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Opinion How ‘De-Arabizing’ Christians Serves Israel
Palestinian Orthodox Christians at the 2013 Palm Sunday procession in Gaza City / Getty Images Last week the Knesset voted to force yet another division onto the Palestinian people. The Palestinians are already divided in a myriad of ways: There are those who live in the Diaspora and are divided there, from America’s well-fed middle…
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Israel News African Asylum Seeker Stays Positive in Israeli Detention Facility
(Haaretz) — Hassan Shakur has made a deliberate decision not to be negative or bitter. He will be optimistic, he says, despite the horrific “times of misery,” as he refers to them, in his homeland, Darfur. Despite a gruesome experience in Cairo and then the escape to Israel. And despite the racism he has encountered in…
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Fast Forward Israel Admits Doubling Settlement-Building in 2013
Israel began building twice as many settler homes in the occupied West Bank last year as in 2012, official data showed on Monday, just hours before Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was due to meet U.S. President Barack Obama. Obama has been sharply critical of Jewish construction on land Palestinians want for a future state. Such…
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Opinion Israel Takes Cue From Apartheid ‘Divide-and-Rule’ Playbook
Few things get under the skin of supporters of Israel like the use of the term ‘apartheid’ to describe the state or its policies. Less than two weeks ago, a campaign named Rethink2014 was launched by pro-Israel activists to challenge what it calls “the Apartheid smear,” just ahead of the global event known as Israel…
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Fast Forward Gay Couples Could Use Surrogate Mothers Under Proposed Israel Law
An Israeli government committee approved an amendment which would allow same-sex couples and singles to have babies using a surrogate in Israel. The Ministerial Committee for Legislation approved the amendment to the existing surrogacy law on Sunday by a vote of 7 to 5. Under the current law, only heterosexual couples can arrange to have…
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Fast Forward Barack Obama Warns Israel To Grab Peace Chance — Or Risk Isolation
The United States will have a “limited” ability to manage the “international fallout” on Israel if it does not make peace with the Palestinians, President Obama said. “The absence of international goodwill makes you less safe,” Obama told Bloomberg’s Jeffrey Goldberg during an interview in the Oval Office, which was published Sunday afternoon. “The condemnation…
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Music Americans in Israel Targeted by IRS for Tax Audits
This upcoming tax season entails some unpleasant surprises for United States citizens who either live in Israel or who hold bank accounts there. Filing requirements for these Americans have become more rigorous and the odds of being audited by the Internal Revenue Service are higher than they’ve ever been. In fact, tax accountants working in…
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Israel News AIPAC Touts Bipartisanship as Barack Obama Warns Israel To Seek Peace
The pro-Israel lobby has an important message to the American people and to politicians: We are bipartisan. Shouted out on main stages and whispered in closed-door briefings, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee went to great lengths on the opening day of its conference to combat the perception that it has veered off the bipartisan…
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