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Fast Forward Hamas Official Admits Funding Temple Mount Riots
A senior Hamas operative said that the group is paying young Arabs to harass Jews at the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, Israel’s domestic security service announced. Hamas operative Mahmoud Toameh, 63, made the claim in interrogations by the Shin Bet security services after his arrest on May 14, Shin Bet wrote in a statement posted…
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Fast Forward Kerry: Israel’s Reaction to Fatah-Hamas Talks ‘Appropriate’
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Israel’s wait-and-see approach to Fatah-Hamas unity talks was “appropriate.” He made the remarks in an interview Thursday night on PBS, adding that he was “disappointed that the [peace] process, what is in place, that that didn’t produce the next step.” Asked about the negotiations on unity between Hamas…
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The Schmooze Justin Timberlake in Tel Aviv, A Love Letter
Dear JT, No one — not even the Biebz — has ever made me feel what you did the other night. And you know I have a thing for baby-faced blondes. I have to admit that I worried when you turned up late. I was really afraid you were going to pull a Rihanna on me. But…
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Fast Forward Netanyahu: Settlement Freeze in West Bank Due to American Pressure
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he suspended construction in West Bank settlements because of American pressure, an Israeli news site reported. Netanyahu told a group of settler leaders that the activity of the planning council of Israel’s Civil Administration, the body responsible for authorizing construction in the West Bank, had been partially suspended because…
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Fast Forward Israeli Troops Arrest Palestinian Man Wearing Explosive Vest in West Bank
Israeli security forces in the occupied West Bank caught a Palestinian man wearing an explosive belt on Friday, police and the military said, preventing what could have been the first suicide attack in the area for years. Border police guarding a busy junction near the Palestinian city of Nablus were suspicious about the man who…
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Israel News American Dovish Groups Facing Grim New Reality After Peace Talks Collapse
As the malaise sinks in following another failed Israeli-Palestinian peace effort, liberal Zionist groups are left with the difficult task of rethinking their stated mission and reshaping their message to American Jews. Board members and supporters of groups such as J Street, Americans for Peace Now and the Israel Policy Forum are questioning whether putting…
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Opinion I’m No One’s ‘Heretic’
Rabbi Yaakov Perlow speaks at the Agudath Isael annual gala / YouTube On Wednesday we learned that, while speaking at a fundraising gala for the ultra-Orthodox Agudath Israel of America, Rabbi Yaakov Perlow, head of that organization, slandered virtually every Jew on the planet, down to and including a bunch of plain-old-Orthodox folks. We were…
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Opinion The Deceptive Style of Settlement Leader Dani Dayan
“My religion is Zionism,” Dani Dayan says. It is hard to know quite what to make of him. Is he, as Yariv Oppenheimer, director of Peace Now suggests, the enemy? “His agenda is the same as the most fanatic right-wing settlers. But he has this ability to hide it and to speak with the public…
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