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Fast Forward Benjamin Netanyahu Scraps Germany Trip Amid Rising Violence
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has canceled a trip to Germany planned for Thursday, German government sources told Reuters, as tensions rise between Palestinians and Israelis after about 10 days of violence. An Israeli official confirmed the cancellation, citing the security situation. Four Israelis have been killed since Thursday in a stabbing and a drive-by…
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Fast Forward Israel Windsurfers Yanked From Oman Tournament Over Security Fears
Israel has withdrawn from the world windsurfing championships in Oman this month after failing to agree with the Gulf Arab state on security arrangements for its athletes, an Israeli official said on Wednesday. An official with Israel’s Shin Bet security service said the trip to the Oct 17-24 regatta was canceled after Oman declined to…
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Fast Forward Teenage Girl Stabs Israeli in Jerusalem’s Old City
An 18-year-old Palestinian woman stabbed an Israeli near a contested shrine in Jerusalem on Wednesday and was then shot and wounded by the injured man, Israeli police said, the third knife attack in the city in less than a week. Police said the attacker struck in an alleyway near the Western Wall, a Jewish prayer…
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Fast Forward 10 Commandments Monument Removed From Oklahoma Capitol
Under the cover of night, a 6-foot-tall (180-cm) granite monument inscribed with the Ten Commandments was removed from the Oklahoma Capitol grounds after judges said its placement on government land violated state law, officials said on Tuesday. The monument, which had drawn strong support from the Republican leadership of the socially conservative state, has been…
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Fast Forward Israel and Palestinians Downplay Talk of New Intifada
The entrances to Jerusalem’s walled Old City are sealed off by Israeli police and the streets of East Jerusalem are littered with barricades, burning trash and the detritus of battles between stone-throwing Palestinians and Israeli forces. The scenes after 10 days of violence in which four Israelis and three Palestinians have been killed and 170…
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Fast Forward Abbas Says He Does Not Want Escalation with Israel
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said on Tuesday he did not want the current violence in East Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank to escalate into a military confrontation with Israel. “We tell them (the Israelis) that we do not want either military or security escalation,” Abbas said at a meeting of the Palestine Liberation Organization….
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Fast Forward Long After ‘When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit,’ Judith Kerr Still Has Yarns To Spin
At 92 years of age and with over nine million books sold, British children’s writer and illustrator Judith Kerr could be enjoying a restful retirement, but no. The author of bestselling picture book “The Tiger Who Came To Tea” and of “When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit,” an account of her childhood as a Jewish refugee…
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Fast Forward Israel Razes Homes of Palestinian Militants in Jerusalem
Israeli forces destroyed the homes of two Palestinian militants and sealed off part of a third in Jerusalem on Tuesday, in a crackdown launched by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after four Israelis were killed in Palestinian attacks. Violence has intensified in East Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank in recent weeks, raising concerns of a…
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