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Opinion Will Jonathan Pollard Be Home for Passover?
It may sound farfetched to Americans. But some Israelis are hoping Barack Obama will free Jonathan Pollard as a goodwill gesture ahead of the president’s upcoming visit to the Middle East Activists and even members of Knesset are pressing for the release of the convicted Israeli spy and some have even suggested that Obama bring…
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Opinion Why Barack Obama Must Go to Rabin Square
When President Obama’s itinerary for his upcoming Israel trip was leaked to the press, it appeared to be noticeably safe. It is true that Obama will make a number of important gestures during the visit, chief among them laying wreathes in the Hall of Remembrance at Yad Vashem, as well as on the graves of…
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Fast Forward U.S. Envoy Walks Out of Nuclear Meeting After Iran Accuses Israel of Genocide
The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations nuclear watchdog stormed out of an agency meeting on Wednesday in protest when Iran’s representative accused Israel of “genocide”, diplomats said Officials from Canada and Australia also left the closed-door meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA) 35-nation governing board when Iran’s Ali Asghar Soltanieh made his…
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Fast Forward Harvard Students Get Fake Eviction Notices From Anti-Israel Activists
The posting of mock eviction notices on the doors of Harvard students to publicize the campus Israeli Apartheid Week has sparked a campus debate. The flyers, which said that the rooms were “scheduled for demolition in the next three days,” were posted on student’s dormitory doors on March 2, the Harvard Crimson campus student newspaper…
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Opinion Why Obama Won’t Go to Rabin Square
One of Barack Obama’s hopes for his Israel visit is to address the Israeli public. Some commentators, such as Yoram Meital interviewed for a Forward article, have expressed the view that this lies at the crux of his trip, with him hoping to talk to Israelis about Iran over their Prime Minister’s head. But anybody…
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Fast Forward UNICEF Accuses Israel of ‘Systematic’ Abuse of Jailed Palestinian Children
Palestinian children detained by the Israeli military are subject to widespread, systematic ill-treatment that violates international law, a UNICEF report said on Wednesday. The United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) estimated that 700 Palestinian children aged 12 to 17, most of them boys, are arrested, interrogated and detained by the Israeli military, police and security agents…
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Fast Forward Did Prisoner X Use Australian Passport To Carry Out Mossad Hit?
Australia has no evidence that an emigrant to Israel who died in an Israeli jail in 2010, had been involved in the assassination of a Hamas arms procurer in Dubai, Foreign Minister Bob Carr said on Wednesday. Carr said Ben Zygier had worked for the Israeli government when he was arrested, but stopped short of…
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Fast Forward Israel Battles 2,000-Acre Swarm of Locusts
srael on Wednesday began battling a swarm of locusts from Egypt on Wednesday to prevent crop damage in the south of the country. Locust clouds darkened skies some three weeks before the Jewish Passover holiday that recalls 10 Biblical plagues, one of them locusts, that struck Egypt during the exodus of Israelite slaves. The insects…
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