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Fast Forward Barack Obama Defends Decision Not To Meet With Benjamin Netanyahu
President Barack Obama on Monday defended his decision not to meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during his upcoming Washington visit as following basic protocol of not meeting with world leaders just weeks before an election. “We have a practice of not meeting with leaders right before their elections,” Obama said at a joint news…
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Fast Forward Mideast ‘Quartet’ Urges Restart of Peace Talks
The “Quartet” of Middle East peace mediators urged a prompt resumption of talks between Israel and the Palestinians after a meeting in Munich on Sunday and voiced concern about the slow pace of reconstruction in Gaza, damaged in last year’s war. Talks broke down last April with the Palestinians angry at continued building of Jewish…
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Fast Forward Nancy Pelosi Undecided on Attending Benjamin Netanyahu Speech to Congress
House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi said on Thursday she hopes Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to the U.S. Congress next month does not take place because Republican House Speaker John Boehner had invited him for political reasons. Pelosi told reporters she still intends to attend the March 3 speech. Netanyahu has been fending off…
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Fast Forward Israel Diplomats Face Ax for Anti-Bibi Tweets — Compared to Renegade Soldiers
An Israeli ambassador and two other diplomats face possible dismissal for publishing posts on Twitter critical of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his testy relationship with the White House, the Foreign Ministry said on Thursday. The offending tweets came as Netanyahu, who is seeking a fourth term in office, fends off criticism at home and…
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Fast Forward Jewish End-of-Life Activists Sue New York Over Law Barring Doctor-Aided Suicide
A group of doctors and patients, some terminally ill, on Wednesday asked a New York court to rule that doctor-assisted suicide is not against state law. The lawsuit, filed against New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman in Manhattan Supreme Court, claimed that a New York law making it a crime to cause or aid another…
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Fast Forward Slain Argentina Prosecutor Drafted Warrant for President and Hector Timerman
An Argentine prosecutor found dead in mysterious circumstances last month had drafted a request that President Cristina Fernandez be arrested for conspiring to derail his probe into the deadly bombing of a Jewish center, the investigator into his death said on Tuesday. The papers were found in the trash at Alberto Nisman’s apartment while his…
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Fast Forward Bombing Victims Testify at U.S. Trial on PLO Role in Israel Attacks
Seconds after the blast hit downtown Jerusalem, Jamie Sokolow lay on the ground, her right eye damaged by shrapnel and her face feeling as though someone had set it aflame. “I thought, ‘I’m 12 years old, I’m from New York, and I’m going to die,’” she testified in Manhattan federal court on Monday, at times…
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Fast Forward Dominique Strauss-Kahn Goes on Trial in Prostitution Case
Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the former International Monetary Fund chief tipped to become French president before a New York hotel maid accused him of sexual assault in 2011, went on trial in France on Monday in a separate case of alleged procuring of prostitutes. Strauss-Kahn, 65, who settled a U.S. civil case with chambermaid Nafissatou Diallo after…
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