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Fast Forward Gaza Blockade Won’t End With Turkey Apology and Ties, Israel Insists
Israel did not commit to ending its Gaza blockade as part of reconciliation with Turkey and could clamp down even harder on the Palestinian enclave if security is threatened, a senior Israeli official said on Sunday. After Friday’s U.S.-brokered fence-mending announcement, Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said Israel had met his demands it apologise for…
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Fast Forward Joe Weider, Iconic Jewish Bodybuilding and Magazine Guru, Dies at 93
Joe Weider, the self-made fitness and bodybuilding guru who built a magazine empire that included more than a dozen popular publications such as Muscle and Fitness, Shape and Men’s Fitness, died on Saturday at the age of 93. Weider, also known for starting the Mr Olympia bodybuilding contest in the 1960s and mentoring a young…
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Fast Forward Fallen Jewish Oligarch Boris Berezovsky Found Dead, Amid Depression and Mystery
From car salesman to Kremlin king-maker to billionaire political exile, Boris Berezovsky seemed to play a role in nearly every crucial scene in the roller coaster drama of post-Soviet Russia. A mathematician by training, Berezovsky’s expertise at political calculus gave him power beyond his position in a career that made him many enemies – the…
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Fast Forward John Kerry Holds ‘Useful’ Talks With Israel and Palestinians as Obama Jets Home
Secretary of State John Kerry had “useful” separate talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Saturday, a senior U.S. State Department official said. The official gave no details on the meetings, which followed President Barack Obama’s visit to Israel and the Palestinian Territories this week in which he called…
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Fast Forward Turkish Leader Tayyip Erdogan Says Israel’s Gaza Flotilla Apology Reflects Clout
Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday an Israeli apology for the 2010 deaths of nine Turkish pro-Palestinian activists that was brokered by U.S. President Barack Obama met Turkey’s conditions and signaled its growing regional influence. “We are entering a new period in both Turkey and the region,” said Erdogan, who plans to visit the…
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Fast Forward Barack Obama Leaves Trail of Shattered Arab Dreams for New Mideast Approach
President Barack Obama was greeted with calls of “We love you” when he visited Cairo in his first term, seeking to turn the page on the Bush era with talk of a new beginning for ties between the United States and the Muslim world. Four years on, Egyptians who attended the Cairo University speech feel…
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News ‘Mr. Broadband’ Julius Genachowski, Talmud Ace, Quits as FCC Chair
Julius Genachowski said on Friday he will step down as chairman of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission in the coming weeks after four years on the job, and touted his record of working to expand broadband Internet service to Americans. Genachowski, whose term was due to end in June, told FCC staffers he would be…
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Fast Forward Barack Obama Plays Tourist-in-Chief in Visit to Ancient City of Petra
President Barack Obama marvelled at the sights of Jordan’s ancient city of Petra on Saturday as he wrapped up a four-day Middle East tour by setting aside weighty diplomatic matters and playing tourist for a day. The visit followed a trip to Israel and the Palestinian Territories that was capped by Obama’s brokering of a…
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