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Fast Forward University of Illinois Rescinds Offer to Professor After Anti-Israel Tweets
The University of Illinois rescinded a job offer to an incoming professor who harshly criticized Israel on Twitter. Steven Salaita, who was offered a job at the Champaign-Urbana campus in the American Indian studies program, will not be hired, according to a report by the website Inside Higher Education. The move reportedly was made in…
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News Israel Ambassador Slams United Nations For ‘Complicity’ In Hamas Existence
Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations slammed its members for “their complicity in allowing organizations like Hamas to continue to exist in the Middle East.” Ron Prosor spoke Wednesday at a special General Assembly session on Gaza. “This institution was founded to stand for truth, for justice, and for moral clarity. This is no longer…
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Fast Forward Gaza Truce Holds for Day 2 — War Looks Done
A Gaza truce was holding on Wednesday as Egyptian mediators pursued talks with Israeli and Palestinian representatives on an enduring end to a war that has devastated the Hamas Islamist- dominated enclave. Egyptian intelligence officials met in Cairo with a high-level Israeli delegation late on Tuesday, a day after conferring with Palestinians who included envoys…
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Fast Forward London Times Rejects Elie Wiesel Anti-Hamas ‘Child Sacrifice’ Ad
The London Times refused to run an ad featuring Nobel Prize winner Elie Wiesel speaking out against Hamas’ use of children as human shields. The ad sponsored by The Values Network, which was founded by Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, has run in The New York Times, Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal, among other U.S….
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Fast Forward U.S. Attitudes Towards Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Haven’t Changed Since 2002
Americans’ attitudes on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict are little changed from 2002, a new Gallup poll found. The poll published Tuesday and conducted Aug. 2-3 found that Americans’ views of the conflict have changed little over the past 10 days — or the past 12 years. Respondents are about evenly divided over whether Israel’s actions in…
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Fast Forward TV Crews Expose Hamas Rockets in Residential Areas of Gaza
French and Indian TV stations broadcast footage showing Hamas rocket launching facilities in a civilian area. The French TV station, France 24, showed a rocket launching pad located about 100 yards from a United Nations building flying the blue U.N. flag. A hotel housing journalists covering the Gaza conflict was located about 50 yards from…
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News Ringleader in 3 Teens’ Kidnapping Is Nabbed
A West Bank man said to be the leader of the terrorist cell that kidnapped and killed three Israeli teenagers in June was arrested. A gag order on reporting the arrest, which took place more than three weeks ago, was lifted Tuesday evening, according to Israeli media. Hussam Kawasme of Hebron was apprehended while attempting…
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News Israel Claims Arrest of Ringleader of Kidnapping of 3 Teens
A West Bank man said to be the leader of the terrorist cell that kidnapped and killed three Israeli teenagers in June was arrested. A gag order on reporting the arrest, which took place more than three weeks ago, was lifted Tuesday evening, according to Israeli media. Hussam Kawasme of Hebron was apprehended while attempting…
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