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Fast Forward Turkish Prime Minister Lashes Out at Israel During Election Rally
Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan accused Israel on Sunday of deliberately killing Palestinian mothers and warned it would “drown in the blood it sheds”, pulling foreign policy to center stage as a presidential race enters its final week. Addressing hundreds of thousands of supporters at his biggest rally so far ahead of the Aug. 10…
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Fast Forward U.S. Will Not Leverage Arms Transfers to Israel to Bring About Cease-Fire
The Obama administration will not leverage arms transfers to Israel to bring about a cease-fire, the top Pentagon spokesman said. The arms and ammunition provided to Israel is “through a longstanding foreign military sales program,” Rear Adm. John Kirby, the Pentagon press secretary, told reporters on Saturday. “Israel is a staunch ally in that part…
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Fast Forward 2,500 Rally At Copacabana Beach in Rio For Peace in Israel
Some 2,500 people rallied at the Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro for peace in Israel and the Middle East. Participants of varying ages and types — Jews and non-Jews — marched along the promenade and in the street. They sang Hebrew songs, as well as the Brazilian and Israeli national anthems. Huge signs in…
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Fast Forward U.S. ‘Appalled’ By ‘Disgraceful Shelling’ On U.N. School in Gaza
The United States criticized the “disgraceful shelling” at a U.N. school in Gaza on Sunday and urged Israel to do more to prevent civilian casualties in its war against Hamas militants. State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki also called for an investigation into attacks on U.N. schools in densely populated Gaza. “The United States is appalled…
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Fast Forward U.N. Secretary General Condemns Attack on Gaza School as ‘Criminal Act’
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon condemned a deadly attack on a Gaza school on Sunday as a “moral outrage and a criminal act” and demanded those responsible for the “gross violation of international humanitarian law” be held accountable. The shelling of the U.N. school in Rafah in southern Gaza killed at least 10 civilians, the United…
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Fast Forward Escape Tunnel Discovered in Palestinian Prisoners’ Bathroom
An escape tunnel was discovered in the bathroom of Palestinian prisoners in an Israeli prison. Guards from the Israel Prisons Service uncovered the tunnel Sunday at the Gilboa Prison, in northern Israel, in a bathroom shared by eight members of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorist group. Two of the prisoners are serving life sentences, according…
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Fast Forward Thousands Attend Funeral of Fallen IDF Soldier Hadar Goldin
Thousands of mourners attended the funeral of Lt. Hadar Goldin, the soldier who was declared dead after first being feared kidnapped. Friends and family of Goldin, along with ordinary Israelis, converged on the military cemetery in Kfar Saba, in central Israel, for the rite on Sunday afternoon. “I didn’t expect you to leave me so…
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Fast Forward Israel Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon Tweets About Hadar Goldin
Israel Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon tweeted out condolences to the family of Hadar Goldin, the IDF soldier believed to be held captive by Hamas but who was killed in action on Friday. Goldin, a British-born member of the Givati Brigade, was a distant relative of Ya’alon’s. The 23-year-old had gotten engaged only weeks before the…
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