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Opinion In Jerusalem’s Conclaves, Mind-Numbing Meets Ugly
Jerusalem is having an unusually mild fall. November began amid sunny skies, temperatures in the high 60s, light breezes and just the slightest hint of feathery drizzle to announce that after a bone-dry October, the rainy season was finally about to return. Diaspora Jews are returning too. No, not the waves of immigration that generations…
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Fast Forward Jewish Groups Split as Iran Deal Looms — J Street Backs White House
Jewish groups were split Friday over a possible nuclear deal with Iran as the White House called Israeli and Saudi criticism premature and unease about the plan grew among U.S. lawmakers and Middle Eastern allies. “There is no deal, but there is an opportunity here for a possible diplomatic solution, and that is exactly what…
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Fast Forward Angry Benjamin Netanyahu Bitterly Rejects Nuclear Deal With Iran
Israel’s worst fears will be realised if a proposed deal by world powers goes ahead with Tehran, sharply curtailing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu options in his campaign against Iran’s contested nuclear programme. The possible accord might not only tie Israel’s hand in any future military action against Iran, but it could also have an unexpected…
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Fast Forward Israel Rejects Iran Nuclear Deal — John Kerry to Geneva as Agreement Nears
Israel rejected out of hand on Friday a mooted deal between world powers and Iran, just as U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry prepared to join nuclear talks that aim to nail down an interim agreement on the decade-old standoff. Western diplomats say that a deal at the negotiations in Geneva is far from certain,…
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Opinion Avigdor Lieberman Acquittal Upends Israel Politics
Israeli politics were turned upside down this week by the surprise acquittal on Wednesday of Avigdor Lieberman, the blunt-talking, Arab-bashing, Soviet-born former foreign minister and head of the Yisrael Beiteinu party. He had been charged with fraud, witness tampering and breach of trust for allegedly promoting a crony to an ambassadorship. The promotion was allegedly…
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Fast Forward First Woman to Head Bank of Israel Targets Economic Inequality
(JTA) Andromeda Hill is a beachfront complex of luxury apartments connected by tree-lined pathways that features such amenities as a spa and business center. Five minutes down the road is Ajami, a low-income neighborhood profiled in the 2009 film of the same name that remains one of this city’s poorer districts. Such gaps in income…
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Fast Forward Benjamin Netanyahu Sees Little Progress at Peace Talks as John Kerry Jets In
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday peace talks with the Palestinians had failed to make real progress and he hoped visiting U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry could get them back on track. The grim picture painted by the right-wing leader was similar to the one sketched by senior Palestinians, who have said…
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Opinion Kerry, ‘Sobered’ by Bibi’s Map, ‘Will Present Plan’
A day before Secretary of State John Kerry’s expected arrival in Israel to further peace talks, Israeli news media are reporting that Kerry has begun preparing an American peace plan to present to the parties in January as a basis for negotiations, if there isn’t progress by then. It will reportedly be based on the…
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