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Fast Forward Ahmadinejad Says Enemies Divert Rain From Iran
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has accused his country’s enemies of enacting a sinister plan to create a drought by somehow destroying the rain clouds before they reach Iran, several Iranian websites reported on Tuesday. Well-known for his anti-American and anti-Israeli rhetoric, Ahmadinejad has made similar remarks before and last year accused the West of devising…
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Fast Forward Netanyahu: U.S. Has No Right To Block Strike
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday said the United States had forfeited any moral right to stop Israel taking action against Iran’s nuclear programme because it had refused to be firm with Tehran itself. In comments which appeared to bring the possibility of an Israeli attack on Iran closer, Netanyahu took the administration of…
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Fast Forward Rare Galilee Bats In Danger of Extinction
Until a decade ago, the Alma cave in Upper Galilee was home to thousands of rare bats, but recent surveys conducted by the Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel find that only several dozen remain, and they are in danger of complete extinction. The SPNI believes the reason is hikers who disobey rules,…
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Fast Forward Palestinians Aim To Ease Hardship Amid Protests
Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayad announced measures to ease economic hardship following stepped up Palestinian protests in the West Bank. Fayad on Tuesday announced that the value added tax will be reduced by two percent to 15 percent and he lowered prices on diesel, gas and kerosene, following a meeting with ministers to discuss…
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Fast Forward Hiroshima Survivors Protest Nukes in Jerusalem
Survivors of the Hiroshima atomic bomb in Japan protested in Jerusalem against nuclear weapons. The survivors visited holy sites, including the Western Wall, on Monday, calling for the end of nuclear weapons, The Associated Press reported. They held signs in Japanese that read, “Nuclear Abolition.” “Any use of the atom [bomb] should be forbidden, even…
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Fast Forward Angry Bibi Hits Back Over Iran ‘Red Lines’
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday launched an unprecedented verbal attack on the U.S. government over its stance on the Iranian nuclear program. “The world tells Israel ‘wait, there’s still time’. And I say, ‘Wait for what? Wait until when?’ Those in the international community who refuse to put red lines before Iran don’t have…
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Fast Forward Yad Vashem Chair Named to Auschwitz Council
The chairman of Yad Vashem has been appointed the deputy chairman of the International Auschwitz Council. The appointment of Avner Shalev by Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk was announced by Yad Vashem on Tuesday. The International Auschwitz Council was established by Poland in 2000. It is an advisory body to the prime minister on issued…
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Fast Forward Hillary Clinton Rejects Bibi’s Iran ‘Red Lines’
Despite talks between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office and the White House over the possibility of drawing red lines concerning the Iranian nuclear program, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the White House is not prepared to make such a public commitment. “We’re not setting deadlines,” Clinton said in an interview with Bloomberg Radio. On…
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