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Fast Forward Egyptian Lawmaker Attacked with Shoe for Dining with Israeli Ambassador
Egyptian lawmaker Tawfik Okasha was attacked in parliament on Sunday, with one colleague hurling a shoe at him and others demanding he be suspended after he invited the Israeli ambassador for dinner. Egypt was the first of a handful of Arab countries to recognize Israel with a United States-sponsored 1979 peace accord, but Egyptian attitudes…
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Fast Forward 2 Ex-Presidents of Mexico Compare ‘Racist’ Donald Trump to Hitler
Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump’s political rhetoric is “racist,” and evocative of Adolf Hitler, former Mexican President Felipe Calderon told reporters at an event in Mexico City on Saturday. “This logic of praising the white supremacy is not just anti-immigration,” Calderon said. “He is acting and speaking out against immigrants that have a different skin…
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Fast Forward Palestinian Fugitive Murdered in Bulgaria Diplomatic Mystery
A Palestinian who escaped from Israeli custody after being convicted of a 1986 murder has died at the Palestinian embassy in Sofia, Bulgarian prosecutors said on Friday. Police sealed off the mission building in the capital as an investigation began into the death of Omar el-Nayef, who was jailed along with two other men for…
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Fast Forward Argentina Prosecutor Says Alberto Nisman Was Murdered
An Argentine prosecutor who died last year just days after accusing then-President Cristina Fernandez of covering up Iran’s alleged role in the bombing of a Jewish center was apparently murdered, an official investigating the case said on Thursday. Alberto Nisman was found shot dead in the bathroom of his Buenos Aires apartment 13 months ago….
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Fast Forward Hamas Insists Gaza Tunnels ‘Defensive’ — Not Looking for New War
A senior leader of the Islamist group Hamas said the Palestinian movement was not seeking a new war with Israel and insisted a network of tunnels it is digging, some of which have reached into Israel in the past, was “defensive.” Speaking to members of the Foreign Press Association in Gaza, Mahmoud al-Zahar, a medical…
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Fast Forward John Kerry Slams Settlement Building in Testimony to Congress
Secretary of State John Kerry said on Wednesday that increased Israeli settlement building is not helping to ease tensions between Israelis and Palestinians. “I don’t think that the situation is helped by additional settlement construction and building,” Kerry told a House of Representatives Appropriations subcommittee at a hearing on the State Department’s annual budget request….
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Fast Forward London Transport System Yanks Anti-Israel Posters
The removal of anti-Israel posters from London’s underground train network on Monday prompted sparring between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and a political rival as to whose complaint to the British authorities had prompted the crackdown. A spokeswoman for Transport for London, the authority responsible for the underground ‘Tube’ network, said the ads had been…
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News Report: For West Bank Palestinians, Often The Only Work Is at Settlement, Inc.
QIRA, West Bank, Feb 22 (Reuters) – Mohammad Arbassi, a 56-year-old father of five sons from the West Bank village of Qira, has a diploma in finance and big plans for his children, two of whom are at university. Yet despite his education and personal drive, for the past 12 years he has worked as…
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