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Opinion Is Bibi Softening His Line on ‘Undivided’ Jerusalem?
It’s been a week since Bar-Ilan 2, Benjamin Netanyahu’s jarringly hardline policy address October 6 at the university campus where he first endorsed Palestinian statehood in 2009. And so far there’s been almost no public reaction. What little attention there’s been has gone mostly to his defiantly hardline statements on Iran. The important part has…
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Fast Forward Chuck Hagel Insists U.S. Remains ‘Clear Eyed’ on Iran Threat to Israel
Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon and U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel met at the Pentagon for the third time in the past six months. Hagel told Yaalon during Tuesday’s meeting that while U.S. officials intend to test the prospect for a diplomatic solution with Iran, “we remain clear eyed about the challenges ahead and will…
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Fast Forward ‘No Jeans’ in Iran Claim Earns Ridicule for Benjamin Netanyahu on Social Media
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu may have sought to win over Iranians in an interview with British Persian-language television, but a casual assertion that they were banned from wearing jeans won only gentle ridicule from some of his audience on Sunday. Netanyahu has watched with some concern a diplomatic drive by new Iranian President Hassan…
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Opinion Feeding the Bad, Not the Good
David Barash, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Washington, tells an instructive story in a recent New York Times OpEd essay. The story, he tells us, is believed to be of Cherokee origin. “A girl is troubled by a recurrent dream in which two wolves fight viciously. Seeking an explanation, she goes to her…
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Israel News Israeli Holocaust Survivors Split Over Iran’s Acknowledgement of Nazi Crimes
Israel has brusquely dismissed Iran’s moves away from the Holocaust denial of its previous president. But actual Holocaust survivors in Israel are divided on how to react to the development. “Personally, for me, it was important — it made me feel something,” said Chava Hershkovitz, 80, at the Yad Ezer L’Haver home for survivors in…
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Fast Forward Iran Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamanei Says Charm Offensive ‘Not Proper’
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Saturday he supported moderate President Hassan Rouhani’s diplomatic initiative at the U.N. General Assembly last week but that some of what occurred there was “not proper”. In his first comments since Rouhani, committed to easing Iran’s international isolation, spoke by telephone with U.S. President Barack Obama, Khamenei…
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Fast Forward Benjamin Netanyahu’s ‘Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing’ Warning on Iran Leaves Him as Lone Wolf
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said this week that Iran’s new president was a “wolf in sheep’s clothing”, but he himself looked increasingly like a lone wolf as his allies seek to bring Tehran into the fold. After years of worrying about Iran’s disputed nuclear ambitions, Netanyahu took to the stage at the U.N. General…
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Fast Forward Benjamin Netanyahu Says He Would Take Phone Call From Iran Leader
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told U.S. media he would not initiate contact with the new Iranian president, but would not turn down an overture out of hand. “Yeah, we’re not the first to call,” Netanyahu told Piers Morgan, a CNN host who asked him in an interview segment broadcast Thursday if he would take…
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