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Opinion More on Eli Valley’s Controversial Comic
Eli Valley’s provocative comic about the controversy caused by Bnai Jeshurun’s rabbis continues to garner controversy of its own. I’ve been reading comments and posts like this one that are sympathetic to Eli’s scathing look at the rabbis and their stand on Palestinian statehood, and try to grapple with the larger issue of when and…
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Fast Forward New Party Seeks Different Path for Israeli Arabs
One Israeli Arab election candidate aims to lead his community out of the margins of Israeli politics – saying their interests have been overshadowed for too long by the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Atef Krinawi says he would even be willing to make an unprecedented electoral alliance with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s right-wing Likud, the party to…
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Fast Forward New Clues Uncovered in ’82 Aussie Terror Bombing
Australian police have uncovered new clues in the 1982 bombings of the Israeli Consulate and the Hakoah Club in Sydney. At a news conference Monday police said they had travelled for the first time to Israel to interview former consulate staff and witnesses of the bombings, which took place just hours apart on Dec. 23,…
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Fast Forward Israel Raids Palestinian NGO Offices
Israeli soldiers raided the offices of three civil society organizations on Tuesday in the heart of Ramallah, the de facto Palestinian capital in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Entering before dawn, troops wrenched open the doors of the Women’s Union, the Palestinian NGO Network and Addameer, an advocate for Palestinians in Israeli jails, confiscating five computers…
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Fast Forward EU Draft Resolution Slams Israeli Settlements
A draft of a European Union resolution said the EU was “deeply dismayed” by Israeli plans for new construction in settlements but did not mention sanctions. The draft resolution, which was obtained by the French news agency AFP, said Israeli settlement construction “threaten peace efforts.” It had been prepared for EU foreign ministers ahead of…
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Fast Forward Hamas Chief Ends Gaza Visit With Call for Palestinian Unity
Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal ended his first visit to the Gaza Strip on Monday with a pledge his Islamist movement would strive to heal political rifts with Palestinian rivals who hold sway in the occupied West Bank. His comments reinforced promises he and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, leader of the rival Fatah movement, made to…
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Fast Forward Abbas Will Negotiate if Israel Freezes Settlements
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas reportedly said he wanted to negotiate with Israel it if freezes construction for six months in the West Bank and Jerusalem. Abbas made the statement on Sunday in Qatar during a meeting of Arab League nations in Doha, The Jerusalem Post reported. He was responding to statements by Qatari Prime Minister…
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Fast Forward Temporary Draft Exemption for Yeshiva Students
Israel’s Cabinet approved a temporary exemption for haredi Orthodox yeshiva students from the military draft. The exemption, passed Sunday in the wake of the expiration of the Tal Law that had allowed haredi men to defer army service, provides a framework for the yeshiva students to join the National Service program in place of being…
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