockade of the Hamas-ruled enclave, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday. “Israel has the full right to operate against efforts to smuggle missiles, rockets and other weapons to Hamas’s terror enclave. Hamas…
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Fast Forward U.S. Slams Hamas Condemnation of Bin Laden Killing
U.S. State Department Deputy Spokesman Mark Toner slammed comments on Monday made by a Hamas leader who criticized the U.S. for killing ‘holy warrior’ Osama bin Laden. Ismael Haniyeh, head of the Hamas administration in the Gaza Strip, said in response to the U.S. operation against bin Laden “we regard this as a continuation of…
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Fast Forward U.S. Defense Official: We Had No Choice But To Kill Bin Laden
The United States had no choice but to kill al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden during the raid on his hideout in Pakistan, President Barack Obama’s top counter terrorism adviser said Monday. “We certainly were preparing to the possibility to capture him. If we had an opportunity to take him alive we would have done it,”…
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Fast Forward J Street Lauds Goldstone for Retracting War Crimes Claims
The dovish Jewish-American lobby J Street on Monday lauded South African Judge Richard Goldstone’s op-ed in The Washington Post I which he voiced regret about blaming Israel for the intentional targeting of civilians in the report he authored on the Gaza war. “J Street welcomes Judge Richard Goldstone’s op-ed in The Washington Post this weekend…
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