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Fast Forward Netanyahu Reaches Compromise To Avoid Early Elections
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s ruling coalition has reached an agreement to prevent early elections. The deal was reached on Tuesday evening, ahead of a possible call by the opposition for a vote to dissolve the government and go to snap elections in three months. Under the deal, according to the Israeli…
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Opinion What Gaza Really Needs Is For Israel To Recognize The Humanity Of Its Residents
On March 13, Jared Kushner and Jason D. Greenblatt held a White House summit on the humanitarian crisis in Gaza with leaders from Israel, several Arab nations and Western countries — but there were no leaders from either the Palestinian Authority or Gaza in attendance. “We all know that none of this will be easy,”…
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Community Is AIPAC More Liberal Than The State Of Israel?
The official script of this year’s AIPAC Policy Conference did not offer many surprises. CEO Howard Kohr reiterated AIPAC’s support of “two states for two peoples… one Jewish with secure and defensible borders, and one Palestinian with its own flag and its own future.” The failure to achieve peace was placed firmly on the shoulders…
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Fast Forward Will Hasidic Draft Feud Tear Apart Benjamin Netanyahu’s Government?
A decades-old exemption of ultra-Orthodox Jews from compulsory military service is a deeply divisive issue in Israel at the heart of a cabinet crisis that could lead to an early election. A preliminary vote in parliament on a new bill that would maintain the exemption is expected on Tuesday. One faction in Prime Minister Benjamin…
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Fast Forward U.S., Israeli Troops Train Together In Mock Mideast Village
ZEELIM MILITARY BASE, Israel (Reuters) – The Israeli military hosted U.S. Marines this week for an urban combat drill in a mock-up of a generic Middle East village, sharing know-how and signaling the allies’ shared interests as their leaders close ranks on a host of regional issues. “We are willing to work and train together,…
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Fast Forward When Jewish Pilgrims Visit West Bank — And Nothing Goes Wrong
The Israeli armored convoy rolls into the West Bank town of Jericho and comes to a halt outside a building with a Palestinian flag fluttering over it. At first glance, it might have looked like another incursion. But then out of the bus guarded by Israeli troops emerge Jewish pilgrims, on a visit to the…
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Fast Forward One-Third Of All Jewish Immigrants To Israel Backed By Christian Groups
Around one-third of all Jewish immigrants to Israel get backing from evangelical Christians, the Associated Press [reported] Thursday. “After 2,000 years of oppression and persecution, today you have Christians who are helping Jews. This is an amazing thing,” said Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein, president of the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, a group that raises…
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Fast Forward Trump Administration Poised To Unveil Mideast Peace Plan
(JTA) — The Trump administration is finishing up its Middle East peace plan and intends to make it public soon, The New York Times reported. According to the report published Sunday, the plan does not call for a two-state solution. The White House must now figure out how to present the plan so that it…
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