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Fast Forward Sheldon to Mitt: Call for Pollard’s Release
Sheldon Adelson, the American Jewish billionaire and close friend of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, has asked Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney to publicly demand the release of Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard, according to The Daily Beast. Romney refused the request, saying he “could not consider the Pollard situation because he doesn’t have access to the…
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Fast Forward Iran Claims Israeli Spies Confess
More than a dozen Iranian citizens arrested in connection with the assassination of several Iranian nuclear scientists have confessed, Iranian state television reported. The Iranians were shown in a television report describing how they were trained at an Israeli military camp near Tel Aviv. One of the suspects said the operation was being sponsored by…
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Music Romney Ad Vows Better Ties With Israel
Let’s be honest: based on past experience, the chances that Mitt Romney would move the U.S. Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem if he were president, or that he would even continue calling Jerusalem the capital of Israel, are slim. Yes, President Reagan did not bother to visit Israel, and President George Bush only did…
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Fast Forward Deportation of Africans Kills School’s Hoops Dream
More than 30 pupils of Bialik-Rogozin High School were recently deported to South Sudan, among them five young women who played in the school’s basketball team. The five were the heart and soul of the team, which now consists of only seven players, and its future is uncertain. Rotem Ginosar, a social studies teacher who…
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Israel News Moshe Feiglin Seeks To Keep Bibi Right
He’s the man who has brought God into Israel’s ruling Likud party and is perhaps the most important party insider you’ve never heard of. A bearded, yarmulke-wearing settler, Moshe Feiglin sips coffee and says with conviction that he will lead Likud further right and will become prime minister. He doesn’t have a Knesset seat, and…
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Fast Forward Thousands March in New Israel Protests
Thousands of Israelis participated in two separate social protest rallies on Saturday, as one event represented a bid to unify the social protest movement and the movement for a universal IDF draft, with the other mostly comprised by social protest activists who disagreed with the unity attempt. On Thursday, social protest leaders and those of…
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Fast Forward Israelis Warned To Leave Sinai
Israeli authorities warned Israelis to return immediately from the Sinai peninsula, citing a terrorist threat. “From information at our disposal, it arises that terrorist organizations in the Gaza Strip and additional elements are actively planning to perpetrate terrorist attacks, especially abductions, against Israeli tourists in Sinai in the immediate term,” said a warning issued Thursday…
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Opinion Congress Does Kabuki Dance on Israel
Too many people give Washington politics a bum rap. Sure, it can be excruciating if you’re following the issues and hoping for a certain result. It’s frustratingly predictable, infuriating in its futility and perhaps even a bit terrifying in its inability to address the most urgent crises. If you stand back and watch the choreography,…
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