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Fast Forward Marco Rubio and Benjamin Netanyahu Toast Israel Ties — With Water Bottles
Senator Marco Rubio and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu toasted their nations’ close ties on Wednesday with a click of plastic water bottles reminiscent of the Republican’s sip seen ‘round the world in Washington last week. Photographers captured the cross-table gesture in Netanyahu’s office moments after Rubio remarked how Israel resides “in a challenging neighbourhood,”…
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News Israel’s Tzipi Livni Will Face Struggle To Jumpstart Palestinian Peace Process
Tzipi Livni’s coalition pact with right-winger Benjamin Netanyahu speaks volumes about the obstacles ahead for the moderate former Israeli foreign minister in her new task of pursuing peace with the Palestinians. Expectations of a new peacemaking initiative have been raised by a planned visit to Israel, the West Bank and Jordan next month by U.S….
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Fast Forward Lawmakers Meet Cuba’s Raul Castro on Jailed Jewish Contractor Alan Gross
A seven-member U.S. congressional delegation met on Tuesday with Cuban President Raul Castro, official media reported, to improve relations that have been strained since U.S. government contractor Alan Gross was imprisoned there in 2009. Members of the group, which arrived on Monday, also met with Gross, said a delegation member who asked not to be…
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Fast Forward Chabad’s Historic Schneerson Collection of Writings Will Stay in Russia, Putin Vows
A disputed collection of Jewish writings will remain in Russia because returning it to a New York-based group would set a precedent paving the way for more such claims dating back to Soviet times, President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday. Dispute over the Jewish books and documents claimed by the Chabad-Lubavitch group adds to tensions…
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Fast Forward Israeli Ex-Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni Agrees To Join Netanyahyu Coalition
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took a first step in forming a new government on Tuesday, announcing a coalition deal with former Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni and naming her to handle efforts to renew stalled diplomacy with the Palestinians. Netanyahu’s choice of Livni, a moderate voice for a government led by his right-wing Likud party,…
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Fast Forward Israel’s Prisoner X Hanged Himself in Cell Amid Mossad Spy Claims: Judge
Israel released details on Tuesday about the 2010 jailhouse suicide of an Australian immigrant reported to have been a disgraced Mossad spy, saying he hanged himself in his cell and no foul play was involved. The affair was kept under wraps until it emerged last week with an Australian television expose that identified the dead…
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Fast Forward Hundreds of Palestinians Stage 1-Day Prison Fast
Hundreds of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails declared a one-day fast on Tuesday in solidarity with four inmates whose hunger strike has fuelled anti-Israel protests in the occupied West Bank. Samer al-Issawi, one of the four Palestinians who have been on hunger strike, has been refusing food, intermittently, for more than 200 days. His family…
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Fast Forward Anger Grows Over Israeli Soldier’s Photo of Palestinian in Crosshairs on Instagram
An Israeli soldier has provoked an outcry by publishing a photograph that appeared to show the back of a Palestinian boy’s head seen through the crosshairs of a rifle. Israel’s army said on Tuesday it would hold an investigation into the conduct of the soldier, who posted the picture on the online photo-sharing website Instagram….
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