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Fast Forward Hungarian State TV Shows Ayatollah Calling Soros ‘Evil Zionist-American’
(JTA) — Hungarian Jews condemned a public broadcaster’s airing of an allegedly anti-Semitic rhetoric against billionaire George Soros, and a state news agency’s silence about it. The main news program of the state MTVA channel aired on Wednesday the controversial rhetoric on Soros, who recently became the subject of hostile statements by Hungary’s top politicians…
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Fast Forward Senate Committee Approves New Sanctions On Iran’s Missiles
WASHINGTON (JTA) – A key Senate committee approved new sanctions on Iran’s ballistic missiles program after amending clauses that critics said could scuttle the Iran nuclear deal. On Wednesday, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee approved the bill by a vote of 18-3. It was backed by the committee’s two leaders, Sen. Bob Corker, the chairman,…
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Opinion When Melania Trump And Sara Netanyahu Bond Over Hating The Media — Be Very Worried
When Melania Trump chatted with Sara Netanyahu on the tarmac at Ben Gurion International Airport in Tel Aviv yesterday, the two women quickly discovered they had a common bond. “You know in Israel all the people like us. The media hate us but the people love us,” Netanyahu, wife of the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin…
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Fast Forward Trump Says Israel And Arabs United By Threat Of Iran
President Trump said on Monday that shared concern about Iran was driving Israel and many Arab states closer and demanded that Tehran immediately cease military and financial backing of “terrorists and militias.” In stressing threats from Iran, Trump echoed a theme laid out during weekend meetings in Saudi Arabia about the Islamic Republic’s growing regional…
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Opinion What Iran’s High-Stakes Election Means For Voters And The World
(Reuters) On May 19, Iranians go to the polls to either re-elect President Hassan Rouhani to a second term or give one of his reactionary opponents a chance to govern, and in doing so ride the populist wave that seems to have engulfed much of the globe. Conventional wisdom in Washington is that Iran is…
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Fast Forward Trump Waives Iran Sanctions In New Flip-Flop On ‘Terrible’ Nuclear Deal
WASHINGTON (JTA) — President Donald Trump waived nuclear sanctions on Iran, keeping in place the Iran nuclear deal he has derided, but added new sanctions relating to Iran’s testing of ballistic missiles. The waiver Wednesday of sanctions related to Iran’s nuclear program has been expected since last month, when Secretary of State Rex Tillerson declared…
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Fast Forward Trump ‘Open’ To Working With Iran To End Syria War
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The Trump administration is open to working with Iran to end the Syria conflict. “The United States remains open to working together with both Russia and Iran to find a solution that leads to a stable and united Syria,” Sean Spicer, the White House spokesman, said Monday in opening remarks at the…
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Fast Forward Alan Dershowitz: What If Israel Is the Ally That Trump Betrayed To Russia?
Lawyer and Israel advocate Alan Dershowitz speculated that Israel was the source of intelligence that President Trump revealed to the Russians. “Let’s take the following hypothetical: What if it was Israel who provided this intelligence?” he said on an interview on MSNBC. He warned that if Israeli intelligence was shared with Russia, then Russia could…
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