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Fast Forward Benjamin Netanyahu Poised To Win as Israel Starts To Vote in Election
Israelis voted on Tuesday in an election that is expected to see Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu win a third term in office, pushing the Jewish state further to the right, away from peace with the Palestinians and towards a showdown with Iran. However, Netanyahu’s own Likud party, running alongside the ultra-nationalist Yisrael Beitenu group, looks…
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Fast Forward Israel Set To Reelect Netanyahu, Shift to Right
Israelis look set to elect Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to a third term with a smaller majority on Tuesday, pushing the Jewish State even further to the right, away from peace with Palestinians and towards a showdown with Iran. Netanyahu has vowed to pursue the Jewish settlement of lands seized during the 1967 Middle East…
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News Obama Gives Iran Clues in Soaring Inaugural Speech
A fleeting reference in an inauguration speech otherwise focused on domestic policy offers a clue to President Obama’s preferred course of action when dealing with Iran in the next four years. “We will show the courage to try and resolve our differences with other nations peacefully,” Obama said. “(It’s) not because we are naive about…
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Fast Forward Netanyahu Fends Off Surge From Right Wing as Israel Election Looms
Israelis vote on Tuesday for the first time since revolutions convulsed their Arab neighbours, in an election expected to push the Jewish state even further to the right, away from peace with Palestinians and towards greater confrontation with Iran. After a lacklustre campaign, the election could be on course to give Israel the most hardline…
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Fast Forward Netanyahu Runs as Israel’s Strong Man
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has a simple message as he seeks a third term in office – he is a strong man and a vote for him at parliamentary elections on Jan. 22 means Israel will be a powerful nation. The Hebrew word for strong, “hazak”, peppers the television adverts of his right-wing Likud-Yisrael Beiteinu…
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Opinion Shimon Peres Talks with NYT About Iran and Bibi
“There are two things that cannot be made without closing your eyes — love and peace. If you try to make them with open eyes, you won’t get anywhere,” Shimon Peres tells Ronen Bergman in an illuminating interview in this weekend’s New York Times Magazine. While the 89-year-old President of Israel tells the journalist he…
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Fast Forward NYT: Iran Slowed Down Nuclear Advance, Seeks Talks
Iran has slowed down its nuclear program, signaling its willingness to negotiate its future, the New York Times reported. Citing U.S. and other Western officials, the paper reported on Friday that Iran began in August to convert some of its uranium enriched to 20 percent into an oxide powder that can be used in its…
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Fast Forward Iran Fires Only Female Minister
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Thursday dismissed his only female cabinet minister, Health Minister Marzieh Vahid Dastjerdi, after she criticised her colleagues for failing to provide funds to import vital medicines. Appointed in 2009, Dastjerdi was the first woman government minister since the Islamic Republic was established in 1979. While seen as politically conservative, the…
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