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Fast Forward Avigdor Lieberman Accuses Israeli Lawmakers of Being Hamas Members
Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman wrote on his Facebook page that some members of Knesset represent Hamas, the terrorist organization that governs Gaza. The comment, reported by Haaretz, came following an Egyptian court ruling outlawing Hamas and shutting its offices in the country. “We still have Hamas representatives sitting in the Knesset,” Lieberman wrote, according…
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Fast Forward Amputee Soldier Proposes to Girlfriend on Stage of IDF Gala
An Israeli soldier who lost his arm in a Hamas terror attack proposed to his girlfriend from the stage of a Friends of the IDF event in Florida. Capt. Ziv Shilon proposed on Thursday in front of about 1,000 people at the Friends of the Israel Defense Forces’ Greater Miami Chapter Solidarity Gala in Hollywood….
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Fast Forward Mystery of Lost 2,000-Year-Old Bronze Apollo Statue in Gaza
Lost for centuries, a rare bronze statue of the Greek god Apollo has mysteriously resurfaced in the Gaza Strip, only to be seized by police and vanish almost immediately from view. Word of the remarkable find has caught the imagination of the world of archaeology, but the police cannot say when the life-sized bronze might…
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Opinion Politics v. Defense: Hamas Backfire, Shin Bet Purge
Hamas police on the Gaza-Egypt border, September 2013 / Getty Images Ideology continues to trump security in the Netanyahu government’s approach to combating terrorism. As Hamas struggles to maintain its November 2012 cease-fire with Israel in the face of increasing rocket fire, mostly by al Qaeda-linked Salafi jihad factions, Israel responds by bombing Hamas facilities….
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Fast Forward Israeli Documentary on Hamas Spy Wins Audience Award at Sundance
An Israeli documentary about how the son of Hamas leader Hassan Yousef spent a decade as Israel’s top informer in the West Bank received a top honor at the Sundance Film Festival. “The Green Prince,” which premiered last week at the film festival in Utah, won the Audience Award for World Cinema Documentary on Sunday….
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Opinion How Israel’s Politics vs. Security Rift Aids Jihadis
Hamas fighters testing a Gaza-made M-75 long-range missile, November 2013 / Getty Images Maariv’s Eli Bardenstein offered a stunningly clear and disturbing report (in Hebrew, my translation below) on Friday that illustrates the vexing complications introduced into the triangular Jerusalem-Cairo-Gaza relationship by political turmoil in all three places. It makes a very useful companion piece…
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Fast Forward Gaza Sniper Kills Israel Border Worker
A Gaza sniper killed an Israeli civilian over the border on Tuesday, Israeli military and medical officials said, in a shooting that drew a threat of possible military action from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The man was the first Israeli killed on the Gaza frontier in more than a year. His death comes amid heightened…
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Fast Forward 1 Million Gaza Palestinians Will Need Food Aid
Almost a million people are expected to need food aid in the Gaza Strip next year, a U.N. agency said on Wednesday as it appealed for $95 million from donors. About 813,000 Palestinian refugees currently receive food aid from the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), but the organisation expects a 10-20 percent rise…
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