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The Schmooze Israel’s Airport Harasses People Of Color, But Diane Kruger Snuck Through As An Acting Exercise
The model and actress Diane Kruger, of “Inglorious Bastards” fame, is currently starring in “The Operative,” a movie about a Mossad agent. To practice her spying technique, she told The Hollywood Reporter, former Mossad agents helped her try out passport fraud in the Tel Aviv airport. “The Operative,” based on the Israeli novel “The English…
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Fast Forward Israel’s Arab Parties Might Join A Government Coalition — With Conditions
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The leader of the Joint List of Arab parties said he would join a center-left government after Israeli elections in September, under certain conditions — a move that would prove historic. No majority-Arab party has ever joined a governing coalition in Israel, though they have backed left-wing governments from the sidelines in…
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Fast Forward Israel Attacked In Iraq, Citing Threat From Iran, For The First Time Since 1980s
(JTA) — Israel has carried out an airstrike on a weapons depot in Iraq that officials said was being used by Iran to move weapons to Syria, the New York Times reported. The attack, which happened last month and is believed to be the first Israeli bombing in Iraq in nearly four decades, represents an…
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Fast Forward Amazon Launches Operations In Israel
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Amazon announced the launch of operations in Israel. The company set up a website in Hebrew, which talks about its local delivery services, in order to attract vendors. Amazon also is asking overseas businesses to warehouse their inventory in Israel and make arrangements with international shippers to deliver their products through local…
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Opinion Netanyahu’s Deafening Silence On Trump’s ‘Dual Loyalty’ Is A Betrayal Of Israel’s Founding Principles
Has Israel lost the principles upon which it was founded? I’m a Jewish immigrant living in America and I’m getting sick of this. Really sick. From the time he was a candidate up until today, President Trump has bashed immigrants, every day and every night. And every now and then, he has made statements about…
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Opinion Trump Doesn’t Get It: Our Hatred Of Him Is Our Loyalty To America
On Tuesday afternoon, President Trump called the vast majority of American Jews disloyal. “I think any Jewish people that vote for a Democrat — it shows either a total lack of knowledge or great disloyalty,” he said. And while he didn’t specify disloyalty to whom, on Wednesday, he doubled down, explaining that a vote for…
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Opinion Israel’s Policy To Empty Gaza Isn’t Just Dehumanizing. It’s Dangerous.
This week, a senior Israeli official admitted that his government has been actively pushing Palestinians to emigrate from Gaza for a year. This Israeli-induced one-way emigration from Gaza is fundamentally wrong on many levels. It’s absolute cowardice to prioritize emptying Gaza of its people over working to end the miseries suffered by its caged population….
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Opinion Trump’s Bigotry Isn’t Accidental. We Must Unite To Fight It.
In a strike of incredible irony, Donald Trump engaged in horrific anti-Jewish bigotry while in the course of leveling false charges of anti-Semitism against two of his political opponents: Congresswomen Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar. While attempting to make the false and baseless case for why these Congresswomen supposedly hate Jews, Trump stated that “any…
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