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Fast Forward Back to Future as Two Sides Resume Mideast Feud
(JTA) — Nine months of negotiations were supposed to propel Israelis and Palestinians into a future of peace. Instead, the collapse of talks is threatening to make the future look much like the past. Israel’s decision last week to suspend negotiations – a day after the signing of a reconciliation between the Fatah faction of…
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Opinion 5 Reasons Israel Was Smart — Not Right — To Kill Peace Talks
Getty Images For Benjamin Netanyahu, timing is a beautiful thing. When Mahmoud Abbas announced the formation of a Fatah-Hamas unity government on Wednesday, Bibi knew he had it made. He pulled out of the peace talks on Thursday, doing the smartest possible thing at the smartest possible moment. Not the wise thing, not the morally…
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Fast Forward John Kerry Warns Israel Will Become ‘Apartheid State’ Without Peace
Secretary of State John Kerry warned a roomful of world leaders that Israel could become “an apartheid state” if peace talks fail, the Daily Beast reported. Kerry reportedly made the remarks Friday during a meeting of the Trilateral Commission, which included senior officials from the United States, Europe, Russia and Japan. The Daily Beast on…
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Israel News NBA’s Donald Sterling Tells Girlfriend, ‘In Israel, Blacks Are Treated Like Dogs’
In a newly released audiotape of Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling’s notorious racist remarks to his girlfriend, he seems to justify his views of African-Americans by noting how in Israel “the blacks are just treated like dogs.” In the original, shorter tape released Friday by the TMZ website, which has caused a storm in…
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Fast Forward Peres: Israel Is ‘Only Possible Memorial Standing’ for Holocaust Victims
Israel is “the only possible memorial standing” for the victims of the Holocaust, Israeli President Shimon Peres said. “Israel is deterrence against any attempt at another Holocaust,” he said during a ceremony Sunday night at Yad Vashem at the start of Israel’s 24-hour observance of Holocaust Remembrance Day, or Yom Hashoah. “A strong Israel is…
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Opinion Obama’s Peace ‘Pause’ Spells Victory for Bibi
Getty Images There’s a lot of talk about what Barack Obama and John Kerry should, or can, or might, or won’t do in support of the two-state Israeli-Palestinian peace that has been a stated American policy goal for many, many years, following the collapse of talks. On Friday morning, we learned that Obama has suggested…
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Fast Forward Argentina Turns Diplomatic Focus to Israel
Israel, not Iran, is the focus of new Argentinean diplomatic efforts. A high-level visit to Israel by the country’s foreign minister and the signing of a diplomatic agreement will begin a “new era” in Israeli-Argentinean relations, in the wake of the controversial memorandum of understanding signed between Argentina and Iran to jointly investigate the AMIA…
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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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