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Fast Forward Netanyahu Stays Silent on Attack on Lebanese Hezbollah Site
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would neither confirm nor deny that Israel had struck a target in Lebanon. Lebanese media reported Monday that an Israeli airstrike hit a site in Lebanon known for its arms smuggling and recruitment for Hezbollah. The Daily Star on Monday quoted a Lebanese security source as saying that the Israeli…
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Fast Forward Palestinian Youth Riot on Temple Mount, Injuring Israeli Guards
Israeli police entered the Temple Mount to disperse dozens of Palestinian youths, who threw rocks and firecrackers at security forces. Some 50 protesters had slept at the Temple Mount overnight Monday, in advance of a Knesset debate scheduled for Tuesday on extending Israeli sovereignty over the site that is holy to both Jews and Palestinians….
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Opinion Replacing @PresidentofIsrael
The journalist Gershom Gorenberg says that in Israel the office of president is much like the Queen of England. Only much cheaper. In many ways, he’s right. The Israeli presidency is not an inherited position, of course, and it has none of the aristocratic presumptions built into the House of Windsor; the official president’s house…
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Fast Forward Angela Merkel Says Germany and Israel Enjoy ‘Very Strong Friendship’
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said in Israel that her country and Israel enjoy a “very strong friendship.” Merkel arrived in the country on Monday with nearly her entire Cabinet, whose members will meet the following day with their Israeli counterparts for a fifth joint meeting. The German delegation is in Israel for a 24-hour visit….
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Fast Forward Israeli Warplanes Strike Eastern Lebanon Near Syria
Israeli warplanes struck a target in eastern Lebanon near the border with Syria on Monday, security sources said. It was not immediately known what the target was or the exact location of the air strike, which occurred in a mountainous area near the border. The Israeli army declined to comment but an Israeli security source…
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Fast Forward John Kerry and Jack Lew To Speak at AIPAC Conference
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Treasury Secretary Jack Lew will speak at the annual AIPAC conference. A spokesman for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee confirmed the administration speakers but did not give the dates of their speeches at next week’s event. Also speaking at the conference, which is expected to draw a…
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Fast Forward Museum of Jewish Heritage Director Extends New Invitation to John Judis
New Republic senior editor John Judis has been reinvited to speak about his latest book at the Museum of Jewish Heritage, after having been disinvited last week due to the controversial nature of his book, which portrays an overbearing U.S. Zionist lobby during the state’s early years. The museum’s decision to rescind Judis’s invitation sparked…
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Fast Forward U.N. Report Cites Apartheid in Palestinian Territories
Israel’s policies in the West Bank and Gaza Strip appear to amount to apartheid due to its systematic oppression of the Palestinian people and de facto expropriation of their land, a United Nations investigator said in a report. Richard Falk, U.N. special rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian territories, said that Palestinian rights are…
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