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Fast Forward Benjamin Netanyahu Invites Mahmoud Abbas To Address Israel’s Knesset
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu welcomed “the spirit of the Arab Peace Initiative” and invited Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to the Knesset in his General Assembly speech on Thursday. “The UN began as moral force, and has become a moral farce,” Netanyahu said. He said that while the United Nations denounces Israel, the United States supports Israel….
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Fast Forward Mel Brooks Warned by President Obama: Don’t Sell Arts Medal on eBay
President Barack Obama awarded 24 American giants of the arts and humanities with medals on Thursday, lauding their accomplishments – and sharing some laughs. Comedian Mel Brooks, who Obama has said he admires for his over-the-top Western satire “Blazing Saddles,” dropped to one knee as if receiving a knighthood after he was given his official…
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Fast Forward Citing ‘Infamous’ Balfour Declaration, Mahmoud Abbas Calls on Britain To Recognize Palestine
Britain should apologize for the Balfour Declaration of 1917 that endorsed the establishment of a Jewish homeland in Palestine and should recognize Palestine as a state, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said on Thursday. “We ask Great Britain, as we approach 100 years since this infamous declaration, to draw the necessary lessons and to bear its…
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Fast Forward Barack Obama Pushes Benjamin Netanyahu for Peace Progress in Final Meeting
President Barack Obama told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday he had concerns about Israeli settlement expansion in the occupied West Bank and hoped the United States could still help to achieve Israeli-Palestinian peace. “Clearly there is great danger of not just terrorism but also flare-ups of violence,” Obama said at the start of…
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Fast Forward President Obama’s Final UN Speech Underlines Little Progress on Mideast Conflict
In his first major United Nations speech eight years ago, President Barack Obama said he would not give up on Israeli-Palestinian peace. In likely his last U.N. speech, on Tuesday, he spoke little about the conflict beyond voicing the unsurprising sentiment that matters would improve if Israel let go of Palestinian land and if the…
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Fast Forward ‘Allah Akhbar’ Attacker Strikes Israel Embassy in Turkey — Staff Safe
A suspected assailant was shot and wounded near the Israeli embassy in the Turkish capital Ankara on Wednesday, an Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman and Turkish police said. “The staff is safe. The attacker was wounded before he reached the embassy,” the spokesman said in a text message. “The assailant was shot and wounded by a…
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Fast Forward Angry Republicans Push Big Changes in $38B Israel Aid Package
Four Republican U.S. lawmakers said on Tuesday they would seek to overturn parts of a $38 billion military aid agreement with Israel, setting up a showdown with President Barack Obama over the package days after it was signed. Senators Lindsey Graham, Kelly Ayotte, John McCain and Ted Cruz told a news conference they wanted to…
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Fast Forward President Obama Urges Israel and Palestinians To End Deadlock in Final United Nations Speech
Both sides would benefit if Israel recognized it cannot permanently occupy Palestinian land and if Palestinians rejected incitement and recognized Israel’s legitimacy, U.S. President Barack Obama told the United Nations on Tuesday. Obama’s efforts to bring about an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement have failed over the nearly eight years he has been in the White House,…
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