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Fast Forward Kidnap Ringleader Gets Life in Killings of 3 Israeli Teens
An Israeli military court on Tuesday sentenced a Palestinian to life imprisonment over the killing of three Israeli youths, whose abduction in the occupied West Bank set off a chain of events leading to the 50-day Gaza war last summer. The court found that Hussam Kawasmeh, a member of the militant Hamas Islamist group, planned…
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Fast Forward Alan Dershowitz Swears No Sex With Teen Girl
Prominent U.S. criminal defense lawyer Alan Dershowitz has filed a sworn statement denying he had sex with an underage girl on financier Jeffrey Epstein’s private plane and island. Dershowitz filed the statement in Florida federal court on Monday night, along with a motion to join in a lawsuit brought against the U.S. government by Dershowitz’s…
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Fast Forward Mahmoud Abbas Takes Risk With International Criminal Court Move
For someone nearing 80, President Mahmoud Abbas still knows how to shake things up. But his decision last week to join the International Criminal Court is a high-risk move that may set back the ultimate goal: an independent Palestinian state. Frustrated by the lack of progress in negotiations with Israel – the last, fruitless talks…
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Fast Forward Etan Patz ‘Killer’ Goes on Trial — Will Missing SoHo Boy Get Justice?
A former deli worker goes on trial on Monday for the murder of 6-year-old Etan Patz, whose disappearance more than three decades ago while walking to a school bus stop galvanized the nation’s attention to the issue of missing children. Pedro Hernandez, 53, who confessed to the crime in 2012, is charged in state Supreme…
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Fast Forward Abbas Seeks To Resubmit Statehood Bid to U.N. Security Council
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said on Sunday he was discussing with Jordan plans to resubmit to the United Nations Security Council a resolution calling for the establishment of a Palestinian state that failed to win enough votes last week. Jordan remains a member of the Security Council while several other countries with revolving membership were…
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Fast Forward Israel Arrests Palestinian Militants Inspired by Islamic State
Israeli forces have detained three Islamic State-inspired militants in the occupied West Bank, the first known Palestinian cell linked to the Syria- and Iraq-based insurgent group, the Shin Bet internal security service said on Sunday. It said the three men, all in their early 20s and from Hebron, were arrested in November and told interrogators…
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Fast Forward Israel Freezes $125M in Palestinian Cash To Retaliate for ICC Move
Israel has decided to freeze a monthly revenue transfer to the Palestinians in response to President Mahmoud Abbas’s approach to the International Criminal Court and other international agencies, an Israeli official said on Saturday. The official said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanayhu had decided, in consultation with cabinet ministers, to freeze a planned monthly transfer of…
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Fast Forward Israel Plans To Target Top Palestinian Leaders for ‘War Crimes’
Israel is looking at ways to prosecute senior Palestinians for war crimes in the United States and elsewhere in response to Palestinian steps to join the International Criminal Court, an Israeli official said on Saturday. The Palestinians delivered to U.N. headquarters in New York on Friday documents on joining the Rome Statute of the International…
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