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Fast Forward Ron Dermer, Israel’s Pipeline to GOP, Named U.S. Envoy
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday named a close U.S.-born political adviser with reported links in the past to the Republican party as Israel’s new ambassador to Washington. Ron Dermer, 42, was widely seen in Israel as having steered Netanyahu toward showing almost overt support for Republican candidate Mitt Romney in his failed 2012 electoral…
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Fast Forward Israel Warns Against Bashing It Over Nukes
Arab diplomats signalled on Tuesday they would seek to step up pressure on Israel over its assumed nuclear arsenal but the Jewish state said any attempt to “bash” it would be counterproductive. Arab countries, angry at the lack of movement in efforts to move towards a Middle East free of nuclear weapons, have served notice…
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Fast Forward Israel Tries Palestinian Women Over Settlement Protests
Two Palestinian activists went on trial in an Israeli military court on Tuesday over their involvement in weekly demonstrations against a Jewish settlement in the occupied West Bank. Rights groups and activists say the prosecution of Nariman Tamimi and Rana Hamadeh comes amid an uptick of Israeli arrests in recent weeks of Palestinian protest organisers….
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Fast Forward The Secrets of Israel’s ‘Prisoner X2’
Israel has secretly jailed a member of its security services for a grave offence, a prominent Israeli lawyer said on Tuesday, describing the case as riveting and sensational. The revelation emerged from a memorandum released by the Justice Ministry on Monday on a previous secret detainee, Australian Ben Zygier, an immigrant and disgraced Mossad spy…
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Fast Forward Hamas Badly Shaken by Egypt Coup
Just a year ago, tens of thousands of Hamas supporters took to the streets of Gaza for a noisy celebration of the election of fellow Islamist Mohamed Mursi as Egypt’s president. Stunned silence among Hamas officials in the Palestinian enclave, which shares a border with Egypt’s lawless Sinai peninsula, greeted his overthrow last Wednesday by…
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Fast Forward Ultra-Orthodox Block Women From Praying at Western Wall
Several thousand ultra-Orthodox protesters effectively blocked Jewish women activists campaigning for equal worship rights at the Western Wall from holding a monthly prayer session on Monday at the holy site. Israeli police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said members and supporters of the Women of the Wall group were escorted by police to a spot a short…
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Fast Forward Eliot Spitzer Would Face Fellow Jew Scott Stringer in Battle for Comptroller
Eliot Spitzer is re-entering politics to run for New York City comptroller, five years after resigning as New York governor in a prostitution scandal. Spitzer, a Democrat, said he saw a more activist role for the comptroller, the city’s chief financial officer, and told Reuters he hoped voters were ready to move on from his…
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Fast Forward 42 Killed as Egypt Army Opens Fire on Islamists
At least 42 people were killed on Monday when Islamist demonstrators enraged by the military overthrow of Egypt’s elected President Mohamed Mursi said the army opened fire during morning prayers at the Cairo barracks where he is being held. But the military said “a terrorist group” tried to storm the Republican Guard compound and one…
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