Natasha Mozgovaya (Haaretz)
By Natasha Mozgovaya (Haaretz)
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Fast Forward Nearly Half U.S. Voters Polled Support Settlement Freeze
Almost half of all U.S. voters believe that Israel should be made to cease all settlement construction as part of a future peace deal with the Palestinians, a Rasmussen Reports poll said on Wednesday. The American institute claimed that a recent poll showed 49% of voters approved of forcing Israel to stop settlement construction, with…
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Fast Forward Oren Rejects J Street Invitation
The Embassy of Israel in the United States on Tuesday announced that it would send an “observer” to the left-leaning lobby group J Street’s first national conference next week, in place of Ambassador Michael Oren. “In response to the question about J Street’s invitation to participate in its conference, the Embassy of Israel has been…
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Fast Forward U.S. to Iran: Prove That You’re Not Developing Nukes
Iran said on Tuesday it would not discuss a previously secret nuclear plant at international talks this week, but Washington vowed to bring it up and demanded Tehran prove it is not developing an atomic weapon. White House spokesman Robert Gibbs, asked about Iran’s insistence it would not discuss the facility in the Geneva talks,…
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Fast Forward Hillary Clinton, Ehud Barak Expected at U.N. Mideast Summit
Defense Minister Ehud Barak and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will apparently participate in a tripartite meeting on Middle East peace in New York on Tuesday. U.S. President Barack Obama will meet Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, for…
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Fast Forward Solomon Dwek: The Rabbi’s Son at the Center of the Corruption Probe
A few years ago, Solomon Dwek was the black sheep of the New Jersey Jewish community where his father Yitzhak was a prominent rabbi. After a string of failed real estate ventures and charges of bank fraud, Dwek’s career appeared all but over. But the rabbi’s son found his true calling as an FBI informant,…
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Fast Forward A Cornell Professor, a Wesleyan Murder Suspect — and a Case of Mistaken Identity
For weeks, Stephen L. Morgan, Director of the Center for the Study of Inequality at the Department of Sociology in Cornell University, has scoured the Internet in order to remove his picture from the news sites, search engine caches and blogs, where it was mistakenly used as to represent another Stephen Morgan — the alleged…
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Fast Forward Peres to Obama: Israel Is Ready to Negotiate With Syria, Palestinians
Israel is prepared to negotiate a peace settlement with Syria and the Palestinians, President Shimon Peres told U.S. President Barack Obama on Tuesday, adding that the benefits of the process would outweigh the risks. “[Israel] is ready for negotiations with the Palestinians, with the Syrians,” Peres told reporters after his talks with Obama at the…
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Fast Forward Israeli Ambassador to U.S. To Step Down
Israel’s ambassador to the United States Sallai Meridor announced this week his intention to step down from the top diplomatic post in the near future, it emerged Thursday. Meridor informed outgoing Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni and Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu of his decision. “It is my desire to thank the prime…
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