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Fast Forward Israel MIlitary Masses Along Gaza Border
Israel ramped up its armored forces along the Gaza border on Thursday in a daylight show of force, a day after a Palestinian rocket destroyed a home in southern Israel. With the deployment clearly visible from main Israeli roads near the Gaza Strip, senior Egyptian security officials met leaders of the enclave’s ruling Hamas to…
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Fast Forward Israel Kills 7 Palestinian Protesters In Gaza
Israeli forces killed seven Palestinians on Friday in protests along Gaza’s border, Gaza health officials said. Israel said its troops had shot and killed a group who broke through the fence with a bomb and attacked an army post. The Palestinian deaths bring to around 200 the number of Gazans killed since the border protests…
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Fast Forward Israeli Court Upholds Detention Of American Student Activist Lara Alqasem
An Israeli court on Friday upheld the barring of an American student from the country over her activities in support of an international boycott campaign by pro-Palestinian groups. Lara Alqasem, 22, flew to Israel last week on a student visa but was refused entry. While in airport detention, she filed an appeal with Tel Aviv…
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Fast Forward ‘Sortition’ Believer Busted In Election Day Bomb Plot On National Mall
Federal authorities were holding a New York man who they said planned to blow himself up on Washington’s National Mall on Election Day in November to promote his ideology that requires government leaders to be randomly selected. Paul Rosenfeld, 56, was charged on Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Manhattan with building multiple explosives, including…
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Fast Forward Harvey Weinstein Wins Dismissal Of One Criminal Charge
(Reuters) – A New York judge on Thursday dismissed one of the six criminal charges against movie producer Harvey Weinstein after prosecutors said they could not oppose the dismissal in light of information they had learned while investigating the case. The dismissed charge concerns an alleged sexual assault of a woman by Weinstein in 2004….
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Fast Forward Nikki Haley, Pro-Israel Voice At UN, Resigns Abruptly
The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, is resigning “to take a little time off,” President Donald Trump said on Tuesday, as she became the latest in a long line of high-profile departures from the administration. Trump said he had accepted Haley’s resignation and would name her successor within two or three weeks….
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Fast Forward 12-Year-Old Palestinian Boy Killed By Israel In Gaza Protest
Israeli forces killed three Palestinians including a 12-year-old boy at a protest along the Israel-Gaza border on Friday and wounded at least 126 others, Palestinian officials said. The Israeli army said it was defending against members of the crowd who were throwing grenades and explosives at its soldiers. Thousands of Palestinians had gathered for a…
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Fast Forward Einstein’s ‘God Is Nothing’ Handwritten Letter Goes On Block For $1.5M
A handwritten letter in which Nobel physicist Albert Einstein took issue with the concept of religion and his own Jewish faith is expected to fetch up to $1.5 million at auction in New York. Christie’s auctioneers said on Thursday that the so-called God Letter, written by Einstein in 1954, would be placed on public exhibit…
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