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Fast Forward Israel May Hold Elections as Early as February
By Jonathan Lis and Barak Ravid Coalition parties widely expect new elections to be held in February or March, due to problems in reaching agreement over the 2013 budget. Officially, elections aren’t supposed to take place until October 2013. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will hold a series of meetings with his coalition partners this week…
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Israel News Behind Henry Siegman’s Turn on Israel
At 82, Henry Siegman felt pessimism setting in as he thought of the future of Israel and its decades-long conflict with the Palestinians. “The two-state solution,” he recently wrote “is dead.” For this son of German-Jewish refugees, who grew up to lead what was then one of American Jewry’s major organizations, it was the final…
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Fast Forward Romney: Obama Lacks Resolve on Middle East
Mitt Romney accused U.S. President Barack Obama of lacking resolve regarding the Middle East, Israel and Iran on Sunday, in an op-ed published by the Wall Street Journal. The Republican Party candidate for president wrote in the article that “disturbing developments” that have been sweeping the greater Middle East of late “are not, as President…
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Fast Forward Israeli Finance Minister: Iran Economy on Verge of Collapse
Iran’s economy is edging towards collapse due to international sanctions over its controversial nuclear programme, Israeli Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz said on Sunday. Israel regards the prospect of its arch enemy developing nuclear weapons as a threat to its existence, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said that, although sanctions are taking their toll, they…
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Opinion Sizing Up State of Jewish People
There are titanic, 21st century global forces confronting the entire world, but which will have unique impacts on the Jewish people, both in Israel and the Diaspora. Jews, as they have for millennia, will find a way to adapt to them. But the Jewish people face an even greater challenge, one with a less certain…
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Fast Forward New Israeli Envoy to Vatican Takes Post
Zion Evrony has taken up his post as Israel’s ambassador to the Holy See. Evrony, who was appointed to the post in July, presented his Letters of Credence to Pope Benedict XVI at an audience with the pontiff last Friday. He was born in Iran in 1949 but made aliyah as a baby. The career…
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Fast Forward Azerbaijan Eyes Aiding Israel vs. Iran
Israel’s “go-it-alone” option to attack Iran’s nuclear sites has set the Middle East on edge and unsettled its main ally at the height of a U.S. presidential election campaign. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu exudes impatience, saying Tehran is barely a year from a “red line” for atomic capacity. Many fellow Israelis, however, fear a unilateral…
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Fast Forward Israel Disappointed By Argentinean/Iran Meeting
Israel expressed “disappointment” over the Argentinean decision to accept an Iranian invitation to bilateral talks. “The Government of Israel received with great disappointment the news about the Argentine acceptance of a meeting with the Islamic Republic of Iran on a Foreign Ministers level. Iran does not come with clean hands to this dialogue about global…
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