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Fast Forward Abbas: Palestinians Will Never Recognize Israel as Jewish State
The Palestinians will never recognize Israel as a “Jewish State,” Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas asserted. Abbas told the Palestine Liberation Organization’s Central Council during a meeting Saturday that the PLO recognized Israel as a state in 1993 and should not have to accept its religious identity, the French news agency AFP reported. He added…
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Fast Forward Abbas Calls Holocaust ‘Most Heinous Crime’ Ahead of Remembrance Day
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas called the Holocaust “the most heinous crime to have occurred against humanity in the modern era.” The statement, made in advance of Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day, was published Sunday by Wafa, the official Palestinian news agency. The statement is the result of a meeting last week in Ramallah between Abbas…
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Fast Forward White House Points Fingers at Both Sides in Mideast Peace Impasse
(JTA) — A pox on both your houses, but when you want a cure, we’re still here. That is the message the Obama administration is sending Israel and the Palestinians amid the deepening crisis in peace efforts. “What we haven’t seen is, frankly, the kind of political will to actually make tough decisions. And that’s…
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Fast Forward Mahmoud Abbas Says Open To Restarting Peace Talks
Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas signalled on Saturday that he remains committed to troubled U.S.-backed peace talks, saying that any future unity government that includes the militant group Hamas would recognise Israel. Abbas’s comments appeared aimed at soothing Western concerns about the unity deal he reached on Wednesday with Hamas, an Islamist faction sworn to Israel’s…
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Israel News Why Is U.S. Reluctant To Waive Visas for Israelis? Ask WikiLeaks
Your neighborhood shopping mall might not be the most obvious place to find one of the latest controversies bedeviling relations between the United States and Israel. But even as advocates for Israel and some members of Congress cheered a recent State Department promise to review strict entry requirements by the United States for young Israelis,…
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Fast Forward John Kerry Says Mideast Peace Talks in ‘Holding Pattern’
The United States said on Friday the Israeli-Palestinian peace process had come to a standstill, all but acknowledging U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will fail to meet his goal of a peace deal by April 29. Israel on Thursday suspended the talks in response to a reconciliation pact between Fatah, the Palestinian faction that…
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Fast Forward Israelis and Palestinians Yawn at Peace Debacle
An Israeli decision to suspend snarled negotiations with the Palestinians has signalled the latest and perhaps the final blow to two decades of a mostly fruitless peace process. But the day after the U.S.-led talks were frozen amid mutual recrimination, no angry crowds gathered in the de-facto Palestinian capital Ramallah to urge a rethink and…
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Opinion Is Israel Playing Into Hands of Hamas?
Palestinians celebrate new Fatah-Hamas unity // Getty Images. A few days ago, Israel was engaged in a bitter blame game with the Palestinians, with each side accusing the other of being responsible for sabotaging peace talks. Now, Israel is competing for recognition as the party that brought the flagging talks to an end. The Palestinians…
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Music ‘No matter what, I will always be a Jew.’ Billy Joel opens up about his family’s Holocaust history
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