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Fast Forward Obama Backs Israel ‘Self-Defense’ in Calls
President Barack Obama spoke to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi on Wednesday and reiterated U.S. support for Israel’s right to self-defense in light of rocket attacks from Gaza, the White House said. Obama spoke to the leaders about the rocket attacks being launched from Gaza into Israel and the escalating…
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Fast Forward Israel Vows Retaliation as Rockets Near Tel Aviv
A rocket fired from the Gaza Strip landed close to Tel Aviv on Thursday, in the first attack on Israel’s biggest city in 20 years, raising the stakes in a military showdown between Israel and the Palestinians that is moving towards all-out war. Earlier, a Hamas rocket killed three Israelis north of the Gaza Strip,…
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Israel News Israelis Stunned by Lack of Help for Sandy Victims
When a group of Israeli army veterans arrived in New York to help with rescue efforts one week after Hurricane Sandy, they expected to take their cues from government rescue agencies on the scene. Instead, in place after place, they found themselves giving the cues to volunteers seeking guidance. The government agencies seemed all but…
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Opinion Imagine an Israeli Arab Alfred Dreyfus
Once again, France is having an affair with the affair — the Dreyfus Affair. On November 4, Le Monde published a controversial essay by Israeli sociologist Eva Illouz, titled “Israel: Justice or Tribalism,” in which she views contemporary Israel through the prism of this 19th-century event. Israel, she concludes, lacks the political and legal ingredients…
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Fast Forward Obama Plans Diplomatic Push on Iran Nukes
President Barack Obama said on Wednesday that he will renew efforts for a diplomatic resolution to Iran’s suspected attempt to build a nuclear weapon, but denied that any talks with Tehran were imminent. Obama told a news conference that reports that emerged before his re-election on Nov. 6 of impending U.S. talks with Iran were…
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Fast Forward French Muslims Hope To Learn on Israel Visit
Standing in long, colorful robes and wearing traditional rounded hats, a group of men stood in reverent silence as one of their leaders placed a memorial wreath at Yad Vashem, Israel’s national Holocaust museum. The group was a delegation of 19 Muslim leaders from France, in Israel to learn more about the Jews and their…
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Fast Forward Israel Pounds Gaza In Bid To Quell Rocket Fire
Israel launched a major offensive against Palestinian militants in Gaza on Wednesday, killing the military commander of Hamas in an air strike and threatening an invasion of the enclave that the Islamist group vowed would “open the gates of hell”. The onslaught shattered hopes that a truce mediated on Tuesday by Egypt could pull the…
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Fast Forward U.N. Iran Nuclear Report a Mixed Bag
Iran is believed to have increased the number of centrifuges in an underground nuclear plant by nearly a third in three months, diplomats say, underlining the tough task facing major powers pressing Tehran to curb its atomic activity. But despite a major expansion of its capacity to refine uranium at the Fordow facility, buried deep…
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