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Opinion Is Barack Obama Less Pro-Palestinian?
A new poll indicates that Barack Obama’s Middle East visit left Israelis less convinced that he is pro-Palestinian. A survey conducted before the visit found that 36% of Israelis considered the president more pro-Palestinian than pro-Israeli. This fell a remarkable 20% to 16% in a survey published today. Smith Research conducted both surveys. Though Israelis…
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Fast Forward Israel Could Withstand Syrian Chemical Weapons Says Israeli General
Israel could withstand any attack involving Syrian chemical weapons, an Israeli general said on Friday, adding it was improbable that Damascus would order such a strike. The fate of Syria’s reputed chemical arsenal is a focus of international concern. Israel has threatened to go to war to prevent Islamist militants or Hezbollah guerrillas in neighbouring…
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Fast Forward Cyprus Court Jails Hezbollah Man for Plotting To Attack Israelis
A Cyprus court sentenced a member of Lebanon’s Shi’ite Muslim Hezbollah movement to four years in jail on Thursday on charges of plotting to attack Israeli interests on the island. In a case bearing similarities to a deadly bus bombing in Bulgaria targeting Israelis last year, the Cypriot court convicted Hossam Taleb Yaccoub on five…
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Opinion Anthony Lewis, Teacher and Thinker, Cared More About Israel Than His Critics
In all the richly deserved encomiums that came in the wake of Tony Lewis’s death, there is scarce mention of Lewis’s frequent commentary on the Israel/Palestine conflict. It is as if all he wrote about – and this, all agree, he did brilliantly – was the law and the courts. But in fact his interest…
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Fast Forward Single-Sex Education Soars 40% in Israel Religious Schools
Over the past 13 years there has been a 40 percent rise in the number of elementary-school students in Israel’s state religious system whose classes are segregated by gender. The claim is made in a recent study by Ariel Finkelshtain, a researcher for Ne’emanei Torah Va’Avodah, an organization that describes itself as a religious-Zionist movement…
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Opinion The Empathy Rule
Forty-one minutes into his powerful speech in Jerusalem, President Obama went off script. This spontaneous moment wasn’t the one replayed endlessly on cable television, when he paused to describe meeting with Palestinian young people his daughters’ ages. No, this diversion was only four words, easy to miss, but significant. It was in the “peace is…
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Fast Forward Israel Returns Just .7% of Seized ‘Military’ Land to Palestinians
Over the past 33 years Israel’s Civil Administration has allocated less than one percent of state land in the West Bank to Palestinians, compared to 39 percent to settlers, according to the agency’s own documents submitted to the High Court of Justice. The West Bank includes 1.3 million dunams (approximately 325,000 acres) of “state land,”…
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Fast Forward Pro-Palestinian Group Launches Israel ‘Apartheid’ Subway Ad Campaign
A pro-Palestinian group on Tuesday launched an ad campaign on the New York City transit system, calling on the United States to stop its foreign aid to Israel. The ads, which will appear in 25 Metro North stations over the next four weeks, were paid for by the American Muslims for Palestine (AMP). The ads…
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