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Fast Forward Mahmoud Abbas: I’ll Speak to Knesset — and Say What I Like
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said he would be willing to speak to the Knesset, but only if he is permitted to discuss the issues he chooses. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a public statement last week called on Abbas to address the Knesset and said he would travel to Ramallah to speak to…
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Fast Forward Understanding the Nuclear Deal With Iran
For the first time in a decade, the United States and a coalition of world powers have reached an agreement with Iran to curb the country’s nuclear program. The deal requires Iran to limit its nuclear enrichment and freeze most of its centrifuges for six months, as well as halt construction on its plutonium reactor….
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Fast Forward White House Insists ‘No Illusions’ on Iran Deal
The Obama administration insisted on strong safeguards in a nuclear deal with Iran and has no illusions about the risks that the Islamic state might not follow through on its obligations, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Sunday. Kerry sought to reassure skeptics in the U.S. Congress who worry that the six-month agreement…
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Fast Forward Experts Say Deal Eases Iran Bomb Threat — Despite Israel Objections
A breakthrough agreement between Iran and six world powers to restrain its nuclear programme has been denounced by Israel as an “historical mistake” but should nevertheless make it significantly harder for Tehran to build any atomic bomb. By halting Iran’s most sensitive enrichment of uranium and stopping other aspects of its nuclear activities from expanding,…
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Fast Forward Israel Slams Iran Nuclear Deal as ‘Historic Mistake’
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday denounced the world powers’ nuclear agreement with Iran as a historic mistake that left the production of atomic weapons within Tehran’s reach. A grim-faced Netanyahu, who had strongly opposed any easing of economic sanctions against Iran – in a rift with Israel’s main ally, the United States –…
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Israel News Utopian Thinkers Plan for Future One-State Israel Solution — If It Comes
With reports that peace talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority are faltering, figures from the fringes are jockeying to fill the vacuum they believe will result. As a two-state solution fades, thinkers and activists currently viewed as marginal on both the left and the right, are preparing to wheel out projects that others might…
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Culture Imagining Life of Dona Gracia, Portuguese Jew and Richest Woman in World
(Haaretz) — About 10 years ago, while visiting the Museum of Jewish Art and History in Paris, Israeli journalist Naomi Keren noticed an ancient silver medallion that bore the likeness of Dona Gracia Nasi. “I was taken aback,” Keren says. “What I saw contradicted everything I knew about the use of art in connection with…
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Fast Forward John Kerry Joins Iran Nuclear Talks — Deal Looks in Sight
Secretary of State John Kerry will join talks on Iran’s contested nuclear programme in Geneva on Saturday, as Tehran and six world powers appeared to be on the verge of an elusive breakthrough in the decade-old dispute. The French, British and German foreign ministers, Laurent Fabius, William Hague and Guido Westerwelle, were also due to…
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Fast Forward A Wider Bridge, a pro-Israel advocate in LGBTQ spaces, is shutting down
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Yiddish פֿאַר וואָס הערט מען ניט וועגן דעם גלעצנדיקן וווּקס פֿון דער ישׂראל־בערזע? Why aren’t we hearing about the dramatic growth of the Israeli stock market?
וואָלט דער אָפּרוף געווען אַנדערש, ווען דער ציל פֿון די טעראָריסטן וואָלט ניט געווען ייִדן, נאָר אַן אַנדער גרופּע?
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