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Fast Forward Jews Demand Argentina Scrap Iran Bomb ‘Probe’
In a letter to Foreign Minister Hector Timerman, the Simon Wiesenthal Center called on Argentina to immediately cancel its accord with Iran to investigate the bombing of a Buenos Aires Jewish center. Monday’s letter follows Iran’s demand that Interpol arrest warrants be suspended against its citizens implicated in the 1994 attack on the AMIA Jewish…
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Fast Forward Barack Obama and Benjamin Netanyahu Set Aside Differences, Offer Smiles for Press
U.S. President Barack Obama pledged on Wednesday to hold Syria to account if it used chemical weapons and reassured Israel of U.S. resolve against Iran as he tried to allay the security fears of the main U.S. ally in the Middle East. Obama, visiting Israel for the first time as president and seeking to bolster…
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Opinion New Israeli Defense Chief: Tough-talking Hardliner
Ynet.co.il, the news site associated with Yediot Ahronot, has a profile of incoming Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon (known since his youth by the nickname “Boogy”). It’s important reading, so I’ve translated it below. Here’s the background that’s not in the profile: Born Moshe Smilansky in 1950, raised in suburban Haifa, he was active in the…
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Fast Forward Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon May Be Voice of Moderation on Iran
Although Benjamin Netanyahu’s next defence minister shares his deep distrust of the Palestinians, the two could yet clash about when – and whether – Israel should go to war with Iran. Ex-general Moshe Yaalon is a loyalist of Netanyahu’s Likud party who, as a senior if sometimes sidelined member of the outgoing coalition government, routinely…
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Fast Forward Obama Won’t Trip Over Netanyahu’s Iran ‘Red Line’
U.S. President Barack Obama visits Israel next week at the onset of spring – the “red line” previously drawn by his host, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, to trigger an attack on Iran’s nuclear sites. But an Israeli-Iranian war, Washington’s nightmare as it tries to scale back defence commitments abroad and avoid a draining Gulf oil…
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Fast Forward Shimon Peres Tells Europe to Step Up Pressure on Iran Over Nuclear Program
Israeli President Shimon Peres urged the European Union on Tuesday to step up pressure on Iran over its ballistic missile programme, as well as trying to curb its nuclear ambitions. In a speech to the European Parliament that touched on the Jewish state’s foreign policy goals, the Nobel peace laureate sought to persuade European lawmakers…
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Fast Forward U.S. Envoy Walks Out of Nuclear Meeting After Iran Accuses Israel of Genocide
The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations nuclear watchdog stormed out of an agency meeting on Wednesday in protest when Iran’s representative accused Israel of “genocide”, diplomats said Officials from Canada and Australia also left the closed-door meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA) 35-nation governing board when Iran’s Ali Asghar Soltanieh made his…
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Fast Forward Joe Biden Tells AIPAC That Obama Is Not ‘Bluffing’ on Iran Nuclear Threat
Vice President Joe Biden told America’s biggest pro-Israel lobbying organization on Monday that President Barack Obama is “not bluffing” about the United States’ determination to stop Iran from getting a nuclear weapon. “The president of the United States cannot and does not bluff. President Barack Obama is not bluffing,” he told the American Israel Public…
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