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Culture For D.A. Mishani’s Hero, Police Work Is a Dull Gig
● The Missing File By D.A. Mishani Translated from the Hebrew by Steven Cohen Harper, 304 pages, $25.99 According to his author bio, D.A. Mishani (those are his initials, not his job title) is an editor of Israeli fiction and crime literature at an Israeli publishing company. He is also “a literary scholar specializing in…
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Opinion No Need To Say We’re Sorry
The Israeli government indeed owed someone the apology it made recently for the incident of the Mavi Marmara, the Turkish ship intercepted in May 2010 on its way to blockaded Gaza, but it wasn’t the ship’s passengers or the government of Turkey. It was, first and foremost, the naval commandoes who boarded the Mavi Marmara…
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Fast Forward Rockets From Gaza Strike Southern Israel on Eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day
A rocket fired from the Gaza Strip struck southern Israel on Sunday, causing no damage or injuries, a police spokesman said. Last week rockets fired by Gaza militants spurred Israel to carry out air strikes on the territory, the first since the ceasefire that ended an eight-day war between Israel and Hamas in November. Police…
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Fast Forward Riots Continue in West Bank Over Palestinian Prisoner Cancer Death
Palestinian riots continued over the weekend in several areas of the West Bank in the wake of the cancer death of a Palestinian prisoner. Palestinians clashed with Israel Defense Forces soldiers Saturday in the Gush Etzion area, also throwing rocks and firebombs at local Jewish settlements. Also on Saturday, Israeli soldiers prevented Palestinians from igniting…
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Fast Forward Israeli Government Websites Weather Broad Cyber Attack
A pro-Palestinian cyber attack campaign was launched against Israeli government websites on Sunday but did not cause serious disruption, an Israeli statement said. Over the weekend, email messages and websites using the name of the Anonymous hacking group said a campaign had been launched in solidarity with the Palestinian people to “erase Israel from cyberspace”…
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Fast Forward John Kerry Urges Israel and Turkey To Normalize Ties
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry urged Turkey and Israel on Sunday to restore full relations, calling this vital to regional stability, but said it was not up to Washington to dictate the conditions of rapprochement. An Israeli-Turkish reconciliation could improve regional coordination to contain spillover from the Syrian civil war and ease Israel’s diplomatic…
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Fast Forward John Kerry Seeks To Bring Turkey Into the Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process
Will Turkey join the attempt to broker peace between Israel and the Palestinians? According to the Hurriyet Daily News, during a brief stay in Turkey scheduled to begin Saturday, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry isexpected to offer Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan an active rolein the peace process due to his country’s good…
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Fast Forward Polish President Sponsors Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Commemoration
Polish President Bronisław Komorowski this week announced his sponsorship of events commemorating the 70th anniversay of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and the Nazis’ destruction of Warsaw’s Great Synagogue. Komorowski welcomed in advance the delegations from around the world that will attend the events, scheduled to take place between April 18 and May 16. Among the…
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