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Fast Forward Europe Court Pulls Hamas From Terror Blacklist
The Palestinian Islamist group Hamas should be removed from the European Union’s terrorist list, an EU court ruled on Wednesday, saying the decision to include it was based on media reports not considered analysis. However, in its ruling, the bloc’s second highest tribunal said member states could maintain their freeze on Hamas’s assets for three…
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Fast Forward Ireland Parliament Votes Unanimously for ‘Palestine’
Ireland’s lower house of Parliament approved a nonbinding resolution calling on the government to formally recognize the state of Palestine. The measure that passed unanimously late Tuesday night in the Dail was sponsored by the left-wing Sinn Fein party. It calls for a State of Palestine on the basis of the 1967 borders with eastern…
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Fast Forward Israel Rejects Europe Appeal To Spare Terrorists Homes
Israel has rejected an appeal by the five biggest members of the European Union not to raze the homes of Palestinians who carried out lethal attacks in Jerusalem, saying on Friday that the tactic was designed to deter further violence. Israel’s Haaretz newspaper said the Foreign Ministry heard arguments from the German, French, British, Italian…
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Opinion Anti-Semitism Creeps Into Europe’s Daily Routines
Ten years ago the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe convened a conference on European anti-Semitism. Last week it met to assess what had happened in the past decade. The signs are not good. While a good part of the meeting was dedicated to official presentations by the participating nations, it was what one…
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Fast Forward Europe Insists No Plans for Anti-Israel Sanctions
The European Union has no intention of imposing sanctions on Israel if it takes steps to block a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the EU’s new foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini said on Monday. European diplomats have said the EU is looking at new ways to press Israel to halt its building of settlements…
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Fast Forward Europe Eyes ‘Chinese Menu’ of Anti-Israel Sanctions
(Haaretz) — An internal European Union document on proposed sanctions against Israel, which Haaretz obtained in its entirety on Monday, reveals new details on the suggestions being made in the internal discussions among EU member states that have been taking place in EU institutions in Brussels. Among the options under consideration are measures against European…
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Fast Forward Europe Jews Come to U.S. To Learn Security Best Practices
European Jewish institutions increasingly find themselves potential terror targets. But attempts to ramp up security at synagogues, day schools, museums and community centers from Paris to Copenhagen have been stymied both by a lingering distrust of the police among some communities and by law enforcement’s reluctance to single out any ethnic minority for special treatment…
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Fast Forward Israel’s Region More Dangerous Than Ever
Israel’s region has never been more dangerous, the European Union’s new foreign policy chief, Federica Mogherini, said on a visit to Israel and the Palestinian Authority. Mogherini made the statement on Friday in Jerusalem, during her first official trip outside the union since she was appointed in August High Representative of the European Union for…
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