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Fast Forward Gun Battle Erupts as Israel Presses Search for Kiddnapped Teens
Israeli forces traded gunfire with Palestinians on Thursday, the military said, in the fiercest street battles in the occupied West Bank since a search began for three Israeli teenagers missing for a week. Hospital officials said three Palestinians suffered bullet wounds in the overnight clashes in Jenin, a militant stronghold and the scene of deadly…
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Opinion Benjamin Netanyahu Lashes Out at Hamas — But Real Enemy Is Elsewhere
On Monday afternoon, June 9, the research director of Israel’s military intelligence corps appeared before an international audience of defense experts and policymakers at a conference near Tel Aviv and delivered an hour-long, rapid-fire outline of the strategic threats and opportunities facing the Jewish state in 2014. Speaking in a terse, emotionless Hebrew, Brigadier General…
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Fast Forward Kidnapping of Teens Puts Strain on Palestinian Unity
(Reuters) — The disappearance of three Jewish youths in the occupied West Bank has rocked reconciliation between Palestinian political factions and risks sinking a new unity government, analysts and officials have said. Israel has accused the Islamist group Hamas of orchestrating the kidnapping of the three teenagers last Thursday and has detained at least 240 Palestinians…
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Fast Forward Israel Arrests 51 Prisoners It Freed in Gilad Shalit Swap as Crackdown Widens
Israel re-arrested 51 Palestinians freed in a 2011 prisoner swap deal, the army said on Wednesday, in the sixth day of a hunt for three missing teenagers believed abducted in the occupied West Bank. Israel accuses Hamas Islamists of kidnapping the seminary students, who disappeared on Thursday while hitchhiking from a Jewish settlement. There has…
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Opinion Kidnapping of West Bank Teens Points To Worse To Come
As June opened, it was easy to joke that an honest headline writer could only proclaim “Hamas Gives Up Control of Gaza; Israel Outraged.” But with the abduction of three Israeli teenagers who were reportedly hitchhiking in the West Bank, it is clear that the implications of the current political situation are not funny. Yes,…
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Fast Forward Kidnapped Teens’ Families Meet for First Time
The families of the three kidnapped Israeli teens met together for the first time. The parents and other family members of Eyal Yifrach, Gilad Shaar and Naftali Frenkel met Tuesday morning at the Frenkel’s home in Nof Ayalon. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke with the families by phone during their meeting. “We are doing…
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Fast Forward Israel Detains 40 Hamas Leaders in Kidnapped Teens Search
Israeli forces detained more than 40 Hamas militants on Tuesday, the military said, in a West Bank crackdown on the Islamist group that is being conducted in tandem with a search for three missing teenagers. Israel blames Hamas for the abduction of the Jewish seminary students, who went missing last Thursday. The Islamist movement, which…
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Opinion Prayer Won’t #BringBackOurBoys
When my eldest daughter was three years old, she enjoyed a comfortable morning routine. After breakfast, if she dressed quickly, she was allowed to watch half an episode of “Sesame Street” before heading off to school. Like most three-year-olds, she enjoyed the predictability and sameness of quiet time with Elmo and Grover and Oscar the…
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