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Fast Forward Israel Accuses Hamas of Helping ISIS in Sinai
An Israeli general has accused members of Hamas in Gaza of providing support to militants linked to Islamic State in Egypt’s Sinai peninsula, where the Egyptian army has fought deadly battles with Islamist insurgents in recent days. Major-General Yoav Mordechai, who oversees Israel’s civilian policy towards Gaza, named members of Hamas’s military wing he said…
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Life Vatican Enlists Naomi Klein To Fight Climate Change
(Thomson Reuters Foundation) – It wasn’t an invitation she expected, but Canadian environmentalist Naomi Klein – a self-styled secular Jewish feminist – was happy to address Vatican officials after Pope Francis enlisted her for a campaign against climate change. Pope Francis, spiritual leader of the world’s 1.2 billion Roman Catholics, published a 192-page encyclical last…
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Fast Forward Auschwitz Bookkeeper Says Only God Can Forgive Him
A former bookkeeper at Auschwitz who is accused of assisting in the mass murder of at least 300,000 people told a German court on Wednesday he could only ask God to forgive him as he was not entitled to ask this of victims of the Holocaust. Oskar Groening, 94, did not kill anyone himself while…
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Fast Forward Israel Rounds Up Dozens of Hamas Activists
Israeli forces have arrested dozens of Hamas members suspected of planning attacks and trying to build up the Palestinian militant group in the occupied West Bank, Israel’s Shin Bet security service said on Wednesday. The Islamist group dismissed the accusations against its members, saying Israel was just trying to sabotage its relationship with other Arab…
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Fast Forward Jerusalem Family Finds 2,000-Year-Old Mikveh Under Floor
A Jerusalem family has found a 2,000-year-old Jewish ritual bath under their house while renovating the living room floor, Israel’s Antiquities Authority said on Wednesday. Pottery vessels inside the rock-hewn bath helped archaeologists date the discovery to the 1st century. The house is in the village of Ein Karem, the traditional birthplace of John the…
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Fast Forward 4 Israelis Wounded in West Bank Shooting Attack
A gunman opened fire at a group of Israelis near a Jewish settlement in the occupied West Bank on Monday, the Israeli military said, in a suspected Palestinian drive-by attack. A spokesman for Israel’s ambulance service Magen David Adom said medics were treating four people in their twenties, one of them badly wounded. A military…
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Fast Forward Jewish Lord Faces British Child Sex Charges
British prosecutors said on Monday an aging Jewish member of the House of Lords would now face criminal action over accusations of serious historical child sex crimes after they overturned an earlier decision following anger from alleged victims. Lord Greville Janner, 86, a former Labour member of parliament and ex-president of the Board of Deputies…
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Fast Forward Israel Vows ‘Serious’ Probe of Gaza War Crimes
Israel and the Palestinians promised on Monday to investigate alleged war crimes committed by their forces during the 2014 Gaza war, amid growing calls for an end to impunity on both sides. During an often virulent three-hour debate at the U.N. Human Rights Council, boycotted by Israel, the president of the Geneva forum rebuked envoys…
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