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Fast Forward Conservative Movement Leaders Praise Netanyahu for ‘Arab’ Comment Apology
Conservative movement leaders applauded Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s regrets for an Election Day statement about Arab Israelis and decried a pledge by J Street to press Jewish groups not to spend in the West Bank. “The Rabbinical Assembly and the United Synagogue for Conservative Judaism welcome and applaud today’s apology by Prime Minister Netanyahu…
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Fast Forward Benjamin Netanyahu to Appoint Moshe Kahlon as Israel’s Finance Minister
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel said he will appoint Moshe Kahlon as the country’s finance minister. Kahlon, the founder and leader of the center-right Kulanu party, met with Netanyahu on Tuesday night, Haaretz reported. A day earlier, Kahlon had announced that his party, which won 10 Knesset seats in last week’s election, would join…
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Fast Forward Barack Obama Says Two-State Solution ‘Unlikely’ After Benjamin Netanyahu’s Comments
U.S. President Barack Obama said on Tuesday that his differences with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict are not personal but are based on fundamental policy differences over Middle East peace. Obama said it was hard to envision a path to a two-state solution to the conflict – long sought by the…
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Fast Forward Jeb Bush Disagrees With James Baker’s Comments on Netanyahu, Israel
Jeb Bush said he disagrees with critical comments on Israel made by former Secretary of State James Baker, his unofficial foreign policy adviser. Baker, a close friend of the Bush family, said at the liberal group J Street’s conference on Monday night that he was “disappointed” with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s attitude toward a…
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Fast Forward Netanyahu, Rivlin Send Condolence Letters to Brooklyn Family After Fire
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sent a condolence letter to the father who lost seven of his children in a house fire in Brooklyn. The children, ages 5 to 16, were buried in Jerusalem on Monday. “Each one of your children was a world unto him or herself, unique and special. There is no greater…
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Fast Forward Benjamin Netanyahu ‘Regrets’ Offending Israel’s Arabs With ‘Racist’ Comment
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday he regretted offending Israel’s Arabs during a rallying call on election day last week that his critics had denounced as racist. In a video clip posted on his Facebook page, Netanyahu told representatives of Israel’s Arab community: “I know that the things I said a few days…
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Opinion Want To Fight the Occupation After Bibi’s Victory? Here’s How.
Activists from Center for Jewish Nonviolence replant trees on the Nassar family farm / Courtesy Nothing has more depressed American Jewish progressives than the recent revelation that Israel will be facing four more years of Benjamin Netanyahu. Netanyahu’s renewed reign spells continued rancor between the two countries American Jewish progressives care about. It means more…
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Opinion Israeli Left Splits on Tactics at J Street Conference
J Street / Facebook Speaking at a press conference on the margins of the J Street national convention today, a group of left-wing Knesset members split over the role they’d like American Jews to play in American diplomacy, particularly at the United Nations. Responding to a reporter’s question, Zionist Union lawmakers Yoel Hasson and Ksenia…
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