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Fast Forward Republican Presidential Hopefuls Rick Perry and Brian Sandoval To Visit Israel
Govs. Rick Perry of Texas and Brian Sandoval of Nevada, Republicans tapped for 2016 presidential runs, are visiting Israel. Perry, who has visited Israel multiple times, was in the country this week to open the Nazareth campus of Texas A&M University. But he also had meetings with Israeli leaders, including on Monday with Prime Minister…
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Fast Forward Sanctions Relief Could Come for Iran Before Nuclear Program Is Suspended
U.S. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew suggested that sanctions relief could come before Iran fully suspends its suspected nuclear weapons program — a tactic rejected by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Lew, speaking Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” said the United States would not ease sanctions until Iran took tangible steps to suspend its nuclear…
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Fast Forward Netanyahu Hopes To Dim World Optimism on Iran
Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday will seek to dim the optimism after nuclear talks with Iran, cautioning that Tehran is strengthening its strategic regional position by calling the shots in Syria as President Bashar al-Assad’s puppet master. In talks with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry in Rome on Wednesday, Netanyahu is expected to argue…
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Fast Forward Hamas Claims Responsibility for Tunnel From Gaza to Israel
Hamas Islamists in the Gaza Strip claimed responsibility on Sunday for a tunnel that Israel said was found beneath the heavily fortified Israel-Gaza frontier. A website for a Hamas radio station called al Aqsa said the group’s armed wing was responsible for what it called the “Khan Younis Tunnel,” named for a part of the…
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Fast Forward Peace Talks Have Plenty of Time Says Abbas
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said the new peace talks with Israel have plenty of time to bear fruit. Abbas told the German news service Deutche Welle that the peace talks that restarted in July after a hiatus of several years have not reached a dead end, as some have claimed in recent weeks. “We’re…
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Fast Forward Livni To Fight Netanyahu’s Cabinet To Negotiate on Jerusalem
Israel’s chief peace negotiator will seek to block a proposal introduced by members of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s cabinet to make it tougher to negotiate with the Palestinians over Jerusalem, one of her aides said on Sunday. The motion won preliminary cabinet approval, but the aide said that Livni, who is also Israel’s justice minister,…
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Fast Forward Knesset Banks Bill Requiring 66% Majority To Negotiate Jerusalem Status
The cabinet won’t be able to even negotiate the status of Jerusalem without the approval of a two-thirds majority in Knesset favoring talks, according to a bill the Ministerial Committee for Legislation approved on Sunday. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu opposes the motion. The cabinet can still torpedo the bill if it backs the appeal that…
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Fast Forward Family of First Egyptian To Be Recognized as Righteous Gentile Rejects Honor
A family member of an Egyptian doctor, the first Arab to be recognized by Yad Vashem as a Righteous Gentile, said his family is not interested in the honor. Mohamed Helmy, who died in 1982, was recognized by the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in a ceremony last month. The Associated Press tracked down one of…
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