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Fast Forward Two Israelis Stabbed To Death as Unrest Spreads
An Israeli soldier and a woman were stabbed to death by Palestinians in Tel Aviv and the occupied West Bank on Monday, extending a surge in violence fueled by strife over access to Jerusalem’s holiest site. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pledged to crush “terror being directed at all parts of the country” – remarks appearing…
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News Palestinian Activist Convicted of Lying to U.S. About Israeli Terror Bombing
A Palestinian activist was found guilty on Monday of immigration fraud for failing to reveal to U.S. authorities that she had been convicted and served time in Israel for a 1969 supermarket bombing that killed two people. After a trial last week in a federal court in Detroit, Rasmieh Yousef Odeh, 67, was convicted of…
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Fast Forward Benjamin Netanyahu Threatens To Expel Protesting Palestinians
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday publicly challenged Israeli Arabs protesting against a deadly police shooting in one of their villages to go and live under Palestinian rule in the West Bank and Gaza. Ahmed Tibi, a prominent Arab legislator, said the comments – some of the most biting Netanyahu has directed at the country’s…
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Fast Forward Benjamin Netanyahu Faces Rising Right-Wing Dissent in Government
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is trying to keep his fractious coalition together as talk of early elections grows, but in trying to bolster himself domestically he runs the risk of further alienating international partners. To satisfy restive far-right parties in his government, Netanyahu has promised more settlement on land the Palestinians seek for an…
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Music Soldier Stabbed in Suspected Tel Aviv Terror Attack
A Palestinian stabbed and critically wounded an Israeli soldier near a Tel Aviv train station on Monday, police said, as anti-Israel violence that has raised concern about a new Palestinian uprising in the making reached the country’s business capital. Israeli-Palestinian tensions have festered over access to a Jerusalem compound housing Islam’s third holiest site and…
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Music Israeli Ministers Approve Applying Israel Law to West Bank Settlers
A ministerial committee approved a proposed bill on Sunday that would ensure the wholesale application of Israeli law to Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank, a move sponsored by legislators who want Israel to annex part of the territory. But Justice Minister Tzipi Livni, Israel’s chief negotiator in peace talks with the Palestinians that…
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Fast Forward Israeli Arabs Call Strike Over Police Killing
Community leaders of Israel’s Arab minority declared a 24-hour general commercial strike, starting on Sunday, following the shooting dead by police of a man from the village of Kafr Kana in the north of the country. Thousands took to the streets on Saturday and some threw rocks and lit fires at the entrance to Kafr…
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Fast Forward Pittsburgh Surgeon Guilty in Wife’s Cyanide Poisoning Death
A jury found a University of Pittsburgh neurological surgery professor guilty of first degree murder on Friday for the cyanide poisoning death of his physician wife, in what prosecutors described as a crime of jealousy. The jury of eight men and four women rendered its verdict in the trial of Dr. Robert Ferrante, 66, after…
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