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Opinion Can ‘New Israel’ in Texas Solve Mideast Crisis?
Cowboy boots with Star of David / Congressional candidate Allan Levene (JTA) — With the Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations floundering, it may, perhaps, be time to consider an entirely different kind of two-state solution. One that involves the State of Texas. Congressional candidate Allan Levene is proposing to cut the Gordian Knot of Middle East peace…
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Fast Forward Donald Sterling Banned From Basketball for Life Over Racist Rant
The National Basketball Association on Tuesday banned Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling from the game for life for racist comments that outraged players, fans and the U.S. President. Sterling, the longest-tenured owner of any of the 30 NBA teams, will not be allowed any role in the operations of his team or be able…
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Fast Forward Ethiopian Israeli Lawmaker Slams Donald Sterling’s ‘Disgusting’ Racism
An Ethiopian-Israeli lawmaker called racist statements attributed to Donald Sterling, the Jewish owner of the Los Angeles Clippers, “disgusting” in a letter to NBA Commissioner Adam Silver. “As a Jew, as a citizen of a country founded on the ruins of racism in Europe, it hurt me to hear Mr. Sterling, especially on this painful…
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Fast Forward Wounded Ukraine Jewish Mayor Stable in Israel After Assassination Try
The mayor of eastern Ukraine’s biggest city was in a stable condition on Tuesday in a hospital in Israel, where he was flown after being wounded in the highest-profile assassination attempt in the standoff between Kiev and Moscow. Gennady Kernes, one of Ukraine’s most prominent Jewish politicians, was shot in the back on Monday in…
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Fast Forward Israel Razes West Bank Mosque and Palestinian Homes as Peace Talks Expire
Israeli forces demolished several structures, including a mosque, in a Palestinian village on Tuesday, the day a deadline for a deal in now-frozen peace talks expired. A Reuters correspondent saw several hundred soldiers deployed in Khirbet al-Taweel, in the occupied West Bank, around daybreak. They guarded six bulldozers that reduced to rubble buildings that were…
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Fast Forward John Kerry Sorry for Israel ‘Apartheid’ Warning
John Kerry defended his Israel record, but also agreed that his use of the word “apartheid” to describe the dangers of a failed peace process was not appropriate in a U.S. context. “I have been around long enough to also know the power of words to create a misimpression, even when unintentional, and if I…
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Fast Forward Israeli Beaten on Berlin Street in Broad Daylight
A Jewish leader in Germany has called for public condemnation of an anti-Semitic attack that occurred in Berlin. Deidre Berger, head of the American Jewish Committee office in Berlin, said in a statement Monday that it is unacceptable that no politicians have publicly responded to the incident which occurred on April 25, in which a…
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Fast Forward Rand Paul: ‘Cut Aid To Palestinians Unless They Recognize Israel as Jewish State’
U.S. Sen. Rand Paul said he will introduce legislation that would cut U.S. funding to the Palestinian Authority unless its government recognized Israel as a Jewish state. Paul (R-Ky.), a likely contender for the Republican presidential nod in 2016, said the law was needed because of the interim governance agreement last week between Hamas and…
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