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Fast Forward Settlements Should Not Disrupt Mideast Talks, Says Kerry
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Monday that Israel’s announcement of new settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem “were to some degree expected,” and urged Israelis and Palestinians to move head with peace talks due to resume this week. “What this underscores is the importance of getting to the table, getting…
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Fast Forward Egypt Cuts the Number of Palestinian Entries from Gaza Strip in Post Morsi Era
RAFAH, Gaza Strip — Egypt has sharply cut the number of Palestinians allowed to enter from the Gaza Strip since its military ousted Islamist president Mohamed Morsi last month, the tiny enclave’s Islamist Hamas rulers said on Monday. An Egyptian official said the curbs were “not a punishment” for Hamas’s Islamist leanings but an effort…
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Fast Forward 98-Year-Old Nazi Killer Dies Awaiting Hungary Trial
A 98-year-old Hungarian man has died awaiting trial on charges of torturing Jews and helping send them to Auschwitz in World War Two, his lawyer said on Monday. Laszlo Csatary, who always denied the accusations, died of pneumonia in a Budapest hospital on Saturday, lawyer Gabor Horvath told Reuters. The Nazi-hunting Simon Wiesenthal Center named…
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Fast Forward Israel To Release 26 Prisoners This Week as Part of Peace Deal
Israel decided on Sunday to free 26 Palestinian prisoners over the next few days ahead of a new round of peace talks, in the first group of a total of more than 100 inmates it pledged to release as part of a U.S.-brokered resumption of negotiations. Three senior members of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s cabinet…
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Fast Forward Palestinians Say Settlement Plans Undermine Talks
Palestinian chief negotiator Saeb Erekat said on Sunday Israel’s plans for new homes in Jewish settlements on occupied land were aimed to scupper peace talks that resume on Wednesday. Israel this week gave preliminary approval for 800 new settler homes in the occupied West Bank, put on the market plots for 1,200 more and were…
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Fast Forward Israel Marketing Settler Homes Two Days Before Prisoner Release
Israel said on Sunday it was marketing nearly 1,200 new homes for Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank, just two days before a planned release of long-serving Palestinian prisoners. Israel has made a major push on settlements since the resumption on July 30, after a three-year break, of U.S.-brokered talks on Palestinian statehood. Israeli…
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Fast Forward Benjamin Netanyahu Will Undergo Emergency Hernia Operation
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will undergo a hernia operation, his office said late on Saturday, a procedure that appeared unlikely to disrupt plans to advance peace talks with the Palestinians next week. A statement said Netanyahu, 63, would be hospitalised overnight for the surgery after he complained of abdominal pain. The procedure was expected…
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Fast Forward Benjamin Netanyahu Complains to John Kerry of Palestinian ‘Incitement’
Israel has complained to U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry about statements by the Palestinians which it said undermined nascent peace talks, an Israeli official said on Saturday. “Incitement and peace cannot coexist,” the official quoted Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as telling Kerry, the negotiations’ sponsor, in a letter sent over the weekend. The complaint…
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